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DBD makes a ton of money so why do so many licenses get neglected?

ElleGreen
ElleGreen Member Posts: 1,063

Losing the Stranger Things license and not getting another big license since it has really made the player base lose passion for the game! Other big licences like Halloween and Elm Street never get content. The only one that does Is RE and lets face it the first time around that chapter was a huge flop! The ring license was so so boring no one cares about that franchise. DBD makes a ton of money. 50 million players equals millions of dollars why are they so cheap when it comes to adding content? Is Cote bad at his job? The devs do not feel like they care about this game it just feels routine to them at this point. Tons of leaks, perks that do the same things as previous ones, and repetitive killer powers and maps...

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  • Crowman
    Crowman Member Posts: 9,552

    We got Ringu since Stranger Things left. Hellraiser came out before Stranger Things left, but it leaving was already announced at that point iirc.

    But also BHVR doesn't want to do just licenses. A couple years ago on a stream they mentioned how they don't want licenses to take up more than half the new content in a given year. The devs have a story they want to tell with dbd and they need original content releases to tell that story.

  • KateMain86
    KateMain86 Member Posts: 2,374

    I actually think the license DLCs are very fairly priced. I was surprised the Resident Evil chapter wasn't more because I honestly think it could have been and still sold very well. We're also about to get another Resident Evil chapter which in my opinion has been the most popular content added to the game so I don't think a lot of licenses are getting neglected. We really don't know the intricate details behind these things. I'd imagine there are a lot of licenses out there that would love to work with DBD in the future.

  • Kaitsja
    Kaitsja Member Posts: 1,838

    It's not necessarily about how much BHVR is willing to pay. There's a whole bunch of stuff that goes into just discussing the matter that is way over my head.

  • supersonic853
    supersonic853 Member Posts: 5,545
    edited May 2022

    It's ultimately up to the license holders. If netflix says "no more stranger things in dbd" they can legally do that. There's nothing bhvr can do about it. As for costumes again they need permission which as shown from freddy. His holders really don't like being bothered.

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  • The_Krapper
    The_Krapper Member Posts: 3,259

    This new season of stranger things has me dying for them to bring the new villian and a survivor to the game, it's such a perfect fit it would be a shame if they didn't try to do it, also Robert Englund plays the villian in this season and having him with voice lines would be absolutely epic, it would definitely be a shut up and take my money type thing .

  • HectorBrando
    HectorBrando Member Posts: 3,167

    How much content licenses get is up to the license holders not BHVR, I remember reading somewhere Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street license holders are the hardest to work with, especially Nightmare on Elm Street, if they dont let BHVR make more cosmetics for them its their decission and they have to abide by the contracts they sign.

  • Emeal
    Emeal Member Posts: 5,263

    I iddnt know you could just disagree your way out of modern copyright law. :P

  • KhamuraTal
    KhamuraTal Member Posts: 42

    Molten Hot take: The Dredge is more interesting then seventy percent of the remaining horror licenses that they haven't touched. Egregore are so rarely depicted in media and i'd rather have a cool composite killer with potentially infinite customization then the Skype Call Murderer or Knock-off Grudge monster number 5278. We'll get to the good licenses eventually if the other companies are willing to play ball, but i'm not going to grumble too much about things after the anniversary stream.

  • bittercranberry
    bittercranberry Member Posts: 454

    you lost me when you said "Losing the Stranger Things license and not getting another big license since it has really made the player base lose passion for the game." Stranger things was not even top 5 most popular license in this game lol.