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Is this appropriate?

I love the game but I noticed an issue with the tome that just released. In the descriptions for the Murderous Soul (Susie) outfit it very clearly alludes to a #########, in which Susie gets revenge. Despite the attempted message of being on the victim’s side I find it very problematic. As someone who has had struggled with similar events described I found it very jarring. I understand that Dead By Daylight is a mature game, but I think the description should be changed to something less offensive.

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  • Memesis
    Memesis Member Posts: 245

    Yikes, yeah just read those too. "She should've been tougher, capable of breaking free of that guy on her own". I get what it's going for, but they should really at least re-word that.

  • UndeddJester
    UndeddJester Member Posts: 3,764
    edited January 29

    While I sympathise with this being a difficult issue for you, the whole point of horror as a genre is that it explores and challenges you with disturbing and distressing concepts and ideas.

    Bad thing happen to good people, this is a fact of life. Things like this do happen to people in real life, and is a genuinely traumatic and horrific event that makes complete sense as subject to use as character backstory in a horror game. Everyone in the world has their own baggage and issues that affect them to different degrees.

    As a comparable example, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre was based on real life events, do we ban that because the people who's family members and friends who were murdered and cannibalised would be offended? What about people who have family members killed by serial killers? If we remove things from a horror game because they offend people, we might as well remove everything in the game.

    I also disagree with this as well, because anyone who has or knows someone who has endured this kind of trauma understands that this is the kind of internal thoughts a victim of such a thing tends to think. They tend to blame themselves for allowing it to happen.

    This line is reflective of Susie's (Julie's?) internal thoughts, not a statement to victims on how they should be able to handle this kind of issue, and this should be quite evident to anyone not trying to make a meta social statement about it. (Not accusing you of that BTW, but failing to apply appropriate context is a common failure of discussion in online media around things such as this). 🤘

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