http://dbd.game/killswitch
As someone who never uses Twitch, stop gatekeeping cosmetics behind Twitch drops and newsletters
Please make all the badges, charms, and banners accessible for everyone to unlock, maybe as redeemable codes in the in-game store, while you're at it, can ya'll make that new pumpkin bat charm a redeemable code for us as well? It's so cute but that newsletter is such a hassle, some people got the charm and some didn't. Edit: Even store bundles will do, but not $60 like that Witcher one was
Me, an average player who has no interest in Twitch
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I never saw it as a problem. It's way more accessible than the Amazon Prime drops, where you actually had to pay. With Twitch, you can just have it running in the background while you do other things. You don't have to engage with the streamers or their chats.
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You also have to connect your accounts.
I don´t like that also but they want to generate player retention and get the data i guess.
So they wont´t give these for free.
I am glad i don´t care so much of banners and badges.
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As one of the players who haven’t received the newsletter despite having my email linked to my behavior account, this needs to be fixed. Release these rewards as codes that we can redeem through the store and not lock them behind “customized codes” through the newsletter. Telling people “there’s nothing we can do” is completely false. What’s the purpose of sending charms & rewards out if you CANT guarantee everyone will receive it? To further add salt to the wound, they can’t even send me proof that they sent out the newsletter to my email. Behavior really doesn’t care about it’s player base, especially those who’s spent money throughout the years.
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as someone who barely touches twitch… because the ads killed any interest I had… I'm glad I also don't care much for banners and whatnot
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Are the ads really that bad like they are with Youtube? that makes it even worse
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it's unwatchable now. the arms race against ad blockers has gotten worse lately.
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oh, it's SO MUCH worse on twitch… you can get 2+minutes of ads before you even start watching what you want.
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The first Twitch drops were a full cosmetic set for Meg. That's how they got me, because I would not have signed up for banners or badges. I miss being able to input a code on my Switch to get the drops.
For anyone who still wants the drops but doesn't care to watch a Twitch streamer for 6 hours, there's nothing stopping anyone from having Twitch playing in another browser tab. Just put a drops enabled DBD streamer on at the lowest video quality setting and collect your drops that way.
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I don't have a Twitch account and don't want one. So far nothing has been compelling enough for me to change that. Maybe a full cosmetic set for my main could make me fall in line but I wont feel good about it.
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As someone who only started using Twitch because of DbD, and who uses it a lot, and who has unlocked every Twitch drop until Sinister Grace charms where something went wrong and the drops didn't unlock... after dealing for days with BHVR support and Twitch support and getting nowhere except discovering it's BHVR's choice not to help me... I'm a long-time customer and player, and BHVR keeps finding new ways to make me feel like I have no value to them.
I'm sick of exclusive FOMO cosmetic items locked behind other platforms. The point of free digital items should not be to exclude players for any little reason. BHVR chooses these methods of giving them away for engagement metrics, but there's no reason to not help people obtain them when those engagement systems fail. Nor is there any reason not to give them out via a more universal method after a short wait period. Most people who are able will still jump through the hoops to get the items unlocked first thing rather than wait.
BHVR could give these cosmetics away via universal free codes at a later date. Or they could create a little area for them in the DbD in-game store where players can purchase them for shards. Being able to buy the otherwise free badges, banners, and charms for Iri Shards would be appreciated by many people.
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I was happy for my non twitchy gamers that they released the discord fnaf 3 banner that banner was peak
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@TragicSolitude specifically in reference to creating a way for people to purchase drops at a later date. I remember distinctly grinding to get the below banner and then saw not that long ago it was included in a bundle they were selling (if I remember correctly is was a crow themed bundle and included a cosmetic for the artist). Not saying this is common, but it does happen sometimes… albeit for money and not shards.
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Quite frankly after the fiasco at TwitchCon, BHVR should start distancing themselves from Twitch anyway.
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Selling items that were otherwise free for money bothers me. There's no shipping involved, no physical resources, these are digital items, and they were released in a way to encourage engagement. Iri Shards are rewarded for engaging with the game, so allowing people to purchase otherwise free cosmetic items with Iri Shards makes perfect sense. I'd like to see BHVR do that.
In general, I wish BHVR would stick to giving away Bloodpoints through newsletter codes and Twitch drops. They have a nearly empty free Rift track: the badges, banners, and charms could be there. Should be there. There is nothing about unlocking these things through Twitch drops that makes them more valuable to me. It's just another thing to keep track of, and I guess apparently have go wrong.
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is it that hard to just subscribe to the newletter, let it be in your spam
and then be afk watching a random dbd streamer for 6 hours or so?.
besides, cosmetics are optional. i dont have all the badges (even if i really wanted to) because the rest are behind bs expensive paywalls.-2 -
Absolutely
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to me, they are still just Justin.tv I see some things haven't changed despite lipstick bring put on the pig
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I looked this up and wow. I'm disappointed there wasn't at least some mob justice but the guy just left. I recently saw an uplifting video from Japan where a whole crowd dog piled a subway groper/upskirter until the police came and one smidgen of my hope for humanity was briefly restored.
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Well, in the US the guy would have been escorted out, given a premium bottled water, apologized to, put on a witness protection list, have Congressional blocking done to prevent him from being known about, the public would be gaslit into believing it didn't happen even with the video evidence, provided 1 million dollars through a Go Fund Me, and given free lawyers to defend him.
While the bulk of the public gets directed to ask, what was she wearing and why did she ask for it.
Sadly that's the country I now live in.
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Since Twitch drops are a mutually beneficial business deal between two companies, they'll likely keep them exclusive for x amount of time before they appear in a Store bundle. More than likely there's some sort of contract stipulating just that.
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I am subscribed for years.
But i don´t received the mail.
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Not sure if you read this entire thread or not, but multiple people have stated being subscribed to the newsletter and never getting it which is exactly the problem and sticking point behind this post to start with… I have been subscribed to the newsletter for well over a year and have not one single time received it. So yeah it's frustrating to lock something you want behind something that doesn't work.
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Honestly twitch drop only cosmetics are strange to me more because of how Behavior made all those limited time in-game event cosmetics free for everyone by default for the sake of availability.
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then contact the support, i have been given codes every time i havent gotten a mail (since they know my mail is subbed to them with my bhvr account)
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Not everyone has the same experience as you:
I too have managed to contact support and get a code in the past when the email newsletter didn't reach me, but either their policies have recently changed or how helpful support is is completely dependent on the person who gets assigned your ticket.
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If you care enough for banners, badges and whatnot, its not a big of a deal to create an account just to lurk a streamer and get the rewards
Also, pretty sure anything related to twitch drops will eventually come back in the store, except that this time they will cost real money. So pick your poison
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This is completely missing the point.
The actual point being is people that are dedicated to the actual game shouldn’t have to go through other apps to get an in game item. If this is going to continue, it shouldn’t be a one day thing like the most recent Twitch drop for the banner where Twitch drops failed & further failed being as it was only a 3 hour stream. Second, people have lives, so yes inevitably you’re gonna miss out, but like others are saying, it should be available to purchase using iridescent shards. Third, concerning the newsletter, MANY (and I’m not exaggerating) have not received the newsletter despite being signed up for years. It’s not found in any other folder, not hidden.. it just was never sent. And it further becomes an issue when behavior themselves acknowledges it’s an issue an refuses to do anything about it.
In conclusion, there’s ways to fix these problems, but it all boils down to behavior not listening to their player base.1 -
Its fine, buy with real money 12 months later
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as i posted on another forum about this recent one specifically but the timeframes they expect some people to watch are absurd, it should at the bare minimum be available for a whole 24 hour period
the timeframe I was given to watch in Eastern Australia for most recent drop, no consideration for people who are not based on the American side of the globe
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The purpose of Twitch drops is to support the community. This is why they make it charms, bloodpoints, banners, things like that. Do you want to have every charm and banner in the game? Sure, it's nice. But they are not something you need. They are not locking some meta perk behind Twitch drops.
If you don't want to support the community, that's totally cool. But then don't complain when you don't get the incentives they provide to support the community.
Plus, let's be honest. All you need to do for Twitch drops is sign up for Twitch, link your account, open a tab. Set the video to 160p to minimize your bandwidth, mute the TAB (not the stream itself.. this turns off drops!) on your browser, then go do something else. Check back every once in a while to make sure you have claimed the drops (you should get a notification that will show a (1) in the tab name depending on your browser, and there are third party browser extensions that auto-claim for you too.) Simple and you don't really even have to interact with the community.
Now, having said that, yes the GalaxiesShow drop was a complete fiasco especially as people were telling them that the drops would not work with SpecialEvents and the mods kept insisting that was not the issue, only to have them change it to Dead by Daylight finally two hours in, and…. oh look it suddenly works.-3
