Announcement regarding the future of the Dead by Daylight Forums:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/472588/future-of-dead-by-daylight-forums The forums will officially be closed from the 1st November 2026.
I genuinely don't know where to post my Feedback anymore.
There is no place to write feedback for gameplay/mechanics anymore now that the forms is closing or in process of. Where do I post? Reddit? The team will never see it? Discord? There are no proper channels to post just people post cat/dog photos…I dont know what to do.
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The DBD Discord doesn't have a feedback channel?
Tell them to make one, I guess.
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I guess this whole thing was both poorly planned, and poorly executed.
The forums was always the best channel for feedback.
And crazy enough, we are still alive 🧐13 -
And the reddit mods will delete any opinion they don't think is killer sided enough. I actually got modded for saying Lights Out shouldn't have Killer Instinct. BHVR has truly abandoned us.
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i saw that post briefly, are you serious? there wasn't even any bad language
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Forums are still up? Ok.
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there is DbD-Forum tab on discord, where you can make Feedback/Suggestion post. Though it's just a worse version of an actual forum in my opinion.
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Yeah dbd discord is really mid ive been trying to use it but
- No reactions on posts so you cant see what is actually trending unless everyone spams post like "i agree"
- Posts get auto deleted after laying dormant (way to quickly) so you are unable to comment on them anymore.
- You cannot post any media in your posts until the server deems you worthy (based on how much you post ive been told)
- Not allowing custom nickname for the server so people can set up a server profile, I wanted to use my forum name on discord but nope. (rather then needing to keep name same)
-Harsh character limits, ive seen some people who have had to be like (1/3) on message because discord does not allow longer messages.
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you gotta convince your favourite content creator thats also part of BHVRs Partner Program to like your feedback and then that content creator needs to convince their following to totally not harrass the devs with said feedback in an unhealthy way but tell them nicely.
Gg ez(This has been the case for quite some time already, Forums have been deemed too unpopular)
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You're not wrong tbh. I think the real question is whether they're interested in our feedback at all anymore. They seem to just do what their popular cc's want.
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They do listen to "Outcries" when something goes really wrong, they will fix it but why not the in-between it feels like. I just dont know where to be helpful.
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I popped back in for the first time in a while, and it looks like this place is shut down now.
If you're taking the time to provide detailed feedback, surveys are conducted periodically.
The current frequency of these surveys feels fine as it is.
As long as they make sure to provide an open-ended comment box in every survey, there's no real problem.
Whenever changes are introduced, on the reacting side—the survivors—the higher their skill level, the faster they adapt. The key is how much you adapt in response to those changes.
On either side, players with the mindset of a preschooler will throw a tantrum the moment a given toy is taken away.
If you want to leave brief feedback, previously console players couldn't type text for in-game reports and tickets on the post-match result screen, but text input is now supported, despite some ongoing usability issues.
I hope the usability continues to improve.
And while we can report the other four players, if we also become able to report/reflect on our own performance in the future, there really won't be much to grieve over.
For me personally, since native language input isn't available, fumbling around can result in a disconnect, but even that becomes a learning experience of "what to do next."
Unfortunately,
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They don't listen to feedback anyway, not from normal players. They listen to people on Twitter, Youtube and Twitch who make money by baiting people with stuff and BHVR keeps falling for the bait.
The forums and these other places where people can post feedback are just places where people can think that they're being heard but in reality they're being ignored. Places like this exist so they can seem like they're listening just like the Shrine of Secrets exists so they can say they're not pay to win. They want the feedback to be on Discord so we can be ignored even harder because Google and ChatGPT doesn't look at Discord.
Honestly, and I hate to say it, maybe Twitter is the way to go.
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I'm not saying I agree with their decision but more than likely they expect most of the feedback to come from surveys and other third party channels they don't manage.
I've personally stopped investing so much into how I voice my opinion. I felt like when they did the weekly dev streams when Mcote and the original devs they were a bit more in touch. When they grew, took their own independence from Starbreeze and brought on a bunch of community managers I've felt like a lot of stuff gets lost in translation. I'm not saying they don't listen but I feel it's a matter of there is too many people to listen to and there is too many people that needs specific communication for them to really focus on any particular voice.
If anything - it would probably benefit BHVR only focusing on feedback from one general location rather than constantly needing to visit 4-5 different platforms to gather feedback from hundreds of people. This is why I feel like every content creator is going to end up being their source of feedback.
Otz for example - He will make a video, his audience will give feedback in the comments and naturally the favorable voices there will be the most upvoted. Then based on communication between OTZ and BHVR they assess what changes to make. I'm also going to state I don't believe any single content creator has a priority voice - I'm just using otz as an example. My main point though is I don't really see any other viable way to give BHVR feedback if the forums are gone unless you use Twitter so I see most of the future changes being based on or inspired by the larger content creators.
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Simple answer: They are not.
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There have been many, many discussions on these forums that have directly influenced in game decisions, for better or worse, over the years. Many of which that were also ignored, but without direct confirmation and accreditation, there is no way to know exactly how many were direct and how many were coincidental. That said, it has absolutely been a non-zero value over the last decade, but they were certainly listening to things that didn't leave any particular CC's mouth. They just don't see it as valuable anymore compared to the curation they apply to whoever they consider worth listening to.
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The problem with listening to CCs is that their audience are there because they already agree with them. Or are incapable of forming their own opinion, so look to their favourite CCs on how to feel about things (and this isn't exclusive to DBD - the lead developer of Bethesda has spoken out about this issue of people parroting their favourite content creators and the impact it has on game development). There's also a conflict of interest in that CCs make their money via their content engagement, and if they know they have BHVRs ear then changes they influence may not be in the best interest of the game but rather in the best interest of their own wallets. Bottom line is, there's a large chunk of the playerbase whose feedback will be neglected if the developers only listen to their ccs.
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I absolutely agree - I think most of us probably feel the same. My own stance is I accepted this a while ago and I'm less invested in giving my own feedback. I feel in the long run for those who don't quite feel alienated this decision will push the remainder of those here to be either bitter or stop caring because the lack of communication.
It left an impression but I still remember a long time ago during a dev stream (2016 or 2017 I cannot recall) I had asked about Boil Over and Ironworks of Misery and if it would be possible to break the rails so killers didn't have to slug up there. About a week later the handrails were broken up after their dev stream so killers could drop down. I was like wow they actually listened. Now I watch a lot of players who are far better qualified to give feedback than I am get ignored on a daily basis and I stopped trying to correlate why that is a long time ago.
I remember the most traction a thread got on this forum was about Sadako and that's because a dedicated content creator made a thread about it and asked for their audience to go post and be constructive. That person made a huge difference in my opinion but the part that sucks is that's what it takes for some threads to pop off on these forums and it's probably a case example of why does BHVR even have the forums up?
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