Did they change their mind on giving out event exclusives?

like i said in another thread like wearing a beacon

No, it went against what some vocal people on these forums and Reddit wanted. A lot of people here tend to mistake "the Dead by Daylight forum community" for "the Dead by Daylight player base." There are a few hundred of us here, at most. The Steam client alone peaked at 69,480 players inside of the past 30 days, and this doesn't even count other platforms.

We are not representative of the DBD player base as a whole. The fact that we are here, and have taken the time to register on these forums for this specific game so that we can talk to others about it makes us very hardcore outliers, and that does not represent a normal play experience or thought pattern.

Also: I would absolutely believe, sight unseen, that their data has long been telling them Hex: Ruin had a MASSIVE effect on win rates, coming down to whether the totem got cleansed or not. Their only mistake here was not changing it sooner. And, the average player is going to go "cool, some free cosmetics!" Most of them probably don't know or care where they came from originally, and would react with a "huh cool" if you told them.

Yes because exclusives have worked out so well for them so far, what with giving exclusive cosmetics out at RL events that you could only earn at those RL events. Oh what's that? People are selling the codes for them for hundreds or thousands of dollars online? Oh what's that? Some people are getting scammed because of this? Yes, "exclusives" sure are great and work out so well and never backfire.

Some people who earned their exclusive Legacy don't have it anymore because of loss of progress and they can't ever get it back because BHVR are stubborn (I wasn't one of them, and I luckily haven't ever suffered loss of progress, but that's the problem with having exclusive items and ######### servers). But exclusives are a good idea.

Meh.

Honestly it's the natural conclusion to Peanits' statement on why they released these event cosmetics, which was more or less 'we didn't want to disservice the long time players who did earn the outfits and lost them due to bugs and we couldn't find a way to reliably give them all their cosmetics back besides this'.

Personally though I'd say no.

It's a show of thanks from the devs to the people who really loved and supported their game back when it was even more busted than it is now. That shouldn't just be given away for free to every Jane Schmoe that buys the game.

But then I also don't get why it's so impossible to give people back their Legacy when they have steam achievements, videos, screenshots, save files, or livestream VODs showing them with Legacy cosmetics.

That's what they literally did for the first Anni event. That Meg hoodie with the pink jersey? 1st Anni. Yellow Nea top? First Anni. Rose weapon for Nurse? First Anni. People earned it FOR EVERYONE. Even the people who didn't own the game yet or couldn't play during the event.

Nah, I can understand people being upset newer players are getting the rewards they worked for. Doesn't mean I think we should be given legacy, but they probably shouldn't have given out the event cosmetics either.

Everyone against giving the cosmetics to people that didn't play the event to get a free cosmetic - you are also against them doing sales/lowering price of the full game/DLC/cosmetics(like Lisa) since people bought those first at full price, right? I mean, it's not fair someone paid full price for any of those when they first came out and later on others get them for less/free. If you're that upset over a free cosmetic you must get more upset whenever those price drops happen since that's real money, right?

I've lost 2 legacy 3 survivors, one legacy 2 survivor and a legacy 1 killer. I've emailed them with proof of legacy and got jack. Still don't have it

My opinion is that they should not give away the old legacy skins it was a tough grind for those with the old bloodwebs. Though many of us have lost ours in that safe file stuff it would be nice if they got that stuff back but I get why it's such a touchy subject and hard for some to prove they had it besides just the achievement link. An alternative might be to just toss them out to those that had the game or achievements before the cutoff but that could be a real pain as well and a lot of extra work so again I get why they don't want to give them back out.

Yeah I was a little sad too, I didn't care about the game as much to grind for the David and Huntress cosmetic, but I worked hard earning the BBQ items, and felt special when using em.

oh well, it's their decision ultimately and all it gets rid of is bragging rights tbh.

No, I don't think they should give legacy away for free.

If they want to give it away I think there should be a system equivalent to the grind you had to endure to get them normally. For instance, prestiging like 10 or more times or having an option to change the bloodweb to the old version to experience the legacy grind.

From my understanding of it, some people had lost their legacy and event items for no reason in an update, to those who are asking why they would just give it out.

I'd like to know, first of all, how this happened to begin with and have they fixed it so that it doesn't. They needed to have some sort of system in place that would be able to tell if you had the item or not so you wouldn't have to prove to them that you owned something, it'd be in their data and you'd be given your ######### back.

Love the hypocrisy in them saying that they weren't going to give out legacy because it means too much to those that earned it. Not that I ultimately care that much, but Kate's songbird top and the propain hammer meant a lot to me because it was my first event in the game and I worked so hard not knowing how to play at the time to get it, I was proud in the effort I made to achieve it. Now it was just given away as a consolation for them not having their ######### together and being able to give things back to people who should have never lost those things in the first place.

You had to grind to get some of these things? I already had a few of them and I don't even remember how I got them. Except for the Hallowed Blight ones.

Hey, I think you've missed the point that I'M also part of that "we". I don't mind that the new players get to enjoy the stuff that we got a long time ago. If anything it's kind of like hand-me-downs, "we earned this and it was super cool at the time, but y'know what you can have it now, there are better things that we have that we'd rather use now"

Yeah, I get that we grinded for it. But we grinded for it almost 2 years ago, there's no reason to keep hoarding all this stuff for ourselves when we've already been earning other cosmetics and cool stuff along the way. Let the new guys have access to some more customization options, the game is grindy enough as it is.