DBD will be Dead By December 2020.

The game won't die people keep supporting it even though they don't really fix important bugs regarding the sounds and lying saying they fixed silent slugs in the patch before but still are in the game on top of no footsteps now and having iron will at random, skill checks not appearing on screen for a whole match, killers having bugs that never get fixed like nurse and her many deadzones, console optimization as a whole is a mess. I was excited for this dlc but the bugs just make the game so frustrating to play and people telling the devs about the issues with the new map and still getting released unchanged from ptb, I am taking a long break. The game is such a chore to play now because the people in charge of it seem to just be milking it now.

DBD is to horror asymmetrical what WoW is to MMO's. Always supposedly dying, always something that will supposedly kill it, nothing ever does and it stays strong. Life goes on.

*gets hit with Franklin's Demise while holding a key that was White Warded*

"Alexa, open Dead by Daylight forums - Create Topic..."

Where have I heard this before?

Oh yeah, every year for the last 4 years.

You doomsdayers are really bad at predicting lol

Let us all mark it down for when OP is wrong :)

Death is not an escape

basically every "dbd killer" has died within 1 month of launch..

sure. and jesus christ is returning tomorrow.

Highly doubt it. And even if it does,it sure lasted longer than most of the competition. Plus survived in a way better state. Most of the other games are pretty much dead,or sure should be. At best we'll see a new game when the new consoles are out. At worst an upgraded port. None of the reasons given really make any sense. Ive played almost every major AAA release since I can't even remember. I never stopped playing DBD or FFXIV,my other addiction. People seem to complain about everything,and it never seems to stop a majority from playing. Some people don't care about the issues,some look past it because they love the game. Plus there's always going to be new people that don't know any better. There would have to either be some really stiff competition that people can't stay away from,or the game would have to be in an unplayable state,not just have a myriad of smaller issues.

Now now give them some credit. As the game stands now it won't be dead by december but we've got two mid chapter updates and 1 more chapter worth of new bugs between now and then to consider too.

DBD's average player count and rolling 30-day peak player count on PC are currently both higher than they have ever been, at literally any point in its existence, since it was launched in 2016. The idea that it is dying, or is in a state of decline, is positively ludicrous. From a numbers standpoint, this game is super-healthy.

(That said, there is still the worrying trend of "peak player spike after new content drop, then it plummets back down again." This tells me that DBD scares away a lot of new players.)

If you like DBD... try out The Isle. This game has taken so much of my time.