Devs deserve some credit

You don't seem to respect their opinion if you're calling this post "white knighting". This game is substantially better than it was four years ago. Is it buggy as hell? Yes. Does it run poorly, especially on console? Yes. Do I wish they would prioritize other things at times? Yes. But still, they have vastly improved balance, added an amazing amount of content to the game, and built an experience that's fun enough to retain players for years.

We don't know what the code looks like under the hood. It could be that parts of this game would really need time-intensive rewrites in order to make them more reliable and better performing going forward. That might just be very hard for them to prioritize given the breakneck pace of content releases they've been keeping up, especially because that doesn't make money in the short term. Do I wish they would do whatever they need to do to increase the quality of their product, even if it means sacrificing content? Sure. Does that mean they're incompetent and deserve non-stop ######### from the people on this forum who don't know the first thing about video game development or how to run a business? Absolutely not.

People want everything. They want a well-performing, stable, bug-free, highly-balanced game with frequent new content releases, fun and unique events every quarter, generous amounts of affordable, free, or grindable cosmetics, major new license deals, graphics updates for all maps, etc. That is just not all going to happen at once. If the game stays strong for years to come, I am sure much of this will be addressed. Until then, civil feedback submissions and patience will both be important.

I get what you're saying. And I agree that we should appreciate what they do if we decide to throw complains at them. "Treat others the way you want to be treated." If all we do is to complain, there's no reason for the developers to be nice to us back. It's just common sense.

I personally have no experience in game development. And therefore no clue how long it takes to come up with ideas and implementing them. But I'm sure it takes time and requires creativity. That is why I admire and appreciate it.

However, there are certain mistakes that the developers made and continue making. Such as broken promises and subsequent rejection of apology/explanation, which are things that people of this community deserve!

It's the basics that aren't being looked upon—be on good terms with your community (majority of it). Be excited to start with a new patch and be curious of what people will think of it. Continue growing with valuable feedback. But don't take the amount of money it will bring you as a priority.

Not adding serum as a currency is a mistake? I don't think so 😅

I think the problem lies more in the fact that the devs are getting credit for their actions... Too much bad credit lol.

It's not moving in a good direction, though. Instead of doing things that will increase player retention and login time for the game, they're doing the opposite. There's a reason player retention is considered such a valuable metric when it comes to the video game industry; and pushing people away during the main season to play the game because other games are doing Halloween better simply by doing anything is a bad look. And I'm talking about some of the most historically greedy corporations in gaming right now. They're offering free things and events just for playing the game. It creates buzz and goodwill from the player, as well as interest, which in turn sometimes causes them to crack open their wallet for some of those other sweet Halloween lootz. It's a win-win for both parties.

So no, I disagree with your post in almost its entirety. The fact that they're not doing anything for Halloween and instead making a cash grab more suggests the opposite of a move in a good direction. It means they're willing to sacrifice the goodwill of the playerbase for short-sighted profits because the longevity and health of the game may not really be a concern anymore.

And finally, it's a company, dude. They don't need you to white knight for them. They have a marketing team for that. And yes, quit denying you're white knighting. It's what you're doing.

Oh, I get it, you are one of those... well, good luck to you, don't answer me, please, much appreciated 👋

"I'm sorry, but are you seriously trying to defend the devs over the current train wreck the game is becoming?"

Is that the level of civility I should be aiming for? I think I more than cleared that bar lol

1. This is moving the goal posts. This game was what it was at release. You can't go back in time and make this game a masterpiece at launch so that the current state looks bad in comparison. You have to compare what the game was to what it is.
2. The reason why companies like Google roll out their software is because sometimes, especially for bugs that are more rare, it is simply so unlikely that you'll trigger it internally that you need to see how it performs in the wild. That's one of the reasons why the PTB exists. Rather than just testing internally, Behaviour is able to get their changes in front of a much larger group of testers and weed out some of these bugs that only occur on certain maps, with certain killers, running certain perks, on certain hardware, for example. There is not a chance they push code out the door without testing it.
3. Do you seriously believe that an appreciable percentage of people on this forum know enough about video game development and the state of this game's code base to actually be able to intelligently comment on Behaviour's development quality, prioritization, etc.? Do you seriously believe that an appreciable percentage of people on this forum know enough about business and enough about Behaviour specifically to comment on whether they should be making different business decisions? Very few people are going to check either box, and those that do would demonstrate that in their posts rather than just whining because a bug got added or their pet issue didn't get addressed.