Why is everyone so unhappy with the generosity that BHVR is showing?

To be fair Felix is now available with shards, 9k of em. As well as with 1080 cells

That's good to hear. Definitely something I'd consider getting now.

It's hard for some of us to have faith that BHVR is going to take the feedback and change how they do future events since we've been burned before. This event is worse than the previous Halloween event which was not well received on release. It was changed after backlash and criticism and BHVR said they'd do better. 😔

I'm a bit on both sides.

The biggest part of the generosity came because the community was unhappy.

That said I do believe the outrage is a bit over exaggerated. I am enjoying the new addons and the fact that you can buy whatever you want with the shards more then makes up that you only can get one skin.

This is the first event where people who don't care for cosmetics are able to use the reward to get a chapter for free

Stop bullying and blame devs already! 😭Or they might have to rethink their choices and maybe give even more free stuff out of guilt😱Is this what you want, huh?! You criminal scum! 🤣

It says specifically on the agreement that there are no refunds ever for things purchased in the store. Also event aside completely breaking console/low end pc frame rate sure didnt help the situation

Atleast the skins are amazing.

Blight and Legion are just *chef kiss*

Almost makes up for that hidious unicorn charm

These two are quite the arguments.

You do pay for the base game which has a battle pass, yes, like almost every other game nowadays except they're free to play to begin with, and offer actual premium currency in their free tracks aswell, BHVR couldn't be bothered to even put normal shards in a small amount to fill some spots, it's barebones at best, hell, the rift is grindier than any other games I've played that have a pass, and they're exploiting that.

They decided to remove actual events from the game to give us more crappy grind to begin with, even more on top of the bloated bloodweb, untouched and useless 1M bp cap which does nothing for the players other than limit your reserves.

Actual unbalanced perks have been frowned upon recently because "escape rate is low" yes, y'all know which perk I'm talking about, they don't know their own game, let alone how to treat a community decently.

The event we have here is a literal paywall grindfest, there's nothing to enjoy that's even remotely different from what everyone here is used to already, this is not being good to their player base, it's mocking them.

DLCs upon DLCs upon paid cosmetics etc etc, they're pulling wallets out of everything and expect to do so again and again, and you wonder why people are upset they can't have a single good event?

You should get it right.

The charms and stuff are really cute and I personally want to finish the rift just for the Legion skin and unicorn charm but this isn't really an event.... It COULD be if they made it so you could collect the serum like you normally could during the event or so the visceral cankers spawned naturally during the event and you could get serum from those. And I'm also really pissed though with how they did the killer addon! You can't use your power until you use the addon, you can't hit while using the addon and you cant even use the addon after the event! If I were to do something to the addon I would either remove it and make it so every time a killer hooked a survivor on a cankerous hook you gained the ability to use the lunge or I would make it so you could use your power and the addon separately. As for the survivor items and addons..... They really aren't that good (Except the serum) The medkit is just a yellow medkit that Blendettes will never use because it exposes you from 10 years away, the flashlight is literally just a yellow flashlight with a ghost effect you barely see and the addon makes it harder to blind the killer. I like all of the concepts of the Halloween event items and addons but most of them aren't that good 🤷. Again, I loved the skins and unicorn charm but that really isn't an event at all. We can buy the skins any time and the visceral cankers spawn with a challenge which makes this event just... not really existent? There's nothing special to do (again, visceral cankers don't count since you can do the rift any time and thus spawn them in any time), the items and addons aren't anything special and once again killers get the short end of the stick in terms of the event.

That isn't the main reason people were upset. People were upset at the event being "horrible" and not being able to grind for cosmetics. So, BHVR responded by discounting the new cosmetics and giving people enough shards that through a combination of playing during the event and logging in every day you should be able to get two free cosmetics, just like in years past. That was honestly a perfectly good and decent response, and that was AFTER the initial outcry. That then caused the issue of the people who bought the skins at full price before they had been discounted, which is definitely an issue, but which was only the RESULT of the complaining this post is talking about, not the CAUSE of the complaining this post is talking about.

Well, would you rather have had no event? That's what I mean by entitlement. Many games don't do this kind of stuff at all, so it frustrates me to see people complaining about the event not being fun enough or not giving them enough free stuff. I 100% agree it's not the world's most fun event. I much preferred the 2018 event. I am still grateful for the free shards / BP, the cool event items and add-ons, the Halloween gens & hooks, and the pustules when I have a rift challenge for them.

Why is this not a case of the community getting too used to things? Last year's event having up to two grindable cosmetics does not mean that every event until the end of time needs to have two grindable cosmetics. Hell, it doesn't mean there has to be an event at all. I don't see how it's right to complain, especially in as whiny of a manner as the majority of related posts of the forum, about not receiving enough free stuff from a company.

Imagine going to the duck pond to feed the ducks and having a duck attack you for not bringing as much bread as last time... like come on

It's meant to be simplistic. I'm curious to get your thoughts on whether or not it's reasonable to complain about not receiving enough free content from a video game that did not promise you free content when you purchased it, though.

I'm less concerned about the free stuff (which is still always earned in some way, whether that's playtime or your wallet) and the lack of any effort into any sort of event, which helps attract and retain players, when other non-horror games are doing them and bhvr is capable of doing, based on previous events and the amount of income they get from dbd.

They don't -have- to give us events, or anything fun at all. But not doing so will likely speed up this game's decline, which isn't something I want to see. But empty, monetised events are only a part of that.

That's a fair point. I'm not really concerned about a weak event causing the game to decline personally, especially compared to very serious deterrents to playing like the frame rate on console and lower-end PCs. Some people are pointing to the recent drop in player totals as an "oh no the game is dying", but I see that more of a reversion to the baseline; we had Silent Hill + the 4th anniversary, summer vacation, and the Blight DLC bumping up play counts through pretty much the whole summer.

People definitely tune in specifically for events, but I don't think that many people who already regularly play the game would leave the game over a sub-par event (or just not having one at all). In theory the game is fun for people, and if so, people will play it. If people are not having fun and only playing during events because the progression system is addicting and they want to earn as much BPs and shards as they can, or something, that's a real problem.

I do agree that some level of new content is important for bringing new players into the game, but I think DLCs are way more important than events on that front.