How come the devs don’t care about the community?
They only seem to care about your wallets these days :(
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Cause said community keeps buying stuff.
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Yeah man, All that fan interaction that costs money and time, its all just a clever ruse.
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What makes you say they don't care about the community?
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Devs don't care about the community and its all money?
1,000*52=52,000 Auric cells in a year
That is alot of money devs just sacrificed, along with this 10 people got a copy of the game, then another 10 got a copy of the game with cosmetics for Blight and Felix, along with blight and felix, etc
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Its not available everywhere. It requires you to already having invested money in the game. Giving some players $520 worth of AC during the course of a year is small potatoes compared to the massive player engagement that it'll bring, which will wow investors and shareholders.. who will invest more money in the company.
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Thats not gonna stop people, NordVPN exists
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I'd not count on it, to be honest. In the end of it all, they need your account to unlock the stuff and if it shows that you're part of a country that was excluded.. don't you think they will just pick another one? I certainly assume so.
They're not doing this event out of some love for the community or the goodness of their hearts, they're doing it to boost numbers.
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It also is a relatively predatory contest, where you can't submit even one entry without agreeing to sign up for their newsletter. The free promotions pushed to everyone who signs up for the contest, even if people cancel after a single one, is more than likely to make up the $520 from the cells in people reminded of cosmetics they want.
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I love how the contest doesn't even include PS4 as an option if you win....... Us PS4 Players are the red-headed stepchild to BHVR and they plain ol hate us it seems...
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Giving away a digital good isn't a sacrifice. They could pull millions of those things from their digital ass at no expense to themselves. Chances are it'll go to someone who was never going to buy auric cells anyways, so it's money they were never going to see anyway. Also a year of getting these things would condition you to go "ah I can just buy this cosmetic, that's pretty cool." then at the end you'd go, "oh well, I can just buy a few more auric cells, I've already gotten so many for free."
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I'll buy new killers and survivors. That is it.
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It depends on who YOU mean by the "community" because this Forum is "a" community, i.e. one mostly of misfit toys. The actual DbD community is much larger and oblivious or apathetic to this Forum. The actual community spends more time playing the game than talking (or complaining) about it. They do pay attention to those guys, i.e. like any business they are driven by sales. This Forum, and weird community, is just a Fun House mirror that distorts things. Or you could think of it as a drain filter at the bottom of your shower. Most of the water goes about its way to do its thing where it should be going. The nasty stuff, hair and the like, gets stuck in the drain where you can see it an be annoyed by it. That is us.
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But that's all it takes. They've kept to the 3 month cycle for years now and because of it they've never taken a breather to fix the game. All it takes to keep that cycle up is people buying the new chapters and that's all. Cosmetics are just a bonus after that.
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I don't think the people buying just the killers and survivors are the problem though, because that's standard. It's the whales who buy all of the survivor outfits and the rift pass and a bunch of auric cells, so on and so forth.
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Unfair, i'd say most of the devs do care but like every job they have bosses dishing out the orders which they have to follow.
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It motivates them to continue the practice of pushing content every three months, no matter what state its in or how much it'll break when shipped to Live. It has never been a good practice in gaming to buy things on release day.
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