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The problems with Dead By Daylight as I and others see it

From the recent release of the Binding of Kin chapter and the previous 2 in-game events, Hallowed Blight and the 4th anniversary. It is becoming more and more clear to me and a few others that they either:

  • Don't care about the game or us as consumers unless money or game statistics are is involved (the daily log-in rewards are to boost player numbers to keep the investors happy.)
  • Don't understand the game and community well enough to foresee some of the fundamental issues from the PTB testing, or the PTB is for show, and feedback from it is meaningless.
  • Don't want to or can't take criticism, and intentionally have the moderators hide it to save face to the rest of the community or avoid hurt feelings (if this post is moved or deleted, my point is proven.)


Monetization:

It looks like they are shifting in-game monetization towards a more "mobile game esk," minus, of course, the Free to Play aspect that gives some of those games a pass, like inserting a battle pass into a paid game, which we a community let happen.

This could result from meddling by the investors from China or direct greed on behalf of the developers themselves; either way, in a paid game with paid DLC, that shouldn't be a thing unless it's entirely free(Getting the money back that you put into does not count as the time put in with the money is far more valuable, and quite extensive, requiring you to 100% the pass, and even then still requiring additional time to be put in, and then sometimes, the missions require specific characters.)


Game Health vs. New content:

From today's stream, it appears that the devs will not be slowing down development to work on game health. For a game like Dead By Daylight, outright stopping the new content release would kill the game, but as seen with the gap between the Clown and the Pig (during which the game health was focused on and improved), slowing development of new content in favor of fixing the old content would be the best option if they truly want this game to last.



The future(my opinion on it anyway):

I really like Dead By Daylight, like really really like it. Playing it made me want to make my own video games. I want it to be great. However, the way it's going, the development will stop in 2 years, the servers will shut down in 4, and with the death of Dead By Daylight, with it will be Behaviour, as this game is the only game they have.


If they can change, prove the cynical among us wrong, have fantastic Anerversy and Halloween events for 2021 and onward, focus more on game health over new content, be more truthful with the community and directly acknowledge miss-steps, and apologize when they make a mistakes. This game might still have a chance to become an actually good game.


I'd recommend any developers who read this to make some new years resolutions or be ready to watch what they've sunk 4 years of their lives into slowly dying from abuse and neglect.

Comments

  • chieften333
    chieften333 Member Posts: 1,554
    edited December 2020

    You mentioned a great country with nothing wrong with it whatsoever, that's what got a youtuber by the name of a tropical fruit taken off of the forums

    I don't know how long you got, but yeah, I agree with the majority of post.

    Edit: included more sarcasm

  • Terra92
    Terra92 Member Posts: 583

    I will say, in a company like this, developers are disposable, considered worthless despite being the foundation of the business. The devs have to do what they're told to make by their higher ups, in the short window they have to make it. They can petition as much as they want, but in a company of 600 or more, you know for certain they have an HR, and HR in a big company usually leans heavily on the resources portion of that department. The devs are a resource and if they cannot make ends meet then they are fired or docked pay. It's a very inhumane thing but at the end of the day, these people need to put food on the table, for themselves and their families. They do their best and sometimes that's not good enough, but thems the breaks. In these situations, throwing money at it doesn't solve the problem. No amount of "you guys make blah blah money it should be done tomorrow" is going to actually fix the problem. That's naive, that's immature, it's stupid.

    I won't be reading these posts anymore, it's sad to see an entire community lambaste and dehumanize a group of people because they're taking orders from up top and have very little say in how things actually unfold.

    Small post-script: it's esque, and you can amalgamate it to any word, since it's a suffix. Mobile game-esque or mobile gameesque: derivative/resembling mobile games.

  • Weeb_H_Toast
    Weeb_H_Toast Member Posts: 195

    If they told us that they didn't have choice, 100% I'd be ok with what they've done

  • Weeb_H_Toast
    Weeb_H_Toast Member Posts: 195

    Necro because more people need to see this

  • Hekate
    Hekate Member Posts: 23

    As long as people keep giving their money to them, it won't make any difference. On a personal level, you can encourage all your friends to avoid buying/spending money on in-game content until BHVR makes significant changes, but that is about it. The developers either don't care or are being forced to push through subpar content to appease investors. Until the community actually hits them where it hurts, nothing will change.