Scott puts things into perspective

I completely agree with the video. Everything I say is because I love this game and want to see it do better. I used to purchase every DLC and many outfits because I wanted to support the game. Ever since the most recent Halloween "event" though, I have stopped giving Behavior my money because of their obvious greed. With the half-baked Binding of Kin chapter, I have added developer laziness to the reasons I choose to no longer support the game with my money.

Behavior...you need to start releasing patches that don't break the game and squash bugs much faster. You have so many fans with tons of experience that you could use to QA test potential game ideas and changes...use them. You need to make more significant changes to perks, killers, add-ons, items, etc. more often. It can't be that hard to give Trapper a brown bag and Wraith a yellow windstorm by default (the entire community's been saying this is a needed change for ages). How long have iridescent head hatchets and keys been an issue with no changes? Why did it take so long to make such a simple change to moris when they were such a big issue? Didn't you guys tease adding more items to spice up gameplay a long time ago?

The early game ramp-up phase that you're working on needs to be something game-changing and interesting like finding missing gen parts to be able to start repairing them and reducing gen repair time to compensate (not just a lazy copy-paste of the end game collapse but in reverse). You need to add a second game mode that's on a weekly rotation (like one week everyone has +50% speed, the next week everyone can bring 6 perks, etc.). You need to add more UI placement options, make the portraits reflect character cosmetics, and add colorblind options. Your events need to have earnable cosmetics through gameplay (log-in rewards don't count) and the Halloween event especially needs 2 earnable outfits with event currency that can be used on current and past Halloween outfits. You just need to do better for your fans so we can feel justified in supporting you financially. What we're getting from you now just isn't cutting it. I'm begging you, please do better.

P.S. You'd probably sell more cosmetics and increase variety in the game by making them not cost more than the characters themselves.

They are stuck in a cycle - same thing every few months (SSDD). There is little to no innovation besides the new killer they release (and even that is bugged as hell and usually shares mechanics borrowed from other killers).

The lack of competition breeds complacency. Why put more effort in when there is no real alternative for your customers to go to.

Mor people need to read this thread to make the Devs notice. Send it to everyone you know.

I totally get that rant coming from frustration, because you love this game so much. Even though I am not gaining anything monetarily, I still want the best for the game. It deeply saddens me to see how much the community cares about the game, and how little they got in return. I mean, I look at the contents, art works, cosmetic designs, chapter ideas, balance ideas created by this amazing community, and I am amazed. They care this much about the game, creating things, putting energy and afford to it, not want anything but some recognition in return. Something to indicate they have been heard.

I am looking this new HUD design by devs for example, and see so many better alternatives more meaningful ones here in forums. It really upsets me to think none of them will be considered and we will have to see this unthoughtful design in live version. That is just one example from current patch. There are thousands of them from the previous patches, growing exponentially.

Because true monopolies are lazy. Most 'monopolies' throughout history, weren't, they were highly successful enterprises that scratched and clawed to the top through ingenuity and innovation. Dead by Daylight's only innovation is it's formula and due to it's uniqueness, has a captive audience, giving it no direct competition.

Monopolies aren't about making the most money possible, they're about making the most per unit while making as few units as possible. So long as they can maintain that state of affairs, they will. Which is exactly what Behavior is doing.

The fact is a true competitor is not gonna rise, let alone survive long enough because we've got diehard fans crap bombing reviews on everywhere, Last Year for instance was gonna be a decent threat to DbD, had a somewhat similar idea, patches with new features and bug fixes were coming really fast, the quality was there, and yet the fans decided to call it trash everywhere and keep new players from even giving it a chance.

I don't think dbd is ever gonna stop feeling like a half-assed project when it comes to these things, simply because they have no pressure and as soon as they do, that part of the playerbase starts crapping on that competition far too much.

Dude most of us have been waiting for over 4 and a half years now, and a lot of feedback isn't being listened to. I'm not saying all of it isn't, because that would be a stupid statement to make of course they listen to feedback, but a lot of decisions they make are very 'final'. Like a "yeah welp, we think THIS is better for the game so you're just gonna have to get used to it". And they're still taking things so slowly and so safe, never taking any risks because they know they don't have to.

They are lazy though.

So many things could be fixed and SO MANY perks could be made so much better with slight number tweaks would take them like 5 seconds per perk to adjust the numbers.

Most killers need simple buffs like addon trapper bag base or windstorm base on wraith but they're so lazy they can't even do that.

not to mention their "EVENTS" which are the biggest joke going

I wish someone else would buy out DBD or the team would step up for 600 employees it's an embarrassment

What killed last year was the discord exclusivity deal.

It's true. They have Shiny New Object syndrome in the worst way. Their licenses will carry them for a while, but at least half the playerbase would jump to another game if it was even remotely as good. I'm confident in saying that.

I used to try and be optimistic about this game, but I just can't any more. It's abundantly clear to me that they barely care anymore. I mean this company has over 600 employees.

And yes, I know that not all of them are devoted to DbD, but there are so many other games with so many less employees that put out ten times better content

Santa Monica Studios (God Of War): 200

Bluepoint Studios (Demon Souls' Remake): 90

From Software (Dark Souls and arguably one of the biggest developers right now): 316, nearly half as less than BHVR.

It astounds me that a small group can make a game like Hollow Knight or Shovel Knight but the massive amount of people at BHVR can't make a competent game. Again- I know not all of those 600 work on DbD, but clearly they need more on the team.

Hell, even just the comparison of Path of Exiles was downright embarrassing. Back when I played it, Hi-Rez tried harder with Paladins. Hi-Rez. For those that don't know, they suck.

I just want them to try or care again. Because it's clear they don't. The best thing in this patch is Clown's new music.

I'll see you next patch where they give Wraith a second bell that boosts everyone's action speed by 15%, including survivors. Said patch will also introduce 117 new bugs while fixing about 4.

Oh yes, I do miss events. They removed highly popular things about the events, and turn them into this mobile game techniques to get daily attraction. It was super fun to grind through outfits, not this if you have shards/cells buy them an move on type.

When I look back to events, they seem to had really short small fixes to make them work well. What killers disliked was not be able to find event hooks, them being too far apart or have too limited number.( not to mention sabo-ing event hooks). Those were fixed on Lantern Lunar event. Where every hook was special and you got extra points if you bring an offering. Also lanterns were great secondary objects unlike crowns we've seen 4th year event. Lanterns only need few adjustments like granting points for team, or more availability. Now these new events without anything special about them are not giving you anything unless everyone brings an offering. Forcing players to depend on others is so wrong. And they keep doing it.

While the Stranger Things PTB was live people were saying that Fixated is weak and should work while injured. A developer commented saying that if it turns out that Fixated is too weak it will be buffed. The chapter released on 17 September 2019 according to Google. It took over a year to get it buffed.

There is a big problem with releases adding new content that is immediately (= as soon as it is released) in need of either a rework or buffs because it's unusable in its current state.

He’s not wrong. But this will never change as long as people keep buying skins, chapters and rift passes and sinking thousands of hours into the game.