BHVR has a problem with transparency and it's slowly driving people away from the game.

That's right, after giving it a lot of thought I've come to the conclusion that a significant part of the grudges towards Behaviour stem from their (seemingly) lack of transparency. I'm not writing this just to bash the devs btw. I'd love to be wrong but so far everything I've seen lately leads me to believe they just don't want to keep players in the loop.

Think about it, their latest sketchy decision to get rid of ranks would be fine IF they at least gave players a way to know where they stand compared to their teammates/opponents. But what do they do instead? In true BHVR fashion they just hide it under the rug. Nothing to see here folks! You just have to trust that our changes are working, just like they did last time!

And we all know it's not the first time the devs don't communicate with the community. Just look at the know issues section in the Patch Notes from last chapter:

https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/kb/articles/270-4-4-0-a-binding-of-kin

and compare it to what the community found:

Now obviously the last chapter had a significantly larger amount of bugs, even for DbD but doesn't it bug (hehe) you a little that considering how broken the game was, no one had the brilliant idea of setting up a section where bugs would be acknowledged by the devs, so we would know they were at least doing something about it?

Next example, look at last Halloween event. That was a ######### show no matter how you look at it and most people weren't happy. How did BHVR respond? You guessed it, "Here's some [insignificant amount] bloodpoints now be quiet." Now I know better than to demand things from a company that's basically trying to make the most amount of profit, but if their only way of "making things up" to the players after every ######### up is to throw in some bloodpoints it's no surprise people fall out of love with the game.

How about the HUD? I have yet to find ANYONE who asked for this change. I watched the stream and they announced this as the greatest thing. As if the majority of players were expecting this change and not bug fixes. Yeah I get it there's different teams working on it blah blah. But it looks like the team working on graphics updates has been hard at work. Where's quality control then? What are they doing? What bugs are they working hard to fix at the moment? I want to know and most people who play this game want to know and we get radio silence from BHVR or just gaslighting from one of the lead devs. Why? How hard is it to find a channel to keep the community updated??

I can name a lot more iterations of Behaviour blindsiding their own playerbase but you get the idea. What about their stats that they just stopped publishing? What about some more info on why dedicated servers are still a mess? You just don't need to know apparently. Or wait here's a good one...how about they let their community know why they choose to address certain problematic perks but leave others alone even though they should be taken care of under their own rationale for said changes? I certainly would love to know.

What about poor console folks stuck with a game that performs subpar? Wouldn't it be fair to give them a time frame of when they should expect the issues to be resolved? How hard would that be?? Just come up with a number. 3 months? 6 months? A YEAR would be better than nothing on your part. But here we are. Since they don't ever commit to a deadline, nobody can hold them accountable for not delivering on their promises, "we never said it would be ready by this date." and so the issues pile up, as they have until now.

Until the devs realize stubbornly pushing content out isn't the answer I can't really see a long term future for the game. Like Scott said it will stay afloat as long as there's a constant influx of new players but then what?

I love DbD, otherwise I wouldn't be wasting time writing this, but I jwish BHVR was just a little bit more open towards their players. If they communicated the reasons behind doing what they do and why they decide to push out stuff nobody asked for I think people would be a lot less frustrated with the devs. Just because people love their game doesn't mean Behaviour should get a free pass every time they make questionable decisions, especially when they pretend everything is great.

TL;DR: Behaviour doesn't care about keeping the community in the loop and instead keep on blindsiding the playerbase with changes nobody asked for. Meanwhile they purposely refuse to be transparent about issues that actually affect gameplay and that players have been asking them to fix for a long time. Instead of being open and transparent about what they can and can't (or won't) fix they chose to selectively not acknowledge problems with the game so they don't have to be held accountable for not addressing them in a timely manner.