Unfortunately this really. I still play DBD occasionally because I bought it back in the day, but Asymmetrical is kind of a red flag when perusing games. It's just not a model that can work in the age of feedback-based balancing. When one playerbase is so large it makes up most of the bottom line, the other will usually suffer until numbers stop dropping, in which case knee-jerk changes that swing things too far the other way can happen.

And I'm not saying that because I have a grudge with DBD - Identity V showed similar problems, and I think it just comes down to Asymmetry being incompatible with competitive human nature. I think people unfortunately realize that the first time they play an Asymmetrical, which is part of the reason Deathgarden flopped. Hard to pitch that game experience twice.

I've just come to feel Asymmetrical multiplayer is one of those concepts that works well on paper and nowhere else.