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Where did you hear of the game?

_NIGHTMARE_
_NIGHTMARE_ Member Posts: 727
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Personally, I would have never heard of this game unless I had downloaded Steam and browsed the store.

Even after that, it still took me a year to find it on there.

So where did you folks hear of the game first?

Interested to know if you think the advertising campaign for the game should be upped and where else you've heard of the game.

Where did you hear of the game? 73 votes

Seen it on the Steam Store.
9%
Gibberish[Deleted User][Deleted User]SpookyPumpkinPiezGannTM_NIGHTMARE_missjay 7 votes
Heard of it from a friend.
24%
MiriamGMat_SellaPulsarSneakyPigMainGeneralV[Deleted User]DawnMadglitchboiBrequeBoobabowoShenshenGoobyNuggetdjmeghan[Deleted User]RyRapsYTAmethystPurgatorygilgamer 18 votes
Saw a YouTuber playing it.
42%
rhaAdelooMister_xDWoodywoolFennTapeKnotkaeruLazyPaydayDicklayciaMooksGlamourousLeviathanmrgrimeslandromatMadLordJackPior_MorteDerZuntorAggressiveFTWRepostRiposteMarc_go_soloHex_Llama 31 votes
Other. (Please comment below)
16%
GcarraraDr_LoomisSebaOutbreakCornHub[Deleted User]FobboYordsboostedsurvivormainRK67ClownIsUnderratedGuiltiiNomporu 12 votes
I just can't remember.
6%
Dr_TrautsTaigacheetocultleader[Deleted User]FlameGNG 5 votes

Comments

  • Pulsar
    Pulsar Member Posts: 20,790
    Heard of it from a friend.

    First played in May or June of 2018 after a friend told me to get it.

  • DerZuntor
    DerZuntor Member Posts: 293
    Saw a YouTuber playing it.

    I watched many DbD Videos from Gronkh and decided to buy it in 2017

  • Woodywool
    Woodywool Member Posts: 622
    edited March 2021
    Saw a YouTuber playing it.

    I saw a video on Youtube in may/beginning of june 2016 while DbD was in Beta. Even that youtuber that I saw was facecamping a hooked survivor lol, I like the game. It was completely something new to me. The atmosphere of horror movie in game gets me so well. When I bought it when the game was released, I really was so scared and mostly of the time trying to hide for no reason as survivor lmao... Old good days

  • swager21
    swager21 Member Posts: 1,019
    Saw a YouTuber playing it.

    in 2017 when i was really into f13 content i saw a youtuber that i watch play the game. at the time the nightmare on elmstreet dlc just came out and i was like "this game looks rlly cool" but i didnt end up getting it and forgot about it. then i got it in october 2020

  • Mister_xD
    Mister_xD Member Posts: 7,669
    Saw a YouTuber playing it.
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2053745#Comment_2053745

    same here ^^

    though i think i bought it somewhere around September 2016...

  • Gcarrara
    Gcarrara Member Posts: 2,263
    Other. (Please comment below)

    I found it from the crossover advertisement it had with Payday 2 near launch 🙂

  • GannTM
    GannTM Member Posts: 10,888
    Seen it on the Steam Store.

    It was June 1, 2020. I was on the Steam store looking for a new game to get. I found a few games that looked cool including Dead by Daylight. I got the game and haven’t looked back since.

  • _NIGHTMARE_
    _NIGHTMARE_ Member Posts: 727
    Seen it on the Steam Store.
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2053990#Comment_2053990

    Ooh interesting. I was wondering how they went about advertising this game.

  • Yords
    Yords Member Posts: 5,781
    Other. (Please comment below)

    Heard it from a friend after discovering it on youtube somehow. That was in late 2017 I think, during the winter solctice event.

  • DoritoHead
    DoritoHead Member Posts: 3,546
    Saw a YouTuber playing it.

    A random Noob3 video got recommended to me and I became hooked onto his channel. Eventually I decided to give the game a shot myself.

  • GoobyNugget
    GoobyNugget Member Posts: 698
    Heard of it from a friend.

    Got it from a friend who's been playing since 2018, he told me to try it out.

  • Rellewd
    Rellewd Member Posts: 195

    plastic_cup a twitch streamer bought this first august of release.

  • CornHub
    CornHub Member Posts: 1,864
    Other. (Please comment below)

    I saw the Bill trailer, but if I recall DBD wasn't on Xbox yet. It wasn't until the Clown trailer that I actually bought the game.

  • Marc_go_solo
    Marc_go_solo Member Posts: 5,328
    Saw a YouTuber playing it.

    I watched HybridPanda when he was around, and also saw some earlier clips on newLEGACYinc., but it was HybridPanda who converted me.

  • ClownIsUnderrated
    ClownIsUnderrated Member Posts: 1,031
    Other. (Please comment below)

    Got it free on PlayStation Plus back in August 2018.

  • boostedsurvivormain
    boostedsurvivormain Member Posts: 399
    Other. (Please comment below)

    Got it for free on PS Plus in August 25th, 2018.

  • Gibberish
    Gibberish Member Posts: 1,063
    Seen it on the Steam Store.

    I just randomly happened upon it back while it was still in pre-release while looking for something new to play.

  • GeneralV
    GeneralV Member Posts: 11,348
    Heard of it from a friend.

    It was the year of 2018. I was playing Friday the 13th: The Game with a friend. Jason wasn't really doing anything so we just kept talking, and when I asked him about game suggestions he mentioned Dead by Daylight. I bought it 1 month later, and on that day I found my all-time favourite game.

  • Mat_Sella
    Mat_Sella Member Posts: 3,557
    Heard of it from a friend.

    A friend that always quits games real quick convinced me to buy it so i could play with them. They quit and now I'm stuck here for almost 3 years now.

    I

  • LazyPayday
    LazyPayday Member Posts: 420
    Saw a YouTuber playing it.

    Saw Vanoss playing the beta and followed the game since.

  • cheetocultleader
    cheetocultleader Member Posts: 1,259
    I just can't remember.

    I think it was Twitch... but I honestly don't remember the first initial place. I know I followed up with watching Twitch vids to see if it was my cup of tea.

  • GenJockeyNance
    GenJockeyNance Member Posts: 687
    Saw a YouTuber playing it.

    I've actually known about this game since 2016 - 2017 but I didn't take the plunge on it until later. I saw many Twitch streamers and YouTube vids on it though.

  • Dicklaycia
    Dicklaycia Member Posts: 147
    Saw a YouTuber playing it.

    I was a fan of Evolve and Left 4 Dead back in the day, so when I’d heard there was another 4v1 game with Bill of all people in it, my interest was piqued. I checked out a few streams and thought to myself “I should try that game out.” I bought it around December 2018 after the Legion came out and have been playing regularly ever since!

  • SebaOutbreak
    SebaOutbreak Member Posts: 399
    Other. (Please comment below)

    My very first time seeing the game in action was at a friend's house, but at the time I didn't pay a lot of attention to it (This was back in 2017 I think). Some months later, for some reason, Instagram kept showering my feed with DbD videos. I eventually ended up watching a couple of them and I liked what I saw. So after like a month of randomly seeing DbD videos via Instagram, I decided to buy it, and here I am after 2 years.

  • Hex_Llama
    Hex_Llama Member Posts: 1,838
    Saw a YouTuber playing it.

    I found out what DBD was when a bunch of people from Buzzfeed started playing it.

  • Dr_Loomis
    Dr_Loomis Member Posts: 3,703
    Other. (Please comment below)

    It popped up in association with Friday 13th trailers on YouTube. I got interested with DBD when I heard rumours Michael Myers was going to be included. Got the game pretty much on release on PS4.

  • ItzZane_
    ItzZane_ Member Posts: 965
    Saw a YouTuber playing it.

    I saw a youtuber and a couple of his friends play it and wanted to buy it but eventually forgot about it After 3 years i saw the game again and bought it back when jane and plague were in the PTB

  • kaeru
    kaeru Member Posts: 1,568
    edited March 2021
    Saw a YouTuber playing it.

    I actually have seen it in steam store when it was in early access or even pre-release. I remember there was some trailers from devs talking how revolutionary this game will be or something. I've been thinking that this game will be so cool, I'd like to play it. But I forgot to add it to wishlist.

    Then after couple of months I found series of long letsplays from some guy on youtube. It was 2016, game was raw and had some serious issues with balance and performance. There was insta-heals, brand new parts were devastating, exhaustion perks could recover while you run, facecamp could prevent any attempt of saving, beartraps could be placed right under hooked survivor and on top of that this game could crash any ######### moment. But even then core idea of the game was interesting.

    I tried the game on free weekend in 2017. My pc was barely run this game with 20 fps but I liked it anyway.