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Even if Home Sweet Home: Survive is successful, I don't think it will change anything.
So, I've seen a few people playing HSH:S and it seems like a neat game. I haven't played it myself, but out of all the Asymmetrical Horror Games that have come out the past few years, this one is the most DbD like (from what I've seen, anyways. I could easily be wrong.)
But even if the game is successful, I don't think it'll change much. I don't know if HSH has anything to offer more than DbD. Again, this is purely from the standpoint of someone who has just watched others play it.
DbD has a larger player-base, licenses, more variety in the killers. I just don't know if HSH has anything that would make the average person more interested in it rather than DbD. Especially the mainstream western audience.
I've also heard all the servers are in Asia, which from what I understand would cause some pretty bad latency issues, but I don't know if that's true.
I hope it's successful enough to rival DbD, but I really doubt it.
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No it won't cause people to leave DBD, however competition of any kind is something that will benefit DBD in the future.
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It solves a lot of the problems that DbD has. For example, objective speeds. You need to prepare the rituals before you can do them. This is a widely suggested feature by the community that HSHS already has.
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You can add anything and i mean ANYHTING in dbd.
Isn't home sweet home based on the korean TV series Sweet home?I don't think they have room for any other character other than the ones in the show.
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If HSHS can get a variety of licenses and release a version that plays well on console they could be competition for DBD. The biggest would be licensed killers, that would attract alot to that game. I hope HSHS does well, I hope it brings actual competition to DBD - they need another similar game out there doing well to push them to be better.
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No ones leaving. They'll just play both games. If anything people at some point will go play F13 or something over DBD because of the lack of content in DBD.
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it's the smash bros thing.
could another platform fighter be made that people might enjoy more than smash? yes. rivals of aether actually did pretty well. specially with the community created characters.
will it ever beat smash? no.
because smash has everyone. not only it has a big player base already settled, it also has a bunch of licenses that other games just won't be able to get.
so, nothing will beat DBD if the devs continue working on DBD.
but competition is always good.
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Home Sweet Home Survive is a spinoff of an already established horror series, that being Home Sweet Home.
It's a spinoff of a game with an established lore, characters, and fanbase.
I think that the difference between HSHs and DBD is that DBD is held back by it's obligations, people expect a lot out of the developers and when those expectations aren't realized, the fanbase riots. There's not much DBD can do because they could never please everybody
HSHs is an early access spinoff of a horror game franchise based in Thai mythology, and no one really expects much out of it right now.
I've noticed a viscous cycle of these "competition games," what happens is people become fed up with DBD, so they go to the next best thing; Last Year, Monstrum 2, Home Sweet Home Survive, Outlast Trials (when it comes out), etc. etc.
When the DBD players move from DBD to whatever, they often take their toxic mentalities with them and ruin the playtime of the newest players, causing them to leave the game or switch to survivor. Que times for the "survivor" role skyrocket and the game slowly loses players.
Refunds cause the update cycle to cease, and the game loses it's last remaining players and dies without fanfare. Then everyone begrudgingly returns to DBD because it's the only game of it's niche with a consistent player base.
Essentially what I've noticed is that these games don't stand a chance, because they'll always be compared to DBD and be viewed as "inferior products". People will stand by DBD in hope that the game will get fun or because they spent so much money on it. The game will die and everyone will just have to come back to DBD until the next best thing comes along.
Pretending that HSHs is the "Dead by Daylight killer" is a bad mentality, viewing it as another option in a niche genre is much better.
We can't expect much out of HSHs in it's current state but constantly comparing it to DBD is the last thing we should be doing
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Game just came out and it will grow with time it definitely has better concept and objective then dbd
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It won't kill DBD, too steeped in Thai culture/lore. However, after it gets past its early access jank, if it has staying power, it will be a good competitor that might make BHVR step up their game.
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I doubt it'll kill DbD, but if its successful and have higher quality updates then DbD (the graphics rework has pixelated trees) then it may make BHVR have a higher quality for updated themselves.
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HSHS seems to be directly copying from dbd in a lot of aspects, and so far it looks considerably worse than the original.
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My intention wasn't to directly compare them, but I can see how you thought that.
I agree that we should stop calling games the "DbD Killer."
The main point of my post is I don't think HSH:S will get enough support or acknowledgement to provide some sort of competition to Dead By Daylight, as that's something the game desperately needs and just doesn't have.
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Compatition is good. there is no other way of putting it compatition is always good.
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The issue is the competition never lasts.
Dead By Daylight is the King of the genre, and it will remain that way unless something changes. Last Year: The Nightmare was a thing for like a week and a half. Hide or Die the same.
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In my opinion as much as I love this game the only thing it has is being one of the first in this genre of games and having the licensed killers and survivors. If any other game comes along and has better more stable gameplay and mechanics that don't get broken on new updates I think it could do some damage. Though just because of licenses and time spent on this game people will come back anyway.
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I gotcha
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If it's successful, that's healthy competition, which will be amazing for the health of both games in such an event.
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