The New Lore Is Dumb Though

To expand on the cultist subplot complaint cultists are a red herring you use in lovecraftian fiction to hide the monster and supernatural aspects until the very last second. They have precisely zero point in a story where we've already seen the monster. The Hole is dumb because the Entity is already a vague and obscure name if you were going to chose a mythological name for the Entity that Elodie's could research and discover then I've got one for you: The Wild Hunt. There's your occult name. Much more believable. The memory loss is dumb because it causes gameplay and story segregation. The players will connect more with a version of the survivors that learn and grow and adapt to the trials like they do. Not ones who remain static. Though it is also dumb if you ever want to adapt Dead By Daylight to an alternative medium too. I mean you might think you can't do that with what you had initially but you'd be surprised what a great slice of life story being trapped in a repetitive purgatory could be. Memory loss is a pretty cheap storytelling tool and should only be really used if your absolutely certain you don't need your characters to be well...characters. And just because your characters don't get to do much in game proper that's not necessarily a sign you DON'T need them to be characters. The Survivors are more appealing if they work together and adapt to the Trials rather than being wiped of their potential to grow. I could go on. I don't know who is in charge of the storytelling and lore at BHVR but I know you need to get an editor or something to whack you on the nose with a rolled up newspaper to keep those audience alienating premises underwraps.

Note when I say "New" I mostly mean "stuff that contradicts the initial premise as described in Baker's journals." It was a perfectly good initial premise. Also the black robed cultist stuff and their vague but present seeming connection to the Entity cause if I had a dollar for everytime an unnecessary cultist subplot interfered with taking an Eldritch Monster seriously I'd be very very rich. Philip as punisher was mostly just a jokey way of saying "more backstory for killers and survivors good, too much wank about multiversal illuminati memory wiping cultist shenanigans? Bad" sorry if that was not clear. Like trust me you think the segment with the teens fighting bug monsters with laser swords is cool but that kinda lore is mostly just fat and you should trim it so your story and lore don't become diabetic. Well actually that's a bad example that encounter as a throw away experience it actually pretty neat storytelling. But it feels like a symptom of a bigger problem of overestimating how much the Entities nature truly needs to be explained and underestimating that the characters are a bigger drawing point. Eldritch Monsters lose their impact the more we know and I think the decision to include that memory loss tidbit shows confused priorities. It's fun to speculate about the Entity it's not necessarily fun to KNOW. In the same way it's more fun to know about the characters we plays as and it's more fun if we believe that we have a shared or parallel experience with those characters something the memory loss plot thread interfere's with.

Oh and as for your suggestion of fanfiction...I have such little respect for the memory loss plotpoint that even acknowledging it enough to "fix" it is anathema to me. Besides without an appealing canon foundation there is no motive for fanfiction.

I mean your explanation of their explanation feels unnecessary to me. Your making up problems that don't necessarily exist. Plenty of people were fine with the premise before the memory loss. Also all survivors are "Final Girls" meaning every single one of them has the potential to make it to the end of the horror movie. Whether you like it or not they ARE already by their very nature action survivors.

My point is it's a dumb story and they already had a much neater simpler story that did not look like babies first postmodernism.

Why wouldn't I care? I play as these characters I imagine their struggles I pay for their cosmetics, I grind to make them stronger and more versatile. The idea that I should just let a poorly written canon story with them in it slide because fanfiction exists is ludicrous. Espeacially when ultimately the people most likely to care about or digest the lore are the people who will write said fanfiction. Meaning this convoluted canon will inevitably taint those stories too. WoW's story post-cataclysm annoys me, Dragon Age's story post Origins annoys me, Harry Potter from Order of The Phoenix onwards annoys me. Five Nights At Freddy's Lore Post The Third Game Annoys me. Why should Dead By Daylight be protected from my criticism? Because you enjoy it? I think not.

Oh and the snake that died in the first movie. Poor thing.

Characters are more interesting when they suffer hardships and overcome them. You can't overcome what you can't remember.

I don't mean overcome the trials the trials are not the problem well they are, but they are not. The trials are just a vehicle for the suffering. Like a slasher in a slasher flick, they are just a vessel to inflict suffering. Seeing how people respond under pressure is half the fun of horror it's not whether you win or lose it's how you play the game and memory loss just renders it all moot. As to your other point what your describing is story gameplay segregation. But story gameplay segregation is a spectrum and adding memory loss does not really seem like a necessary example of it. If anything they are trying too hard to tie the two together with the memory loss example but ironically making the gap wider. Because the survivors DON'T act like they have no memory because they are played by players who do.