How was the 5th Anniversary?

I liked the shards and such, but this event was literally recycled from last year.

I don't think it was bad, but i think it could have been better with more content.

First off I don't actually consider the chapter release as part of the anniversary event. Whether the devs or anybody else says that- let's be real, the chapter's going to come either way Anniversary or not. If they hypothetically cancelled the anniversary event (which they wouldn't do because the anniversary is an opportunity for them to stroke their own egos and pat themselves on the back about how far they've come, what a great job they've done yadda yadda yadda [I'm not saying that these things aren't true but I am saying it just comes off as too much gloating. It's like we get it- can we move on?]).

If something can happen indiscriminately regardless of whether or not the event happens or not, it's not really a true part of the event. That's just a fact. Whether or not the devs use the anniversary as an opportunity to garner hype for a super cool license (two years ago I think was Ghostface, last year Silent Hill, this year Resident Evil) doesn't matter, the chapter WILL come either way.

So too does most of the regular update stuff: the Raccoon City Police Department, most of the stuff that's unrelated to the event in patch 5.0.0 and 5.0.2, come on, you're just trying to pad the list with three extra things that don't actually really count.

So let's take a look at what they ACTUALLY did:

1. They re-used the Crowns, and sacrificial Cake concepts. Only slight visual changes were made here.
2. They continued their anniversary string of cosmetics from last year which is just a recolor of the default character models except now wearing black clothes with gold veins running through them- last year was Deathslinger and Claudette, This year was Wraith and David. (is this just going to be the color scheme for every single anniversary event from here on out? It's a cool scheme don't get me wrong but you really downplay the uniqueness of each anniversary if they re-use the same banners, same art, same color scheme, etc.)
3. They gave people free currencies so long as they logged in (which is just providing incentive to play and boost active player numbers)
4. They rotated the shrine daily instead of however long it usually takes for the shrine to rotate which is like once a week or month or whatever (I never use it- waste of shards imo).

And that's all. Some of the most low effort things that they could do and just slap them all together to happen at the same time and you've come out the other end with something that BARELY counts as an event. This is one of the two "fantastic" events that they said they would sacrifice the quality of every other event for: Winter Solstice, Lunar New Year, all for this dumpster fire.

A true event, is supposed to change the pace of the game, that's what events are for- to take a break from the normal hustle and bustle of the game and to have some more relaxed fun during the holidays or other special times of the year. If you're not changing anything of real significance, you're not making a real event, that's just it that's all.

And the white knights out there will just go out and say "At LeAsT uR GetTiNg SomEtHinG" but again- that's not the point of the event. Events shouldn't be a mindless dangling of the carrot on the stick saying "hey if you just log in we'll give you some free stuff!!" how ridiculous is that. Events are supposed to be a collective celebration of the existing community, a coming together where people enjoy what they're doing during a brief moment of time where the regular gameplay loop is changed and shifted. Not thoughtless grinding to get a dumb "crown" which doesn't match the visual aesthetic of the game, doesn't look good, and nobody wears outside of the event, on every single one of the 20 something original survivors and killers and continuing to grind as much as possible as fast as possible to get as many cakes as you can for the year.

The shared community goal is a little bit better because it provides a sense of being part of a collective, but the rewards still aren't all that great. They're recolors of the default models- and though they look a hell of a lot better than golden halos bouncing around behind your head you can most certainly tell that these are just whipped up at a moment's notice. Whereas take a look at for example, the hallowed blight cosmetics (and by extension the withering blight, + eternal blight) where brand new cosmetics are carefully crafted down to the smallest details that completely change how the character is visually presented and the character model itself. That is a desirable reward that people will work towards, and hell even the gothic / victorian style cosmetics for the survivors like Claudette, Dwight, Jake, David, Felix, etc. also look incredibly unique.

And the daily rotations for shrine isn't even that great a thing to be proud of for the event- because the shrine is and has always been a testament to one of DBD's greatest problems: which is an intensely insufferable grind. Rotating the shrine every day is just an alternate way of saying to new players, "now- instead of grinding for literal hours upon hours every single day to get a new character with iridescent shards, an incredibly slow to earn currency which is supposed to incentivize you to shell out the money to buy our premium currency auric cells, you can grind for a decent fraction of that time and just get whatever perk it is you're lucky to have appear on the shrine!! DAILY!!!"

We wouldn't need the shrine of secrets at all, if the grind wasn't so intensely long. So advertising this as a selling point of your event saying "hey, we've reduced your grind!" instead of that just BEING A GOAL TO ACCOMPLISH IN THE FIRST PLACE is frankly just a boneheaded, crappy, rotten thing to do on the part of the developers.

I really do enjoy Dead By Daylight. But this anniversary event just makes me sick and sorely disappointed. Wondering what could have been instead, if only the developers valued the community enough to give the people a proper event that's actually worth their while.

I actually did not really enjoy it sadly. I guess I had high hopes.

Pretty disappointing and almost unplayable on console. Shards and bp are nice but it didn't save it imo.

The only good things were the RE characters and insane amount of Bloodpoints. Everything else sucked.

I was able to play during the anniversary, which is better than it was for some people. With that in mind:

• I liked having an extra task to do, even if I won't ever wear most of the crowns because they only work with default heads.
• I loved getting extra shards. Letting me pick my own anniversary present from the store was great.
• I personally don't like the new map, and don't care about Resident Evil.
• I absolutely rushed to the store to get the event cosmetics with the codes, because I love cosmetics, but I don't think I'll actually use them.
• I liked the daily shrine rotations, and I was happy to get Undying finally.