Sad we're losing licensing to Stranger Things...

If it helps, a couple of years ago Disney pulled all the Marvel licenses from Netflix so they had to pull/cancel all of their original Marvel shows.

i mean, if enough people were to do that and made it apparant that they did so because of them removing ST from DbD, then that would indeed send a very clear message to Netflix and probaply even force them back into license discussions with BHVR.

after all, the reason why they pull ST from DbD is, because they think they can make more money by making their own games that'd feature Demopuppy.

If they would end up making less money from those games than from DbDs license, then they will probaply end up trying to bring their succesful business model back.

however, i very highly doubt that we'd have enough people here that would actually be willing to do so for this hypothetical scenario to ever play out.

But none of us know what the license agreement was. It could of been 2 years and that was it.

Crying about it and making threats isn't going to change anything. If you own the Chapter and have the cosmetics you want then stranger things is still part of this game.

Just not for new people that join after Nov. which sucks for them.

Netflix is almost certainly doing this because they want exclusivity for their own Stranger Things game.

I don't think it is going to work out great, gaming storefronts that aren't very agro in recruiting third party (ex: Epic) tend to fail, so they are shooting themselves in the foot that way (Doubly so if they start trying to stream games which is a neat conceptual technology that is in search of a market that likely does not exist), but that is more because its very likely whatever game streaming service they set up is going to hemorrhage the money invested in it with little return, not because of them cutting out DBD, which probably was a very minor revenue stream to them that they only really did during that phase where they were licensing out stranger things to EVERYBODY.

If their dream 2 years ago or early was to start a gaming service and have a stranger things game that's their dream who's to tell them no.

If it works or fails it's on them.

Even if we all dropped Netflix on here the ones that have a subscription. How would they know that it's from cutting ST from DBD?

I mean I been thinking about dropping them being that they took a lot of shows off.

But how would they know that your dropping your membership because of ST leaving DBD or your just not happy with Netflix anymore?

mate, they are a company. they will go after whats the most profitable for them, thats just what companies do - and currently they expect their own game to bring them more money than the DbD ST license (which would also mean competition to their game btw), so they cut it.

all i am saying is, that if they were to make less money with that idea than the DbD license brought them or even lose money alltogether, then they will most likely be going back into license discussions with BHVR to try and revive their succesfull business model from the past.

i am not saying OP is going to change the world with this, but if they arent alone and a significant number of people were to join them, then they might just do that.

but how would they know its because of DbD?

idk. we would probaply have to tell them. write them a letter, email, tweet at them, make blog posts about it, videos, whatever. if they suddenly lose a lot of subscriptions, they will want to know why - so even if they didnt see this at first, they might do so a little later.

and how can i be sure that this is going to work?

i cant. this is all a hypothetical scenario. im not an oracle or seer, i cant predict the future with a 100% success rate - but i can make a prediction based on what i think would be the most logical thing for Netflix to do if this hypothetical scenario were to happen, and thats exactly what i did.

The dispute is probably a result of the devs covering demo in a substance that might be referred to in postgame chat as "###" Maybe the concept art looked a bit different

Demo is not that good in dbd he is a mid tier killer who cant play against any decent team. So you dont see him often anyway exept now because of the news

I think a AAA Stranger Things game could be ######### wicked.

The little retro-style pixel game they released for Season 3 was surprisingly good.

I gave up near the end of season 3 too. Really liked the first one. But 3 is really bad imo.

Yeah, I am really disapointed that netflix is being greedy about this. I hope the devs are ALLOWED to retain the files on BACKUP so they can keep lab and when netflix realizes their poor choices. BHVR can put the characters back into the store and have the map running again. That is a TON of hard work that gets removed from the game. :-(

People coming to dbd dont come to play the most effective killers. They come to play as their favorite, iconic killers so if you can have more fun playing demo in dbd then in some other game. Then they would play dbd

I think 3 is the weakest, but the creators said they "heard the feedback and were adjusting accordingly."

I agree but someday the fun will stop. I was playing yesturday night and i had a convo with someone and he was tired having his ass kick. He was a rank 16 killer vs 4 other red rank survivor and he told me everyday its the same he got his ass kick and everything and he regret buying the game all that cause of the RE chapter. He told me if he knew the game was like that he would not have bought it and he cant get a refund because he played for more then 2h so he have no choice but to try and like the game

What's sad is that this decision could alienate newcomers from wanting to play DBD. They'll see a survivor/killer that they can no longer use and think to themselves "why devote time to this game with a perpetually flawed/incomplete account?