This community is really funny.

This. There are so many players, and this forum is the equivalent to the Isle of Man, whilst people not on this forum is the UK mainland. It may be vocal here, but the term "vocal minority" comes to mind.

BHVR may very well be able to survive this, but this should ring alarm bells for any deals they do in future.

5000 might be slightly high? The Reddit "Official ######### NFTs Megathread" on the Dead By Daylight subreddit has about 2.6k thumbs up, and odds are pretty good a significant number of people who liked that thread also commented or liked similar threads on Twitter or Youtube.

Either way, 5000 is a small percentage of the actual size of the total combined DbD playerbase. The game has something like 40-80k concurrent players per night, and many players don't play every single night so the actual number of players is probably a few hundred thousand.

Addiction? Maybe a reason? or maybe a change of heart after been annoyed/unhappy? People say things when hurt or angry, people have right to be angry etc, but it's perhaps heat of the moment? maybe lets not judge too quick and some are full on true to their word.

have you seen the amount of people simping for the new survivor? I also wouldnt be surprised to know a majority of the community play survivor over killer. So it's not a stretch to say the numbers would be comparable to a killer release. Also take into consideration the praise BHVR received for the patch before the whole NFT situation. There was a lot of hype around this patch. You would expect the numbers to be a bit higher, no?

internet drama isn't real. it's quick, easy outrage. a type of dopamine high. it means nothing.

i'll say it again. most people aren't paying attention to the social media. we can pitch a fit for a million years and it won't matter.

Maybe the majority of forum members doesn't even play the game, just posts comments on the forum.

the difference between this and other problems with the world is that, this is something the community may actually have the ability to influence. The community if they try may be able to make BHVR realise "ayo, we ######### up"

It isn't that easy in our day to day lives. As large corporations are so wealthy and powerful that the average consumer has absolutely no power over them. The only thing we as consumers can do is vote out the people in power who allow big corporations to continue their unsustainable ways.

You should also consider we as a species don't have an option but to use fossil fuels for a lot of our daily indulgences. As there haven't been any green energy alternatives implemented. So saying ######### like "you use cars and consume electricity" is so incredibly nieve as most people don't have ability to change their lifestyle to a way that conforms with their beliefs.

Another factor is the insignificance of the average consumers contribution to global warming. The whole "doing your part" ploy is merely big corporations trying to point the finger at us, and make consumers feel like they're the ones at fault, redirecting the blame from themselves. If you, as a consumer for the rest of your life were to reduce your carbon emissions to 0, for the rest of your entire life, you would save the environment one whole second worth of emissions compared to the emissions of big industry.

The argument "you should do your part" or calling people hypocrites is far from the truth. The video I linked sums up the issues with global warming very well. And I implore you to watch it. Any way back to topic. The idea that people are "grotesquely overreacting" is a horrible mindset, given the passion people are showing could be put to pressuring BHVR to retract themselves from this whole agreement. BHVR isn't big enough to shrug off the business they could lose providing the community were able to band together.

The collective viewership of content creators, forum users and social media users, along with the people who catch wind of this through news outlets such as IGN and I'm sure Jim Sterling will easily have enough influence providing they care enough to make a statement against BHVR and actually pull through with the boycott.

I for one have deleted the game, do I expect my contribution to actually help in making BHVR stop their support of NFTs? No. Is it a piece of mind that will help me sleep at night? Yes. Another big issue with this scandal is that BHVR not only came out in support of NFTs, but also mislead and deceived the very same community defending them. They omitted very important information from both staff and consumers which would have dramatically decreased their sales of the Hellraiser chapter. That is not a company I want to show any support for, either by giving them money, or by playing their game.

I wish more people would realise this and come together as a community.

OP can't actually demonstrate that a significant portion of the people who said they'd quit went back on it. Nothing to see here.

Same. While I personally won't protest I always had a huge respect for people who stand for what they believe in.

Even if we disagree.

People who break promises and can't keep their word are people I don't place much trust in life. I am sorry if I offended anyone it is just that I don't trust folks like that.

Imagine trying to use a 66k player peak as an argument. New release. The peak last month, with NO new release was over 70k

The peak with RE chapter was over 100k.

Stop pretending like they aren't losing players hand over fist

People do this with every game, the same people who hate on the Sims and say Paralives is better, they are still playing Sims and tweeting about it and spending money on the game that they claim to hate.

Only 66k? Look steam charts game is loosing players. Few months ago it was 100K, week ago it was 81K and now u say it's 66K. And it's only steam. I don't know about other platforms.

So yes, people are leaving.

Whether it's on the forums, youtube or twitter, the people voicing their opinion on this are probably still the minority of the playerbase. There are probably indeed players that just say they'll quit DBD and not go through with it, but I wouldn't generalize this to the overall population of people hating on BVHR right now.

The people who are writing something like that are a minority. Most people do not know about NFTs or problems like that and other know but made up their mind about this.

Even if you consider this than we have to admit that the new patch is pretty good. BHVR listend to the community with this one and made some highly demanded nerfs/buffs. Spirit, Deathslinger and Wraith nerfs where very popular demands even here on the forum. Ghostface and most important of all Trapper buffs where also very good.

Finaly the new survivor is content that can be bought with Shards. This means that it is very accessible to all kind of player and bordering on free to play. Her design is nice and her perks are pretty cool too. So many people get drawn to this mid-chapter that offers a breath of fresh air.

And even people who are aware of the NFTs situation maybe decide that it is not that bad. Other companies they use every day (twitter as an example) have made NFTs themself and not even over a third party like BHVR. Also when you consider that most of the new content is free for all player: Why stop playing the game? You are not giving any more money to BHVR just by playing, in fact you probably cost them money because you use their server capacities.

Funny enough the low point was also during the same month: June 2021 had 48,768.5 player average and 105,052 player peak.

Now if you consider the average then everthing looks pretty much normal: From October 2020 to April 2021 these numbers where well below 40.000 players. After that we saw an increase with a peak in July 2021 (62,487.7) but still 51,390.7 in September. Considering that this number was again below 40.000 player you see that over all the game move upwards. Even now the 30 day avarage is 44,771.4 which is still a good increase.

Overall yes, we are loosing some player who came for Resident Evil. But we got plenty of new player right now.