Anyone Else Feeling Like Taking A Hiatus Right Now? (Another Rant Thread)

Oh yeah, 3k hours of this game kinda makes you passionate on some cases. And I agree that BHVR as a company is lacking, but I cannot blame the devs for that. Heck, I cant even blame people like Mathieu Cote for that, even though they are DBD's "higher ups". It's the BHVR higher ups that are the problem here, as they control the budget, they control who gets hired and they control what is aquired by the company. BHVR the company prides themselves into being a small company having a big game, even though their income matches that of some of the biggest companies. They have the income to expand their workforce and even purchase servers that simulate the game(that way, you could download a game after it's been played because it saves the simulation inputs, meaning if there is a hacker, you can send the report with the replay so you dont need to be recording to report hackers). But to blame the devs for things they dont have any say in, is like blaming your food deliverer for not removing tomatoes off your burger. They didnt do it, so blaming them is kinda moot. They dont really talk about this, and that could be contractual, so they keep recieving the blame as if they worked in retail and have to deal with Karens wanting to see the manager because the light above the entrance is too bright for them.

Acknowledging the issues exist is always important, if you're blind to the issues, there is no reason even responding.

As for the tweets, I dont think they deleted them, I saw them 1-2 days ago and it was essentially saying that the license holders have all the rights to use the assets DBD made in whatever way they wanted. So in a way, it didnt matter if DBD willingly or unwillingly did anything, as the license holders would have stepped to boss protocol themselves. This way, the only difference is that BHVR recieved money rather than not. If the outcome itself doesnt change, but the difference is that you do or dont have money, the only difference is the morality behind that decision. Since businesses are amoral, morality issues dont really matter. I mean, seriously, if you created, lets say, the Nyan Cat meme, and someone was making an NFT about it. Then they offered you 5 million to get the original copy of Nyan Cat to create the NFT, or they would eventually get their hands on it 3 weeks later because they found your original post on a certain website and still made the NFT. Would you really deny that 5 million offer when the outcome is the same regardless of your input? The tweet BHVR created had a lot of very strict wording that are used when talking about legal stuff, when normally their statements are quite casual. That alone raises suspicion that we dont know enough to truly make any claims about BHVR actually supporting it or not. So best case scenario, they recieved money(or x% of profits) for something where their input didnt really matter. Absolute worst case scenario, they coined the NFT idea to Hellraisers license holders. Considering the information we have and the wording it has been in, I am leaning more towards the better case scenario than the worst one. In the best case scenario, they could have not accepted the deal, but that's just bad business. *(not even talking about the fact that this would also fall under the "cant even blame Mathieu Cote for this" because BHVR higher ups tend to be the ones making decisions like that)*

As for the names, yeah, fully agree. Inner Healing vs Inner Strength feels a bit odd when "Inner Peace" would work better(yknow, cleansing a totem helps reduce the threat of NOED, which leads to a more peaceful end, not that it's particularly good, but better). Some are great tho. I do think Fearmonger fits much better than Mindbreaker.

But I do have to say that Inner Healing and Renewal are better names than Survival Instincts and Push Through It, which were the first names being coined.