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Why did you quit or why do you think the game is “dying”? I’m curious
I’m really curious to see why people think the game is dying, and when it started dying.
was it sbmm? Was it the introduction of boons? was it perk changes? mediocre content? swfs? Let me know!
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Game is dying because it hurts my feelings. If I say it's dying and make everyone else believe me, I beat bhvr.
Muahahaha. Take that.
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I have been a PVPer online since old Ultima Online days, and know too well what it means and feels when a game actually dies.
I do not want that for DBD no matter what, love this game and spent some money on DLC yesterday to keep the game alive.
I don't want DBD to die, I also do not think it is dying at all. Having lived through old MMO deaths, dbd is more popular than ever.
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I am playing again after my latest break but I stopped after stretched res, cheating, and boons were all happening at once. I am back for now but I play way less.
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Oh its obvious isnt it?
Patricks lead design effort. CoH, DH and such.
As killer, half game you run in a circle and waiting for DH, the other half is carpenter simulator.
Killers are more or less generic.
CoH was totally required implementation.
And as a survivor you mostly just sit on a generators and occasionally try to be altruistic or run around few laps.
To make it a bit more interesting you as a master of centrifugal force, you spin like a maniac and with a bit of faith you will dodge that hit as a Neo or totally disorient a killer.
But grinding for 2 years to play a diff survivor, well Im over exaggerating, you only need 2 perks that are not general.
But yeah, maybe 2 years to have all other perks in the web of a killer.
But grinding will be definetly looked into as the thorough investigation on DH right now.
Because removing T1 and T2 is extremly complicated in the eyes of BHVR development department
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They’re too inconsistent to fail every time they do something dumb they do something else that’s like a really good change. Take the upcoming Mid-Chapter they buffed Legion to a pretty good state gave Ghostie some QOL Haddonfield now looks balanced Hemorrhage is a viable status affect to boost hit and run they nerfed Circle of Healin again which is starting to not always make it the first choice to go for. All those good changes came after the joke of a killer known as Sadako.
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I don´t think it is dying.
But i think that there will be problems with new players if they don´t reduce this mega grind soon.
You can see they don´t want to because they can give no valid reason why they don´t just lower the bloodweb costs overall or give a permanent bp boost in game like 2x or so.
But people are leaving and new players come. But it seems a bit like fewer new players stay. And this will become a problem.
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None of the new content or patches are interesting enough to bring me back. Not to say it’s bad but not really groundbreaking either
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if people had quit, they wouldn't spend their time on DBD forums. They would just waste away on another game or hobby.
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Been lamenting the balance for long enough, but the cheating epidemic was kinda the last straw. Its become common enough that it causes me to question everything, even knowing a lot of times things are legitimate (just awkward.)
I know you can't "just fix" hacking, but they're not winning the arms race. I feel bad because I know how hard it can be to keep up with the opposition, but with how they've handled major bugs and issues being left in the game for literal years, I don't see them making enough progress to quell it any time soon.
I'll play an occasional match or two, but I don't plan to grind grade/rifts/seasonals/etc anymore with the state of the game.
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High mmr sweats spilling into low mmr because of lack of killers and hackers. I can take the L's but im kinda sick of the death threats and Ddos'ing.
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i quit dbd for a month, most peaceful i've ever been during that time
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Game isn't dying.
I take a 4-5 day break every once in a while, usually once I play non-stop for 2 days or so
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A lot of people on the forums will say the game is dying because killers are quitting en masse, but not many people mention the amount of solos who are quitting as well.
I personally quit playing because the game is just an exercise in masochism if you're a solo queue player, no matter how good you are. SWFs have created a batch of killers that want to make survivors' lives just as bad as it's been for them, regardless of who they're facing. This leads to solo survivors getting caught in the crossfire, and either becoming that same SWF squad, or quitting entirely.
I personally don't enjoy bullying killers, so I've decided to just stop playing.
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Kind of in the same boat. EQ vet pre-PoP. We're not quite at the dying stage yet with DbD, but BHVR should be careful.
The first step is unpopular changes, failing to make changes, and generally being out of touch. I don't think BHVR is out of touch, but some changes are less than popular and they are quite slow to react to many things.
The next step is new iterations in the same genre (think WoW in MMOs) that refine what the previous games didn't do as well. Those are coming in the asymmetrical genre. This is a massive trouble area IMO for BHVR. They don't work at nearly the speed necessary to keep up if a couple games come out that answer many of the pain points of DbD.
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It's not dying, but it is bleeding. The devs still refuse to give the players what they want - and when they finally accept to do so, it usually takes many months for simple changes.
CoH, MMR, grind, etc. It's annoying and making me play this game less and less each day.
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