How many people actually care about the lore?

I do. But I was also unbothered by Hag and Nurse's tomes apparently being tragically flawed so what do I really know.

Hag and Jonah have awful lore. They need to be rewritten

I don't care much for the alternate universe type side stories, but I care about the character lore and I get annoyed or sad when something in the tomes contradicts the previous stories (such as the Nurse or Legion, where their initial lore painted them as much more sympathetic and a bunch of dumb kids in over their heads respectively, and the tomes gave them much darker motives slash open psychopathy - or Hag, whose tome lore focuses mostly on her friend and seems to paint her as living in a generic modern day society, when her original lore had her living in a tribal backwater, and was a setting where a society of evil swamp cannibals made way more sense.) Meanwhile, I really like when characters get really solid tome lore that brings depth to the character while staying true to the core of who they were presented as, like Wraith, Billy, and Trapper, and I'm beyond thrilled when we get licensed tome lore.

Considering that the tome lores mostly butcher the character or flat out retcon stuff yeah no I don't care

me.

I like it.

Hag's tome was weak, though.

While only a few outright butcher the characters (I'd say Nurse, Hag, Jake, and every Legion member who isn't Frank), there's still some stuff that comes off as a little misleading. Like with Trickster and Yun-Jin, it originally seemed like Yun-Jin never had any cause to suspect Trickster until she caught him working overtime and recognized a particular shriek from a missing persons video in the track he was working on (and she'd noticed his musical direction was becoming more bizarre and edgy with time.) With everything the tome lore added, Yun-Jin would have to be a massive idiot not to suspect Trickster by that point in the story, because it adds a murder several years ago where the suspect was filmed wearing very specific high-end brand headphones that only he and a few other people could have, another murder where Trickster was the last person seen with the victim and had scratches afterwards, a recording device full of tortured screaming (not screams hidden within music, just screams), knife-care tools that he had no reason to bring with him on a business trip, the dude constantly lying about where he's going and dodging his security detail, and the whole main-story fiasco with the guy Trickster tried to kill and then flipped to pin the murders on (which should have failed on its own, as a ruse, because Trickster didn't stop killing afterwards.) Beforehand, it felt like Yun-Jin was riding the line between plausible deniability and willful disbelief, not wanting to believe something so horrible could be true because surely she was mistaken, the notion of Ji-Woon being a murderer is crazy. It's not heroic, but it's a very human sort of thing to want to believe you were wrong about something so potentially terrible. After the tome, it comes off way more like Yun-Jin knew the Trickster was a murderer and just kept her mouth shut.

That kind of thing happens even when the tome lore seems solid; it's not a total break from the established lore, but it does change how the character is interpreted. I'd argue Plague changed a little as well, because we didn't know her for the type of person that performed routine human sacrifice. Previously she was said to be a servant who came to perform rites as a priestess when the plague struck Akkad and she seemed pretty hell-bent on saving her people, no matter what personal sacrifice. She's still pretty benevolent, her motives didn't get warped nearly as hard as Nurse's did, but the bit about her willingness to sacrifice others for the greater good pre-Entity was new. And we don't know how the Twins tome will end, but previously Charlotte seemed to understand Victor had died after she escaped, and right now she seems pretty deep in denial. Plus there was nothing mentioned about taking a ship out to Canada - again, don't know if the tome will see that voyage end in failure, but I thought it was pretty implied that she died in France. She never had a reprieve from the witch hunters.

I view the lore of Dead by Daylight much like the lore of Overwatch: neat to know but ultimately an irrelevant Excuse Plot.

i care about the lore

I don't care even slightly

i get the universe vibe and basic lore of how things probably function but when it comes to specific characters i dont always go out of my way to know why they are there...

Some lore is better than others.

Personally, I despise the prose and stylings of the writing in the tomes. I find it sloppy and amateur.

While there's not a lot accounting for taste - there are certainly some characters who boast of much more refined and creative lore than others.

For instance, the Clown's lore is far more fleshed out than the likes of the Wraith. As the Clown has his villainous character arc, motivations, convictions (or lack thereof), methodology, and origin of certain theatrics in his lore; meanwhile the Wraith has basically nothing in his lore that correlates the in-game character to the one described in the lore.

Some are better than others.

I love storytelling and characters - the art of how to weave a narrative into a product - it is my passion.

However, much of the lore that DbD has to boast of leaves little to the appetite. Some bits are better than others, but it's better not to have a good character spoiled by bad lore.

there's lore?