A bump of 7% of (Steam) players in May.
It has been about 9 months since the last time there was a significant rise in players.
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That's great why do we care, trying to draw conclusions from data this limited means nothing.
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They announced some good changes, if that wouldnt bring players back, then Idk what would
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Some people have hope in what the devs announced at anniversary, also double bloodpoints event for an entire week, soon the new chapter as well.
They didnt announce any change to sbmm tho, matters of time till it will go down again
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Shrug. I find it interesting.
Not because of the 'OMG sky is falling DbD is dying' stuff, but because I'm curious as to whether the game has peaked.
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If I had to guess, it was a bump from people playing the new PTB and the week long blood hunt.
New content and bribery tend to get people playing temporarily
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We care because we want to see DBD in a good place and continue to be online for the foreseeable future. Rising player numbers on steam is a good thing as it shows a returning interest and possible appeal to new players on that platform. This is also why everyone should be doing those surveys they mentioned. The more feedback they get the better they can make changes to the game to make the players happy and attract more people to it.
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Rising numbers on a singular platform is nowhere near enough data to create conclusions on the entirety of the playerbase. There is literally no point using Steam and only Steam's player numbers.
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Even in a positive thread, negative Nancys will always find a way to see the negative side of things.
I hope it continues to grow, As a steam player I took a 3 killer break and returned recently and enjoying the game.
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You don't think that Steam is fairly proportional to the playerbase on other platforms?
I don't see why it wouldn't be - there's no reason why consoles would be rising but Steam is falling, or vice versa.
It's not the gross player number that's interesting, it's the wax and wane.
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You guys don't understand. This still means dbd will die soon, think about it. More players playing the game means more people pissed and more people quit. This is a huge blow to bhvr. /s
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You do have a point. I'm curious as to how much of the Steam player base makes up the overall DBD player base. I'm not sure where to look to see data on player numbers for other platforms so I don't know if the same trend is happening on console too. Seeing rising numbers on even one though I think is a good thing. And yea I do think it may be because of the anniversary event coming up and also the reveal of the new RE chapter. That is sure to bring back a lot of players if even for awhile.
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I imagine if Steam is showing a rise in numbers then other platforms are too. People tell their friends about DBD all the time. Their friends may try it out on console and then start playing together. Word can get out there all sorts of ways. When I play other games and talk about DBD there are lots of people who have never even heard of it before. I had never heard of DBD before until my friends started playing it again and I watched them play it for awhile before I started playing.
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Hang around here long enough and you'll be brainwashed by the "no form of data you find anywhere can be used to draw conclusions" PR talk too.
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That’s because for the most part MMR works fine, they already did a big change to it, and they already announced prior to the anniversary chat that they were working on likely further refining it so MMR would go up or down based on how survivors escape as a team versus how they escape individually (that way someone who sacrifices themselves to help the rest of the survivors escape doesn’t have their MMR go down in the process.)
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On the other hand a game losing players makes them think and make needed changes. They had a game so long not doing much right and still having lot's of players. I don't want them to get back to old ways by not having to worry about players.
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I agree with you that Steam Charts is probably roughly proportional to the overall playerbase. To play Devil’s Advocate, though, hypothetically of Steam and PC gaming as a whole were losing significant market share to console gaming then the weight of Steam players in the overall numbers would be less and less significant over time. Also if the game were to make technical changes that only impacted PC players but console players were unaffected or vice versa that could result in contrary shifts where Steam Charts goes the opposite direction of the overall DbD population.
Like you said, though, I see no evidence or reason though to think Steam Charts aren’t generally reflective of the overall playerbase.
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Don't mean to be a Debbie Downer, but there were login rewards and a double BP week. This was the last double BP event since.. when? Years?
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Haha the release of Evil Dead caused DBDs numbers to go up. Hilarious.
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Maybe some have tried and decided this wasn't so bad after all ...
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That's just inflation.
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