Are you thinking about quitting Dead By Daylight? Or did you already quit? If so or not so, why?

the gap between solo q and swf has been widened, which has led to many playing either killer or swf, solo q has been made even worse by bhvr, so I've lost hope for a long time and everything bhvr says is like "we want that reduce the gap between swf and solos" say everything only hypocritically and lie I don't beleave them and bhvr is very slow in almost everything, they don't even know that much about the game and only change a lot with numbers that have nothing to do with reality, bad and unfair matchmaking, where a killer gets 1k+ wins in a row can (Blight), a swf 200+ wins in a row, dbd is the only game I know where something like this is possible, map balance is miserable, hit validation catastrophic

in cs I have the complete opposite, no one is rewarded for their bad net, there is communication if you don't want to talk to others in game chat if you don't feel like it either, you can pin ingame goals 3 options in cs, in dbd after 6 years icons for the solo q hahahaha so please, please... any people who only play ez win streaks because they play with friends don't exist, example a few weeks ago: a full team (same names) as an opponent i solo q, we won ez 9:3 (i'm just near by gold Nova but still silver) why is that? because there is a matchmaking that works and if the team that plays with friends would win more often, it would come up higher in the ranking and play against much better ones, but in dbd it's so great :)))) Sruvivor 1. (500 hrs ) hides a lot is useless and dies in the chase after 10sec (the level of a silver player in cs) and on the other side you have Survivor 2. (5k+ hrs) Looped the killer minutes is always on gens (level global) in dbd both are on the same level and are matched with each other, so why should i waste my time in a game that is so bad and it's being deliberately ignored by the devs? Nah thanks i switch to cs (my old main game before was dbd)

Game is never fun for me lately. I wish i would just give up this game

I'm just playing Zelda right now. Whether or not I can go back to dedicating 4,50 hours a month to Survivor and killer at least after this depends on future updates.

When they say it's "asymmetrical", I hadn't thought to this extent.

Super fun for one side and super frustrating for other. Different builds, different playstyles, so much and everything for killer, and complete frustrations, sweat and pain each match for survivor.

The things that keep me going are achievements/challenges and "Stockholm syndrome".

Killer challenges all done and being done very fust, survivors are tedious, painful and grindy. Everyday when I have to play survivor, I force myself ten times more then going to run on rainy day or do tripple sets in the gym.

As for "syndrome", I just play other games in between rifts and new chapters, they help.

I play less and less. Waiting for d4 to release to have other game to waste time and money on. The feeling of dissatisfaction started rising with mmr implementation, increasing after each major patch.

I said so often that i quit but i never do, i love this game to much even when i hate it xD

I've stopped playing.

Game has gotten stale. I've also sunk 1000+ hours into PS4 and have no interest in getting a PS5 (matters of principle regarding Sony's isolationism). The sunk cost does sting.

I still like the atmosphere and the concept, and will be keeping tabs on it likely indefinitely.

If there's a core rebalance to Perk accessibility and new player experience (especially controller integration for PC), I'll likely get back into DBD on PC. But at this point in life asking for a 100+ hour commitment to get back to my Perk station like it was on the PS4 isn't worth it. (Not even complaining about re-buying the characters, but the P3 investment for everyone).

Closest option I guess?

I already take breaks from time to time, but that's not exclusive to DBD - I need to take breaks from games from time to time to avoid burning out. I still come back and have fun, I just can't "main" any game by consistently playing it basically daily for years without eventually ending up taking a burnout-induced break so long that it basically counts as quitting.

I'm deeply unsure. I just got back from a 4-year-ish long break from the game. It wasn't exactly four years long, I did play sometimes, very rarely, for the first year, but not enough to really catch any major changes. Prior to that, I had been playing since release. In a lot of ways, this game means a lot to me. I started playing seven years ago, when I was just about to enter my teens. It was the first game that really, really excited me. I can barely find words to describe the passion I had for it back then. But at some point, it just kept going south for me. First, it was personal reasons, mainly the issue of never being able to get my friends or family to play with me. Then, it was Puppers getting sick. He was my idol. Then, it was the overwhelming toxicity I often received either in-game or in forums (not specifically this one, I'm talking in general.)

At some point, I started disliking the changes made to the game, too. I never liked the UI change, and I still am not over it, years later. Original survivors aren't very interesting to me anymore. I feel like their stories are generally always the same, and their aesthetics rarely interest me. The guy who came with the Onryo actually looks a lot like me irl, face-wise, but he has no interesting cosmetics, so I keep with the good ol' trustworthy Dweet, who has always been by my side.

As for the survivor backstories, I seem to find that, quite often, they generally go with the same theme. "____ ___________ was an extraordinarily gifted child who was x and y , and (insert something, usually a mild-moderate tragedy, to make them slightly more unique). He/she graduated early/with honours, and attended (insert prestigious college.) However, it all went down when (insert tragedy.) Eventually, ______ ______ was unfortunately claimed by the entity."

If not that exact format, you may also find "____ ______ was a black sheep because x y z."

I found that a lot of survivors generally fit somewhere in this format, especially as of the later DLCs. I mean, yes, some of the older survivors did fit in one of those formats to one degree or another, but generally, I felt "the crew" were a lot more diverse and "natural" back in the day. Kate and her passion for singing, Feng and her love for e-sport, Dwight, the underachiever who exceeds expectations, David, the short-tempered but loyal beast, and Jake the wildman. Of course, there are exceptions, but generally speaking, a lot of the new survivors they've released don't feel like real, original people to me anymore. I would list the exceptions, but this comment is already long, lol. However, there are some changes to the game I've enjoyed greatly. For one, the option to visualize the heartbeat in-game has helped me a lot because I was born with poor hearing. I'm definitely much better as survivor now than I was before that change. However, killer is still difficult on the hearing aspect. Secondly, I like that they added bots. Crossplay is a feature I still have mixed feelings about. Nonetheless, I'm completely at a crossroad when it comes to this game. There is little to keep me interested in the long term at the moment, aside from my fond memories of the game, and the hopes of something new to come.

TDLR: I'm at a crossroad because I can't tell if I love the game, or if I love the idea of the game.

SWFs....

I hate them as both survivor and killer.

I didn't mind facing them as any of my main killers, but when I'm trying to learn a new killer I've never played before, it's kinda soul crushing to face a 40k+ sweat lords lobby. This problem got solved partially by custom lobbies, but I hope bots will get a bigger brain one day.

But they probably hurt me more when playing survivor. In solo Q there's no worse thing than being thrown into 3-man swf. They won't save anyone outside themselves, will leave you to die if they have an opportunity to leave, AND if they're a flashlight bully squad, they're not gonna touch gens at all and will blame you in the end chat that they stupidly died. I legit escape more matches with full solo Q squads than I ever did with swfs.

Situations like those made me frantically check everyone's profiles and dodge lobbies, which led to me spending more time "lobby shopping" than actually playing, so I just quit. I still follow the news and stuff, but for now, I don't see a reason to come back. And even if I did, I won't be able to play killer at all cuz with the matchmaking I won't be able to remind myself how to play.

I truly love dbd, but it's tough...