Why choose 1.5x BP over 2x XP?

I'm assuming you mean BHVR/events they do?

If so, you answered your own question. Bloodpoints are "free" whereas shards allow people to get skins that they COULD be spending auric for and make BHVR some money.

You have to think about this in regards to the average player, who does not have everything unlocked that they might want. Meaning bloodpoints are going to be much more valuable to them. People on the forums are going to be an outlier in the community rather than the norm.

Although I would pick XP over BPs all the time, it's probably because I only have about 4 characters who aren't at least P3, so BPs don't really matter to me, but I understand most players haven't been playing for a long time and are in need of BPs because they don't realize in the long run XP & shard are more valuable (which is not a critic btw, it's absolutely fine and if I hadn't prestiged so many characters I would most likely pick BPs too).

In the end a lot of "seasoned" players have too much BPs but also don't care much about XP / shards because they've most likely already have all the characters (that they want at least) and have enough shards to buy the next (or most likely are ready to pull out the credit card).

you seem confused, they're not talking about the 2x ritual. they're talking about the 2x player xp

2x player xp is useless to most players. The marginal increase to getting shards is far less helpful to majority of players as folks tend to need bp to overcome the substantial grind. The shrine used to have more value when you bought a perk once and not have to think about the tiers. The shrine is now overall less value add because it is not much less likely to get a dupe that you can convert into bp due to tiers being separated out and over priced. Getting cosmetics with shards is great, but not that great as the ones for shards tend to be relatively lackluster compared to cash ones currently. The only real worthwhile options the way I see is bloodrush or rift fragments, but bloodrush wins out as it is universally more important to have bp than rift fragments if you're not actively buying the premium track.

Like it's not even an increase to the base amount of shards, just more xp. It's just doesn't math

1.5x BP for the week leading up to the anniversary event (and during the launch of End Transmission) is more valuable to me than shards + rift fragments, just because I'll be going through so many bloodwebs during that week (and it'll make the fact that every other game is on Dead Dawg Saloon again more tolerable).

thinking in the dbd community is very difficult you have to know :D small calculation you make 20k bps with 5 cakes it's 120k + the 1.5 = 130k xD 10k more bp yippy noice! instead of double xp there would be many more shards but what do I know :D a drop in the bottle seems to make a difference for people

If you are farming BP you would be running cake+ incentive which makes the BP bonus only 16% more. XP is valuable and it's 100% more vs 16%. IDK seems like a no-brainer.

Would rather have bloodpoints

If I was still on the Switch, then the XP would be more appealing. Because I've changed platforms, the BP is more appealing as I'm still unlocking perks. With new killers and survivors out every 12 weeks, plenty of new players and casual players are likely to want BP

Well it's a grind reduction for 7 days. You might not be able to buy anything right away but you are working towards stuff. I think it is 4250 xp required per lvl to get 300 shards. That would be 7 games per level if you got 600 per game. A character cost 9k shards so you divide that by the 300 and it takes 30 levels to get 1 character. Times that by 7 for the amount of games per level and it is 210 games for 1 character. So if we do a clean 200 then this would go down to 100 with the double xp.

The time where this starts to lean much more in favor of the bp is when you remove the extra bp bonuses. It's the diminishing returns that really hit the bp hard while xp doesn't have any. The cosmetic changes they did also made it to where there is a large shard sink in the game, so you always want shards since they have a high value.

Hard disagree on that one. Iri shards let newer players buy characters without shelling out lots of money for original chapters. The BP incentives plus reduced grind already make it pretty trivial to level up characters you already own, but there is no way to actually speed up how fast you get new ones outside of spending real money.

Number of shards given at base? The only way to gain shards in this game is exp. And the only type of EXP not boosted by the double EXP is the 300 daily bonus for killer and survivor, which is inconsequential. Double EXP is double EXP, twice as many shards, outside of the daily bonus which isn't really that big to begin with.

Truth is most players just don't think ahead very much. They see something they like in the shrine, buy it, then buy the character with money 2 months later. Double EXP is for sure better than 50% bonus BP, especially with anniversary coming up.

That's fair. I don't spend money on anything except licensed chapters, and I don't use addons very often, so I value the shards for the free cosmetics you can get with them.

Either way, we have an entire week of double EXP right now anyway, so I'm taking advantage of that.