I am so SICK if Wesker.

The killer is not 'punishing' survivors by playing a killer the survivors don't like. they're just playing a killer they want to play. If a survivor HATES certain killers to the extent that they DC the moment they find out they're in a game with them, that player shouldn't be playing the game. Simple. By queueing up as survivor in Dead by Daylight you're agreeing to play that game through regardless of who the killer is, what the map is, what perks or addons are in play.

Being lenient on people DCing does not work, because if it becomes even more of the norm and seen as okay when people DC, every game is going to have DCers, and while the bots are a good bandaid fix, they're no substitute for a real player, and it doesn't feel good to go against them in an online game you're playing to play against actual people.

I do sympathise with people who have actual phobias or medical issues that prevent them from playing against Plague or Doctor for example, but those people are in a tiny minority of overall DCs. Those DCs are more understandable but I'd wager 95%+ of total DCs are not because of that.

One of the issues with killer-bans is the snowball effect. If say 40% of players banned Nurse, then the people who -don't- ban Nurse are going to be playing against Nurse a lot more often, because all the Nurse players have a smaller pool of survivors they can end up with. This would cause a similar kind of burnout we're seeing with Wesker, and so more people would then decide to ban Nurse. Say 70% now ban Nurse, then the 30% who don't ban Nurse face -even more- Nurse and get even more burnout, and more then get sick of her and ban her. The players who -don't- ban certain killers will over time see more and more of that particular killer and thus are more likely to then ban her in turn, and over all this time, these killers get longer and longer and longer queue times.

As I mentioned before, BHVR value short queue times over everything else in the game, even basic matchmaking, so they would NEVER add a system that would give players longer queue times, it just doesn't make sense on their end, and so killer bans would never happen in any capacity.

Again, I understand that there are gonna be killers that people like more than others, but part of queueing up to play this game is that you are open to playing against anything. DCing because you don't like what you're against is a problem with -that- entitled player, and the only solution should be to punish that player. Heck the system ALREADY temporarily bans players who rage-quit, that's the game telling that player that what you're doing is bad and you shouldn't do that.

I'm not saying they shouldn't be trying to actually balance the game and fix frustrating things that are commonly hated, SM for example is a complete mess and NEEDS big changes. But an outright killer ban option would simply not work even if you could only ban a single killer, being able to ban multiple killers would ruin the game.

BHVR has admitted that backfilling throws MMR out of the window and will grab anyone for the sake of not making the other players wait in queue again, even though they know the match quality is completely random and will often be a complete stomp with no chance of one side to win. They've admitted to that and they've not done anything to change that, they're fine with that being the case if it means short queue times. That to me shows they value short queue times higher than anything else, since wonky MMR is one of the most common complaints and they're happy to have it remain for the sake of shorter queue times. This makes it seem incredibly obvious that they would never implement something that would cause longer queue times, which I keep saying is the big reason against a blacklist feature.

I don't know how you've ignored so much of what I said that you think I simply don't like blacklisting 'because I said so', even a single ban would cause certain killers to experience longer queue times, which firstly isn't fair on people who like playing those killers, and secondly, referring again to the above, is something BHVR is highly unlikely to ever impliment because they don't want longer queues. Multiple bans would only make the problem worse because killers like Nurse, Blight and Skull Merchant would be banned by most people and would be near-unplayable.

I feel like were argueing in circles here. Blacklisting -would- cause longer queue times for certain killers and would unfairly punish people playing those killers. DCing because you don't like the killer/map/perks/playstyle is an issue with the DCing player. Yes there are things in the game that are commonly considered frustrating and should be dealt with by BHVR, but until then it's upto the player to deal with those things for the sake of being a decent human being and not screwing over 4 other players.

Also hook-suicides are exactly the same as DCs in this arguement. I suppose now with bots DCing has less of an impact on your teammates but they're both bad and are both things players shouldn't do.

But Mr x plz