http://dbd.game/killswitch
Petiton to bring back dlc sharing
Message from support:
"Hello, Following Steam's weekly maintenance on Tuesday, players borrowing DLC characters via Steam's Family Sharing feature reported losing access to these shared characters, leaving only the DLC owner with access. This change is in accordance with Steam guidelines; if both players own the base game, DLCs are not allowed to be shared through Family Sharing. You can read more about Family Sharing here: https://dbd.game/44lMf2F
If you have purchased additional cosmetics for a DLC character which you no longer have access to through the in-game store, please be assured that those cosmetic items are still associated with your account and will be waiting in your inventory if you decide to unlock the character. Any progress you have made before losing access will still be there if you decide to unlock those characters."
My message:
They announced on social media that they were turning off family sharing. The last Steam policy change was in 2014, this information has been available for 9 years. I think if dbd doesn't change that, they're going to lose players.
if there are a lot of people supporting the petition, I will send support a photo of how many people have taken the petition.
💨Petition: https://chng.it/jGk8cL9d2x
Comments
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BHVR can't do anything about this, it's a Steam-wide change.
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This behavior has changed, steam policy last changed in 2014. They even announced on social media that they were turning off family sharing
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It's been written like this for 9 years and they still haven't fixed
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Behavior has changed it and is now pretending that steam policy has changed, and steam policy was changed 9 years ago.
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Well I'm not affected, I'm not even on Steam, but I don't read anywhere that BHVR pretends that Steam changed their guidelines. I don't read anywhere that BHVR voluntarily changed this either. Do we know that they were not approach by Steam to change this to comply with the family sharing rules? The Steam rules don't read to me as if players have no right to share DLCs in this case but devs may be nice enough to allow it. It sounds as if it simply isn't allowed by Steam.
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It's almost like they finally fixed it...
idk where you're getting that number from, Steam policy changes pretty regularly.
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From what I can see, you're allowed to share DLCs as long as the account you're sharing to doesn't own the base game. If they do, the DLCs won't transfer. After the recent Steam maintenance, they patched it so it works accordingly.
It sucks, but it's not BHVR's fault. They initially thought it was a bug but unfortunately this is just Steam updating the family sharing to match what the policy says.
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I think the policy is stupid (someone who hasn't bought the game has access to more content than someone who did, so people who have a family share account have no reason to buy it), but it's a Steam policy, not BHVR's, and I'm pretty sure they can't do anything about it.
Post edited by Annso_x on4 -
uhh so i lost $100
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Not really. You had free acces to $100 of content that you shouldn't have.
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Thing is Nancy, Steve and Demo are currently unpurchasable through the ingame store which makes it impossible for someone else to play as them unless they get the license back.
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Yeah honestly it sucks :/ I'm sure even weird people who are like "why are you complaining about something you didn't buy ? You should have never had it because I paid for it" can sympathize with the fact that people literally couldn't buy the DLC.
it's just so backwards, now if I convince my brother to play I also have to make sure he doesn't actually give BHVR any money so he can have the character he liked (Demogorgon), how is that good for business I truly don't know.
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Not only that, many people actually switched from console to PC which means that they could atleast get some of the content earlier back without paying twice since BHVR wants to have cross-progression anyway.
Its also simply not a good business for BHVR, the money is in the store and events, barely anyone buys the game and DLC outside of a sale anyway, taking away peoples content by any means simply means they will either spend less overall or leave the game entirely.
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Oh absolutely. While I don't think there's anything 'wrong' with them enforcing this policy so that you need to buy your own DLC, just like everyone else who isn't on Steam. I can absolutely sympathise with anyone who regrets not being able to play Stranger Things. The problem is Netflix for pulling the license.
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$100 of what? Skin in the ST DLC?
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They addressed this on twitter. This is a Steam Policy Change and has nothing to do with them.
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The game goes on sale all the time. If you can't afford to spend 5 dollars on a video game every so often than you probably shouldn't be playing video games in the first place.
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I signed, man, you have all my support.
Guys, think about the players who paid Stranger Things, check the current prize of the DLC, and sign the petition
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Sorry to hear. But you have to ask Steam.
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The people who paid for the Stranger Things dlc are unaffected. Only people who were getting that DLC via Family Sharing on Steam are actually affected by this. This thread is placing the blame on BHVR, when it's actually Steam who changed their Family Sharing policy.
While I sympathise with people who no longer have access to the Stranger Things DLC, it doesn't change the fact that this has nothing to do with BHVR.
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Yeah, idk why so many gaming corps making BAD DECISIONS, mojang, blizzard, and now Steam
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So Steam either changed a policy or fixed it's enforcement? Not on the devs.
Nexflix ended the agreement for the Stranger Things license? Did the devs try to keep it and couldn't work something out? If so, then not on the devs.
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Because they can. It's really as simple as that. So long as people continue to throw money at them, they really couldn't care less about how customers perceive them.
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