There is now no incentive to p100 a survivor

your motivator was the badge which is not indicative of anything besides playing the game and that character a lot?

Realistically people don't need that much addons, there is not much players who play only one killer.

I've done 2 killers p100 already and I don't even play them more than few games a week

I get why BHVR took away the visibility of prestiges, but I really want them to be optional. I loved seeing P100's in lobbies, seeing what character(s) people chose to give love to. It always especially warmed my heart to see a P 100 David, Jonah, Ace, Felix, Gabriel, etc.

Sometimes I'd see a P 100 Ace and switch to my P 100 Ace, to match him. And usually we'd play like buddies in the match. I want those experiences back :')

Why=? There are millions of things you could do in this game, which has no incentive either.
Why should we ask bHVR to start giving incentives to any meaningless number you can make go up?

Not to demand info, but could you possibly go into how big a problem "greatly affects matchmaking" is.
I knew you have tested it in lobbies for a while, so like how much how many % chance of creating a dodged lobby does P100 do?
Assuming its a lot since bHVR has made the decision it MUST have been substantial.

Please I hope you can be allowed to divulge some juicy numbers.

They did test hiding Prestige before and if I'm not mistaken they also tested it out that no one see it at all. This is a happy medium tou see it in endgame.

Because the Devs do not want to further encourage sweat or a competitive mindset in this game, because it seems like they define the game as more casual than the playerbase defines it.

That alone tells us we probably all need to chill, right?

No. I think it’s much more likely that the MMR formula is doing something controversial, and players would figure it out if they knew their MMR numbers.

Also, it would cause streamer drama, as it would prove that some of the streamers are keeping their MMR low, so they look better in the games they stream.

Because BHVR refuses to give us information on how MMR works in various situations. There is a big difference between “players shouldn’t worry about their own MMR number” and “players aren’t allowed to know how MMR works”.

1. If a survivor DCs, does the killer gain MMR? Does the DCing survivor lose MMR? Does everyone just get their MMR frozen that match because someone DCed?
2. If a survivor makes self unhook attempts, then fails hook struggle checks, does the game consider that to be like a DC, and therefore might do things like cause everyone’s MMR to be frozen?
3. If the survivors didn’t repair 5 generators, there is only 1 survivor left, the killer closes hatch, and the survivor escapes through a gate, does the survivor gain MMR? Does the killer lose MMR? Or is it just like a hatch escape, where it’s 0 MMR?
4. Do killers gain a decent amount of MMR if they sweat for the 4k, or is the 4th survivor worth 0 (or close to 0) MMR?
5. How often are all 5 players near the same MMR? How often is there at least 1 player, whose MMR is so far away from the other players, that they really shouldn’t have been thrown into that game?
6. How much does “team based MMR” affect survivor MMR? If a survivor escapes through the gate in a 3k game, is it worth a lot less MMR than if it was a 1k game, because it was a bigger team win? Does a survivor lose a lot less MMR, if they lose in a 1k game than if they lose a 4k game? Does the first survivor that loses, get a much harsher MMR penalty than the third survivor that loses?
7. If a survivor loses or escapes, does their MMR change get calculated immediately, or does it wait until the match is over before being calculated?
8. When killers have large win streaks, are they actually at the MMR soft cap, or did they find a way to manipulate their MMR, and are having win streaks because they aren’t being matched at their appropriate skill level?

"Trust me most ppl really don't care that you p100 your favorite character"

Exactly lol I'm seeing these people talking about not being able to show off their P100s in lobby but like, nobody actually cares..

I'm barely even glancing at my team mates prestiges in endgame now before moving on because I've just played a whole game with them and their prestige no longer tells me anything about their skill (which it didn't before really either, but as you said, you'd get an expectation in your mind when you saw their prestige in lobby and make a determination on whether they were a strong player or not).

The matchmaking system can't work efficiently if people bypass it. It's as simple at that. The whole point of skill-based matchmaking is that the game finds your opponents. You aren't supposed to pick your own. If the game can't find a group of survivors a killer (ie because the killers keep dodging based on prestiges) then it broadens its range and that's how poor new killers wind up facing more experienced survivors. Likewise, the dodging killer can keep going until they land a group of less experienced survivors to steamroll. Of course SBMM seems "worthless" when people refuse to let it work properly.

I don't understand your mindset I'm sorry. So you want to show off your level to your friends is what you saying but you don't need to do that in a lobby... you can be in discord with them and say "looks guys I p100 my favorite survivor."

Like I do understand you want it to be a opinion but you been told and was given a very good reason by someone who works on the game and honestly knows more about the data in background than you, why they can't just make it a opinion. It will lead to even more lobby shopping on both sides. No matter how much you pled the devs I'm pretty sure they are concrete on this decision to hide your prestige level at the beginning of a match. Once tho you can show off your prestige level in the end game still. That wasn't taken from you and achieve the same goal.