Ash is a smoke screen to keep your attention off...

That makes zero sense. More like it was a purposeful leak to get people off their backs for not releasing anything franchise related in the last year.

They would have been working on ash for a while to get the license, design perks and make sure the holders agree with it all.

Sometimes you need to remove that tinfoil hat.

I would like to think the good part of Ash releasing is that maybe with him, the devs will also do some needed balance updates. Especially for Plague. I feel sorry for Plague...she’s just so overshadowed. At least I can take a little comfort in that in choosing to main Jane, probably not a lot of people will play her and she’ll be like a Quentin or Tapp.

Infinite loading screens are caused from loss of connection to host, you are wrong, Dedicated servers will fix it

Anyone who follows dbd knows read things but they mean nothing unless you know the actual finances of BHVR.

First the two week period after the plague means absolutely nothing, it was setup to beannounced at pax, you forget how long it can take to get a license along with designing and making perks then the back and forth of making sure the licensee agrees with your work, it's not a two week process that's for sure.

Second it is not the first time, are you new here or to the game? Each dlc has had a trailer before hand and a ptb but that was only after BHVR bought the rights from Starbreeze, the previous ones before they bought the rights release dates were announced on streams sometimes it was right after the stream finished, this is a surprise character and not a full chapter much like leatherface was when it came out, the current chapters after a ptb dont have an exact date as they take time to make some changes after the test phase, it's not rocket science.

Third the playerbase always and I mean always drops after a dlc comes out up until the next one releases, the only worrying and relevant factor was the small increase of players after the release of the Plague chapter, the time before that means jack.

Fourth the lawsuit is done, yes they lost but that does not mean they are in actual financial difficulty, do you know the whole of BHVR financials? also warner may held accountable for some, unless you know every finite details about the actual payment or lawsuit you have no clue about how it impacted the company as a whole.

Fifth deathgarden is still being worked on, some of the team moved from dbd to it Ash being one of them, yes it's a monumental failure right now but it still sold a good number of copies for a small team, they are actively still working on it, that tells you they still have the capital and budget to do so or it would be benched, what company continues something if they don't have the money to do so, let that sink in.

This is what I mean about your tin foil hat, you have no idea how successful BHVR are or have a clue about there finances but here you are spouting about how some random articles you have read give you a complete insight into it all.

Do you really think a company struggling for capital after would have flown some fog whisperers from around the world to their headquarters for a few days?

@twistedmonkey In fairness they need those fog whisperers promising that good things they can't talk about are coming so we don't quit. It sounds exactly like something they'd do.

You're just arguing from feelings and hand waving actual information. "I don't think a company would do x" is far from compelling, especially considering you're strictly basing it on your hunches and not an examination of the data. Also, you're misrepresenting what he's saying about the plague release and population numbers. There was no bump as you describe, we aren't seeing a between dlc lull.

@CaptainCastle

They could also gift them things or pay them from afar they don't need to fly them out there.

I am not arguing from feelings, I am arguing from a perspective of how a successful company runs, companies struggling for capital generally start to close things down and lay off staff, they shut down projects which are not viable or losing them money when they dont think they will bring in revenue.

The OP is the who is basing their view on personal feelings and assumptions and as I said tin foil hat time as anyone with a slight knowledge of how companies work can see nothing BHVR is doing right now says they are struggling for money.

You have no idea what type of downsizing has been done or how much work is actually being done on death garden, and clearly haven't worked for many corporations. This game lives and dies on twitch performance, of course investing in fog whisperers is going to be a priority.

Also just saying, well thought out list with explanations for deductions vs "clearly its tin foil hat time" isn't a good look. Just keep doubling down on feels though.

Did you just seriously declare game sales as revenue? And act like 1m revenue means anything to a developer in the face of no one playing? Do you know how long 1m lasts when running a company? It really sounds like you don't lol I'm not citing inside information, you're talking like you're the corporation whisperer yet sound exactly like the legions of forum users who don't know as much as they think they do. Hitting all the standard tropes.

I like the article announcing that they took on chinese investors as evidence that they aren't in financial troubles lololol

also pointing to legions release when we're discussing plague in rebuttal. Holy cow dude. I'm unable to can.

What are game sales if not revenue? Did you honestly just state that?

Yes they made 1m in revenue from the deathgarden team but they also obviously had a budget to keep the team going, we don't know how many employees are part of said team so the 1m from sales alone could tide that TEAM over for a good while.

Did you not know that divisions of teams make up the company? Honedtly you state 1m for a company is samll well thanks captain obvious, 1m is a puny amount for a large company but its only for one division of it not the whole, (can't believe I had to write that) You completely ignore that bhvr as a whole was estimated to have around 21m in revenue overall, it's ok though you can cherry pick what points you want to try and better your argument.

I have cited articles and also the figures of the estinated revenue which is available to anyone, what have you brought to the discussion to counter my points? That's right nothing but assumptions.

I simply stated I looked into the company as a whole financials before the release of legion, I was not bringing them into the conversation it was used as a time frame nothing more.

Maybe reading isn't your strong point.

I never said it all goes to the team, again making assumptions, not all of the revenue may be put back in but it can be until it makes a profit, that is what is called an investment in a product before it makes a profit, any company which designs anything has to put the money in before they get to take it out.

Good luck in school, You will need it.