Why are so many people uninstalling DBD?

just had a longtime friend uninstall after probably eight years. He hasn't played consistently in a while, but he would still hop on every so often. He was the person who really got me into DBD, so seeing him leave is.... difficult, especially after so many years. Now, it's only my friend who started during the Anniversary. Said friend wanted to play last night. Got camped or tunneled in three games, then called it quits.

sad to see DBD these days. I probably wouldn't play at all if not for my enormous ego telling me that I need to play if I want to have an opinion on the forums. So, I manage a few games every so often.

Nothing like how it used to be for me.

I still play and probably always will, but I'm not nearly as devoted to it as I used to be. Trust me, I'd like to be, but you have to give me something to do. And I don't know what there is to do as Survivor anymore. I'd play more Killer like many others have, but it's never really been my thing. I'm way too casual for it.

I've mostly quit playing now so I can give my reasons. I have entirely stopped playing killer, only playing survivor occasionally now, but even that is stopping slowly.

On the killer side the vast majority of killers I enjoy (SM, Knight, Sadako, Pig, Trapper, just to name a few) are not viable against any remotely competent survivor team and with the pallet changes and awful maps you are going to struggle against even the most mediocre of teams now. On top of that, the toxicity is out of control. If you dare to not sweat and try to play "fair" you are greeted with survivors t-bagging at the exit gate and insulting you in the post game chat.

On the survivor side it is just frustrating to play. Many matches feel hopeless because you can be doing amazingly but then your teammates are just doing nothing, messing around, opening chests, cleansing dull totems, ect. You could lead the killer on a decently long chase and if for a majority of that your teammates are crouching in a corner it was all for naught and you get nothing out of it. When even a single bad teammate can ruin a game, and having 3 chances at getting one, it often leads to a string of demoralizing games that makes me want to play DBD less and less each time.

In addition to all of that, subtle cheating is a surprisingly common occurrence. I never really looked out for it before, but after I escape, or have died, I've started occasionally spectating and I was honestly kind of shocked at how often people turn on speed hacks after rounding a corner and they are out of sight of the killer, just enough to make a bit of distance, but enough to make a huge difference in chase. With the game's awful report system, and reports almost never being acted upon, it makes me just want to drop the game entirely.

For most my friends it's the release of Ghoul/Krasue being ignored by the devs how destructive they are to the casual experience, as are all of the S-tiers. I'd honestly take nerfs to these killers and blanket buffing killers again over them remotely existing, I hate them, so do my friends.

Fog Vials were a huge disappointment and the cold feet on the anti-tunnel and slug too just before a huge event which has just encouraged toxic playstyles yet again. All the try hards go into the event queue and ruin it for everyone, it sucks.