Kill Switch update: We have temporarily Kill Switched the Forgotten Ruins Map due to an issue that causes players to become stuck in place. The Map will remain out of rotation until this is resolved.

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I moved up my decision

I've been on this game for 8 years and now I quit. And I don't know how I've put up with it for so long. Out of ignorance, I suppose, or maybe I just didn't want to see it… but I quit.

I know I said I was going to stop playing in December, but I moved up my decision. The game is in a deplorable state; there are bugs everywhere, almost no structures to loop as a survivor, soloq is hell, I see many killer bugs that prevent proper gameplay, and an excessively toxic and sweaty community. I no longer enjoy the game; every time I play, I can't have fun, it's excessively stressful.

And I see that they're using the "the customer is always right" approach to make decisions for fear of upsetting the community, and that's not doing the game any good.

And the worst part is the community: everyone complains about how bad the game is, but everyone keeps playing and everyone keeps buying without really demanding that the game improve.

They release a license DLC and you all forget the deplorable condition in which the game finds. The community spend their money and keep playing and complaining about how bad the game's system is.

Or maybe devs just want to focus on new players and core players don't matter anymore. Which I could understand as a marketing strategy, I suppose... but all I see are complaints in the community.

However… I can't anymore.

I wish the best to those who stay, and if you continue buying and playing, then stop complaining and enjoy what you bought knowing it had many problems with its gameplay. Do you want to demand improvements? Stop playing, or at least stop buying. You know the game has tons of problems and you keep buying dlcs and skins, so don't blame the developers when you freely buy something you know doesn't work.

Glhf. See yall.

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  • crogers271
    crogers271 Member Posts: 3,275

    I wonder if their player counts/player quits track things based on their spending. I'm glad there are people willing to buy cosmetics because I never would (like you I recycle auric cells, mine I got for free, and only own about half the licenses), so me leaving is not a huge financial loss. It would be interesting to know if they actually track when someone uninstalls or stops playing how big of a spender they were.

  • ImWinston
    ImWinston Member Posts: 658
    • Aside from the paid DLC (I own ALL the game's DLC), I haven't bought anything this year, not even a skin. I use in-game currency if I really want to buy something, and I have (about) 1,300 auric cells that I save for the Rift, which you then get back when you play. STOP, when they start thinking and working properly again, I'll start buying skins again. In other times, I would have bought the new Cheryl skin, which I think is beautiful... sorry, but no!
  • MashedBroccoli
    MashedBroccoli Member Posts: 284
    edited November 2025

    i hope they do, because i would be loss for them, i’ve bought every licensed survivor and killer, i buy cosmetics especially licensed ones that i really enjoy, like the witcher and resident evil, stranger things etc. i probably shouldn’t be spending anything though look how many cosmetics are broken? Look at how poor the hair quality has become in the last year since they lazily use taa and dithering. You bring up how awful it looks and you get told its based on your settings even if your running ultra. Not to mention they clearly don’t respect the playerbase. Like why rework autohaven make it look like radioactive vomit when that map was fine and the swamp has remained untouched, is in a dire need of a rework/visual update? Why are they wasting resources making things worse when they were fine?

    If they do not revert the medkit addon changes, and pallet density update before christmas im uninstalling and moving on.

    Bhvr is damn lucky im a canadian trying to support a canadian company, if i wasn’t i would’ve walked away a lot sooner.

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  • Volcz
    Volcz Member Posts: 1,299

    I stopped giving them money years ago when I realized their priority revolved around pumping out cosmetics & new releases that launch in horrible states, while the game bleeds from the thousand cuts it has open.

  • ggsk
    ggsk Member Posts: 57

    while the thread makes it seem like many people are quitting,
    strangely enough, at least since the 2v8 buff ended, the player count feels like it's trending upward compared to last year.

  • Langweilig
    Langweilig Member Posts: 3,149

    The reality is that most people are addicted to this game and will play regardless of how good/bad the game is. Also this forum is not representing the whole community. There is like 5-10 people posting in this thread.

  • ArcT
    ArcT Member, Alpha Surveyor Posts: 215
    edited November 2025

    I uninstalled when they canned the original anti-camp, though that wasn't the only reason. Every single patch they've made since then has only validated that decision.

  • IronKnight55
    IronKnight55 Member Posts: 3,109

    Same, I’ve stopped spending money on this game, and I’m someone who has spent an embarrassing amount on it before. I only recently started playing again after taking a break, and while I know I’m just one person and won’t make a huge difference, at least I’m glad I’m not throwing money at them anymore for being so incompetent.

  • cogsturning
    cogsturning Member Posts: 2,288
    edited November 2025

    If there's one thing they track properly, I reckon it's money.

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  • KeefCheif
    KeefCheif Member Posts: 145

    I mean, I doubt behavior cares about posts like this sadly. But agreed, I play solo q almost exclusively and it's the worse it has been in years imo. I'm just going to take a break until the holiday season in December; hopefully things are better for solo q by then… but I seriously doubt it.

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