Future of Dead by Daylight Forums

What do you mean by "tens of millions of DBD players already on the platform" when referring to Discord? I asked friend in the server how many are in there and they said theres 800k, not even 1 million. Did you mean to write "tens of thousands" or are you assuming the general user population of Discord could be potential DBD players?

Also seems weird to bring up user count on Discord that aren't using the official DBD server anyway as a reason to focus on Discord and close the Forums. If theres tens of millions but you don't even have a million in the server it seems like maybe the official server isn't appealing to most of those DBD players already on Discord. If it doesn't appeal to people already on discord why would it appeal to those of us that use the forums, most who chose to not use Discord at all in the first place?

Respectfully, are you nuts?

Not everyone uses social media such as Reddit and as far as discord goes, absolutely not. Your community is too wild for discord. One disagreement and they'll be using usernames to track down accounts.

The forums, although they can get a little messy, are by far the least crazy.

No offence but this is yet another BHVR L

The forum came about because DBD extended onto other platforms besides Steam. It was meant to be a place where all platforms could access and discuss the game. Moving to segregated communities is a step backwards and a shot across the bow this may spell the end of DBD as a supported game. Doing something like this isn't showing support for another 10 years.

For me coming from the Steam forums, I guess that's where I'll end up. Steam isn't accessable to non-Steam players so not many here will follow. Not signing up for Reddit or reinstalling Discord. So much for that central forum we all could gather.

Sad news.

OG internet users do enjoy forums and I am one of them.

I am sure that I will not be participating in discord or reddit, those platforms are messy in comparison to forums.

With that being said, we might never talk again so good luck everyone. See you in the fog.

Right, so basically you want to hide valid critique.

Actual comedy skit.

Your draconian ban policy and not being afraid to use it didn't help. I've held my tongue about this until now. Now? It doesn't matter.

The escalation system has 4 stages:

1 Warning —> Just a Warning.

2 Warnings —> You cannot write as much and I think you cannot open topics. But at the very least you have a slowdown.

3 Warnings —> 1 month Ban.

4 Warnings —> Perma Ban.

But not every bad post can trigger a Warning, so I would assume that they were lenient and sometimes only removed posts and did not warn for them. Which is why I said "below 20", since there were probably removed posts, but they were not punished.

However, the big issue with this system is indeed that a relatively small amount of posts can lead to a Ban. AND you might have Warnigns which are a few years old and they still count towards the system. So if you got 3 Warnings in 2018 and you write a few bad posts in 2026, you might be gone, even if you had 8 years of only positive and well-received posts between them.

This is the case. Console players like myself had just as much of a voice on this forum where as many of us are very unlikely to ever visit the steam ones.

I feel like our opinions won't really get heard in any real official capacity now

I didn't want to believe the doomers as I was so happy to have a forum I could read and sometimes engage with without the constant algorithmic garbage that is centralised social media, and, of course, a Discord channel is firmly not a replacement.

Requiring players to engage with 3rd-party services, especially with a focus on Discord which is an application and not a website is fundamentally disappointing.

I get that money people made this decision, not the mods or community outreach staff, but please relay the message that this is a terrible decision for player engagement and feels almost deliberate.

A shame it's so hard to find a space on the internet anymore that doesn't make you another spit in the ocean that is 5 social media sites.

do not close the forums, what the hell is wrong with you folks?

Can't imagine why the forums lack activity with a warm and inviting atmosphere like that.

I don't get the point of this, sorry, but the forum was constantly active. People posted and discussed things here every day. You want to switch to Discord and Reddit? Places where there's either nothing but nonsense or where nothing has been posted for a year? You’re just making everything worse and more broken. You’re destroying yourselves from the inside.

It’s not the community or the game itself that’s to blame for fewer people playing DbD. It’s you and your stupid decisions; you aren't looking at the long term at all.
Just how shortsighted and self-destructive do you intend to get? Assuming it’s even possible to make things worse than they already are.
One disappointment after another… do you even think about the nonsense you’re spouting? Personally, I actually had tons of ideas and suggestions for new chapters or skins but i guess thats the end. You dont deserve my ideas and suggestions anymore.

I really stood by DbD, I loved the game. The forum was a great place for the many ideas players shared, yet you keep trampling all over everything with your clumsy feet. It’s time to leave DbD. It was a good time with you all, folks.

This also describes the Steam forums.

@burt0r i shall miss your Lord of light calls 😭

Who will rally the civilians now??

This decision seems completely backwards, and, quite frankly, stupid, but then again there have been a lot of those recently hasn't there?

It's hard not to be sentimental though. I've been on here at least since 2020 and in that time I've met so many amazing people, some of whom I still call my friends even to this day. Regardless of this game or company, I am very thankful for that.

Goodbye, everyone. I hope life treats you well and that smiles always find your faces. (:

Hello Hi I sent you a dm but you have a private profile so idk if you can see it.

Pulsar's departure & others being banned made me realize we didn't mean much to BHVR, which led me to basically just go full lurker mode. Crazy decision to close an entire forum but can't say its not on track for them.

Gonna miss checking in here as I don't go on reddit or twitter. Guess its really the end. Salute to all the cool peeps I met. Adios everyone & hope to see y'all in the fog! :/

Totally unexpected but a laughable decision as a lot have already pointed out.

I've tried having game discussions for Halloween on Reddit, it's straight up impossible… Reddit just isn't made for it. that's why the move is so bizarre, it's like incomprehensible that a company (assuming they actually want user feedback, i'd guess they don't) would move forums to either Reddit or Discord, neither are for that.

The official forums have been dying for years because yall have the most ban happy mods I have ever seen in my life.

I have been head moderator of two niche but popular forums in my life and that sort of behavior alienates people real fast

Extremely disappointing, and I think you'll be getting way less quality feedback on average on a Discord server than on a dedicated forum. If it's moderation costs, bots and new accounts posting spam or inappropriate images/media is an issue, why not just add more severe restrictions to new users like not being able to post media until you have at least 50 upvotes or something? Or more severe filtering and automatic blocking of new accounts posts? If this is even part of the reason. If the reasoning truly is just "A lot of people don't use this forum so we don't value it" then I think that's dropping the ball on good feedback from extra dedicated and often experienced players for the sake of pandering to a majority that have far less interest in the game.

Also really dislike this because searching for posts and information becomes less accessible due to discords account access based nature not letting posts show up in web searches or even being viewable without an account. On top of that, where will patch notes be posted now? Discord only? I think it's dumb to need a social media account just to read a games patch notes, although I guess there's still the Steam page.