Future of Dead by Daylight Forums

Nah I agree people on Discord be saying some wild stuff when its not even on topic.

Of course I remember you friend, people who were cordial stood out just as much as the ones who were insufferable, if not more. Thank you for the kind words, and the feeling is mutual.

I don't blame people for letting their emotions cloud their perspectives with this game especially, I'm usually more glad about how productive things can get when they don't, which is why I've always enjoyed those conversations with yourselves and others who were similarly respectful and well mannered. Just like in game, we just have to keep being the change we want to see, and there's a chance people who don't like the discourse they get dragged down into learn to respond in kind. Hell, I used to be pretty bad about it.

Long time no see considering I stopped playing the game...jeez, almost two years ago now. But saw a tweet randomly that said this place was closing down, which is a real bummer (even though I became more or less inactive here a few months after I stopped playing since I couldn't really keep up with changes anymore).

One more Holly and Olive for the road for those of you who remember me. They're both doing very well.

See you Space Cowboy

I hear and understand all of these reasons, and it does make sense. However, I actually have a huge problem with there being no first-party platforms to share feedback on the game with developers and I don't understand why this can't co-exist with other platforms as the priorities shift elsewhere, beyond perhaps the costs for this forum service.

I don't want to be forced to create accounts on other websites and platforms that force me to agree to terms and policies and give up privacies and data that I don't necessarily want to give away JUST to tell you guys what I think of pallet density changes.

Lots of socials have pivoted to training AI models on posts, pictures, and personal data, which a lot of people are becoming increasingly less okay with.

Putting all of your eggs in one basket with switching to Discord as your primary community center is also risky. As I type this, deeply unpopular age verification systems are being rolled out on Discord that require government IDs to be given out, which is another unpopular move and not something people are likely willing to do JUST to say that the upcoming Skull Merchant rework is the greatest thing they've ever seen!

I understand the majority of the playerbase communicates on third party websites, but maintaining official forums keeps an accessible first party channel for communication that is being found increasingly difficult to maintain in digital spaces.

Additionally, it'd be nice to keep this place as a record of all official changes and patch notes since the inception of the game.

I understand nothing I can say here can stop what's already in motion. Best of luck on the transition, I may see you guys on the Discord.

You know, every time you think this company finally got their head straight, they prove you wrong even harder every single time.

Cheap. Relocating to Discord and Reddit is probably one of the worst decisions in community management you could've made.

Then again, if you did care about our opinions, you would've removed Denuvo right after everyone was complaining because of the magnitude of issues that came with it and you wouldn't even implement changes that people tell you are bad in the first place.

And you can be sure that I won't be joining any Discord server to voice my opinion and read through all the patch notes. Shame on you.

The discord is moderated by real people. In fact in the past two months there has been a colossal banwave on a lot of long time users for pretty petty reasons.

Getting onto a tangent here but I think it's probably due to them shutting down the forums and wanting to be more strict but also like way more strict than they were on here? Idk

It probably has the problem the Steam forums have - excessive moderation that results in long term and helpful contributors being perma banned for trivial nonsense. Just look at any necroed thread in the Steam discussions - it will be absolutely littered with perma banned posters. The DBD discussions are well known for this, so I suspect the forums here are just as heavy handed and eventually people just don't contribute, as the most engaging people get banned and you feel you cant speak up on certain things for fear of being banned.

Ironically, I have to say I have probably pushed the limits here and not been banned, much to my surprise. But I am most certainly banned on the Steam discussions, as are almost all my friends.

I expect comments arguing in favor of killers to suffer from exactly that problem.

Reddit is purely the opposite, almost always it's killer players on the reddit.

The sentiment is true though, Reddit isn't a valid substitute for a forum.

The problem is a lot of people were banned because the mods of the distant, distant past who may no longer represent the views of the officials now running the discord didn't like them. Discord has no native way to appeal bans from servers, and DBDcord does not have any integration with an appeal process.

It wouldn't suck so bad to be denied an appeal, but to be completely ignored and then wiped away while the discord community continues to grow and be the apparent official forum now, it's gonna be a little hard to receive updates if you're not a steam gamer or a reddit user. Even if you're banned from reddit you can still read as a guest, which is useful for searching back for patch notes.

Yeah, that's something. A lot of stuff made the coexistence here in forums more harsh than it should be… Down votes were a big part of this. Although i'm open to discussion, i usually laugh to down votes because most of the times they were used to bully or to shut down discussion, instead of promoting consensus.

My feedback regarding this, just to add another vote towards the decision should it change.

First, I'm not in favor of the forums being shut down. Reddit is terrible for trying to find useful information. The majority of posts there are random memes, and any opinion or post that is even slightly unpopular, even if a fair criticism, gets downvoted into literal oblivion. I will not spend hours of my life scrolling 10+ pages back to find information that might actually be relevant to the game.

Second, I'm not going to join another Discord server. I'm not anti-Discord, but the format there does not support reasonable creation of new topics in any sort of organized way. I'm not going to remain glued to BHVR's Discord 24 hours a day to keep track of any useful information before it gets buried in random noise.

Lastly, the Information Center of the forum is the single most valuable part of it. If the forum shuts down and we lose that, then I feel that BHVR has truly lost the plot.

Dead by daylight Reddit is comprimised of memes, rage posts, power tripping mods, and any controversial opinions get down voted so people cannot see them

Terrible idea, now you won't have anywhere where you actually have creative control.

You are giving up control to Reddit, Discord, Steam, Twitter and TikTok. You don't own any of these platforms and are at the mercy of the admins who run them.

23,000 of your posts are just going to get deleted. It's sad to see.😪

Let's just start a community driven Forum as an alternative at this point. No matter how bad that turns out, at least it's not Reddit or Discord

Ah. Bm33 Got there before me. Yeah skittlesthehusky has set up a community forum people can go after the official one gets the old yeller treatment