Future of Dead by Daylight Forums
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well this wasn't on my 2026 bingo card.
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So where is PTB feedback going to go? Discord has threads but I don't think they can hold nearly as well as a forum server, and I think each 'thread' has a character count per post. Not to mention the general style that Discord is, someone could post something and depending how active that channel is, their post can be pushed off screen quite quickly like a twitch chat and no one is going to scroll up to read it if dozens of people are posting at the same time.
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So, do we have a specific date for this?
October 30th?
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Yeah, Discord really isn't the kind of place for detailed feedback.
And since the "reason" for closing the forum is a matter of sheer activity over quality, I think it's safe to say they aren't interested in detailed feedback and are merely trying to have less places to check.
There's also the running theory that it is partly due to major popular complain-threads (such as the ones for a Switch 2 version or responses to BHVR staff posts/streams) will essentially be unable to exist for long before getting buried then quietly closed.
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I’d rather drink bleach than join the cancer that is the discord server 💀💀💀
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Don't worry, we are working on preserving the threads.
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Hey, good to see you too!!
Oh, and yeah, I never had any luck with getting back my Legacy 3's back 🙄😂 I was tempted to try make another fuss, pleading for them to resolve it for those that lost it, as the 10th anniversary was upcoming (now past). But, I think I'm done embarrassing myself regarding that haha. (I'll always have a little grudge on BHVR for not resolving this though! 😉)
I remember you as a staunch advocate for Freddy reworks/buffs or I think even wanting to bring back OG Freddy?? And I believe you used to talk about old DBD a lot too! I imagine you're still campaigning for Freddy reworks/buffs even now haha. Again, good to see you too, friend!
Lots of familiar names just in this post alone, will be a shame to see it all gone, poof just like that. Ah well.
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Ah, such a shame they didn't give you your legacy back, I do recall how involved you were in those discussions. I must admit I still believe legacy should just be given to everyone, which I remember we discussed the pros of cons of, and it is indeed wild to think those discussions will be nothing but memories a month from now.
Hard to wrap my head around it, it really is.
And yep, proud to say that I remain dedicated to my beloved OG Freddy until the very end! I'm hoping the upcoming sandbox and modding stuff might finally be the solution to this campaign of mine, if they allow modded licensed content that is. But we will have to wait and see.
Really glad to have seen you again before this forum goes down, friend <3
This corner of the DBD community we had there will be sorely missed.
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Usually when I get news that I have an immediately negative reaction to, it makes a little more sense to me as I take the time to process it rationally, but this actually makes less sense to me now than last week.
I mean obviously it's in part a money issue, but anyone who has existed on the internet long enough knows how relatively resource light operating a forum like this is.
For example, I am part of a community on a sports forum that spun off from an official forum, set up by one person and funded by him and occasional user donations, and moderated by well established community members. This is not just a small one, either, with thousands of users (hundreds active at any time) and many features. It has been active (and evolving) for over 20 years now. It's not a real burden for a company like BHVR.
My tinfoil hat thought here is that this was planned: the forum is the only official platform where we can have well delineated, long form discussion, and where critiques can snowball (the other platforms are more chaotic). So tamp down on it hard enough to discourage discussion over time, continuously ban people over practically nothing, then shut it down, citing "lack of engagement".
I don't imagine that whole thought is accurate, but I think at least part of it is by design. Or at least just not caring.The DBD Discord and twitter/X are as appealing as a malfunctioning CDC hot room would be to an immunocompromised person.
The subreddit is slightly less unappealing, but still not a replacement for the style of discussion that take place here.13 -
You guys have got to be ######### kidding me 😂 what a joke of a team. Maybe your forum failed because you never actually interacted with any single person here in a meaningful way other than fluff? Just another L in the books for BHVR.
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You would have had more users on this forum if you made it easier to use.
I would post more often if my comments/posts didn't require approval to post (often with multiple weeks delay). It also sounds like many regular users have been banned.
It's clear that criticism of the game and BHVR isn't allowed despite the large number of longstanding unfixed bugs, poor server quality and bizarre decisions (thinking back to OCE servers being ruined in 2024).
The alternative options suggested are terrible for leaving feedback:
- Steam Forums - Restricted to steam players and shuts out a very large portion of the playerbase. I've also never used this and won't start.
- Discord - closed discussion that's impossible to Google, disorganised, no clear place to leave feedback. This is a terrible place to have a separate ongoing discussion on a specific topic.
- Reddit - this is NOT a forum, it discourages ongoing discussion and hides posts more than a day old. reddit is not a good place to leave feedback directly addressed to BHVR. Although BHVR has a presence on the subreddit, most posts are not intended for you, and we have no way to distinguish feedback posts meant for you.
Like others have mentioned, the forums are also an excellent reference spot for all patch notes.
For quite a few years I have felt like the game has been moving in a direction I don't like (for example, 2v8 existing and ruining 4v1), and this decision to shutter the forums affirms my continued decision to not spend money on the game (since Lara DLC release).
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Please don't get rid of the forums it's not perfect but the reddit is awful the mods on there are nasty very rude to people so many screenshots an videos of awful expriences with people. Also the downvote system on reddit is gonna burry anything constructive for posts of memes an people arguing.
Might be better to have a new reddit run by behavior as the one we have is not good i've never encountered mods as so rude as whoever runs the reddit.7 -
All I'll say is this is awful, just terrible
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hi guys, jumping back into this thread to mention that it looks like the author of DeadByQueue (the website that provides map chance and queue time data from API) has created a mirror of the forums.
when the torrent gets created, i highly recommend people save it to help preserve the contents of the forum. i'll also be seeding when i get the chance.
thank you to @Gajemt /CutestLoaf for your work!7 -
Love this and thank you to @Gajemt and everyone else that has been putting in the time/effort to archive the forums. This really highlights how much the forums means to a portion of the community that archiving it was such a priority and how everyone felt it needed to be done asap. It's really sad that BHVR is just throwing it all away like it's nothing.
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This is a really bad decision on your part
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I'm very sad to see the forum go. I actually learned about diminishing returns from this forum because if comments on it exists in the actual game, it is well hidden from an average gamer. I also learned about basekit off hook protection (previously I ran BT as someone who came from IDV because I thought once you were unhooked you got nothing). I am unsure about how well I will be able to keep up with everything DBD has going on because Discord and Reddit are hard to navigate compared to this forum and simply full of clutter. My opinion on Steam forums is that it is a weird way to access conversation, and the convenience aspect of the other two is lost. I just like this forum honestly. It taught and continues to teach me a lot.
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Wow, just took a look.
That is great - you can see all your own comments with the pictures :-)
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the official Discord server, Steam Discussions and the r/DeadbyDaylight subreddit.
The only one of those that isn't completely useless for feedback excludes console players.
I really wish BHVR had just stuck to Steam and left the rest of us alone. If the game doesn't need to run well on console, if the controls for killers don't need to be decent on console, then the game doesn't need to be released on console. Playing DbD on Switch and PS4 has taught me I can still be disappointed even when I expect to be let down. You didn't mention Twitter, but that's the only other place I've tried leaving feedback, and console concerns get shouted down EVERY TIME, like how dare I want the game to function if I won't sell my first born for a new gaming PC.
One of the reasons I stopped posting on the forums is because I felt like BHVR really didn't care. For instance, did the Skilled Huntress achievemt bug on PlayStation ever get fixed? It's been years, now.
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The Cyberpunk forums are still open. CDPR just cares more about their fans than BHVR.
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Shutting down because of the Denuvo mess up and they don't want to read the replies anymore. That's called passing the buck and that's sad. It's not the end of the era, it's basically putting your fingers in your ears and going lalalalalala.
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That's so sad to hear. I love the forums, I love the discussions and love to check stuff out. Even days later I know I can find some discussion still going on and not be buried with the next topic like on the othere communites.
I doubt, I will check out twitter. Reddit I do, but nothing is the same.
It's a loss.4 -
This is so awful.
I do not want to use reddit, like, ever, considering reddit has such a ######### community in almost every single subreddit, and knowing this games community, I doubt it'll be any different.
Reddit users will literally downvote you for making a typo.
How will 'constructive' feedback even be seen by the devs? I doubt you guys will scroll through every single post.The same goes for discord. Too many messages, too much at once. Nobody will read it.
You're just trying to take the lazy route. At least in this forum you were somewhat forced to read and react to feedback, as opposed to discord and reddit…
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We are still here? What's the current deal? I think they said they were shutting it all down on the 1st of October?
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Will the patch notes continue to be available on the website or will they also be moving to Reddit/ Discord only?
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Mandy wrote in this post:
As such, we’ve made the decision to close the Official Forums at the end of October 2026
we don’t know the react date afaik
But at least they have given us a bit more than a month to catch up with the news
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The Steam forums are AWFUL. Every game's discussion section seems to be flooded with utter cretins posting endless DIS GAME IS WOKE!!1 garbage. The Silent Hill Townfall discussion board is infested with them and there doesn't seem to be any moderation.
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hello hi this is kinda random but I dm'd you but idk if you saw it.
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It’s clearly a mistake to centralize your feedback hub on external services like Reddit and Discord. How will you get information to your users if those services undergo major changes for the worse or become unavailable for an extended period?
Since you’re releasing skins like crazy to rake in money, maintaining your own website shouldn’t be a problem, right? Or is it just that you don’t want a record of any controversial incidents to remain in Google’s Web Archive in the form of a forum URL?
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Great. Just great.
Neither Discord nor reddit can provide a sorted, discussion-focused, forum-like structure.
And steam discussions are limited to one platform.
Just great.9 -
To make it very clear, my response is towards the ones who have made this decision, not Mandy personally.
I don't understand the need to switch to 3rd parties, when 2 of them have been hacked not too long ago. Discord is fighting to stay afloat in a lot of countries since it is being banned unless it takes actions. At this rate it wouldn't surprise me if BHVR fired its own employees as well and replaced them with AI. That's what corporations love, right? No humans, just money and F everyone who dared to care / want your product or wanted to give their opinion without getting censored.
You guys banned more than half of the forum regulars for some of the pettiest reasons at times, we all know, we've seen it and won't be gaslit about it. So be frank, is it that surprising that there has been a decline in members? The home button wasn't working for months. Forum bugs weren't being addressed nor fixed for long times. But it's on the members that there has been a decline. Come on now.
This forum is a place that is actually properly organised, that has an archive and doesn't rely on another company for its existence. There are no distractions or pushy notifications, just the members discussing what they want to in peace.
Steam reviews and discussions will decimate this game when one of its million bugs renders it unplayable again. As for reddit the addition of 'up voting and down voting' to the forum was a dead giveaway for where you guys wanted to go, though sadly I think that just made the forums worse and less interactive. Most stopped responding and just upvoted/downvoted posts.
I'll miss reading the patch notes and news on here, but going forward I'll rely on Otz for that instead. I refuse making new accounts for you guys when it is very probable that in a few months/years those will be shut down as well.
I'll miss the nice folks on here. Wishing all the members here the best! 🍀
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I agree with the sentiment that the forums are the cleanest of organized venues we have for discussing the game. No frills, just talking about the game, as things should be.
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Your Discord is TERRIBLE, it's full of underage kids, and they just spam the chat over and over again, not to mention, you have to be "prestiged" to even share any media like pictures or video. I really enjoyed surfing these forums. What a let down and cop-out, not everything has to be on Reddit or Discord.
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I know my words have no weight, as I just started actually participating in the forums; but I recently was trying to engage in some discussion on the DBD Official Server, and for whatever reason the users were talking about age, and I said, "I'm 31, what's wrong with playing DBD at my age", and I just got roasted by the general-chat channel. Literally made me not want to even participate anymore.
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This is really bad news. I’ve gotten a lot of replies here, which have been really helpful to me.
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Join the discord? And what happens there if someone has a criticism, will they get permanently banned like i was on the steam forums? And YOU personally telling me here one time to basically "just deal with it".
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I have a strong belief that moving to discord will make it much easier for Behaviour to ignore any feedback. And my posts will just vanish into the rapids unless I keep posting constantly. I dont intend to do that.
It also means that any meaningful information is quickly lost to the flood of noise. I would prefer making one concise, thought-out post about stuff Ive noticed, problems Ive encountered, etc. Discord is not the place for such things. Discord is not a place to post long fact-filled posts. Its a place for fast small talk, not anything important.
This announcement makes me sad. As it utterly kills the hope of having my voice noticed by the devs.11 -
I don't think you have to be all that cynical to think this a big part of the point of shutting the forums down, from BHVR's perspective.
Save a little money, and keep critisicms and negative takes from gaining traction.3 -
Discord is garbage. What lazy companies use for "support". Yikes behaviour.
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This is 100% the reason they are nuking the forum. This is the only place where feedback gets posted, discussed, and documented in a logical way that lasts for more than 5 seconds. The BHVR staff don’t want to see/deal with it anymore, so the easy solution is to blow it up and make some lame, BS excuse that other platforms are better/more popular.
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If it makes you feel any better a bunch of people in the forum are in their 30s and 40s.
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The median age for video gamers is the mid-upper 30's, so at 31 you'd still be younger than the average gamer.
Granted a lot of those are casual/mobile gamers, but according to ESA data, the average age of a PC gamer is 38, and universally more people aged 45-54 game than 16-24.
I would suspect the average age of a DBD player is also on the higher side, given the particular appeal to Gen X.
So yeah, no shame in playing DBD at 31.6 -
Haven't looked at Discord yet but Steam discussion is not much better in this regard. I surfed some threads and there was a LOT of cursing and slur calling and general non-constructive components to a discussion. Maybe Steam is also full of underage kids who have difficulty not insulting the people they are conversing with and just dismissing legitimate arguments by calling people slurs :/
In particular, one member in every genrushing thread would derail the convo with spam comments on "genrushing is cheating" and "if survivors genrush it is bannable and killers can install cheats to counter it" (my wording is probably not exact). I think it is weird someone can encourage installing cheats in what is about to be the next big DBD forum.
It makes me appreciate this forum much more. I still hope it doesn't go.
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Last time I tried saying something in the official dead by daylight discord I got sent disturbing illegal content in my dms. Your discord is completely filled with people like this and the absolute worst place to get feedback from. Reddit is better, but just as bad because most people aren’t giving detailed feedback. It’s so clear you guys don’t care about meaningful feedback and just want one less place to check. The activity here is lower, sure, but the quality is way higher than any of the feedback (or general posts) I’ve seen on discord and Reddit combined. This is unbelievably disappointing and I’d wish you’d change your minds, but I’m sure you wont
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This is the real reason for the forums shutdown:
Community feedback and sentiment analysis will now be done by AI by scraping Discord and Steam Forums:
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we do not use this area of Betahub, it has absolutely nothing to do with the reasons the forum is closing, which is what we explained in our post.
We have our own sentiment tools that work on every platform.
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Hi hello I sent you a dm a while back but idk if you saw it.
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The message that is given to players with the closure of the forums is: "TL;DR - we'll get AI to do it", which misses key nuance and bias that humans are able to filter out. Which leads to the terrible state the game is in right now.
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It makes sense, in a twisted way. Discord and Reddit are cesspools of rapid-fire information, 90% of it memes or meaningless tribalism, and asking humans to manually peruse through the maelstrom of information for a hint of relevant and useful feedback would be like finding a needle in a haystack.
I do recall BHVR, in a hiring ad a few months ago, including AI technicians as parts of the jobs that were being looked for. This would further explain this.
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