No battlepass on my game

Battlepasses should never, ever be in paid games with microtransactions.

Implementing a feature like a battlepass would kill this game faster than removing SWF would.

F this battlepass crap! BHVR is Fing this game up if they add it.

You can literally just ignore it. 🙄 Some of you are so dramatic.

battle passes give people ptsd of several bad money hungry games

People talking about getting stuff for free are being pretty baselessly optimistic lol

It's a bullshit mechanic designed to keep people playing more than they normally would to grind out the pass

The money version is intended to invoke a sense of urgency in the players to incentivize them to spend money on the pass, even if they normally spend very little or nothing on other cosmetics, by making it limited for a certain period of time. And once players have bought it they again are pressured to play more than they normally would because the bought pass is a waste of money if you don't grind it out to full

This is problematic because game addiction is a real thing and the pass is rewarding people who might already be spending an unhealthy amount of time in the game. Add to that that video games are very popular among minors and you get a predatory bullshit system

Either the devs make enough money and don't need to include a battle pass system, in which case they are greedy bastards

Or they don't make enough money, in which case they should GIT GUD and find a way to monetize their game without predatory bullshit mechanics

Battle passes don't give out things for free because the devs are being nice. They give out things for free to show you what other, superior items you could have if you had spent money on the battle pass

@Madjura You have no valid argument because

A) Its not the Devs problem what you do they are not responsible for whatever happens to you

B) You don´t HAVE to buy the pass it is just merely an alternate way to get in game rewards

so other than that why exactly is it bad?

If you want to support the devs you can buy official merchandise from the store. Or cosmetics. If for some reason you already have all the cosmetics you have a serious problem already supported the devs enough. You can always buy shards even if you don't spend them to support the devs

You don't get free stuff. You get random garbage that no one wants in the free version to make you look at the superior, paid version and make you see which objectively better items you could have gotten if you had bought the pass, to make you change your decision to not buy the pass in the first place so they can get your money

So many gullible individuals in here, not realizing how predatory Battle-Passes are designed to be. This game has enough of a grind in place. If you think a BPs is gonna just shower you with freebies and not be designed for more egregious tactics to entice players to give up even more money for crap, than you are what is wrong with the gaming industry.

This isn't a free to play game at all and this has no place in a game that's already as grindy as DBD is AND has plentiful microtransactions already in with cosmetics and Chapter characters.

that is absolutely true, and I spend a fair bit of money on the game right now. but, if this comes in I would never spend another dime on the game. let alone i would also stop playing so less players in the player pool as well.

@Madjura Mental health is not a concern for game developers and shouldn't be.

Minors? This is a mature rated game. They're breaking rules by even playing it in the first place so its not the devs fault.

What a disgusting attitude

Age ratings are not legally binding

If you put profits above very serious real life issues that people could experience because of your bullshit monetization system you can go ######### yourself

I mean jesus ######### christ "Mental health is not a concern for game developers" my ass, are you a literal physical manifestation of corporate greed?

You can't put whatever you want into the game and then say "Well you accepted the terms of service so it's not our fault that we exposed you to predatory mechanics that ruined your life"

There is no reason to add a battle pass

The free stuff can be given out for free. Or be attached to an event system like in the past

Everything else can be sold in the store

Everyone can still access all of the content that a pass would offer except now mentally unwell people and minors are no longer being exploited

Adding a system to the game with such severe downsides when reasonable alternatives exist is absolutely disgusting

Video game addiction is not some abstract, extremely rare disorder, it is very common. As a developer you absolutely have a moral obligation to consider what adverse effects your product can have on people that already have an addiction, maybe not legally, not yet, but if you put profits above mental health issues are you a horrible human being

If you are developing anything that other people have contact with or use you are very much responsible for any damages your product causes, physically and mentally, morally and in many cases legally. Video games are "lucky" to be largely ignored by lawmakers for now so they can get away with a lot of bullshit but that doesn't mean that it's okay or will stay that way

Or or or we can just wait and see how the Pass is gonna be before raising our pitchforks

Just an idea