A letter to the devs.

I don't know, some of these things feel like they're the gripes of players who don't know what they're doing or how to exert pressure effectively as killer. Specifically getting gen rushed, which is mitigated by learning to apply map pressure effectively via multiple injuries, slugging and whatever killer relative abilities you have. Your mid level and up killer does not get gen rushed unless they're failing to play effectively.

I feel the developers have indeed put quite a massive amount of time into pleasing this community as they've done several massive patches responding to their criticism and are continuing to do so, the nurse changes being a good example of them. The nurse changes both maintain the strength of the killer, still likely the best in the game, while giving survivor's a very slight measure of counterplay to her in an attempt to make it good for both sides. I do feel they try to take a reserved approach to some changes because this community is whiny as hell in two different directions, and if they did everything people saw as a crisis they'd likely end up nerfing both sides significantly. Even factoring in the more experienced players.

I do see this game as the best it's been since release. There is really no super bs scenario like it used to have remaining. The worst parts of this game currently are mori's, keys and the two best killers not allowing survivors a meaningful way of counterplay. But they're still addressing community complaints heavily. They can't do them all at once because it's a balancing act and shifting too much to one side makes things hard to track and risks overdoing it, so this is the slower but smarter way to approach said issue.

As nice as it may sound to just drop everything and make every patch, instead of every other patch, about improving game mechanics, it's naive to think that is plausible for them to do. Never ending development does not fund itself and lingering sales without an infusion of new will both bore a playerbase and dry up revenue needed to pay the staff at behavior so they can continue work on this game. The battlepass is also being handled exceptionally well and is not questionable. Purely cosmetic in nature and it allows you to earn your money back for an insane discount on cosmetics (over 8k value just accounting for cosmetics in the pass) is excessively charitable. Hell it would be a good deal even IF they did not let you earn aurics out of it. In the end it is a reasonable price for superficial content and a ton of additional free content they're putting out alongside it. For these reasons, I do not feel behavior is in need of slowing down their monetization practices and am glad they're finding further avenues for monetization.

In conclusion, I do agree the game isn't perfect and there are some matters that still need addressed. But the critique of behavior doing a poor job of improving the game and shaping it from what was likely looked at as a casual screwing around game into the most iconic title of a genre they more or less pioneered, I feel you're incorrect. And as previously noted, I feel their balance between QoL and new content to further finance their studio is well balanced and generous to the playerbase as it stands. I have never seen a development studio so responsive to the community and I look forward to continuing to see them grow as a studio and Dead by Daylight grow as a game.

I see nothing regarding counterpoints other than condescension. Not sure where you're getting the impression I've played for less than a year from, but I've been around a good while longer than that and while the majority of my hours are not on pc I have spent plenty of time around seasoned players. You really should try to discuss the ideas of the person you disagree with rather than talk down to them and try to degrade their experience. Weak .....Well I'd say weak point but you didn't really make a point other than "Darkwall bad, dbd bad"

I don't care what reputation this guy apparently has, I'll take him at his words and nothing more, which I did not find persuasive. Granted it was probably some random bs gameplay he had lying around, but I also did not see anything in the video that made me go "Holy ######### this guy is on another level, I should bow down and accept his word as truth"