What do you think is bhvr ratings as a company? Great, good,ok or bad?

I think they are ok-good.

They make some mistakes every now and then, but I do think that they care about the game.

They also have staff that are fairly active on the forums, which is a plus for airing issues and concerns.

BHVR is a good company. They have made this amazing game. They deal with our complaints daily, and they all seem like genuinely nice people (Those damn Canadians). The problems arise with them not listening to their community enough, and the balance team could be better. They also have a problem with lack of communication at times. 6/10.

Do you mean their ratings from their player base or their actually business ratings?

Because Behavior is actually an award winning company. You can see it all on their website, so business rating wise they're pretty good.

What the player base will tell you is probably entirely different, but any opinion given by the player base should be taken with a grain of salt really lol

Honestly they seem like positive people but the balancing decisions... oh man. As people, the devs are wonderful, good people, but when it comes to balancing, let's just say patch 1.9.2. made a lot of people lose faith in the dev's ability to properly balance the game. Considering everything, I would give the devs a solid 6/10. If the devs can start balancing the game with actual balance (addressing fundamental issues such as game mechanics) instead of continuously nerfing killers (yes survivors get nerfed too but very rarely) then I would easily bump them up to an 8/10. They just need to have better communication with the community and listen to popular opinion, because let's face it: The game should be influenced by the experienced and skilled (purple & red ranks, both survivors and killers), not new players. Let's face it, nerfing the experienced players to boost the new players (yes that's what's happening, the devs are literally boosting their own player base) to appease them is not a good move. Being boosted by SWF buddies is one thing, but being boosted by your own devs is just... wow. 6/10. Fix gen speeds, revert all the nerfs to killers and survivors (with the exception of instaheals), be consistent with fixing bugs, and they'll become an 8/10.

I won't condemn anyone who is part of the art design team, as I feel like they're quite talented. Everyone else, on the other hand.. well, let's just say that if I performed my job as poorly as they did, I'd be fired.

Due note, I’m not at all talking about game balance when I say this; since that’s mostly subjective, and what they want for the game.

But I’d say they’re very much mediocre to incompetent.

Just when compared to other companies I patronize; slow updates, poor servers, broken patches, consistently reoccurring game breaking bugs like audio, and so on.

Art team seems great though.

Solid 4. Lack of direction for their game. Matt Walker on maps. Quick to make superficial changes but avoids making meaningful fixes to core game issues.

Mostly good. Can't knock them for wanting to make money. Who doesn't? lol But they could fix the issues the game has, at least the serious ones that have a drastic affect on gameplay. Overall, though, I think it's probably REALLY complicated to make a game like this and they work hard and put in effort and creativity and to share it with all of us takes guts. I admire that and I think they're okay people. Because people are what a company is made of and sometimes we forget that.

The game itself would do well with a make-over in the graphics department with maps that are more "alive" and natural. It's not bad now but I think it would be amazing with some Battlefront 2 graphics and with the intent to create scary environments. I've definitely mentioned that before. I'm sure it's not easy to do, though. I think that'll come eventually in the future with funding and time. Just like everything else. Patience is key, I guess.

But if they fixed the issues the game has, especially the connection and matchmaking ones, I think people wouldn't complain as much. As much being the keyword because we all know people will never actually stop complaining. xD

I can only speculate.

I think, they once had a really great vision of the horror game, they wanted to create.

Then it got off, more than they expected and suddenly had to deal with a lot of ######### and things were getting expensive. Especially now with dedicated servers that requires more maintenance.

With a bigger company and success of the game, they needed to set priorities, and getting themselves and their staff payed as well require enough funding to keep the game running became a big, if not the biggest one.

Now working on the game itself becomes more of a pet project than the main focus, and that's frustrating, I imagine. Now every decision have to be run by a "is it lucrative?" thought, and not just, "is it fun and cool?".

Personally SWFs, specific voice also killed a lot of the original vision of the game. If you watch early gameplay footage of the devs, you see, they play pretty immersed. They are not flashlight in your face, tbagging, 360, moonwalkers.

But reworking every information perk and "hidden perk" would cost a lot of time and money with no revenue.

They try their best, by gradually reworking killers and maps, but there seems to be a very tight timeline.

SWFs and survivors are their biggest crowd by default, and they bring in the money, so decisions had be made.

I don't blame them entirely. It's just a natural process, but the way the game is evolving, is simply no longer a game I can support with my money.

I loved the dynamic between killer and survivors, the fight for survival and hunt for the prey.

I know, it is pretty egoistic of me, to want the devs to forgo some revenue and focus on the game health (maps, timers, interactive secondary objectives) and make some QL-changes.

A big turn off is surely the toxic swamp we, the community, can degrade when we get caught up in screaming matches about survivor or killer side, despite we all love the game the devs have made. That's why some of us fought so fierce and get so frustrated.

Yeah, that's about it, I tried to keep it "short" but got lost in my thoughts. My apologies.

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Cymer