Why not make Original Chapters free?
I genuinely do not understand why they don't make all future original chapters free at this point. Look at other popular games like COD, which makes new maps and guns free, while still having a battlepass and many cosmetics you can pay for. It's insulting that the free track of the rift gives you essentially nothing, and that the cost of chapters is so low to begin with. Considering the game is also on sale frequently, I feel like it would benefit current players, and attract more new players by just making original chapters free, while still offering more paid cosmetics considering the prices they charge for those.
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Considering COD gets re-released every year with a different twist and new theme its about time they did that. If you think they made it free without losing the income they got from it youre insane.
They basically are free if you choose to save up and use shards on them. Surprised to see someone actually post this, if i ran bhvr I would get rid of being able to buy chapters with shards at all. Also, the game would get fixed lol.
there already are free chapters, nurse and huntress
you can just buy orgiginal character with shard whicg basicly make them free, company dont own any player a free stuff that you dont have to do anything to get it
Because money is nice for businesses generally speaking
Because they have to monetize their game in some way, I wish we could get everything as updates like Valve did with TF2 but at least we can get the perks on the Shrine and get non licensed stuff with Shards.
Valve with TF2 is not that good as an example for they have the income from Steam to fund all their updates so take on account that before drawing comparisons.
It's how they make money. Keep in mind that video game companies are constantly running on very, very thin margins, and since BHVR does't re-release its games, DLC's are the only source of income from veteran players.
You don't need to pay money for them already.
If you actually play DBD, you get them passively with playtime, if you don't play, why would you even want them.
You can't understand why a business wants to make money??
Bhvr isn't Activision. And besides, they give free maps and cosmetics. There's been five free characters since release.
Also ######### are you spending shards on??
Since you can purchase them with real money they have no reason to make em free.
Because they want to monetize the game as much as possible. Last survey they even had a section on monetization, I have a feeling they'll be adding more things to pay for not less.
They are free tho
You have to spend about 70 hours of your life to get one killer or survivor that are unlockable with shards, a bit much wouldn't you say? You already have to pay 20$ for a game and start out with 5 killers. If you want to buy the killers and skip past the iri shard grind, you have to pay even more money for each chapter or DLC which can get pretty pricey. If you want cosmetics then that is even more money or even more shards.
I don't agree with the OP's statement that all future DLC's should be free though.
I mean, it would be nice if all DLC's were free but that's not going to happen, they won't give up their income from chapters not should they. I can see lowering gametime needed to unlock a chapter as possibility but I don't find it necessary. DBD is already pretty lenient with monetization for a 5 years old game.
One can't expect to get 5 years of content for free, devs gotta pay for the development of that all, not saying we don't have some overpriced stuff but chapters which affect gameplay are qutie fairly monetized in my opinion.