Problems i foresee with the games future
I really like this game but i haven't been feeling great about it recently.
I started to get the impression that this game was on it's way out, that they just milking it dry, and then moving over to Meet Your Maker. However the announcement of Dead By Daylight movie shows that this cannot be the case, since that movie is going to take a few years at least, the game needs to still be supported by then for that movie to be profitable.
I feel like changes could be made to make this game more sustainable, and make it more approachable for the new people that may enjoy the DBD movie.
Firstly i feel like the current content schedule is not healthy. The new killers that are coming out are similar to each other, Skull Merchant and Knight are both area control and Dredge and Sadako are both teleporting killers, and more pressingly the new perks are always too underwhelming to make an impact on the game. Personally this makes me feel like the game is not worth the time or money i spend on it. An old chapters from years ago like Shattered Bloodline for example, i feel like the all of the contents in that chapter felt impactful and fun to play. A recent chapter like Forged in Fog in my opinion felt underwhelming and like it doesn't fit the game. I think if maybe new chapters weren't on a schedule and came out as they were done the quality could improve.
Secondly the current meta feels very player unfriendly for both sides. Killer meta is about reverting and denying generator progress and survivor meta is about denying the killer the opportunity to stop gens or even end chases early. The current meta feels too extreme and frustrating. I liked before the meta shakeup when i could play survivor and equip small game and deal with ruin and undying. There isn't anything like that anymore.
Thirdly the matchmaking does not work for me at all. It's been said that the matchmaker is roughly designed to let you win 50% of the time but this is not close to my experience or anyone else's experience that i know. When i play killer i feel like i win 80% of my matches, most of those matches i win easily with 2+ gens remaining but the ones where i lose, i lose hard, to the point where i feel like it's impossible for me to win in the conditions that were set. When i play survivor i feel like the difference in skill between team mates is too much. I feel like as survivor "elo hell" is a real thing.
That is all i have to say regarding my current feelings about the game and it's future. This is not a "departure" post to be clear, these issues do make me feel like playing the game less but i am still interested in keeping track of the game.
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