Second apology within a week…
the DbD team just put out another apology on twitter about the issues and backlash that happened during yesterday’s Chandler Riggs DbD livestream. i’m going to be so honest here, this apology doesn’t mean anything. yesterday was the biggest slap in the face not only to the dbd community, but also to its biggest CC Otz. Otz gave a clear cut and working solution to the problems yesterday during the DDoS attacks during the livestream and the devs basically spat in his face and told him his idea was worthless (they didn’t actually do that but that’s what it felt like).
this on its own is bad but opens up a butterfly effect that i don’t think the devs are ready for. with them completely ignoring a harmful idea and solution from their BIGGEST CC basically tells the rest of the community that they don’t gaf about our ideas or opinions. if they don’t trust and take ideas from their biggest, very experienced, kind, loyal and trusted CC, what makes you think they would listen to anything anyone else has to say about the game? It’s honestly sad and disappointing how many L’s BHVR has gotten these past couple weeks because this summer genuinely sounded like it was gonna be peak dbd but it seems we are far, far from peak dbd.
in all of the apologies and responses bhvr gives, they always say “we’re taking a hard look at how we can do better moving forward.” but it seems that every time they never learn or get better moving forward. this needs to be the biggest wake up call over there at bhvr because there’s only so many empty apologies they can put out before the community takes off the rose tinted glasses and points out the real problems on how yall don’t learn from your mistakes.
little bit of a ranty discussion but i had to get this off my chest. it makes me actually pissed because i spent a lot of time and money on this game only for the devs to keep making a worse and worse reputation of their game and how they deal with problems and issues surrounding the game.
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It does. Years and years of treating their audience like their enemies (the raging on stream, backhanded comments, etc.) doesn't go away overnight. Especially when it feels like it's still there or when the behavior (hehe) doesn't improve too far beyond lip service. It doesn't help either that the areas where they genuinely are doing better are areas that should be the bare minimum, in my opinion.
At this point, there's nothing we can realistically do about it, primarily because of how high the player turnover rate is and the success of big licenses. And despite how every other property of theirs has gone down, they don't seem all that invested in improving their design philosophy or approach. So all we can really do is coexist and see what happens next.