What happened to our 10th Anniversary?
I honestly don't even know where to begin.
This is supposed to be Dead by Daylight's 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY. The biggest celebration this game has ever had. Instead, this is by far the least motivated I've ever been to play an Anniversary event.
The first thing everyone noticed: Bloodpoints.
Why were the bonus Bloodpoints for basic gameplay actions removed? No extra BP for generators, hooks and the things we've been rewarded for during previous anniversaries. The result is obvious: we're earning significantly fewer Bloodpoints per match than we've come to expect from an Anniversary.
Then we have the cakes.
I don't care what anyone says, the cake drop rate is nowhere near previous years. Anyone who has prestiged multiple characters knows this. Previous Anniversaries showered us with cakes.
And now BHVR posts that the drop rate is actually slightly higher than last year? Seriously?
That statement feels completely disconnected from what players are actually experiencing. Hundreds of people are saying the exact opposite, many have tracked their Bloodwebs, and yet we're being told everything is fine. That's incredibly frustrating.
The event itself is another disappointment.
As Survivor there are at least a few mechanics to interact with. As Killer? You basically get the poison mechanic... and that's it. It gets repetitive almost immediately. For an Anniversary event, it feels surprisingly barebones.
Queue times have become awful because it honestly feels like fewer and fewer people even want to play the event anymore. I can't blame them.
What really disappoints me is the philosophy behind all of this.
Why are we suddenly so stingy with Bloodpoints during an Anniversary?
We now have almost 90 characters to level. New players have an enormous grind ahead of them. Veteran players have dozens of characters they'd still like to invest in.
This is the ONE event every year where the community should be encouraged to grind, celebrate and stock up on resources.
Instead, it feels like every reward has been carefully reduced.
And then there's the communication.
For days the community has been asking questions, raising concerns and providing feedback, yet it feels like we're constantly being told that everything is working as intended instead of actually acknowledging what players are unhappy about.
Finally, the Bloodhunt.
A 2x Bloodpoint event is appreciated, but why wasn't that active from day one? Why does it only arrive after so much backlash? And why doesn't it even last until the Anniversary event ends?
This is your 10th Anniversary.
It should have been the biggest celebration Dead by Daylight has ever had.
Instead, it feels like players are being asked to accept less while being told they're actually getting more.
I've played DBD for years, and I genuinely can't remember another Anniversary that has killed my motivation to play this quickly.
I don't want to be writing this post.
I want to be excited to log in every day.
Right now, I'm not.
Comments
if it doesn't make their money back from all the promo, then it isn't worth fixing apparently
It's a fitting follow-up to "Operation Health" last year. In my opinion, BHVR cares about the fanfare—the stuff they can sell, the party they can advertise, but they couldn't care less about the game itself or their community. You know, the foundation of what made the anniversary possible.
We can complain all we want, but nothing is going to change, and the reason is this chart below. This forum is just a very, very small (but passionate) subset of the community. A vast majority of players just don’t care how many bad changes BHVR make or how much they don’t listen to feedback. The vast majority of players (which is a higher number than ever now) are still playing and still spending money on the game. From the purely business point of view (which, as a for-profit business, is really all they should care about), the game is better than ever. Someone please tell me: what incentive do they have to do anything differently?
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