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• @MeatBycicle said:

  Survivor retention rate is far more important than killer retention rate to the Devs, because there are far more survivors than killers, and that brings in more money.

  If an SWF has been waiting for a while in queue, the devs allow the matchmaker to break from its normal rules of only finding ranks within a certain parameter to just joining in any lobby that comes up. There are going to be more low rank killers than high rank killers comparative to high rank survivors, so new killers will often be forced to play against red rank swf with their low rank friend. The killer quitting the game due to it being unfair is whatever, as they can easily be replaced.

  Survivor on the other hand, since they bring in vastly more money just because there are 4 x as many than killers, the devs will do whatever they can to keep them. So that is preferential treatment when it comes to matchmaker. If 3 new players join the game with their red rank buddy playing in SWF and they are going against nothing but red rank killers stomping and killing them all day, they probably will not be playing the game again. So the devs allow new killers to become fodder for those players as a trade off. It's better to lose 1 potential new player than 4 potential new players.

  I never really thought of it like that but it’s still bull. I wonder how long it’ll be before they actually fix matchmaking and throw killers a bone since without them there is no DBD. Thanks for the response!

  in My issue with SWF Comment by Nathanos4402 February 10, 2021