Dead by Daylight wants to be “work of love”, players say: “Lol, no”

Dead by Daylight would like to win an award. But the players unite and say clearly: “Can you bend something like that!”

Every year on Steam, along with the autumn sale, the nominations for the games of the year take place. There are numerous categories, such as “Best VR Game”, “Better with Friends” or “Work of Love”. The developers of Dead by Daylight would like to get exactly the price and ask their players to vote. However, they are angry.

What is the “work of love”? This is a special category for games that have been around for a while and are no longer really considered “new”. However, games can be set up here that are still supplied with new content even after a long time – this applies to Dead by Daylight.

Community reacts angrily: For many players, the “work of love” is also a category in which games are to be honored, in which you can see that the developers put their heart and soul into the game and respond to the wishes of the community. However, it is precisely this feeling that many players do not have. Therefore, there are numerous comments under the announcement and almost all of them are negative. A few excerpts from it:

• “Bruh, you don’t deserve that.”
• “” Work of love “- tell me another joke.”
• “How much crack are you smoking there at the moment?”
• “Work of ignoring the community sounds more appropriate”
• “You don’t give a shit about your game and your player base, but then you want our vote, ha, lol, sure.”

The result of all these comments: Just under an hour after the request to vote for Dead by Daylight, the post was closed and new comments were no longer allowed.

Why is the mood so bad right now? There are many reasons for this:

• On the one hand, players have been complaining for years that every patch always brings with it many new bugs and requires several hotfixes so that everything runs smoothly.
• At the same time, many design decisions made in recent years and months have been harshly criticized. The “SBMM” (Skill Based Match Making) is controversial because players never see a value to compare and can only guess how good they are. The evaluation of this system is also extremely simple, which is why it often leads to unfair matches.
• Some innovations, such as the “Boon-Perks”, are also received negatively by parts of the community.

After all: the Reddit post, who deals with this community award, has collected over 10,000 upvotes, with 97% positive feedback – an extreme rarity in Dead by Daylight. Most of the players in the subreddit seem to agree on this.

That’s kind of the absurdly beautiful thing about Dead by Daylight. The only thing that unites “Killer Mains” and “Survivor Mains” in their hearts is their mutual hatred of the game that they play for hours every day.