SOMETHING I MISSED: APPARENTLY THEY LAID OFF 40 MORE PEOPLE EARLIER THIS YEAR. THIS IS ALMOST AN 7TH OF THEIR EMPLOYEES GONE. I'm genuinely so angry. I've talked about this publicly for almost a year now ever since the Cashgrab video. Every step of the way,I got ridiculed and hated, saying I was overblowing things. Well congrats to me,I'm proven right by almost 100 people losing their livelihoods. I hate this,I hate what this game has become and I hate how complacent this community was in it, shutting down any feedback that saw through the corpo bullshit.

It's worth keeping in mind that BHVR are a big studio and publishing house, that works on many projects besides Dead by Daylight. It's very likely a lot of those 95 people were involved on DBD, but it's not telling the whole story. I also don't think it's fair to say this is a result of the game failing, the whole game's industry is restructuring and getting used to post-covid consumerism and I guess they employed too many new people during that time. My heart goes out to any of the talented people at BHVR that lost their jobs and I really hope they're able to get back to their feet soon. But this in no way implies the death of the game at all.

@maybekizuati

22 күн бұрын

I do not think this is a COVID thing at alll personally. Too many people hired too late or too early for it to be the case. If it's COVID, you also wouldn't ever cite "unprecedented competition" and cut DBD staff.

Layoffs doesn't mean failure.

@maybekizuati

23 күн бұрын

Yes it does? Having to just lay off a 10th of your company is a failure in management.

@deivisnx

22 күн бұрын

​@@maybekizuatinobody here cares about the management bruh.

@deivisnx

22 күн бұрын

​@@maybekizuatiif you had a company and most of your employees are doing nothing, then you're not keeping them its that simple

@freshmadgod

22 күн бұрын

​@@deivisnxyeah that's the thing. They did do shit. Like the person who made the unknown trailers.

@freshmadgod

22 күн бұрын

If they're firing people who did important things that worked like the unknown trailers. I mean otzdarva might leave as a brand ambassador. That's a sign of a failing brand

Chucky telling me dead by daylight is in trouble.

@maybekizuati

22 күн бұрын

I'm the good guy here,just trying to steer the game in a better direction!

You need to realize many gaming companies started hiring large amounts of staff during the beginning of the pandemic and now they don't need those people anymore because people are returning to their lives and not playing video games all day anymore. The unprecedented competition you to refer to, is themselves. They hired alot during the beginning and now they don't need them anymore. That's all. The game has 35k online right now, as usual. Nothing is dying and if it does it'll be because of their dumb in game decisions, which they've been doing for years now and there are still 35k people online. Nobody is going anywhere until another game takes over. Simple as that.

@maybekizuati

23 күн бұрын

Lots of people who have been at the company for far longer or got hired in 2022,which is not some start of the pandemic got laid off.

@dukejukem8843

23 күн бұрын

@@maybekizuati ok so they also hired people during the pandemic, not just at the start and are now laying those people off too because they don't need them anymore.

I don't think DbD will die, and a lot of Corpo getting rid of lot of people just because they want more dosh in their pocket, they don't care who the fire and how it would affect them. And telling dbd what to do doesn't do anything, the best thing to do is not to buy the DLC and microtransactions...

@maybekizuati

25 күн бұрын

BHVR's bleeding money right now and the only way the player count is sustained right now due to the spam of licenses they've kept up. That gets expensive,fast. You can't just keep laying off employees to make your content/business model make sense.

@PrimeDecanus

25 күн бұрын

@@maybekizuati I just think behaviour really needs to Wake the fuck up realise spamming a bunch of outfits out, bundles and dlc's does not bring in a lot of money and it really hurts your company. I just think behaviour once dbd to be like fortnite.

@maybekizuati

25 күн бұрын

@@PrimeDecanus The reason they have been doing this as I have talked about in my videos is that their player retention is non-existent. The turnover is insane. If it wasn't we'd see the playercounts skyrocketing with this amount of event and licenses. Yet it either drops or remains average. Still,they don't think their game direction is the issue.

@PrimeDecanus

25 күн бұрын

@@maybekizuati It doesn't help them trying to copy fortnite just look at the item shop, and they spend way too much time on outfits and the battle pass, that time could have been spent on the game fixing it. But great video dude.

The gaming industry sucks, I am so happy I decided not to pursue game development. I mean, it's not like other industries are much better, but game dev layoffs happen every week it seems. I also understand that layoffs happen and job security is kind of a joke in general, but 95 people is a lot. I hope Canada has much better layoff benefits than the U.S.

@maybekizuati

25 күн бұрын

I believe they have some of the best employee protection laws,hope all the best for people impacted. But yes,the industry is hell right now. What's funny(not really but) about this is that you'd think this was a stock price/shareholder motivated move. Yet it's not - BHVR is not publicly traded. It's literally just this bad over there. This is the worst year for game developers.

One eye looking at the script and the other looking at the camera is crazy

@maybekizuati

23 күн бұрын

..What script? I looked like once to check the number of people laid off. If you think this waffling is scripted I'm afraid you are bad at telling apart scripted and non-scripted content. if I wanted to I could stare into the camera while reading a script.

crazy how this starts to show up after they announce 50 different projects at the same time

@maybekizuati

22 күн бұрын

Almost like spending 20 trillion bobux out of nowhere with no plan is bad actually

a tenth is huge, stuff must be really rough internally

Indie devs really do have it much better at this point, if you are working with a big company you have to pray everyday that you aren't laid off :/

@maybekizuati

23 күн бұрын

Yup,I only have any hope for this industry due to companies like New Blood. Those guys fuck. Meantime every corporation at this scale is just unapologetically evil.

I truly believe dbd can't die, hell, they haven't fixed issues that have been in the game since release and people still play their awful game.

@maybekizuati

24 күн бұрын

So far we haven't seen any trouble with the corporation itself, especially not at this scale. This is different from a few bad updates. This is a collosal failure of their long term content/money making pipeline.

Pretty sure this had more to do with the covid gaming boom that didn't last. A lot of gaming companies have unfortunately been doing this. It's sad, but I'm not surprised based off trends.

@maybekizuati

22 күн бұрын

Don't think so. Layoffs affected people pre and post COVID boom. If this was a COVID "extra staff" issue we wouldn't see people being laid off across such a wide timespan.

Industry layoffs continue to amaze me in their absurdity. Games aren't about appeasing the actual consumer anymore, it's about appeasing the shareholders who don't care

@maybekizuati

25 күн бұрын

The best part is that this is not going to help the game long term. Their current model is getting so much more unsustainable it's genuinely insane. The fact that BHVR is acting EXACTLY like a publicly traded company is so worrying.

@EmpressYama

25 күн бұрын

@@maybekizuati Yup

If dbd dies im done gaming

@zapcat6029

22 күн бұрын

man go play devil may cry or yakuza or something, theres other (much better) stuff out there

@maybekizuati

22 күн бұрын

I recommend Gloomwood and Deep Rock Galactic personally. Both are getting (or about to get) banger updates and are banger games.

Maybe it has something to do with the 50 projects they announced last stream ? Don't forget that aside from DBD, they are / were recently working on: Casting of Frank stone, Project T, What the Fog, Meet your Maker and probably some other hopeless projects i forgot. I was literally like "Where tf do you get the money ?" Also DnD chapter, castlevania, anniversary.. I dunno, I literally felt overwhelmed by all the reveals. It's as if they're going through huge overdraft. I really hope it goes well and project T doesn't end up like Deathgarden or Meet your maker. They should just stick to dbd imo :(

@maybekizuati

23 күн бұрын

A lot of people who were behind the community outreach for DBD (which was MUCH better this year more or less) were laid off. People behind the amazing Unknown teasers too. It's crazy.

Console Player here and Friday the 13th Player. I lost my fun in DBD a long while ago. You can have fun in different ways in DBD, but is not more the same. My last time I had fun in DBD was, when I played with friends and we just hide. Still saving but not doing Gens. I don´t like the part doing Gens. Looping is not my strength. I like Friday the 13th, it will reach the end of this year, I will not say it is better then DBD, but I just like the interactions. You can play F13 like DbD or not. You chasing the killer or the killer is chasing you. Escape/Winning in multiplies ways (Killing the Killer, Escaping via Police, Escaping via Car) including with the Voice Chat (Trolling, Laughing, Raging). The players: They could be the noobs, they could have the knowledge, they troller, they teamer, they the best. You can have everything and this can change the gameplay a lot. When you have teamer, they get you killed or not, you happy for the next game "to get the revenge or they just leave". But like killing them as killer or leaving them alone or blocking them or driving them over. So much randomness could be there. I play F13 with a mind to reach, and it could be changed a lot because of the interactions. But for DBD, when I play survivor first I think how hard are the gens to do with the type of killer, then how good could I loop the killer, thinking about escaping via door if gens done or hatch if this was possible. But there is almost no randomness to it. For the next game, like getting revenge, there is a low chance to get the same person. But then thinking how hard the gens etc. And what I mean how hard: About the killer, about the mates, you could get the best killer or survivor and that changes the hardness, so maybe the teammate is looping the killer, then you doing the gen, or the killer is the best, then I would be dead, next game, thinking the same about it. How hard, etc. The other-games: I played the other games too, except Evil Dead. TCM: played the first month or weeks, loosing interest. Killer Clown: Played it for 2 days, I feel a little bored. The game is fine, but it not hook me up. You right DBD has literally no competition.

suffering

Alien, Chucky, Alan Wake, Dungeons & Dragons... Arent player base declining? If players aren't increasing, it's a failure. If optimistic players could let go of their wishful thinking and look at reality, they would understand that the lack of growth is a big problem. At that time, DBD will die.

Well when you spend years catering to the whiny, entitled, minority of the game and make the game insufferable to new players and veterans decide to leave because it isn't worth playing anymore, what the hell do you expect to happen? I'm glad killers finally got their bully simulator. No idea who the hell they're going to play against, but good for them I guess. Veterans have been leaving in droves for months now and new people quit after a couple of games. I stopped playing this garbage over a year ago after putting 7.5k hours into it. It's a shitty game with an insanely toxic community and incompetent devs. This game and studio deserves to go down. Good riddance.

Imagine designing shit like the twins and skull merchant and not expect to be fired LMAOOOOOOOOO good riddance the games going to get better chapters and maps now that those people are gone

@maybekizuati

23 күн бұрын

Those people didn't get fired as far as we know. I also don't know how you expect new hires to do better? A large issue with the map team was that the new people have no idea how this works.

It will definitely harm DBD, but I wouldn't go as far as to say this will kill it. Depending on who you ask DBD has been enduring a slow death ever since the heights of the Resident Evil chapters; in other words this might just hasten the demise of DBD.

@maybekizuati

23 күн бұрын

IMO,6.1.0 hurt this game permanently in player retention/new player experience and then BHVR only made it worse by spamming licensed content to keep playercount up instead of addressing core issues.

I agree with everything you said.

This video is just dramamongering, no? BHVR has 1300 employees, the 95 layoffs were not stated to be working on the development of Dead by Daylight. Layoffs are bad, sure; but i think they could mostly be contributed to the pandemic and we're only just now seeing the effects. Most of your videos are based on DBD going in a downward spiral with the majority of the video titles having to do with bad updates. I think this comes from a place of burnout rather than actually paying attention to the games stats. DBD has retained the same player-count and hasnt seen any dip. But I guess if this is the type of content you enjoy creating then uh... Have fun?

@maybekizuati

22 күн бұрын

No,not really. As for the burnout point - nah. My enjoyment for DBD lowered exactly after updates 6.1.0 and 6.7.0 which had lasting negative effects + MMR making my solo games a nightmare. If you pay attention to my last few uploads you'll see that I covered the developer update for 8.0.0 PTB EXTREMELY favourably. I didn't think DBD was going to die throughout any time in my back catalogue,but you know,clicky titles and all that. This is a different case however - as I said in the video "same player count" while dropping 20 trillion licenses a minute is a bad,not good sign. Previously licenses significantly increased the playercount ,now we get gigantic licenses in Horror that do nothing - that's bad. The layoffs also affected DBD,we know that for a fact - I assume you're basing your wording off the BHVR press release,which mind you,also stated some magical "unprecedented competition". It's bullshit.