[BHVR] Original Forums are being shut down

[skittlesthehusky]

https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-dayligh ... nt_4119528

Hello everybody,

As you’re all aware, we are currently in our 10th year of operating Dead by Daylight as a live game. While the dev team is looking at numerous ways to update, improve, and modernize the game to carry us through the next 10 years, we are doing this on the community side of things as well.

When looking at the spread of official channels and platforms (Official Forums, Discord, Reddit, Steam Discussions, social media) where we engage with and listen to our players, we have seen big shifts over this last decade in where our players are spending their time. While most of these platforms and channels have been booming, user activity and engagement on our Official Forums has been steadily and substantially declining year over year. This matches general trends seen across the industry regarding where gaming communities are spending their time these days.

Reflecting upon this dynamic, we believe the time has come to shift where we are focusing the community team’s efforts for the exciting future ahead. As such, we’ve made the decision to close the Official Forums at the end of October 2026 and transition to supporting you, the Community, on the other platforms namely the official Discord server, Steam Discussions and the r/DeadbyDaylight subreddit.

Discord, in particular, will become more and more central to our community work in the months ahead. With tens of millions of DBD players already present on the platform, coupled with the plethora of fantastic tools available to enhance how we collaborate with our community there makes it the clear choice of where we need to centralize our efforts.

Over the coming weeks you will receive an email to the account used to register on this forum to invite you to join the Dead by Daylight Discord and receive a special role in that Server highlighting you as a forum member. There will also be a dedicated channel in the Discord structured for the long form, threaded content you are renowned for and accustomed to, so that you can continue your discussions.

From the bottom of our hearts, we want to thank you for your support and the passion you have brought to these forums all these years. You have been a foundational, core element of this community and we do not take this change lightly. We know many of you have built bonds and connections with each other, and even directly with our team, because of this platform and we’ll always honour that.

We look forward to continuing our journey together with you on the official Discord server and seeing you remain a vital part of our community. Thanks again.

The Dead by Daylight Team

an unfortunate end to the oldest platform DBD had. forum culture continues to die as a push toward fast-paced instant chat platforms and VOIP solutions takes over as a cheap replacement for authentic discussion. it's sad to see, but it was anticipated

[Dipper]

Well, it's a good thing community forums are still a thing, because we all can see how BHVRs strategy is massively flawed in how opinions can easily be removed or any criticism cannot appear on Google really anymore because you have to join discord and the server to even be able to read anything on there, plus so many channels with just the casual trashtalk of people, instead of dedicated posts to share your opinion to

[skittlesthehusky]

Well, it's a good thing community forums are still a thing, because we all can see how BHVRs strategy is massively flawed in how opinions can easily be removed or any criticism cannot appear on Google really anymore because you have to join discord and the server to even be able to read anything on there, plus so many channels with just the casual trashtalk of people, instead of dedicated posts to share your opinion to

hence why i really enjoy forum culture, which i think will continue to exist as long as people have something to talk about. it's just that with the amount of platforms that are slowly being phased out in favor of real time chatting, it gets harder to find dedicated platforms to discuss things. :/