The full quote from the latest dev stream

[Sariell]

Community Member: "Playing killers was fun a long time ago but now it's only stressful."

M. Cote: "That's... an opinion. A valid opinion but an opinion."

Community Member: "I used to love playing as a killer, win or loose it was fun but, currently, no matter what, it's just filled with stress and anger. Killers aren't feared anymore. Do you have any plans or ideas on how to improve the killer experience?"

M. Cote: "I would say maybe try survivor for a bit. It's true, change it up, maybe you are just tired. Maybe play something else for a week."

I know everyone is talking about this, I just wanted to emphasis on the question the person was asking and the reply that was given TO THAT QUESTION.
https://www.reddit.com/r/deadbydaylight/comments/7zhnmb/mathieus_response_to_complaints_regarding_killers/

[Seiryurin]

It's the thought that, this is what Mathieu thinks you should do because Killer is too stressful

[idk]

And what about killer mains that have already experienced survivor to R1? That was an attempt to avoid the question. To ignore the problem. I don't normally bash the devs but there's no justifying that response.

[Sariell]

Originally posted by Peppa Jig(saw):

It's the thought that, this is what Mathieu thinks you should do because Killer is too stressful

No, he did not adress that part. The "stressful" part he adressed before when he said it's an opinion.

To be perfectly clear: the advice to switch to survivor or play other games was given to the question regarding improving the killer experience. Watch the vid again, it's all there.

[Lord Regal]

This. This is the part that bothers me. It wasn’t an angry question. It wasn’t blaming the devs, or anything hostile. It could have been answered by a simple “we don’t have details on upcoming quality of life changes for killers we can give you right now” or something equally civil.

Instead, this calm, level headed question was met with derision and flat out mockery. “Go play survivor or something else for like a week.” Removing all emotion from it, this answer is literally “the way to improve the killer experience is to play something else, be it survivor or another game.” That is a horrible PR move. Add in the derision the question got and it just gets worse.

[Woe]

All rank 1 killers need to derank to 20 and make it an absolute ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, be a grand sight to behold

[IAmRedd]

Oh wow is he the narrator in the trailers?

[Seiryurin]

Originally posted by Raziel:

Originally posted by Peppa Jig(saw):

It's the thought that, this is what Mathieu thinks you should do because Killer is too stressful

No, he did not adress that part. The "stressful" part he adressed before when he said it's an opinion.

To be perfectly clear: the advice to switch to survivor or play other games was given to the question regarding improving the killer experience. Watch the vid again, it's all there.

I shouldn't be forced into playing a different part of the game because I find it stressful.

[Sariell]

Originally posted by Woe:

All rank 1 killers need to derank to 20 and make it an absolute ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, be a grand sight to behold

Except we play games to entertain ourselves. This stopped being fun a while back, time to stop beating on a dead horse and move on to other games. Don't know about the rest of you but I got quite a lot of games on my "To Do" list.

[Sariell]

Originally posted by Peppa Jig(saw):

Originally posted by Raziel:

No, he did not adress that part. The "stressful" part he adressed before when he said it's an opinion.

To be perfectly clear: the advice to switch to survivor or play other games was given to the question regarding improving the killer experience. Watch the vid again, it's all there.

I shouldn't be forced into playing a different part of the game because I find it stressful.

As Mr. Cote said, you have the freedom to let go.

[Watchmen]

is time to say good bey DbD 😢😓

[Woe]

Originally posted by Raziel:

Originally posted by Woe:

All rank 1 killers need to derank to 20 and make it an absolute ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, be a grand sight to behold

Except we play games to entertain ourselves. This stopped being fun a while back, time to stop beating on a dead horse and move on to other games. Don't know about the rest of you but I got quite a lot of games on my "To Do" list.

Oh trust me this game is dead in the water when vermintide 2 is released on the 28th but until then I'll troll some r20 survivors

[Lord Regal]

Originally posted by Woe:

Originally posted by Raziel:

Except we play games to entertain ourselves. This stopped being fun a while back, time to stop beating on a dead horse and move on to other games. Don't know about the rest of you but I got quite a lot of games on my "To Do" list.

Oh trust me this game is dead in the water when vermintide 2 is released on the 28th but until then I'll troll some r20 survivors

Every game you play as killer, every game you host four survivors, you’re tacitly saying you’re ok with the game being where it is. This is something it took me a bit to understand. I took Mr. Cote’s advice today a couple weeks ago, and I certainly won’t be returning until there’s some serious changes made.

Making him eat his words by not playing or only playing survivor will do more damage than continuing to skew their already faulty stats by beating up rank 20s could. Or rather, the latter option will continue to make things worse.

[Evil Fluffy]

That moment when a dev officially announces they don’t care about killers.

[Ratking]

Originally posted by Neugenx:

And what about killer mains that have already experienced survivor to R1? That was an attempt to avoid the question. To ignore the problem. I don't normally bash the devs but there's no justifying that response.

Honestly what I think it is, is that people probably have harassed them in the past and maybe still do over the extremely poor design issues with the killer in high ranks. And his response was just defensive. You wouldn't know that though ofcourse since he wouldn't talk about that.

I would never take to insults or bothering them because it is their game and they can run it how they want, even if that's into the dirt.

The level of frustration and anger you feel in rank 1 games can be a little impossible to compare to any other experience as artificial as a videogame. This games quite unique in that sense and I wouldn't be surprised if they got death threats on a normal basis in this world we live in today.

I do hope they get over it though and actually fix the game, thatd be cool lol.

[Querabias]

To be fair, though, even if he said it with ill intentions, that's just Cote being a douche and not the entirety of the dev team. I believe not_queen's reaction more or less points towards that. I really hope so.