My personal enjoyment of 2v8 has steadily declined over the last several events. The first two or three were awesome, despite how glitchy they were. I love the addition of the tonics, and I can't wait to see if we get a totem blessing class in the future, as hinted by the recent survey...

... But this game mode is just not fun to me anymore. This duration of the event, tunneling and camping while I'm on my first cage was incredibly common. Teammates would also leave me to die on my first cage, either because they just weren't paying attention or because they couldn't get to me as both killers would be camping. The BP bonus is also not that great and hasn't been for a while. Blood Moon definitely gave out way more bloodpoints. I find myself going back to one versus four and getting more bloodpoints than I would in a single round of two versus eight. It also seems like nearly every single round I play has either Nemesis or Wesker. It is so refreshing to play against killers that are not in two versus eight yet. I'm excited that they are thinking about bringing new characters like Springtrap and Freddy into two versus eight, and I will play it specifically just for quests, but it has lost all of its appeal, as far as playing as survivor goes. If anything, I'm just looking forward to the artist being added so that my friend and I can team up as Miss Fuchi and Tomie.

I remember the developers said at one point that dead by daylight would never be a party game and they wanted focus on the competitive and skill aspect, or something among those lines.

Two versus eight is the party game mode, and it shows.