
PSA to Arrowhead: Most of your HD2 customers will NOT buy your next game if you keep treating HD2 as a "side project".
The title mostly speaks for itself.
- Infrequent Game Balancing
- Not Enough Bug Fixing
- Subversion of Expectations
- Undocumented Changes
- Not Learning from Past Mistakes
- Ignoring Player Requests
- Reinforcing Toxic Positivity
- Poor Data Management (File Size, Things to Datamine, etc)
- Repeated Hardware Issues for Users
- Promotion of Fomo tactics when its deemed "appropriate"
- Lying/Gaslighting
- Difficulty levels unbalanced
And we could say more.
For the past 3 years now, this is an incomplete list of what over half of your customers have seen.
We are not on the road to "Being like a FromSoftware game"
I have read hundreds of comments about how people will actively avoid buying your next game, quit this game, or avoid spending money on this game because of your studios decisions.
Most of us feel like we arent being heard, actively ignored, or your focus is no longer Helldivers 2
Alot of are more sad than we are upset. We have watched you take a game that had more potential than any we had seen in a decade, and squander it. Poor decisions on top of poor decisions over and over again.
This is the crowd that review bombed you enough to start the latest change. Its the same crowd that wont show up to buy your next game if you choose to keep going down the path you've been going on for the last 3 years.
Regardless of how many upvotes or downvotes this post gets, it is the truth you need to hear. We all hope you do something with this info instead of ignoring it like you have on many other things.
Do you want to fix things and make us happy again?
Be COMPLETELY honest, no more lying
Be COMPLETELY transparent, no more Undocumented Changes. Even if you think we will hate them.
Show INTREST in what your community wants. We've been asking for customization since launch as an example.
Take the TIME to go back through old warbonds and balance them. Yes it doesnt make you money right now, but making them work for future releases makes you consistent returns on new players.
PLAYTEST your game before you update it. Were tired of being forced beta testers, crashing and dealing with unfair mechanics.
LAUNCH a beta test for those of us who do want to help out. We all shouldn't be subject to it if we dont wsnt to be.
Add MEANINGFUL PROGRESSION for us to chase. Extra levels and titles dont mean much to us, we just equip warbond titles anyway.
Reach out to community modders for HELP with the games problems. Take a look at say CGW, or even the guys actively cheating. They are fixing some of the games problems with simple toggles or remixing of content.
Do a DEEP DIVE into WHY specific glitches and crashes keep happening across updates. They shouldnt be returning once you fix them.
Do a THOROUGH look into how/what enemies spawn on multiple difficulties. 7-10 shouldnt all feel the same.
Look DEEP INTO what enemies the player base overwhelmingly doesnt like, and look at thier suggestions. The war strider comes to mind.
Lastly, and more importantly, pull thr focus toward the PLAYERS HAVING FUN. I understand we can be hard to deal with, and sometimes you wsnt to take that frustration out on us... but we are your customers. WE are what make your games profitable, and continue to be sold. If you keep catering toward this "small niche audience" idea, you will eventually be insolvent as a buisness. Do not let the arrogance of looking down from your golden tower replace your fear of being one of the peasants again. The day you give into that, is the day you have already fallen.
*to my fellow redditors*:
Alright guys, lets see the comments. If you've got something to flame me with lets get it. If not, lets see those likes so somebody actually reads this.