u/TheRustyRustPlayer

Maybe it’s because I have a lot of hours. Maybe it’s because I need to try new games. Or maybe… maybe it’s because I can beat the games hardest difficulty blindfolded, deaf and half dead if I wanted to.

Over the past two years, a trend has become more and more clear. Constant buffs and power creep, any difficult enemy/weapon nerf eventually rolled back. The developers are now *terrified* to do any enemy buff or weapon nerf, because the pitchforks will come out no matter how needed the nerf actually was. Hell, if they make a change and it accidentally affects someone’s favorite gun indirectly, people start crying “shadow nerfs”.

I should not be able to consistently win D10 with, frankly, shit teammates. I should not be able to consistently full clear D10 before even half the mission time is up. I should not be able to blare a YouTube video, half watching and half playing, and still be doing just fine. I am not some god of a player. I’m not, I’m shit at a lot of games I play. This isn’t that.

By trying to constantly appease the masses on Reddit and other online forums, Arrowhead has ignored their main motto. “A game for everyone is a game for no one”. I hope one day they can stick to it again.

Here are some quotes/paraphrases from communities outside Helldivers related spaces so they would have no reason to have moderators who try to skew opinions one way or another:

“Helldivers seem intent on killing their own game”
“It’s kind of hard to balance your own game when people freak out every time you nerf a gun or buff an enemy”
“They (Helldivers) review bomb over the smallest things”

(These were not unpopular statements, instead upvoted near the top of the thread with dozens or hundreds of upvotes)

You’re welcome to disagree and claim that these are faked or one offs, but I’ve seen these sentiments echoed before in other spaces. THIS is how many people outside perceive our community. Not of people holding our developers accountable for some, frankly stupid decisions on their end, but as entitled babies who whine over every little thing. I think that if we want criticism TO be taken seriously by the developers, we need to consider how it looks to them by taking the perception of other people outside the community into account