Conversations about the recent balance patch turned heated after Helldivers 2 developers responded dismissively to player complaints.
Game studio finds out the hard way that media literacy doesn’t exist and the kind of unhinged freaks attracted to this hyper-authoritarian narrative are the absolute worst.
Unironical Black Templars fans all around. I can imagine…
This is why all big companies talk like fucking robots to their fans. If you do anything else, this is kinda thing hsppens
Reddit still full of crybabies, news at 11.
Good on them for acknowledging what was a pretty terrible response to player complaints. It’s one thing to be firm in your balancing decisions, but it’s another thing to demean your players over it.
That said, the responses from a lot of the players were also really over-the-top to begin with. Hopefully Arrowhead is able to remedy this combativeness between the studio and the community. A live service game really only does well when the developers are on the same wavelength as their players.
That said, the responses from a lot of the players were also really over-the-top to begin with.
I’m not aware of all the complaints but wrt to network outage, I understand (as long as they’re not death threats or something mental like that). The game is published by Sony, Sony is taking money from PlayStation users because self-hosting dedicated servers is bad quality and only Sony-hosted game servers deliver good quality, and then they don’t deliver.
It’s a transaction for a commercial service. Sony should refund a month or so of PlayStation online subscription fee to affected gamers. I recently bought a box of 50 electronic parts and upon arrival I thought that this box looks suspiciously empty and funny enough a third of the parts (and the useless bundled screwdriver) were missing. Contacted the retailer, explained the situation, and got a partial refund in actual money. Whenever a game publisher messed up, at best they hand out a bunch of in-game shit which aren’t real monetary refunds.
“I’m feeding the rage a little for my own entertainment here, just so you know,” one wrote, seemingly acknowledging—and dismissing—the upset amongst the community.
He then went on to say the balance patch “made two of the most brainless playstyles less viable,” which, no surprise here, also didn’t go over screamingly well.
Honestly based
