Six Months Later, Helldivers 2 Has Become Its Own Worst Enemy

After half a year, Helldivers 2 has become a victim of itself

Six months along, I think the key takeaway from Helldivers 2 is that no good thing can reasonably last in this ecosystem. Its launch back in February was marked by a meteoric ascent to the top of the charts, but the past few months have been marred by controversy and upheaval that has hurt the game and the reputation of the the team behind it. As sad as it is to admit, things were always going to turn out this way, but it’s still tough seeing the place it’s landed compared to where it once was.

It was an outlier blazing some new path forward. Read More: Flamethrowers Were King In Helldivers 2, But Not Anymore And Players Are Threatening Mass Desertions Before long though, things shifted for the worse. Suddenly, the sweeping changes that Arrowhead Studios was making all the time stopped being novel, and became more of a hindrance. Arrowhead stopped being the architects of players’ dreams and fantasies; instead they became this kind of collar around the community’s neck.

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