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This is why I often prefer indie titles. There are so many passionate developers who respect their players and want to build a good and unique experience, and their monetization is fair, sometimes going out on their way to refuse any IAPs altogether or doing so only for cosmetic DLCs in a sea of existing cosmetic content. Triple A titles only have one thing going on their way: popularity. But I don't care how many people play a game so long as there's enough to play the game as intended, and it does not make sense to me to buy 70+€ of a game that I have to force myself to enjoy.

Cost of game development has skyrocketed. Higher ups are afraid to take risks and innovate, most studios when they innovate and release a decent game end up getting closed down by a parent company like the tango game works situation.

Companies are prioritising shareholders instead of customers and games these days are designed to take your money and keep you addicted to rack up engagement and increase chances of you using mtx regardless of whether you're having a good time or not. The brighter customers realise what is happening and quit, but unfortunately these games are targeted towards the bottom denominator who pays without thinking for their continued dopamine hits.

Its the CEO s not the devs themselves, stop blaming them for just doing their job. The directors and especially the Heads of these companies should take all off the blame and hate. They are the ones who make the decisions not the Developers themselves

I have bought 2 games in 2024 and both for the very same reason: YT spamming me gameplay videos of the game. And it's not a big surprise that the games are Helldivers 2 and Space Marine 2. I racked up nearly 200h on HD2, just started working my way in SM2 campaign.

While I respect different opinions, I'd highly disagree that the community says devs killed the game. Change it to "The louder part of community" or "isn't addressing community's feedback the best way" - both of the statements I'd say would be true, yeah. But if community as a whole said the game was killed by devs, we'd not have people like chaosdivers, who still play the game, but don't follow the major orders as a protest to Super Earth not doing enough to prevent deaths of fellow helldivers. The fact is, people who still enjoy it are most often quiet or even silent. That being said, I like how you address the issues in the video without spitting hatred like the mentioned louder part of community. The most important difference between plain hate and criticism is that criticism highlights both good and bad parts, ideally suggesting ways of improvement. Hate only highlights what's bad, doesn't suggest ways of improvement and at worst insults both people working on the game and people disagreeing with them. If I had any power in gamedev, I'd say that in general we absolutely (f-ing) need something like a Gamer Association that provides solid criticism, valuable feedback and keeps communicating with game developers. On devs part, the first and biggest step would be to treat their community like their spouse. Like, devs, we're pretty much in a relationship and it's up to both parties to make it a love-love relationship, not love-hate or hate-hate one. And I can't see how indie solo devs can communicate with the community much more frequently and with more quality than bigger studios that most often have a special person to manage the communication part(example: see Knights Within and compare them to pretty much any AA-AAA studio. The difference is stunning and to me doesn't make any sense). To finish this, I liked and subscribed, as I appreciate the overall positive tone of the video, despite the topic. Sorry for the long read lol. And remember, kids: A helldiver never turns his back on fellow mates. Vera Libertas!

Sony trying to force using PlayStation network started the downfall. Then the "community managers" (commissars) made things way worse. The nerfs just finished it off

I bet all the people who left, think elden ring is really hard too 😅

HD2 *WAS* the most fun and enjoyable experience I had with a game in years. Keyword there is was. The devs destroyed the game more and more with each patch. I uninstalled about a month and a half ago. I've been keeping up to date with the game, which is definitely on life support right now. A big patch is coming next week that will either revive the game, or finish it off for good. On the endgame, the Galactic War should be the main endgame, with other stuff like armor customization and weapon upgrades being thrown in there. The Major Orders should lead to a point where you feel satisfied and like you accomplished something. That's the way it was going for a little while, and then the devs just ran out of ideas. Perfect example is how we completely wiped the bots from the map. There was a sense of accomplishment there. Then, a mere two days later, the bots are back, this time, even more powerful than before. The feeling of accomplishment was totally gone, and we didn't even get any new weapons or ship modules from destroying them. Hell, we didn't even get a cape, which is the literal least they could've done.

I still find the game pretty fun just needs to be fixed

the developers became the fun police very quickly, nerfing guns was a killer. but you can see that they released banners right after the nerf which were viable then nerfing that banner when a new one came out. it just wreacked of cash grab for you to keep buying the newer banner or grinding for it. very chore like and killed the spirit and the community.

Great game still, not a tripple A developer that even comes close. 40 euro for 350 hours of fun so far and still counting up. Meanwhile other games cost 70 bucks but get boring after 10 hours of gameplay.

yeah the devs killed it. and theres no coming back frankly. they lost the majority of players due to their own incompetence. and when they noticed the ship was sinking they said " na na gimme like 60 more days i can fix it" so pretty much what they have been doing the entire life cycle of the game. problems occur = ask for more time, more time you nerf and make the issue worse. realize that didnt go over well. ask for more time. fix something then within a day break it again. more time more time more time. time is more valuable than anything and they burned it all away. they also lied about exclusivity and fomo. they lied about the psn controversy they knew about it the entire time. they also were masked in a safe zone (because it was good) surrounding the games hated live service model and seasons along with drip feed content. the only reason the game got as popular as it was is because of a very good pr move to make the players think they are listening and that they were just like us. they werent. sprinkle in some devs saying some really stupid stuff they should be fired for and bamb. your game is now dead.

They launched a unfinished game, it was a success. Then they tried to fix it "as intended" and it withered away

Playing since day 1. Still great. I'm worried Arrowhead is going to ruin it by lowering armor for enemies and buffing all weapons. Challenge is fun.

It was a great game, but has no endgame and all the nerfs ruined the fun.

I stopped playing because of the weapon nerfs. The last straw was the Breaker incendiary nerf right before the fire warbond. Uninstalled! I've lost both faith and trust in the dev team.

Vid could’ve used a few more days in the oven. You hit a few blanket community gripes but didn’t put any personal thoughts or specifics in your review, could’ve been a solid intro to one though! Was getting into it and had a little wtf moment when you said it was a deep dive at the end lol

The fact that they mever fixed the glittch where the controller dosent respond to inputs in dire situations. They kinda deserve the fall off they created tbh

Hell yeah dawg got the achievement and not die and still died I still haven’t gotten it yet

This review is great! It addresses all the pros and cons of the game in a really great way. And the way you addressed the balance issue was great too. Currently, the only large issue with the game is the humans being wayyy to powerful one comes to close encounters so them buffing the melee items for klowns would be the best

Hearing someone talk whilst cacooned never gets old