Helldivers 2 LOST 90% of its players…

Helldivers 2 has lost 90% of its players on Steam since its peak in February earlier this year.
#helldivers #helldivers2 #gaming

[@bobmartin9918]

I will never forget a quarter of a million people fighting to liberate a single planet from the bots.

[@lukemehalick370]

You can only play with 3 at a time 🙂

[@Astreious]

@@lukemehalick370He means overall in different missions.

[@elvisreal6499]

Best comment I seen so far…and that will go down in gaming history 🫡🫡🫡

[@danjab3166]

remember Tien Kwan

[@legittragiiczz5940]

@@lukemehalick370s l o w

[@turboturkey7236]

This happens to every new hit game. Remember when PalWorld went from consecutive 2 million players to just around 20k, and the devs were like, “That’s fine, play more games?” Lol

[@Theautovistiandude42]

Jhhhh

[@anthonyalvarez2037]

Fr, those devs got big money

[@turboturkey7236]

@@anthonyalvarez2037 and it’s going back into the game. PalWorld recently released a new update.

[@Jeff.55649]

No doesn't 😂😂😂😂😂

[@jacobhealy8376]

its live service tho

[@MadlyMesozoic]

Banning 190+ countries from buying the game doesn't help either

[@dylanryder4427]

Why did they ban country’s from buying it? For what purpose?

[@Nex-08]

Wasn't their fault though, Sony was just being a dickhead

[@StormKnight1]

​@@dylanryder4427playstation network account requirement.

[@TheNightOwl11683]

​@@dylanryder4427Because those countries don't have access to PSN

[@Oliver-sn4be]

​@@dylanryder4427 ps account

[@Bigpapa888]

Sony F$#% it up...

[@KT-pv3kl]

@@Bigpapa888 the steam statistics disagree. They show quite clearly that the Sony debacle had almost no influence on player numbers compared to bad patches and community manager drama that cost helldivers 100k average players in a single week

[@Pedro-uk2vf]

Mostly the clueless devs

[@joshmartinak4315]

It’s summer! 😂 I got projects around the house to do, meat to grill, beer to drink. I’ll be back 😎

[@Matthew-is1ih]

The game is dead

[@T4XFRAUD]

Freedom will be waiting for your return soldier

[@ZippDude]

Same here...ill be back after Elden Ring DLC...this is nonsense

[@ImRealKasi]

@@Matthew-is1ih bro its a coop shooter and doing better than all coop horde shooters combine

[@Unwashedclam]

@@Matthew-is1ih it’s the only game I’ve played for 4 months

[@bostonkoberlein2308]

I feel like a lot of players will come back once we get a whole bunch of new stuff like that new alien species the illuminant.

[@mtgsykotic3142]

Meh at this point I dont have much confidence that there wont be a massive amount of problems with it. Every patch caused new issues that they had to fix and even after all the patches I was still falling through the ground or inexplicably thrown 3 miles into the air acrros the map.

[@shadowwolf3419]

Most of us are just playing Elden Ring DLC waiting for new content and playing other games while Arrowhead cooks. The rest are waiting to play in the areas where the game was restricted. Hold fast Helldivers!

[@nikalajgenti4112]

He said some players on playstation 😂 theres like 200 k a day sometimes

[@shadowwolf3419]

@nikalajgenti4112 people are freaking out for no reason lol, we are still here, we still play, but there are still other games lol I still can't wait for new content and so are a lot of other people who grew tired doing the same things all the time, and as someone who has played from start I can feel that, but that's most games if you play too long or to much of. Take a break try something new, and come back when new content comes, we'll still hold the lines until reinforcements arrive but the need to motivation to return

[@NickMadani88]

@@shadowwolf3419 I can't fathom why anyone would freak out when the party size is 4 helldivers XD

[@Gabehleg]

I just found it to get repetitive tbh I mean it’s a good and fun game but idk and 45k is still crazy good numbers

[@ethanallan1254]

This is the big thing for me, there’s not much variety, it’s always the same mission types and higher difficulties are hard enough to make me not even want to try.

[@acetrigger1337]

take a break, play something else... you are not suppose to inject Helldivers 2 into your veins every day.

[@Matthew-is1ih]

45k is so incredibly low for a live service game. The devs destroyed this game.

[@ethanallan1254]

@@Matthew-is1ih next chance you get, look at the steam charts for concurrent players, 45k is really good numbers for any game let alone an IP that mostly came out of nowhere, its about what warframe hovers around on a regular day. Warframe is a free to play game that's been out for over 10 years and helldivers has reached that level of consistent playerbase in less than 6 months

[@lusilusi6371]

@@Matthew-is1ih sony did, not the dev

[@brentbedsaul4259]

Maybe if they didn't screw with all the guns I'd still play but it's dumb

[@Jaxxy35]

It's mostly balancing problems that caused the fall off. They made it impossible for players to play by themselves by increasing the spawn rate on single-player missions. It was to the point where they were spawning at a rate that was normal of much higher difficulties before the update that increased the spawn rates. The game was mostly unplayable even with friends.

[@Onelegleg]

There are 4 of us that play together all the time, we are Team Silver Alert, yeah we are all old... We have not stopped playing Suicide or higher. It was harder but not impossible.

[@Jaxxy35]

@Onelegleg of course, the hardcore players who didn't stop were fine. We are talking about why people left. I have a friend who simply stopped having fun. Just because he was able to complete the more difficult missions fine doesn’t mean It was enjoyable. Also, making easy missions the same difficulty as harder mssions completely shifts the balance of the game and makes it unplayable for players who are still on the lower difficulties. Not everyone is a hardcore player. 🤷‍♀️

[@MrPiratenking]

So ironic how people want to play the hardest difficulty solo in a coop game and complain its too difficult

[@professorbash]

@@MrPiratenking people are not really complaining its difficult. They are complaining its not fun anymore.

[@MrPiratenking]

@@professorbash "made it impossible for players to play by themselves"

[@TheOneAndOnlyDaan]

The drop in freeze is anoying AF if they dont fix it soon ill stop playing too

[@ShrunkenRule]

This is the worst statistic to ever blow up. 44,000 player consistently is still a lot of player. Plus we’re in between patches and updates. I’m assuming the numbers will shoot back up to about 70-80k when the next warbond comes out. The devs aren’t all that worried, they are in it for the long run. That’s why everyone signed up. I am too.

[@Matthew-is1ih]

The devs ruined this game, no matter how much you try and defend them 😂🤣🤣🤣😂🤣🤣🤣

[@bobafett3035]

⁠@@Matthew-is1ihThat person isn’t wrong though. 40k players is still a lot. Also aside from the issues it has, Helldivers 2 is still a great game.

[@NickMadani88]

Agreed. Honestly, I think this is just AI generated ideas for YT video topics.

[@Matthew-is1ih]

@@bobafett3035 Wrong

[@Landaren]

Constantly nerfing weapons while adding trash ones will do that

[@CyrusEppie]

Im not surprised tbh. Most games these days are based off of tiktok hype. Gaming has become a trend and the players that stay playing are the targeted audience. 45k is still a good number considered its literally just a horde shooter.

[@kingstonmclean4205]

Seems like everyone tryna hate on HD2 like Arrowhead is a big triple A game studio unlike some..

[@Matthew-is1ih]

Arrowhead effectively destroyed a game that could have dethroned the AAA companies.

[@kingstonmclean4205]

@@Matthew-is1ih it’s still doing way better than most and yeah Arrowhead should push Sony to get the other countries to play but there’s still more people playing than suicide squad lol

[@Matthew-is1ih]

@@kingstonmclean4205 Logical fallacies are not logical

[@Wwillswords]

​@Matthew-is1ih, this looks at players online at once, not individual players in a day. It gives this a more click bait title when in reality helldivers is sitting at around 2/3 of its original player base if you look at unique players per a day.

[@Matthew-is1ih]

@@Wwillswords 😂🤣😂🤣😂😂🤣😂 You’re trying so hard. A dead game is a dead game.

[@Chocolate_dragon]

I dive in for a 3-5 missions a day. If launch solo my squad fills out before I collect my support items. Player base has been awesome as well. Had some hilarious conversations and great team mates. It’s a lot of fun.

[@EmperorofThings]

Not sure why everyone's acting like this is a big idea. Every game drops off after awhile.

[@saulohm911]

90% loss isn’t a drop off, that’s a crash out

[@rangersnut]

Helldivers 2 you don't just fight bugs, you endure them. Honestly got it recently and at level 8 I had my fill. It is fun for a few goes then it gets really rinse and repeat along with the music. I am trading it in next week. I am bored already. I also had a mission that crashed and in the last few days I have been stuck onnthe helldive screen several times. Just crap.

[@TheRealWorldNews247]

45k on steam & this clown said some 😂 Today it’s over 10k So total average is around 50 to 65k Then weekends 70 to 85k

[@TheOneBeyondEternal]

They capped the samples and the cash you can have, plus they lowered the super credits that you can attain.

[@tylerplo4545]

HD2 is fun to hop on with friends when you don’t know what to play. We will randomly play it when we don’t want to play a sweaty multiplayer game

[@EmeraldPencil46]

This game's downfall wasn't due to the guaranteed player drop off all games experience, it was purely because of Sony. They completely killed their game and is entirely their fault. The game still could be massive, but their requirements for a PlayStation account is the pure reason why it isn't. When it first started to explode in popularity, the account wasn't required, so everyone could happily play. But when they forced players who already bough the game to make an account, that's what killed it. A huge portion of the world don't have access to make those accounts because of their country. And people who could still make them didn't out of spite for Sony because they didn't agree to it when they bought the game. It worked perfectly fine without the account, and it's out of greed that the account was ever required. Yeah, it's not 'dead', but it could still be larger than it currently is. It could've still been a decent size if the game required an account from launch, and not when a bunch of people already bought and played it when it wasn't needed.

[@ekim719]

would be nice if the glitches actually get fixed. Who enjoys spending 30 minutes in game to all of a sudden end up in the sky helpless?

[@onyxi.x5777]

Next big update should give it a new high imo

[@junatah5903]

Great can't wait for people to make cringy game quotes again...

[@nikalajgenti4112]

​@@junatah5903 You have been reported to the nearest democracy officer.

[@dosh-cf2vx]

​@@junatah5903yes Democracy offer he's the one

[@Stepame666-sw6gk]

big update lol they wont recover if making those throwing knife and make it to replace your grenade spot you know they cant recover it feel like non-binary are making those update thats why its lame shitty and useless ;)

[@Mmmhmmm476]

Yeah if it doesn’t make the game more unplayable on a technical level

[@backtracker4256]

The PSN debacle got me, haven't come back since.

[@cyclez6317]

They need to add longer ops or idk make the groups bigger. 8-10 people should be able to drop in on the helldivers difficulty and the one before it since it’s a high level of difficulty.

[@vellikaari3008]

A fundamental misunderstanding of why the game is falling off. The real reason isn't the Sony shit, it's the terrible weapon balancing.

[@nak3dxsnake]

80% of weapons aren't viable, 30% of strats are lame.

[@abyssaldragon1099]

They dropped a whole game-wide rebalance that made 80% of guns good and about 60% of calldowns good, with only the solid laser weapons still being crap and all but a couple orbitals being viable now

[@tommyw3845]

fundamental misunderstanding of the game 💀 git gud meta slave

[@JoeRogan898]

They rebalanced everything and now its much better

[@ume-f5j]

@@abyssaldragon1099a couple months too late

[@ronaldomarchiano6383]

The biggest issue for me is the connection problem. Already do the mission for like 20 minutes to force close and gains nothing😢

[@LegendaryKwandaleDingle]

Sony needs to get its head out of its ass and let people back, I miss the days when nearly half a million players were liberating the same planet at once

[@Halobrine]

Believe me, those bots will never step foot back on the creek. And if they do, I will make them pay for every last inch.

[@Tnullid]

Constant server disconnects are what killed this game for me. I'm already wasting my time playing video games. When I gain nothing but frustration from playing a game then I'm REALLY wasting my time.

[@KaylieRayne]

Cause its the same thing every time, same mission, same mobs, same planets. Its a fun game but its so boring after you unlock everything. The first one did the same thing. Then you know, Sony banned 90% of the world to boost their psn ego.

[@Jon_007_]

It’s not hard to conceive this when Sony shot themselves in the foot by locking the game out of multiple countries during the whole psn account debacle. They didn’t recover from it.

[@LexingtonAR]

Never forget they nerfed our railgun. Game went downhill after that

[@tougedriver8358]

Sony got greedy and fucked it up, great job Sony. Then the constant nerfs, buffs, glitches after updates, and why can't they just change the cap for the samples and credits?

[@snarksdomain]

The drop was due to the Sony fiasco. The community reacted, and Sony had to back down. Game is still lots of fun to play and I think we'll see it gradually grow from this point.

[@aeffern]

Helldivers 2 would have still been goong strong if it werent for the annoying gamebugs, 177 banned countrys, and all the CM that have their prioritys wrong on discord

[@jechoniasmaeweatherjechoni7768]

Steam players hacking ps5 players. So what did they think was going to happen.

[@paulbradbury5792]

I'm def still playing. Don't get it when people assume a game is dead when all the streamers aren't playing any more, sad

[@longhorn435]

Now the playerbase is way more chill. No more crazy streamers or twitchers

[@jf4066]

I have over 600 hours. Every update they push out causes massive crashes and they just seem to make it worse with each update. I get stuck in a never-ending loading screen in 4 out 5 matches so I have not played in a week now.

[@nerochromatic]

Even if the player count isn't the size of a death star, its not like the game's an utter ghost town either.

[@cyphersuit1]

Introducing a new faction is whats needed.

[@michaelgomez4405]

It was Sony fault for fucking it up

[@BCCartman]

Sony pissed me off, really turned me against it

[@morallybankrupt1461]

It basically got old. I’m level 225, so I love the game, but there’s only so many times you can do the same thing and find it fun.

[@sc425]

I work a lot, so by the time I could spread democracy once a week, I would realize the weapons were getting nerfed and buffed weekly. I stopped playing.

[@acetrigger1337]

Oh look! a Gaem Jurnalizt telling us that Popular Games cannot maintain their popularity for long... CAPTAIN OBVIOUS IS AT IT YET AGAIN!

[@Matthew-is1ih]

We get it, you lack critical thinking

[@DakotaOverlander]

It dropped when Sony tried to force the PC community to to make a psn account to play lol

[@dannydesainde1381]

Add the problem ; game crashes or endless loading screen, with no ESC option that you have to Ctrl alt del out.

[@tjhutch90]

The game was never meant to retain 500k players… the game released with a 250k player cap. The first one averaged left then 5k player counts. Most of the articles you read are comparing it to gta5, destiny, and all the other games with 10x the money involved and content. Helldivers is a great game to go back to in between other games due to their being content released like warbonds. That’s what its indented purpose is. The 40k daily are the dedicated players not the casuals.

[@byVehzo]

I don’t get it how all these content creators don’t understand that this is a totally normal lifecycle for a game like this. Helldivers is no MMORPG or competitive heroshooter. People don’t play it forever, instead they leave for some time and come back later. And 50k players just on Steam, add the consoles and we are way above 100k, is still insane.

[@Matthew-is1ih]

Bro, the drop off on this game is so steep. There is nothing normal about this 😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@byVehzo]

@@Matthew-is1ih do you understand what I am saying? I telling you facts. It is normal for a non competitive game to lose a very big portion of its players after a few months. Go ahead and give me one example where it was different.

[@Matthew-is1ih]

@@byVehzo That’s a false dichotomy my friend. You’re wrong. The devs ruined this game so horribly fast it’s sad.

[@bryansmith2859]

It’s normal for KZbinrs to just ride the hype train for clicks

[@byVehzo]

​@@Matthew-is1ih I said name me a game where it was different. Can you do that please? Of course the devs made mistakes, exactly like every studio is fkin up something along the way. But thats not the one and only reason why a game lis losing players lmao so again, name a game which is not a comp shooter and not a MMORPG which hasnt lost a majority of its playerbase after almost half a year.

[@sedonio92]

Nah Sony fucked everything up and made the flare disappear

[@Carismat1]

It wouldn't be If PlayStation didn't remove most regions our game may be as "alive" as it was.

[@ben6077]

No fps in this game is a crime

[@RexTiredAF]

People are click-baiting this to hell and back. The devs only expected 50k. They have 50k on PC alone. This isn't a 90% drop off. It's a 100% gain.

[@merucrypoison296]

They took the Titanfall mechs away and then capped it at like level 100 made me quit the game

[@ericfleming5522]

I play with the same squad every weekend. Don't even notice if others are doing other things with their time.

[@AlexVechivtch]

I play Helldivers 2, the drop-off of players is noticeable and even during events it still is dropping steadily. It'd be okay for general games, but its meant to be a live service and the content isn't doing well. Every time there's an update, bugs are everywhere and often significant.

[@NothingAtAll6969]

I stopped playing back in may for several reasons but kept telling myself I’d come back once the alien dudes showed up.. expecting them to show up a while ago considering they had been teasing them since I started playing in match. But I’ve come to conclusion they aren’t gonna add them til they absolutely have to when they player counts at 15-10k people but then it’s just to later. They had the potential to, definitely thought it was gonna be goty but all it was was a fun game for a few months

[@Scardust6600]

The more/longer people play a game the more bugs and missing QOL feature get a thing. Especially in HD2.

[@user-es3zu5zd1g]

This is my favorite game of all time but I feel like Sony bugged it and got rid of the CEO for being rebellious. I will always support this game no matter what. They made history.

[@Seneric]

This is nothing. World of Warcraft in its Wrath of the Lich King days had MILLIONS of players.

[@LemonsDaBest]

Sony wanted numbers from what i was told. Well they got numbers alright....just the opposite of what they were expecting.

[@baja5000]

It was cool but they started nerfing shit and the progression never went anywhere, it was broken. Stuck on the same 3 or 4 planets the whole time.

[@dougkreutz7701]

It's because it's fucking broken. And everytime they try and fix one thing they break something else.

[@benknowles5667]

They need more upgrades, weapons, new enemies, and maybe ways to upgrade your ship and more creative maps with cities or something. Just idea's.

[@javierlinares2760]

GO play the game. There are tons of new stuff including a bunch of new ship modules. It's an ongoing story and things will be released as the story progresses. I feel 45000 plus active players this far after its release is impressive and some of the recent weapon buffs are awesome! Nothing is perfect but here we have a jewel, so let's appreciate it. :-)

[@randomname2366]

For me, the main reason why I don’t feel the draw to play is 1. I don’t feel as awesome as I used to thanks to nerfs to basically everything and the new releases suck. 2. Not enough new content to work towards and the story feels forced and contrived so I don’t play for that either. I play when it sounds good but it’s much less than before.

[@leeg2787]

As if Sony paid for this propaganda and purposefully does not mention that over 100 countries have been removed to play after those players purchased.

[@ImRealKasi]

this is a coop horde shooter not a looter shooter and this is doing better that all coop shooters combine

[@The_kermit710]

45k out of millions of people that game, that's pretty low and plus every mission is pretty much the same. That will get old quickly.

[@ShaneAddinall]

Those were their target player counts when they launched. It could do better with PVP but as a squad based PVE game those are decent stats.

[@roverstan]

I'm constantly on it, but there's crashing and glitching. Bandwidth issue, I think.

[@menti9101]

Me and the boys are still playing every wednesday since release ✌️

[@pacov8522]

Some players every time I load in there is 20k - 30 online

[@lforrest14]

Don't forget how with every fun gun they nerfed them, repeated nerfs took the wind out of the games sails. Sure some corrections were recently done, but a bit too late.

[@Hikuro2pnt0]

honestly, at first I really enjoyed the game, and I had a group of friends from work who I'd play with. But then they started to ween off of it and every group of players I came into contact with were terrible and at times toxic to the point they were killing other team members and evacing on their own. So, I stopped.

[@someone_else911]

the people who are staying are just the dedicated player base who will stick around,plus that's only on steam,I bet there's probably another 20,000 ps5 players

[@nocar_mkemke4851]

The nerfing got out of hand..I quit after they killed the Railgun

[@atifsarfraz7621]

Sony is evil, games is so boring, dev keep breaking it. The list of know issues keeps growing with every patch

[@mjboots4926]

Nobody has any loyalty anymore

[@thatdudeKarim]

HD2 NEEDS a 3rd Faction... Then they will rejoin the fight for DEMOCRACY!!!

[@thewhateverwhatnot6314]

This happens with every live service game like fortnight for instance dips as well, they go through times where they lose almost 100% of their players to then after a new season and or content is released they bounce right back, I’m thinking HD2 will be no different.

[@ChileanSpartanUSA]

I still play HD2 every day. Looking forward to more fun missions, new weapons and armors.

[@motivatenate5463]

It’s because the game literally doesn’t work ever. It’s crashed ever single mission I load into if I even make it out of the hell pod drop screen

[@devingimple9542]

Well when you nerf every gun that’s fun and seem to only fix the glitches that help players have more fun and leave the glitches that make you crash you tend to lose players. We warned them don’t nerf just buff first and they ignored us.

[@loganberkheimer1857]

Luke warm patches, questionable balancing, poor performance, and Shadow of the Erdtree is out. This is not surprising

[@arachnokitty8058]

I never stopped playing and probably won’t because I love it more and more

[@theedwardian]

I work for Blizzard. We're paid to exploit server faults and maximize disconnects. We also did the same the servers of Gundam Evolution and successfully made sure it lost its toxic playerbase. Technically, what we're doing is legal, so just play Overwatch 2, sweetie~

[@cycomew8581]

I'm one of the ones that dropped off. Between jumping on with bad players and all the glitches there's no point in trying anymore

[@MrSirclint]

Sony fucked this game and honestly. There should be a lawsuit

[@mr.zwilliams7389]

It has 60,000 concurrent players every day. It’s fine.

[@jonightwing901]

Sony is extremely dumb 😂

[@user-zu5ex3xe6s]

For me it’s probably the lack of huge updated I’ve been waiting for them to add vehicles for like 3 months and new planets or enemies

[@MedicsMoist]

That's what happens when playstation decides to ban a shit ton of countries from playing

[@user-xm6dw1fo8u]

I now miss the days ehen im waiting in queue for hrs and still excited to play and once in never log off

[@Adam--mp4iw]

I stopped bc they kept nerfing all the base guns, made it dam near unbearable

[@Commander_Raveth]

Can we please discuss the fact that you can't report players? For example, some kid was being called racist slurs by a grown ass bastard. The kid was level 77, and the racist was level 39. I get that the level means nothing about skill, but c'mon. The kid was crying. This kid had a bunch of numbers for his name, and the racist his name was "Sk1pp3r" with some numbers behind it. This happened on 12-06-24 ( 12th June) He went after me as well, and I'm as pale as the guy up here. I'm at level 96 if it has some importance.

[@hightechredneck8587]

You can just block him.... or just ignore it.

[@Commander_Raveth]

@@hightechredneck8587 oh that I did. I'm not gonna be a victim of his 1500 era insecurity.

[@bitterdbyu5291]

my feelings 😢😢😢

[@memeyou33]

I would have kept playing if they didn't nerf all my toys every single time i felt comfortable with a vuild.

[@nickrackel7949]

Account requirements ruined the player count for PC.