Why Helldivers 2 SCARES The AAA Industry

[@Willsimm1986]

Don't kid yourselves. This isn't over with PlayStation. That's why the game is still delisted in the countries without access to PSN...

[@lAMDEWAN]

Agreed. The fight for democracy continues.

[@JustDostuffiguess]

I think it was like 164 countries which includes japan which is a bit ridiculous to me like sony is a japan company that's like saying ford won't sell cars to america

[@You_Ate_My_Soap]

@@JustDostuffiguessthey just removed Japan from the blocklist but at the expense of every American territory (including Puerto Rico)

[@Danthepanman1]

🚨REMEMBER🚨 If you bought the game you can still play it It’s a PURCHASE ban NOT a GAME ban

[@paulclark6988]

I thought it was 175 after they lifted it for the American territories?

[@The_Original_Trippy]

Another reason why the HellDivers 2 strike was so effective is that Helldivers 2's player/fan base has a much larger portion of older players, Helldivers has been described as a "Dads' game" meaning you gave adults anywhere from 20 all the way to 40 or 50 playing this game. so these are players and fans who will not be disrespected and pushed around easily, they will push back. nothing beats old age and treachery.

[@schnitzelmopi]

Yep.... 36-year-old year who has been gaming since NES and Atari. I've hated the way the major game industry was devolved. HD2 was a breath of fresh air. I still enjoy it and enjoy the community. Feels like the old days.

[@lAMDEWAN]

Great point. A pretty widespread demographic.

[@etuanno]

The Age of Empire IP is owned my Microsoft but they've been very nice to the game and community. To be fair, most RTS players are older and won't tolerate such stuff. Also the AoE2 definitive edition (new remake) is in direct competition with the older AoE2 HD edition.

[@awolpe1]

A 45 years old helldiver here.

[@daddy7870]

True most randos I’ve played with are late 20s and 30s

[@GARBO96]

If we're being honest they're scared because of $40 game is better than anything that's come out in the past five years

[@lAMDEWAN]

Funny cause it’s true lol

[@Chris.tian_]

So true, I pre ordered betafield 2042 cause i was sick of cod and wanted a team based game with massive destruction and became a cod/apex mix. Iam a huge mortal kombat fan and pre ordered mk1 and wow, this game got nearly no content, bugs without an end, wrong input list and a lot more shit and if you want good skins, ok pay 10 bucks. So I wasted 200 euros for shit and get the most fun since a few years for 40 😅

[@ivailoignatov7731]

and for the same reason, they killed it, I don't know how 20k active player base, scares any AAA developer

[@warrick7689]

This and elden ring

[@Code_Machine]

5 years? I'd go as far as 10 years because let's be honest, nothing noteworthy has come out in the last 10 years

[@augustineliyanda1465]

I think the Helldivers devs should be given more credit on their understanding of their niche market. Helldiver's target demography are people old enough to remember Starship Troopers, Terminator and Star Wars movies or old Co-op games like Halo. These fall on the older side of the gaming community, extremely loyal to their franchises, don't take BS and no amount of fancy skins or battle passes can win them over. They just want to enjoy some gaming after a stress filled day of work. I played the first Helldivers and the servers were 300 divers online at best and we had a blast. The lobby was always filled with moms and dads complaining about logging out of a mission because they have work tomorrow or need to go feed their daughter. The devs knew this and designed a game that suits them. It is repetitive but fun. Progression system is straight forward. The story is complex but simple enough not to take itself too serious. No micro transaction screens everywhere. Just a fun game to kill time with. This is a community old enough to know the tricks of the gaming industry and it is the community the AAA industry dreads. They don't market their products for these communities and that's why the popularity of Helldivers 2 caught the industry by surprise. They don't know where the numbers are coming from but they want to capitalize on them. If you are going to steal from someone atleast find out who they are first.

[@lAMDEWAN]

Very good point. You gotta know who you’re making games for and make sure they’re being served well. Simple as that.

[@darkstalkerknight63]

and that is why helldrivers 2 now has 15% of the player base it did only a few months ago. that niche market isn't very much liked. people really don't want to play the villian. it got to the point where that repetitive got boring very quickly. "This is a community old enough to know the tricks of the gaming industry and it is the community the AAA industry dreads." lol. again 15% of the players still play the game after only 3 months and that number is going down every week or 2. "They don't market their products for these communities and that's why the popularity of Helldivers 2 caught the industry by surprise." lol. this is too funny. you can't be serious. then why is the game has 15% of the players still playing and losing players over and over.

[@Puffersquid10]

“They fear democracy” the most helldivers thing i had ever heard😂

[@T1Oracle]

Sony is trying to increase PSN account numbers. That's all Helldivers is to them.

[@lAMDEWAN]

Unfortunately the truth

[@aaronbennett3966]

$ony: "GoT tO mAkE ThE sHaReHolDeRs HaPpY!" 🤡

[@noname-ir7pt]

Cry abt it its just 5mins you have to spend once

[@justsumguy8193]

@@noname-ir7pt exactly

[@justsumguy8193]

Sony is trying make a profit. That's all the game industry is to them. Microsoft is trying to make a profit, that's all the gaming industry is to them. Nintendo is trying to make a profit, that's all the gaming industry is to them. What a bunch of horrible, selfish companies they are.

[@djtrac3r935]

Helldivers 2 is the gaming world equivalent of “The shot heard all around the world”

[@lAMDEWAN]

Absolutely!

[@The_whales]

If you still remember: triple a games didn’t just hate helldivers, they also hated baldurs gate 3 are being too good

[@lAMDEWAN]

That’s so crazy 😂 standards were set too high lol

[@Efilnikufesin76]

Not saying it's good, it's the way we let it become.

[@Driftingsiax]

Don’t forget elden ring!

[@BranBal]

Also, Monster Hunter World is hated by Capcom CEO

[@noname-ir7pt]

If you play and like baldurs gate 3 then you are a discord mod

[@JAMeep-xx1vv]

He was martyred for his service. He became a hero. A legend. A Helldiver even.

[@lAMDEWAN]

What an individual

[@moisesmunguiafalloutmoises112]

If these AAA publishers feared democracy then let's play this song *plays Super Earth Anthem*

[@lAMDEWAN]

BLAST IT

[@MrWhateverfits]

HD2 is a AAA live service game. Sony doesn't scream "Indie game" to me. AH is not an Independent developer using Sony money.

[@Atzy]

@@MrWhateverfits They are an independent. They aren't owned by Sony, their stock isn't publicly traded and they have a total employee count of about 100 people, which includes community management and their fucking janitor.

[@antiveggiegamer]

⁠@@MrWhateverfitsSony doesn’t own AH. Sony is the publisher.

[@moisesmunguiafalloutmoises112]

🎵"Manage Democracy is the true path, all who resist shall suffer our wrath"🎵

[@Maxinator.09]

Getting fired to save helldivers? RESPECT.

[@lAMDEWAN]

RESPECT FOR SPITZ 🫡

[@JustDostuffiguess]

He had the greatest character arc of all time Say dumb statement Realize stupid Apologize Gets fire to save hell divers Absolute giga chad

[@acatwithaids5398]

Spitz got fired for having an emotional outburst lmao. Spitz had no intention on being a martyr and has a history of questionable behavior. Garbage CM thats almost as bad as Baskinator.

[@Aweburn82]

​@@lAMDEWANNo. Spitz is not a hero. He's a dckhead.

[@lAMDEWAN]

@TravisStockton gotta love that cape though 😂🙌

[@geoffbeidler]

The lesson here is to only develop games that teach your player base how to fight against corporate greed through coordinated action.

[@lAMDEWAN]

Precisely

[@Talsedoom]

Point is other games are competetive. That's why their comunity is so toxic and diverse. Helldivers 2 is a game where you play together. That's why this comunity is so awesome and friendly. When I thought this game would be harsh to low lvl players I see now that high lvl players take low lvl players to high difficulty matches to carry them. Willingly! Competetive games players hate each other, Helldivers care about each other.

[@lAMDEWAN]

It truly is astounding to experience the COD community vs. the HD2 community. Massive difference.

[@hueco5002]

Like someone else said - the market here is all a bunch of aging millennials. We all got jobs now. Got kids. Teenage angst filled verbal war was the cool thing 20 years ago. We’ve aged out of it and just want to have some fun now 😂

[@privatetrolldier5640]

Sounds like deep rock galactic with the high level dwarves taking the greenbeards through high difficulties.

[@Talsedoom]

@@privatetrolldier5640 Just today I and one 70lvl guy played 5 games with 10lvl cadets on 7 difficulty. We even got some strategems for them they don't have yet. We know how great their experience was and we glad to do it for them Cause we know they'll do the same for others when they got stronger.

[@privatetrolldier5640]

@@Talsedoom yep exactly how drg works with new players.

[@nrDanny]

This video needs way more attention. Very important things have been said.

[@lAMDEWAN]

In due time 👀 democracy will not fail us!

[@lIlIZ3ROlIlI]

Its because playstation is being too hard on the pc community with their tactics that's costing their player numbers even tho majority of the players were from pc only

[@lAMDEWAN]

Yup PlayStation took it way too far with HD2

[@sephiroth8377]

I looked this up and you probably should have too. The best argument found for PC having higher numbers was the second week of release when it was a 50/50 split, otherwise the only people who claim PC is higher came from websites like reddit and other user forums

[@TheREPPIX]

They dared defy the PC master race and now they burn

[@Ultimate34356]

I feel bad for those who can't access Sony Playstation and Helldivers 2. You have a valid point that we, the players, to have the triple games companies really need to listen to us gamers that we want good video games and not bad video games.

[@lAMDEWAN]

Exactly right!! WE have the power 💯

[@kiritoalt2657]

This is just like rebellion on star wars *All we need is a few sparks*

[@lAMDEWAN]

It’s happening 👀

[@kiritoalt2657]

​@@lAMDEWAN and it's the matter of time before those dev get set on fire

[@tomasgutauskas3291]

9:47 you know its bad when ever steam is helping out fighting sony 💀

[@Vampucio]

After baldur's gate 3 and helldivers 2, now it's hard for AAA. We are Helldivers 💪🏻

[@lAMDEWAN]

Hell yeah 😎

[@mmkanashiro]

wait, ghost of tsushima is blocked on japan (bottom of the screen 9:44)? how can you make a game about their culture and don't let them play?

[@lAMDEWAN]

The irony 😅

[@Kevkoss]

It's not blocked. GoT (and HD2 AFAIR) has its own version on Steam in Japan due to censorship of brutality and few other things. Just like if you bought L4D2 while having your Steam account registered to Germany you got less blood and it was green.

[@vin9077]

If there’s one thing you can say about Arrowhead it’s that they at least try their best to listen to the community All it takes is one crack in the damn for these greedy publishers to finally get the pushback they deserve, and for other game’s and their communities to follow suit

[@lAMDEWAN]

And it’s safe to say the dam has been cracked. WArrowhead 🐐

[@justing224]

You’re absolutely right, they listen to all complaints, try to adjust and keep getting better. I haven’t seen a game studio be so in touch with their fan base, I love it. They’re not perfect, but they love their game and it shows

[@Im-mv6bf]

Apart from that loser balancing dev that killed hello neighbour. They need to get rid of that thing

[@Patches2012-]

You also get forget about the theme

[@5hane9ro]

This is why we support games that do us justice and refuse to play crap. Support games like Helldivers 2 & (potentially) XDefiant. Not CoD and other crap.

[@lAMDEWAN]

Indie for the win ✅

[@MrWhateverfits]

@@lAMDEWAN Dude it's Published by Sony how is this Indie? Like seriously, Helldivers 2 is a AAA live service game deal with it.

[@lAMDEWAN]

I was referring to Indie games and studios (like Arrowhead) alone regardless of whether Helldivers 2 is an Indie game or not.

[@MichaelBurbano]

Fuck yea XDefiant lols amazing. Exactly what MW2 needed to be. Mark Rubin knows what he’s doing. It will be way better that cod. But damn Helldivers is just on another levels the last time I had this much fun in gaming was halo 3 lol

[@austinq8300]

Xdefiant is a being developed by ubisoft… which is has been notoriously screwing customers for years.

[@GuniMoo]

COD: Main "cool" generic characters with plot armor Helldiver: Anonymous well trained no main character Helldiver all equal and fighting together for one large goal (Spread Democracy)

[@lAMDEWAN]

Spread managed democracy 👍

[@khahinmetameta7826]

Except infinite warfare. The MC bit the dust

[@SoapisRoachisbigbrotherkinda]

@@khahinmetameta7826 AND Riach, he bit it, quite literally.

[@mariothegameryt9080]

@@SoapisRoachisbigbrotherkinda it's Roach, mohawk man.

[@TomoyaOkazaki13]

forgot to mention that helldivers 2 is still blocked in 170+ countries i was lucky enough to still have my copy of the game, but my friends who wanted to buy and play the game cant do so anymore. its so cursed that they sell PS5s in a country that doesnt support PSN (so im guessing you can only make a PSN via the console... very scummy)

[@lAMDEWAN]

I did mention it. It is very scummy.

[@etuanno]

Maybe you can share / lend the game via Steam to them.

[@stannumowl]

​@@etuanno you need 2 copies to play together usually

[@ApplesAndOranges1]

Dwarves watching helldivers destroy itself.👀 Laughs in rock and stone

[@brandonjew1397]

"Did I hear a rock and stone?"

[@Arailies]

It's strange to think about the amount of countries that Sony limited, 170+ and there is around 190-200 countries in the world(Might not be right number, cant remember. Its late.), so the vast majority are unable to play or are limited in how they access helldivers 2 and other playstation published/distributed games. Sony destroying their integrity, trust and business with the decisions made recently. Sharks in the rest of the industry might try to cash in, which is fair enough if their competition not only shoots itself in the foot, but drives a 12 inch nail in and pins itself to the shaky ground they made for themselves by ruining their reputation in front of gamers. Helldivers 2 is the spark, or at least its the kindling for another gaming industry reform/revolution, Sony or someone else just needs to make another Darwin award decision again with another reaction as big or bigger than we have had with Helldivers community. A community that is driven by themselves, and incentive of the developers, to cooperate and communicate within and outside the games they play. Awesome summary of what's been happening recently, some people looking in on this, kinda missing the point of where does this lead to in the end, looks like you been thinking about it yourself for a bit. Good on ya.

[@lAMDEWAN]

You’re right on dude. The industry is in shambles right now with all the greed from AAA publishers. HD2 is absolutely the spark, as you put it, to a revolution in the industry. Thank you for the kind words, glad you enjoyed 🙏

[@ACWarrior97]

Nowadays, there is no AAA games. At least, in quality.

[@lAMDEWAN]

They’re very rare, we’ll put it that way

[@sharptojo6420]

These AAA studios wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for us.

[@lAMDEWAN]

Truth!

[@juliusfisher1298]

The scary thing is I’ve already heard my friend say “I know I promised myself I wouldn’t buy the next CoD title buuuuuuut…..”

[@lAMDEWAN]

Happens every year. Some people never learn.

[@eaglesix6585]

what's the music 7:18?

[@dalberttran8134]

You should make a video about why the cod "community" is one of the many reasons why cod hasnt reached its highs. Because I've never seen a community that is so toxic and divided like cod. Some ppl like mw19 some ppl like jetpack cods, some ppl like bundles instead of lootboxes and some ppl like vice versa. There is no unity on what want from cod because there are so many games

[@lAMDEWAN]

Oh man I could go on and on lol

[@cheungdouglas1122]

Personally if jetpack cod was not under the cod label, it would be thriving right now.

[@jboyler1]

And that’s what happens when you throw in everything and the kitchen sink, thinking you can make a game that will appeal to everyone. Now the military action movie game is about Nicki Minaj shooting anime guns.

[@Imgonefromytnow]

Another good thing is that they're bringing back the illuminate. (The recent Massive attack was only a vanguard.)

[@lAMDEWAN]

Such a great update

[@pikabrun]

It's good to see the community stood up and attacked Sony where it hurts them the most, the money Also, the review bomb reminds me of what happened with the tf2 community recently

[@pikabrun]

Sorry i meant to say $ony

[@JoshdaKnight]

I was playing with a squad of random divers this morning and goofing off with a couple of them. The guy who didn’t have a working mic typed into chat “I love this community” and I couldn’t agree more. If you haven’t played this game yet give it a shot

[@lAMDEWAN]

Agree with your fellow diver. This community is the absolute best 🙌

[@ashuradevilborngaming9924]

How can helldivers come out of this whole publishing deal with sony

[@lAMDEWAN]

Arrowhead gotta come up big with the updates

[@prism560]

publisher close down fav studio EA: 1st time?

[@lAMDEWAN]

Lol been there done that

[@ithegameri3568]

I am pissed that Helldivers got it’s game-killing problem fixed in a few days while it’s been years and TF2 has still yet to get a functioning anticheat

[@lAMDEWAN]

Shows what can be done and why it isn’t being done

[@zero11010]

The PSN thing was nonsense. Helldivers is poorly made, but tons of fun. The odds of Arrowhead being able to do that again are basically zero. Lots of studios out there have made a game people really enjoyed, and then never really been able to do it again. I made games for over a decade. I’ve paid attention to the gaming industry for about 25 years and been aware of it for over 30. I’ve seen the patterns .. and worked at plenty of studios that release one hit game … and then fold after releasing several more that don’t go anywhere. Hell, my LinkedIn is still filled with people going through these cycles. Major studios aren’t worried about Arrowhead or Helldivers. The general public will still buy whatever a good marketing team tells them to buy. Most players don’t really understand quality in games (most will confuse fun with quality).

[@lAMDEWAN]

Essentially the players must revolt.

[@zero11010]

@@lAMDEWAN over what? A few thousand out of 12 million who weren’t going to be able to play but WERE able to get refunds? The people I saw crying about it were in supported regions and seemed angered that they needed to link their account. Not upset about the impact on others. Just upset that they had to …. Link an account and talking about how they were “betrayed”. A free process that takes less than a minute … and let’s be honest most of those people likely already owned a PS3, PS4, or do own a PS5 and already have that PSN account. Want to play borderlands games? Gotta make an account with gearbox. Same thing for EA games, Ubisoft games, Blizzard games …. and on and on. I just bought Across The Obelisk from a year or so ago. First thing they wanted was for me to create an account. Should that little game from an indie shop get review bombed because they …. did an industry norm and asked users to create an account? That’s exactly what most people were really upset about. Should Sony be punished because they don’t have their PSN worldwide? Obviously the games CAN sell on Steam in those markets. They exist to make money. Why do you think they don’t want money from those markets? The review bombing and the outrage over linking an account is nonsense from dumb kids who haven’t thought it through. And news outlets making a big deal about over a hundred countries who cannot play are intentionally misleading people who have somehow not learned to think for themselves or how to question things (which is what school is supposed to teach kids by 12th grade). The continent Africa has about 1.3 billion people, or 1,300 million. They have fewer total Steam accounts than Australia with a total population of 26 million. 26 million people have more Steam accounts than 1,300 million other people (that’s 2% as many people). Yeah? The average annual salary in Somalia is something like $2500. If you do the conversion for people in the US that the same as this game costing roughly $1,200 for the average American. Were players really upset? You can look up the concurrent player numbers on steamdb. You can see ZERO dip in active players from May 2nd when the news came out and they suddenly got about 400k negative reviews. I see a totally normal drop in players from launch and then it remained stationary at roughly 100k concurrent in early May. You can CLEARLY see the drop happening before the news. As most players don’t play for more than about 20-30 hours and were done with a game they’ve had for 3 months. So, people screaming about how they would never play again didn't change anything, and when it ended and people celebrated there was no giant flood of gamers coming back to the game to show support. There is no even distribution of players around the world. Just like 50% of people are female and WAY fewer than 50% of Helldivers are female players. Can’t stress this enough … this was nonsense from people who don’t think very well. Are you in America? Do you revolt against cars that Toyota makes that they don't sell in America? How about cars that Ford makes that they don't sell in America? These are normal business practices. Not all products are available everywhere. Right? You can't buy the same Nestle candy anywhere you go. Should people throw a fit because Canada or England gets options that America doesn't? Or that McDonald's has a totally different menu in other countries and they don't sell those options here in America and people in ... Senegal cannot go into a Mcdonalds and buy the same menu items that sell in India but aren't sold in other countries? It's just ... children not understanding how the world works.

[@etuanno]

About fun and quality. If I understand them correctly. For me fun is WAY more important than visual quality. There's a reason why RTS games like Age of Empires 2 or Starcraft still have large player bases after beeing out for 25 years (in the case of AoE2). Are they pretty? No. Should they be pretty? Doesn't matter, the graphics are not really important.

[@zero11010]

@@etuanno I don’t think there are any substantial visual quality issues. There are recurring issues with default models and textures showing up (they appear as purple question marks in game), and there have been issues with stretched textures on corpses since the game launched. Both are pretty minor. Issues with the horrible lighting and the problematic lights in the game are also pretty minor. They fixed the early issues where some combinations of effects made the game unplayable because you literally couldn’t see anything. Though, that last one starts to get to the root of what I spoke about. They shipped with a combination of effects that would make it so you couldn’t see anything. The level was just shades of black and unplayable. That’s not the kind of situation that should make it to players. There are fundamental problems with their decision making and the poor quality they will allow themselves to bring to players. This is a real issue. Did you play at launch? Do you remember how often the game would crash? You couldn’t go an hour without one or more crashes. It wasn’t until about 2.5 months after launch that the game started to become reasonably stable. THAT should be unacceptable. I saw 9 crashes in a single 40 minute level with 4 players. Remember when they released a Friday patch? In the tech industry Friday patches are a no-no. Why? Because if there are issues your team needs to be in over the weekend to fix it. Also weekends are higher than average player count so you impact the most number of players. And, that Friday patch broke the game horribly. So badly that their team needed to come in over the weekend and issue a new patch that only rolled back the previous patch like it never happened so the team could redo that patch and remove the issues. THAT is inexcusable. That’s the kind of thing people lose their jobs over. Remember when arc damage didn’t count for your accuracy? They had just introduced the blitzer. It, and the arc thrower didn’t count for accuracy, and also some other issue that impacted the Tesla tower. Maybe none of them counted for kills at all. So, a patch was supposed to fix it. The patch introduced horrible crashes. If ANYONE brought the brand new and exciting blitzer or the arc thrower into a game anyone in that game may crash (even people who didn’t bring it). This is an unacceptable situation. There is NO way their QA team was unaware of these crashes. Anyone with a few weeks of experience knows that if a dev touches a major system you hammer on the system to look for problems. So, QA would have been aware of the crashes that the engineering team sloppily introduced. But, it would be up to the production team to make the final call on what to include in that patch. Cherry picking which code gets included in a patch is trivial. It would be meaningless to just … not include the new stats “fix” that comes with crashes. They chose to include it and instead of a minor issue where sometimes for some people end of mission stats are inaccurate, they made a willful decision to make the game crash for ANYONE in a level if anyone else had one of the new high demand weapons. They traded a minor problem for a major one. This is a collection of failures. They didn’t roll back they waited TWO WEEKS to fix it. This is unacceptable development. Have you noticed how often when they introduce a patch they have to patch the patch and apologize? It’s nearly every single patch they introduce where they create huge new problems and they need to go back and fix their fixes. This is wildly unprofessional. All of this stuff is in the patch notes. You can view the history of this on their official discord in the announcements and in the patch notes. The game is a ton of fun. It really is. This game is VERY badly made. It’s fine with me if you’re not able to tell. But, you really SHOULD expect your games to work when they’re not in a beta state anymore. What this team has done is not something people should just accept. Do you remember when Diablo 4 came out and players threw fits over how unstable the game was? I played that at launch. You would get occasional crashes. Every few hours. People revolted. Helldivers crashes every 40 minutes and often MANY times per 40 minute mission. They have apologized OVER and OVER about players earning no rewards. You do a mission and you get no XP, no resources. It’s like you never did the mission. Check the patch notes, that is another thing they’ve fixed over and over in the first few weeks of the game being out. Players for this game are accepting an incredibly unprofessional experience because the game is so much fun it’s easier to overlook these things. A lot of the fun comes from the social aspects of the game which technically aren’t even something Arrowhead should be getting credit for. I could go on about this topic for hours. I’m going to stop here. Like I said, I made games professionally for over a decade. I may be aware of things you’re not in terms of how games get made, but the problems are still there and visible for anyone to see … and also clearly documented on their own discord. The game is poorly made.

[@GARDRAWS]

ThE gAmE iS pOoRlY mADe Listen to this guy, he doesn’t even know what he’s talking about, he doesn’t even know that people don’t take time to read this

[@someguy1883]

Helldivers developers + players are people who have a backbone and stand behind what they want and are willing to take action. I love this change of pace for games.

[@lAMDEWAN]

Absolutely, great change of pace

[@CarbideSix]

9:04 Actually, I LOVED Infinite Warfare. It was boots on the ground an in zero-g space. It was a very unique challenge going to ship-to-ship dogfights, to zero-g gun battles, to boots on solid ground, all in one stage. Sure, the trailer was review bombed, but make no mistake, when the game fully came out, it grew on people, and they loved it. It was one of the very few COD games that had a compelling campaign with pretty good star power. Infinite Warfare was above and far beyond that MWIII (2023) extortion scheme with that insult of a campaign.

[@lAMDEWAN]

I will give you that, the campaign was better lol

[@andrewjalice8649]

it sucks cause there’s still a bunch of countries that can’t get access still

[@lAMDEWAN]

Yeah they better fix it

[@ayeyoo__g]

you mess with our games, we mess with your wallet. simple.

[@lIlIZ3ROlIlI]

4:04 that's not xbox fault for closing them studios if a studio doesn't keep a active player base and even tho them games had a short story

[@lAMDEWAN]

We can debate whether whose fault it is, but we cannot deny the catastrophe the AAA industry is in rn as a whole.

[@lIlIZ3ROlIlI]

@lAMDEWAN well their so many games out there on xbox and Playstation and pc but majority of it ons cod and fortnite and minecraft and apex legends and roblox Live service games always will be the ones to be mostly played after the crowd has played and beaten these other games that take less than 15hrs to beat

[@lIlIZ3ROlIlI]

@@lAMDEWAN anyone in the gaming community should know this by now

[@lojas426]

The logic of the AAA studios is that if they fire more employees to pay less wages and increase prices and expectations of the dwindling dev team, they will make more money

[@lAMDEWAN]

Bingo

[@Tafe1988]

I boycott games/publishers since about 2 decades. No EA, no, ubisoft, no activision, no... Im not buying this shit.

[@HoboGardenerBen]

The enshittification of the gaming industry is well developed. I haven't bought a new game in years, just indie stuff and games from the past.

[@lAMDEWAN]

Only playable stuff nowadays

[@HoboGardenerBen]

@@lAMDEWAN Yup. I'm actually happy with the state of gaming in a weird way because of the huge availability of those kind of games. I don't miss the big flashy games and am not interested in online stuff.

[@johnflenaly6322]

Money vs. Passion, That's all that needs to be said.

[@lAMDEWAN]

Sums it up pretty well

[@justiceiria869]

​@@lAMDEWANnah, maybe in the short term. But the the long term they are shooting themselves in the foot, sony could make more money in the long term. They are just being greedy by wanting money now rather than later.

[@thanousdenten]

Funnily enough, to those who know it 7 days to die is leaving alpha (maybe) in June after ~11yrs in development. Though admittedly, that may not say much and may be another Fallout 76 where it's completed after launch, this is a rather monumental year in gaming. Perhaps through managed democracy, we may see gaming companies listen to their playerbase more than their investors. Liberty save me, I hope that's not a pipe dream

[@lAMDEWAN]

Maybe it isn’t such a pipe dream after all 🤔

[@somethingstosay8093]

it's just a one-time thing that will probably won't ever happen again, bcs ubisoft is still working on making you donate all your money for assassin's creed, Activision will not stop selling COD every year with load of cosmetics and battle passes and so on. Even Sony didn't kneeled after HD2 disaster bcs game is still unavailable in 170+ countries just like ghost of tsushima wich already requires PSN account from the start

[@lAMDEWAN]

We must keep fighting for democracy!

[@mysterious___1]

What redemption story? The game is still delisted in 180 countries. This shit isn’t over.

[@lAMDEWAN]

I know

[@TheChampionofthepeople]

😂😂😂😂

[@stannumowl]

Another episode of my favorite series "big publishers hate money"

[@lAMDEWAN]

I wonder when next season is coming out 🤔😅

[@Phyde4ux]

I could swear I heard this same commentary 4 months ago about Baldur's Gate 3.

[@lAMDEWAN]

Larian all over again?

[@kesn8317]

wrong, steam didnt had the 3rd party requirement tab, they added it later use wayback machine

[@lAMDEWAN]

Bait and switch 🎣

[@JonathanMerlinSymmank]

Helldivers 2 may have saved everyone from another video game crash, if we get there.

[@lAMDEWAN]

I think the crash already happened-but a new phase of democracy has begun.

[@Maramara13Fly]

We won a battle but have yet to win the war. BUT. Making Sony bleed is a good start. Making them realize, they are not invincible is a good start. Kinda like how Ghul brought back the fear of death to the Guardians in Destiny.

[@lAMDEWAN]

Good analogy. The war goes on..

[@Eligriv_maitre_constructeur]

The 1.21 music in the background 😂😂😂 Aaron Cherof is trully amazing

[@lAMDEWAN]

Masterpiece 😂🙌

[@xmetaknightx7664]

Feel the Democracy, Feel our Rage, Feel our madness, We are the Helldiver's that can't be stopped.

[@lAMDEWAN]

Democracy always wins 😎💪

[@Ognjen19]

its still baned to buy in 170 contries i bought the game in march and my brother and our friend cant buy now

[@lAMDEWAN]

Makes no sense why they pulled that garbage

[@LisqrTheFox]

Born to early to colonize planets, but just in time to witness the greatest war in gaming industry, those AAA studios either join the democracy or they will be liberated

[@lAMDEWAN]

Liberation is coming 💪💪

[@LisqrTheFox]

@@lAMDEWAN I just want to add that your content is very well made, easy to read, it's interesting and entertaining Thank you for making it! I watch your vids with my friends we are all sick of current state of CoD and Sony

[@Zacian2.0]

They had a metaphorical money printer. But thats not what they wanted, they wanted the PSN graph to have 'line go up' Who the fuck says no to a money printing game?!

[@bbodyboi]

The only thing I have to say about the recent psn/sony corpo crap is the way the community behaved towards arrowhead (toxic, spamming, telling devs/managers to unalive themselves) is DISGRACEFUL. I agree 100% Sony sucks and was only trying to boost their numbers but for so many people to viciously lash out at arrowhead was honestly embarrassing.

[@lAMDEWAN]

Yeah arrowhead didn’t deserve it

[@comedylyfe2113]

Helldivers is why I want to make my own shooter

[@lAMDEWAN]

Awesome, it’s definitely inspiring to see what this team did defying all odds

[@darkendwarrior]

there still over 170 countries locked out. i consider the war with Sony currently at a draw

[@lAMDEWAN]

It’s an ongoing fight 💪💪

[@darkendwarrior]

@@lAMDEWAN yes sirrrr got to spared the word

[@joogwoog]

Isnt helldivers a AAA game? Wasnt it made by a game studio from ps?

[@lAMDEWAN]

It’s made by a team of 100 employees-and they’re not all developers.

[@joogwoog]

@@lAMDEWAN oh okay

[@totsumurray2046]

We fight so hard cuz we’ve waited so long for a game that’s actually fucking good 😭

[@LordRazer3]

Palworld already shocked thing's up. It's been proven time and time again that Inde and I guess what would be AA have the ability to make far greater games...most just lack the staff size or cash to do it. Then they slide under radar because they don't have much coverage. EDF!

[@lAMDEWAN]

Yes sir Indie is the way to go 👍

[@AlphonseDizon]

Imagine Gru is in helldivers 2

[@lAMDEWAN]

Lel

[@foxvulpes8245]

Spitz deserves contempt and not respect. Je had a childish outburst and then told everyone to do what they WERE ALREADY DOING. how stunning and brave.

[@GasolineLicker]

How complicated, a game with actual effort put into it beat triple-A cashgrabs

[@lAMDEWAN]

Crazy concept 😅

[@chronoallusion]

Man i cannot wait for October 26th!!

[@lAMDEWAN]

What you referring to?

[@hhnnv4304]

with all this going on a lot of people will sail to the sea

[@lAMDEWAN]

The sea of indie games

[@locomovesvl6095]

Anyone recommend a good pc ?

[@lAMDEWAN]

In the hunt for one as well lol

[@alecvalles584]

When you do that there are somethings that could be good to upgrade like the cpu fan. That really all I upgraded, as well as added more ram, other than that it all depends on your budget and what you go for ya know?

[@mattiwyd]

Fortnite players are having fun Epic games is making alot 3-4 million average players Not Fortnite fault its Activision's insecurity

[@Bigbrollicblackdudenamedrequis]

I would play it, but I have no friends

[@lAMDEWAN]

Believe me, you’ll make plenty of friends on the game. Just hop on voice chat 👍 it’s an awesome community.

[@MostHighEmperorPalpatine]

I was playing Stellar Blade before someone told me to try Helldivers 2… now… EVERYTHING I DO IS FOR SUPER EARTH!!!!???!?

[@lAMDEWAN]

Welcome to the fight for democracy 🫡

[@GamerChillz]

While it wasn’t as notable war thunder player review bombed the game to get economy changes this isn’t the first time this has happened

[@lAMDEWAN]

That’s what I mean though, this was on a much larger scale like never seen. Really cool to see communities stand up.

[@miel307]

HD2 only needs to fix its horrible bugs and crashes.

[@lAMDEWAN]

It will get cleaned up 👍

[@davidagiel8130]

Don't forget Sker Ritual as well, if you like cod Zombies this is just as good if not better

[@lAMDEWAN]

👍👍

[@This-is-a-commentt]

Guess you could say, the triple A industry is in… hell?

[@lAMDEWAN]

I guess you could 😅🔥

[@killedbydane4156]

That is why I haven't bought battlefield, call of duty or any similar titles in the last years. They're a joke! DLCs battlepasses and what not just to lure some money out of the players pockets or otherwise they only get a half finished game... Yeah sure. I will never fall for that crap. Helldivers took me 2 weeks of investigation type stuff to decide if I really want to throw a single euro into that thing. fortunately my friends could convince me to do so.

[@lAMDEWAN]

Glad you enlisted 🍵

[@tabaflip]

Foap... tell Proice that Shepad and the AAA gaming industry are stinky winkies.

[@lAMDEWAN]

Poor Foap

[@92_dumanggasamuelsitorus34]

Captain cost: Foap for f sake tell your brother shampoo to stop T posing makarov, And help me kill shepherd lost twin husky.

[@jarredhooper]

Little do Sony know is that PC gamers will play their games regardless. If its not for sale in my country then acquiring it for free is legal.

[@lAMDEWAN]

They should’ve thought about that

[@MemesOfFreedomHere]

damn bro.. hell divers 2 is kinda decreasing on players because the development team is nerfing most of the guns for no reason at all and now players a re leaving the game, why can't they just remove the hands from doing stupid updates after the game has been a success?

[@lAMDEWAN]

That’s why the CEO is now taking the creative head position, he’ll get it back up 👍

[@MemesOfFreedomHere]

@@lAMDEWAN okk

[@extra4542]

I really wish the COD community actually would band together and stop buying all these asinine bundles so that we wouldn’t have them shoved down our throats all the time. The matchmaking is partially centered around pushing you into lobbies with players that have skins and are high skilled so that plebs think buying skins gives them some sort of advantage or fomo

[@lAMDEWAN]

Right there with you man, COD is beyond fixable at this point. The audience they’re targeting has no care for true quality unfortunately. Only bundles 🤢

[@JohnSmith-ip6kc]

All we need to do is get our player base back. What better way to do that then to bring in our Xbox brothers

[@lAMDEWAN]

We’d love to see it! I think Arrowhead will come up with some big updates to bring everyone back and keep people on.

[@TheCosmicAstro-]

Arrowhead is kinda finishing what Sony started. theyve been fumbling the absolute W of a game helldivers 2 is for months. but recently the CEO has apparently been having meetings and trying to get the team back on track to stop removing fun from the game so maybe theyll right the ship before it sinks.

[@lAMDEWAN]

We will survive this

[@TheCosmicAstro-]

@lAMDEWAN hopefully I just want the game to be fun and have more reasonable variety

[@AC-97..]

I was planning to buy Ghosts of Tsushima on Steam, but I don't wanna create a PS account 3rd connection, so I pirated the game, and now im playing it for free .

[@lAMDEWAN]

It is what it is 🤷‍♂️

[@MrVellj001]

It is nit finished yet those that have quit the link to ps are having great trouble playing the game.

[@lAMDEWAN]

The fight isn’t over 💪

[@reaperog8310]

It must not have that much of a fact because Ubisoft new assassins Creed game has a mission separate from money so if you wanna play that extra mission, you got a saddle up more money and you gotta set up more money to have a battle pass so apparently you didn’t get the memo

[@lAMDEWAN]

That decision was made long before the Helldivers 2 drama, I can promise you that. Also let’s wait and see the backlash from the community. And let’s not forget-AAA publishers are still stupid 😂 it won’t happen overnight. We must continue to fight for democracy 💪

[@davidagiel8130]

Pve vs pvp, but still, helldivers is more fun than cod right now. The concept is perfect, being able to seamlessly jump into a game and having everyone fighting for liberation just works.

[@lAMDEWAN]

It works super well

[@MyGuyYourNotHim]

Quoting the ACT as a legitimate source is wild. That schill white knighted so hard for Starfield and mocked Heel vs Babyface for pointing out obvious flaws.

[@lAMDEWAN]

He was right in this case 🤷‍♂️ just used his tweet to emphasize how significant the response from the Helldivers community was.

[@noname-ir7pt]

1:40 they said it way erlier than out of no where

[@AstroFedora-r4d]

Fans vs Sony

[@xronisalmpo3486]

as a ps5 owner and a helldiver i was against it since day sony really f.. up there until they liberate the whole earth i am not playing the game and leave my review bomb there. WE ALL DIVE OR NOT AT ALL

[@lAMDEWAN]

FOR LIBERATION 🫡

[@tomsawyer118]

These aren't big bad boogeymen. They have physical addresses👀👀

[@JarinXeno]

There is a reason that I only buy my games from Steam. They are the only company out there that has proven that they are pro gamer and pro customer.

[@lAMDEWAN]

Best option out there for sure

[@EatmaKoochi-qp7xd]

It's all about MONEY. Those gaming companies are not led by gamers, but by greedy financiers

[@lAMDEWAN]

💯

[@varunghosh2384]

How come no one is suing Sony??

[@lAMDEWAN]

Good question

[@bamban_garcia5562]

Their IP plus the pc PSN requirement was outlined before launch

[@piemaster1288]

Has Nintendo had any major fails this year? With all the other studios and publishers being stupid, I haven't heard anything regarding Nintendo recently.

[@lAMDEWAN]

I know… that’s why I’m scared 😂

[@poppytales8347]

Sony hates everyone who doesnt have PS5 and premium account. That's why

[@lAMDEWAN]

Sony: 🤡🤡🤡 Helldivers 2 community: 😎💪🍵