In leu of The AMA from Pilestat and the recent patch along with its questionable decisions, The game has entered a near identical state of EoF back in 2024 and AH have once again pushed the community to its limits.
We’ve rightfully already taken action against their decisions by review bombing the game, refusing to buy the new Warbond, and we’ve already caused the devs to cave to our demands by reverting the Hiveguard changes, but this isn’t enough.
We’ve been in this exact situation before, the community is outraged by the games unplayability and acts upon it, AH pretend to listen by fixing a few issues for maybe a month or two, then returning to their usual shenanigans and we get nowhere. They’re only reverting the Hiveguard change and communicating more because we’ve hurt their bottom line, the Mech Warbond didn’t sell as much as the previous ones, therefore they’ve started talking again. It’s good if they genuinely want to improve the game to the fun state it was back at launch, but they’ve pulled this card to many times for us to fall for it again, so we must continue the pressure.
That’s why I propose we start a movement (#FIXDIVERS) to spread the word about the mismanagement from AH and the toxic positivity that Helldivers 2 has been in for nearly its whole life. We need the world at large to know of the lies, the greed, the disappointment, the Antagonistic DM Syndrome, the toxic positivity, the review botting on steam, and the Doxxing that happened around a month ago.
Its also just as important people get the full context over what’s happening with these details, We must let them know of the full situation of the doxxing, how AH was in control of the Sub, and proceeded to pretend it never happened. Their post never even acknowledges the guy or what happened to him, just boils down to “Hey! We heard you guys were fighting, don’t do that.” Then proceed to let the individuals responsible get away with it Scott free, and not calling out the side of the community accepting of it allowing it to happen again. We need to spread the shadow nerfs like the Coyote where the devs “joined in” on the sentiment they wouldn’t nerf the weapon, gaslit players into thinking they didn’t nerf the gun when we begged them not to, only to do exactly that and in a way that hurt other fire weapons in the process. And Especially the Warbond fixes, where they’ll leave a system that doesn’t work (ie Silencers, Flame weapons, And Mechs sorta) in its broken state for years on end no matter how loud we are, until they release a new Warbond containing those items. Because they know if it doesn’t work, it won’t sell, and that’s all that matters to them.
There’s many other issues that I can’t cover in this post, but I believe the only way we can cause AH to actually change for the better is if we break their image outside of the game by spreading the truth, then they won’t be able to bury their heads in the sand until the current drama wave blows over. Currently the majority of people outside of the game think everything is Hunky dory, or don’t understand the severity of the situation, Cr1tiKaL saw the doxxing on stream, but didn’t know the AH was complacent in taking action against the doxxers, therefore he didn’t make a video on it. And a few months ago Jinxee said he may start playing the game because he heard “That game is peak.” And before people twist my words I’m not blaming the content creators here, just explaining why presenting the full context is important for a movement like this to succeed.
Finally I know some people may be on the fence about joining yet another outrage for this game, and I’m not demanding everyone to. But if you care for the future of Helldivers 2 it’s the best thing to do, especially since it’s worked every time. We forced AH to comply to Sony and start the 60 day plan, We refunded the game and review bombed it during the PNS Debacle, forcing Sony to abandon their plans after realizing it was doing more harm than good. Every time we have fought to keep this game alive it has worked, so why would we not do so now? And even if we fail, at least we will have tried.
So to those of you who stand with me #FIXDIVERS will include 3 Key parts. First, continue the review bomb, If you have left your review on the game attach #FIXDIVERS to your review if you wish, if you haven’t submitted your review yet do so. If you choose to add the tag it will encourage people to check the movement out, and understand there’s more to what’s happening. Second, we must make sure that AH knows clearly what we want, not Not a Milisim, Grunt fantasy or adding an aggro effect to the One True Flag when we asked for “flag magic” that would buff us when waved, much like the agitators on the bot front, we want a game balanced for fun, not for difficulty, make the galactic war galaxy wide again, instead of needing 60%+ of the player base to liberate one planet, to explain Gambits, encirclements etc. and we need proper progression, not a new Warbond every month or two. Finally Third and most importantly, Spread the word outside the community of the games state and with the appropriate context so people understand fully what has happened and is happening now.
This shouldn’t be another 60 day plan, the game must change for the better. And if AH returns to their usual shenanigans after this movement, they won’t be able to hide like they have in the past, since people outside the community will know what they’re doing and not be fooled easily. We need change, and now is the time to act.
Hopefully one last time.