For all you brats who undoubtably live in your parent’s basement, go ahead and downvote the hell out of this. I’m sure you care about imaginary internet points, I don’t. This NEEDS to be said. And if you are offended by this post, then good, you are who needs to read it.
I have played this game since Malevelon Creek. Quite frankly, this is the first live service game I’ve ever invested any level of effort into whatsoever. Because I have found the entire world of live service games to be scummy, which is why I was very happy when I realized that Arrowhead, despite not being perfect, despite making mistakes, despite sometimes miss reading their community, is very clearly and fucking obviously staffed by people who care about this game, who want to listen to this community, and want us to have a good game.
Which is why it continues to blow my mind that some of you fuck sticks don’t seem to get this concept. Don’t seem to get that Arrowhead doesn’t have a magic crystal ball that they can see the future and know exactly how what fixes and changes they put in are going to be received. And then they will push a patch that is 80% decent stuff 15% questionable stuff and 5% good stuff and the community will react as if a Helldivers dev personally walked into your house deleted Helldivers from you console, banned your account and then gave you the middle finger on their way out the door while laughing about how evil they are.
Have none of you interacted with EA, or Activision, or fucking Bungie, or whoever the fuck it is that runs elite dangerous? You wanna talk about companies that do not give a shit and unapologetically just attempt to empty your wallet? Like my God Arrowhead basically gave away the second Killzone Warbond for free. Not because they had to, but because they viewed it as the right thing to do after the really bad miss step of the Killzone superstore items. How many other fucking companies would even have that thought process, how many other companies would just immediately look at that exact scenario and say go fuck yourself pay for it again?
Quite frankly, I have felt that the Helldiver community was better than most for most of my time playing the game. I have defended much of it as “legit feedback delivered in a less than ideal way. But this latest Hiveguard saga and the absolute bullying of the devs as a result has royally pissed me off
So I’m going to ask the question that I can almost promise you the vast majority of the lurkers here want asked. What the fuck do you people want? Let me ask it again. WHAT. THE. FUCK. DO. YOU. WANT.? because from where I’m standing here it is like every single one of you wanna pay $40 for a game two years ago and have unlimited free content, updates, new weapons and balances without you having to put in any additional cost. And then if the devs in anyway charge money, even if it’s 15 bucks every two months (napkin math for warbond plus superstore items), the community adopts this completely unearned moralistic viewpoint as if somehow Arrowhead has committed some fucking religious sin by doing that. Who the fuck do you think you are? I don’t take that shit from actual religious people, and I don’t need it in my Helldivers game.
For those of you that actually play this game, because I’m convinced that the vast majority of people in these communities do not play this game, just bitch about it. My advice, get the fuck off these communities and make your own. Start a discord, make a forum. Do something. And make your voice known to the devs. I love this game and the real (non Reddit) people I’ve met on it. This game has been such a wonderful thing in my life and I’m so glad I’ve been able to be a part of it. Don’t let this toxic hellhole ruin that.
TO THE DEVS: THESE PETULANT CHILDREN DO NOT SPEAK FOR US AND NONE OF US WILL CARE IF YOU TELL THEM TO GO FUCK THEMSELVES