Helldivers II remains the best-selling premium game of 2024 year-to-date... It currently ranks 7th in lifetime US dollar sales for Sony published titles
Helldivers II remains the best-selling premium game of 2024 year-to-date... It currently ranks 7th in lifetime US dollar sales for Sony published titles
Couldn't figure out now to cross post this from the games community
Crazy how when you make a fun game it sells well. Who woulda thought!
It's not just that it's fun, but that Arrowhead are respecting their player base. No subscription fees, no timed battle passes, no pay-to-win mechanics, real-money currency can also be earned for free by just playing the game (I've already bought 2 warbonds with SCs that I found completely in-game, with enough currently banked to insta-buy the new one whenever it drops)... They know what players want, and they made the game to those specs. They're treating their players like people, instead of cash cows to be milked.
I was explaining the in-game progression system and war bonds stuff to a friend, who is a long time gamer. He interrupted me and said, "You don't have to explain it to me, I know how battle passes and in game stores work."
But that's the thing, he knew how most in-game stores and battle passes work - but Helldivers isn't like that. There's no time pressure battle passes where you have to play a certain amount in a month to get something. There's no pay to win mechanic where you are pressured to spend money. It really is different from modern games. It feels more like an old school game where you can get anything just by playing whenever you want, except with the benefit of them constantly adding new stuff
Call of duty and fifa sells very well every year...
And they just ruined all that good will over night.
What happened?
Sony has announced their intentions to reinstate the Playstation Network account requirement to play HD2 on PC. Steam users aren't happy about it.
I'm kinda torn. I have a PS5 and a PC, so I have a PSN acct. But I bought this game on PC, I didn't realize it required a PSN acct when I bought it because it was disabled at that time due to the server issues, and I really didn't want to link my account.
It's also problematic because the game was sold in markets where PSN isn't available, so those people are just SOL I guess. Too much play time to refund, and using a VPN could get your PSN account banned by Sony.
I just wish they made it optional. People would be perfectly content if it was an optional feature.
Permanently Deleted
That's ok, I pretty much captured it all in the title. The only other point it mentioned was that the game has only been out for a few months and is already Sony's 7th best selling game.