Helldivers 2 Surpasses All Expectations With Astonishing Success

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[BIG BOSS]
- Devon B
- gergely oggolder
- Jonathan Ball
[BOSS]
- Charlie Galvin
- Gerardo Andrade
- Marketing aag
- Michael Redmond
[LEGENDARY]
- azalea
- dirt

[YongYea]

Long live Democracy. Long live Super Earth.


TOP PATRONS


[BIG BOSS]
- Devon B
- gergely oggolder

- Jonathan Ball
[BOSS]
- Charlie Galvin
- Gerardo Andrade
- Marketing aag

- Michael Redmond


[LEGENDARY]

- azalea
- dirt

[Xaito]

I'm starting to notice a formula for success here:
Step 1: Make a fun game
Step 2: Sell it for a reasonable price
Someone should tell all the other game devs.

[mikigameplays]

These small studios destroying big AAA companies are so fun to see and smile.

[bryanmartin]

Any studio that receives millions more then they expected and then immediately throw that money into making the game even better will always have a life long fan from me.

[NinjaMaiku]

In a mission last night I am convinced a DM was added more enemies to our game as we were trying to extract. We couldn't get to the extraction without drop ships and patrols spawning in for a solid 5 minutes.

A tank shows up, shoots at me and yeets me over the battlefield where I somehow miraculously survive the landing right in front of the extraction point. 20/10 will go back. For Liber-Tea!

[HushedLyrics]

“A game for everyone, is a game for no one.”

Most based quote from a studio.

[jacobgivens]

Helldivers 2 understands that fun comes FIRST. Games like suicide squad and skull and bones say grind first, fun later. Glad to see gamers are voting with their wallets.

[earl]

fun fact you can actually loot super credits when doing missions or you can get them in the rewards section. so basically micro transaction is non existing

[parodysam]

Breaking news: game comes out that isn’t terrible

[Zenovii-senpai]

Became so popular that the servers are being affected by how many people are trying to play it. When the CEO tells you to hold off on buying the game until you will actually be able to play and not be in server finding hell... that's a success VERY few companies get.

[FellixNoAmatsu]

We weren't barred from the Starfield experience, we were SPARED from the Starfield experience.

[ARiot]

Imagine being Rocksteady rn. You hold one of the most recognizable ip, you make a live service 3rd person shorter with that ip, and its doa. Meanwhile a pretty niche ip makes a similar game, blows the fuck up achieving 35x your peak numbers

[manynukes]

Just imagine how many players it would have if the servers could handle it

[NGBit]

The game's release is literally sandwiched in between 2 other live service releases from AAA studios (with one claiming it to be AAAA) and it beat BOTH of them. It beat them so bad that the only problem that they faced was too many people trying to play it. It's absolutely insane.

[hanabibibiy]

HD2 reminds me of the 90s when I queue up at arcades.

I put my money in the machine just for the pure purpose of having a bloody good time.

Not for KDA. Not for Loot. Not for FOMO.

Just.A.Good.Time.

[TheRoosterofDoom]

One of my favorite things about this game is the fact that when you die you drop your weapons. I've been letting my brother try out some of the strategem weapons and the ones on the premium warbond by brining them in and letting him pick them up off my corpse. The items in the premium warbond tend to be worse than the free one but it's a very cool addition that if you play on a squad with someone else who bought all that stuff, you can try it out by just picking it up when they die.

I bought the autocannon and didn't like it, but my brother picked it up off my body and fell in love with it. I used his sniper rifle that he didn't care for and I bought one for myself. The true co-operative nature of it is what makes it one of the best experiences and communities to be involved in.

[CasualG-mer]

Terminids: Starship Troopers

Automaton: PTSD Simulator

[Lethanyr]

Important to mention that you can get all the store credits for the store by just playing the game. Roughly 10 hours of gameplay can set you up for that rotations (store rotating the two armor sets it sells every 2 days, with a loop, so ones you missed will be back) store armor sets. You can also unlock premium currency from warbonds which is permanently unlocked, it wont rotate out of the game once a new "season" pops.

[SpectreAdept]

Helldivers 2: *Exists as an example of a live service done right with fun, meaningful content and isn't just an excuse to gouge your wallet*

Games Industry: "I'm going to ignore that"

[GForceIntel]

The game doesn't need cinematics or a crazy story behind it to be great. The gamer experiences it own story through death and sharing the field together with cooperation and success.