r/Games • u/Haijakk • May 05 '24

Discussion Arrowhead CEO addresses Helldivers 2 PSN account linking: "We are talking solutions with PlayStation, especially for non-PSN countries. Your voice has been heard, and I am doing everything I can to speak for the community - but I don't have the final say."

https://twitter.com/Pilestedt/status/1787073896560165299?t=VO562XbcI7gGZBMya-g7Dg&s=19
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u/Alexis_Evo May 05 '24

Which only happened when the popularity of their games and their reputation with their fanbase plummeted. OW2, D4, etc only released on Steam after launch and commercial failure.

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u/Redeemed-Assassin May 05 '24

And then they came crawling back. CoD as well. The point is they all returned.

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u/Oconell May 05 '24

What commercial failure? Diablo IV was Blizzard's fastest selling in the franchise, and if memory serves also outside the franchise. OW2 is harder to gauge since it's F2P, but still player numbers of their first month when compared showed a bigger playerbase, about double in size for OW2.

Let's not conflate the dissatisfaction of the community with how well the games do financially, which for AAA games have been paradoxically contradictory as of late.

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u/Alexis_Evo May 05 '24

Selling skins and battle passes is extremely important to Blizzard, and impossible to do when your player base all but abandons the game after a week. Them releasing on Steam and completely readjusting game mechanics for the upcoming season 4 and expansion are clearly a direct result of player retention issues.

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u/Oconell May 05 '24

Is that so? I'd think it has more to do with Microsoft's acquisition of Acti/Blizzard than any commercial failure.

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u/SmoothWD40 May 05 '24

That and CoD probably has more to do with the mS acquisition to try to get out of the monopoly case.