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After Initial Success, Helldiver’s 2 Has Lost 90% Of Its Players With No Signs Of Recovery (www.forbes.com)
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[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The game has lot of shitty online only mechanics, so while it would make a solid co-op game, it has the live service model and live service games need to keep a playerbase or they get shutdown. These types of games exist for one reason: microtransactions. They want to sell you bullshit.

That's why they need to compete for playtime. Their next game might not go viral, so losing a massive chunk of your playerbase like this is a problem.

But honestly fuck live service games and people shouldn't expect anything from them. They are made to milk your wallet.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Yeah, but their battle passes never expire, and you don't have to spend real money to get one.

They never expected it to go viral, they budget to go at least a year of story driven campaign and they probably made enough to pay for that times 10 already.

They don't need to nickel and dime the user base, if anything they can sell less premium shit.