“We’re so back!”: Too Little, Too Late as Arrowhead Finally Hears Helldivers 2 Complaints and Reverts 1 Controversial Change
Arrowhead Game Studios' latest update on its revival plan for Helldivers 2 brings a lack of enthusiasm among its players to the fore.
- Arrowhead Game Studios has begun its 60-day plan to revive Helldivers 2.
- The first of its updates has players either indifferent or cautiously optimistic about the game's future prospects.
- Arrowhead will need to navigate its next few actions with care and precision in order to bring Helldivers 2 back from its current dismal state.
Not many games in recent years have witnessed a rise and fall as mercurial as Arrowhead’s Helldivers 2. Releasing to an overwhelmingly positive critical and commercial response earlier this year, the game’s unique premise and excellent gameplay loop were not enough to keep its players interested over the long term.
However, that may not have been the case if not for baffling decisions on Arrowhead’s part, which included updates changing specific details in the game that were not well received by players along with a lack of new content that has left them moving on to other titles while Super Earth laments the loss of its troops.
Arrowhead’s Promises Fall Flat for Its Players
One of the major issues that Arrowhead currently faces is a lack of faith from its player base, a situation entirely of its own making. While its efforts to get Helldivers 2 back to its former glory are laudable, its track record of buffs and nerfs to popular weapons has landed it in a dilemma in which its best efforts to rekindle player interest in its flagship game result in cautious optimism at best.
Its recent 60-day plan to address player complaints and resolve burning issues with the game is a great showcase of how the studio has managed to lose the confidence of its players and has essentially hamstrung Helldivers 2, preventing it from achieving the revival that it very much deserves.
Can Helldivers 2 Come Back to Life in 60 Days?
Arrowhead finds itself at a crossroads. The studio needs to truly pay attention to what its players want – a requirement that it seems to be adhering to in its new plan to bring back Helldivers 2 to its place of dominance in the crowded genre of third-person shooters.
That includes improvements to its many weapons, like the one in the post below. More importantly, the studio needs to keep track of what it changes and avoid rolling back any improvements in future updates, which has been a pain point for several players.
While a buff to Flamethrowers does sound like it could make the game a lot of fun, many players believe that it will not be enough to bring back others who may have moved on to other titles like Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2.
The idea that Arrowhead’s changes may be too late to save the day for Helldivers 2 seems to have a constant presence in the post’s responses – showcasing how indifferent the majority of its player base has become in light of its bad decisions over the last few months.
Other players were quick to remind their fellow Helldivers that the game needs new content and not updates to existing content in it.
While fans of Helldivers 2 will certainly hope for the best over the next two months, it is evident that Arrowhead will need to recreate the magic it once commanded over its players in order to get the game back on its feet again.
