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Helldivers 2 Is Still Absolutely Killing It on PC, By the Way | Push Square
11.03.2024 - 14:20 / pushsquare.com
Now that the initial wave of Helldivers 2 enthusiasm has subsided, you may be forgiven for thinking that the title has fallen off. That’d be a mistake, because it’s worth reiterating the title is still absolutely enormous on Steam. Over the weekend, for example, it managed a peak of 411k players on Valve’s ecosystem alone – which is close to its all-time record of 458k.
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What does this tell us? Well, that the game has retained its popularity, and hasn’t tailed off like other titles tend to. This is consistent with what we’ve been hearing from various retail sources, where the Arrowhead shooter’s sales have actually been increasing week-on-week – an extremely unusual trend, as most titles tend to sell the bulk of their units at launch.
Obviously, the pressure is now on the Swedish developer to continue iterating on this live service outing, but it’s been doing a decent job thus far. Sony has been publicly chasing the live service train for some time, but few could have expected Helldivers 2 would blow up quite like this. It looks like the platform holder’s got its first live service hit in the can, then, and it’ll be interesting to see how this shapes its strategy moving forwards.
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HD2 is a perfect example of right place, right time, right marketing and right price. Empty period for games, near a huge flop like SS and coming just as Palworld fascination was waning, not high value marketing to give people the overinflated expectations, cheap to reflect the AA nature.
This popularity has had issues though as they're already having trouble with the hardcore reddit community. I would say they should hire more PR/community teams to deal with online interactions and reduce dev interactions now that they've gone legit big.
For the game itself it looks really fun and is maybe the first time since TitanFall 2 that an MP game has me intrigued. That being said what big single player or MP games has the PC had to actually compete? mainstream turnbased JRPGs (one million sales is still nothing much in the broader multi platform market), early access controversy based games (Palworld) and Suicide Squad (a bad AAA game that wasted an amazing developer). Not a very strong competition pool.
The price point was also perfect
@Jamesblob which is strange because PC gamers constantly like reminding console gamers that PC is the best and only way to play
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