Following the news that Helldivers 2 on PC will soon require a PlayStation Network account to play, the community reacted by review bombing the Steam page. Whereas the game previously enjoyed a Very Positive aggregate user score, it has now dropped to Mixed for overall reviews and Mostly Negative for recent reviews. In the span of a few hours, over 57K negative reviews have been left for Helldivers 2 on Steam.
The War Within Q&A – WoW Devs Dive Deep Into Every Aspect of the Expansion
17.04.2024 - 17:13 / wccftech.com / Alessio Palumbo
Public Alpha testing for The War Within, the tenth World of Warcraft expansion, is about to begin. Ahead of this important development milestone, Wccftech joined a roundtable Q&A session featuring Blizzard's Michael Bybee (Production Director on all World of Warcraft), Sean McCann (Senior Content Designer), and several colleagues from the press for an hour-long conversation.
You can read the entire transcript below. It's a big deep dive into practically every aspect of The War Within, from the Hero Talents to Delves, Warbands, the new zones, dungeons, and raids, as well as some tidbits about the studio's approach for the whole Worldsoul Saga announced at BlizzCon 2023. By the way, we've also embedded the new WoWCast in case you really want to overload your sense with The War Within information.
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Mike Minotti (GamesBeat): How is the team able to handle the scope of everything that it's undertaking at the moment? Dragonflight had a lot of content and The War Within is shaping up. You have that long-term plan with the other expansions and you're even surprising us with things like Mists of Pandaria Remix. It seems like a lot to take on. And yet, people seem generally pretty happy with the quality of the content as well. Was there some kind of organizational shift to make this happen, or has something just clicked into place?
Michael Bybee: I think the best way to answer that question is really a couple of things. One of them is that the team these days is doing a lot more in terms of organization and planning around the kind of work we're doing. It's something I'm obviously very passionate about as the production leader on the team, but it's something I'm really proud to see with the team.
Everybody is engaged in making sure that we're sustaining good team health. We do a lot of planning to make sure that the work that we do lines up with that. Then in addition to that, yeah, there have been some organizational changes over the years that have meant that we have a little bit of a larger team that's able to focus on all these initiatives. One of the things I really love about that is we're able to do things like The War Within, which I think is one of the most exciting expansions we've ever worked on, and do that alongside things like the Remix Mists of Pandaria content and the Plunderstorm, which is a totally separate team we call the live team that works on that kind of content. It's really exciting because it just brings way more content for players, including myself. I'm constantly playing, and I love that there's so much to do.
Stephanie Watel (Twinfinite): I am very, very intrigued by the addition of the Delves
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