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Arrowhead CEO on negative reviews: "I guess it's warranted. Sorry everyone for how this all transpired. I hope we will make it up and regain the trust by providing a continued great game experience." (twitter.com)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

...by providing a continued great game experience (only for PSN users)

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I just want to make great games!

(And I can't do that without money from big publishers and without installing anti-cheat on your PCs)

[+] [email protected] -7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I am probably completely wrong and this is just my opinion but an indie game dev that sells out to any of the shit companies, isn't really in it for the love of games, they want money.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The love of games doesn't tend to feed your family and children.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There are plenty of indie devs that haven't sold out to ea/meta/Microsoft/etc and are perfectly able to feed their families.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

And there are plenty who have failed and declared bankruptcy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Then don't act coy about wanting to make games as if that's the driving force behind you being CEO of a studio.

Be honest and say "yeah, we have contractual obligations and this is one of them, sucks that they are mismanaging it but we have to abide by it because they gave us a bajillion dollars, and we gotta keep the lights on. Hopefully they'll change their minds.”

The reality is that they mismanaged this severely, they should have either held off the launch or made it abundantly clear that this was temporary and it would have been mandatory in a few months, not whatever the fuck this was.

And it should have never been possible for people in non-psn countries to buy the game in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Then don’t act coy about wanting to make games as if that’s the driving force behind you being CEO of a studio.

Buddy, you need to grow up; unless you're a trust fund baby, nobody gets to dedicate a significant amount of their life to doing anything without also finding a way of making money at it. Trying to create a fun game, and running out of money halfway through development, and having to layoff all your friends and cocreators, gets nobody anywhere.

Be honest and say "yeah, we have contractual obligations and this is one of them, sucks that they are mismanaging it but we have to abide by it because they gave us a bajillion dollars, and we gotta keep the lights on. Hopefully they’ll change their minds.”

That is basically verbatim what he has said.

The reality is that they mismanaged this severely, they should have either held off the launch or made it abundantly clear that this was temporary and it would have been mandatory in a few months, not whatever the fuck this was.

The reality is that Sony probably didn't care until Helldivers was a massive success and they've suddenly started caring.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 months ago

That is basically verbatim what he has said.

Very far from that.

The reality is that Sony probably didn't care until Helldivers was a massive success and they've suddenly started caring.

We need people to not just state something like that, but hate such decisions by default and act whenever possible. Just like with any other issue involving caring about minorities. Every customer who bought your game deserves the same regardless of where they live and how much the paid you.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

Helldivers will never be what it was from now on, shame I missed that train. Specially considering it's now essentially a free Steam refund (if you insist past the automated responses).

[+] [email protected] -16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I don’t really understand the hype behind helldivers. To my eye, borderlands is essentially the same game but with greater variety, fewer hiccups, and a lower price.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Interesting take. Do you also think of Mario Kart and Forza Horizon to be the same game?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I mean, more midnight club vs need for speed but I take your meaning. And yes, aside from the stories and one having significantly more content, they’re essentially the same game. I’d have said battlefront 2, but I don’t respect the remake and fishing out multiple ps2s to play online is preposterous.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Well, I appreciate the honesty. Have an upvote.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Very different games to me tbh. Squad pve with gun focused combat, but thats where the similarities end. Borderland is crunchy with tons of guns stats and special movesin a RPG open world with a set narrative to go through.

Helldivers has a way smaller arsenal and a tighter mission based combat loop. They have more of a meta narrative that you affect vs being the main protags. The tighter gameplay loop is probably the biggest reason I liked it but haven't play borderlands in forever. Like its very much built for dropping in blowing up your friend and maybe some enemies too, try to do objectives against mounting odds, pass or fail the mission, continue. The fact that weapon progress almost always makes friendly fire a even bigger threat makes it almost a trade off and not a clear path to success.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't live in a place without PSN, however I uninstalled because of the malware style anticheat files that a small update tried to sneak into my system. Fuck off Arrowhead and Sony both, no thanks, I don't need to jnstall that kind of stuff to enjoy games with my friends on PC.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Idk why they even need anticheat in a PVE game lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Only reason I can think of is to sell MTX boosts for xp or currency, like Activision does in COD

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