“Arrowhead CEO Shams Jorjani revealed some interesting details about Helldivers 2’s development. The game was originally set to be a PS5 launch title (it ended up shipping four years later). Helldivers 2 was also a free-to-play title at one point, Jorjani says, before it switched back to a paid product.”

“Sony was floating the idea of releasing free-to-play live games at some point, possibly during the early Fortnite boom days (a big reason why Sony is even trying to make games like Concord or Helldivers 2 is because they saw first-hand how much money Fortnite was making on PlayStation).”

“Sony has other plans, and is trying to create a new type of live service game that mixes F2P microtransaction practices with the kind of premium content found in AAA games. It’s a take on Bungie’s model with Destiny 2, but applied more broadly to a portfolio of games. The result is Helldivers 2 being sold for $40 (and Concord, too, before it was delisted).”

At the time Medusa offlane was the most popular offlaner, just saying. These 2 comments always make me smile. The game had such an impact on the guy he had to come back a day later to write another comment.

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I know it ain’t much nowadays due to the inflation of MMR but i’m pretty proud of myself to be able to reach Immo rank by only playing 2games on avg per day.

Was once an Ancient 7 during university years. Had to stop the grind due to priorities.
Came back as Archon last 2022 as a working adult and i thought i really am washed up for this game.

Years later, i’ve finally reached the rank i once dreamt of.

He’s this lash player on the NA servers who rushed to magic carpet and then spends the rest of the game just doing air slams from the magic carpet at max height, and whenever he’d die he’d put “the Djinn is not so easily defeated…” into the chat before he respawns. The best part though is that when they were about to lose, he paused the game and put in all caps “THE DJINN USES HIS POWERS TO STOP TIME”

has anyone else seen this guy?

mcgunnis is WAY too much fun