'We have an actual person with the title of Game Master': A single Helldivers 2 dev named Joel is pulling the strings on its galactic war like an all-powerful D&D dungeon master, war will become 'more and more sophisticated over time'
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Arrowhead has noticed the "attachments" players have to planets and will make them more of a character in the future.

Arrowhead has been curating the game with a Game Master named Joel. Everyone thank Joel for giving our missions that human touch.

  • MiltownClowns@lemmy.worldEnglish
    912·
    10 months ago

    Obviously not you pleb. He is clearly pointing out the fact that having a multiplayer game with anti-cheat driven by the vision of one person is step one in the slow decline into autocracy. Haven’t you ever read 1984?

      • MiltownClowns@lemmy.worldEnglish
        56·
        10 months ago

        The inability of people to understand sarcasm without an explicit tag is mind-boggling. How hyperbolic do I need to be? Should I relate Tetris to the authoritarianism of the Cold War? I bet a lot of y’all ask questions and get referred to the previous email, don’t you?

        • WarmSoda@lemm.eeEnglish
          81·
          10 months ago

          That’s why I asked, man. I saw it but with that other guy being serious I wanted to make sure.

          • MiltownClowns@lemmy.worldEnglish
            43·
            10 months ago

            I kind of used you as an opportunity to get on a soapbox. I wasn’t annoyed at your question. I was annoyed at the other people down voting me clearly missing the joke. Apologies for using you as an example.