Cooperative third-person shooter Helldivers II has sold 12 million units as of May 5, publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment and developer Arrowhead Game Studios announced.
  • LouNeko@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52·
    1 month ago

    And yet it still takes 4+ attemts to join a quickmatch and only they host can use the “remember scope” setting. Where the fuck is all this money going?

    • khab@kbin.social
      5·
      1 month ago

      Arrowhead has less than 100 employees. Helldivers 1 sold much, much less than 2. It has an all-time peak of 6,744 players, and that was seven years ago.

      These were the conditions going in. I’m sure they’re trying to scale up and meet the insane demand for bug fixes and content, but that ain’t done in two months. In most respects this is a small developer who hasn’t planned for this kind of popularity.