When Helldivers 2 was the lowest, Arrowhead looked at Hello and No Man’s Sky games to keep your chin

I’m not sure if I saw people swing there and back as soon as they had Helldivers 2. He had several hiccups Here AND Therewhich was difficult for programmers ArrowheadAt least in terms of fighting with the damned “mixed” rating to couples (and lower). In a recent interview for BusinessThe general director of Arrowhead, Shams Jorjani, quite accurately noticed that it was “one of the rollers of the mountain queue” for Helldivers 2, and also talked about how it was to keep up from low ratings – he must all the time explain Sony about the summer vacation.

As Jorjani noted, at some point Helldivers 2 fell by up to 30% positively on Steam, which, as he says: “This is usually the defeat of death in the game, but we came back from it.” The bigger problem occurred after several balancing corrections, which fell to 19%. “I think [19%] It was the lowest. Games that receive a 19% user result generally do not recover. ”

Except that everyone was on vacation at the moment. “When I was asked to enter [as CEO]They gave me the keys to the car … and they told me: “We are going on vacation because we haven’t received a lot for the last few years,” explains Jorjani. “And I thought:” We run a live game game, people cannot be turned off for the next three months! ” But this happens in Sweden. We take our summer holidays very seriously. ”

Jorjani also had to explain this to the General Director of the Business Group in Sie, not quite an easy task – “maybe the lowest point during my current term”, as the general director of Arrowhead put it – but the plan was created, and the reviews returned to a positive one. Perhaps it is surprising, Jorjani said he was “inspired by him” Hello Games AND No man of manPerhaps one of the most infamous games of the last decade when it comes to changing the surrounding rhetoric. “The game was excited and then bombed, and then they put their heads to the ground and simply updated the game,” Jorjani noted.

Of course, Hello Games had much more to do to fix this spaceship, it took years to get where it is now. The answer to Helldivers 2 was certainly much more unstable and it was quite easy to argue that this fact appeals to where we are in service games live: kick enough confusion, and more or less you will get what you want. In any case, the thumbs faced for Arrowhead that the second year Helldivers 2 is becoming a bit smoother.