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Helldivers 2 Community Chose to "Save the Children" Over Getting a New Weapon, So Arrowhead Donates to Children's Charity (mp1st.com)
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[-] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

74.4k people on one planet and its liberation dropping is pretty noticeable. Somehow in less than 12 hours the liberation progress was able to basically swap. I am not saying that there is definitive proof that AH is manipulating the numbers, and I agree with you for the most part, but surely you can agree the timing is rather convenient for some good press?

Especially after the player count dropped by more than 250k, probably due to the Sony Account debacle, and now they're catching more heat from their official Discord mods going on a timeout/ban spree on people who vomit reacted to furry art.

Certainly I'd like to think it was all for good fun, but the timing is too convenient and IMO it kinda poisons the waters for the good feeling. Donating to charity is good, but they could have done that without "giving the players the choice," so why didn't they? Were they really not going to donate to charity if that MO somehow failed?

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm pretty sure the charity donation wasn't planned. If it was, that's an awfully small donation for what would've been a big community event. If they had planned this, I'm sure they would have actually partnered with a charity and encouraged players to donate or something, to have had an actually meaningful contribution.

I feel like you're looking too deep into this. This looks more like the CEO just having a laugh with the community. Not everything is a conspiracy.

this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2024
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