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Per Arrowhead, Helldivers 2 had over 3 million unique players during the Heart of Democracy event
(lemmy.world)
https://x.com/Pilestedt/status/1928584527590371347
Interestingly, around 2.5M played weekly before the event, so only a gain of ~900k players. I’d be curious if the number of missions per player changed at all.
I sure as shit wasn't one of them after being bullied off the game entirely by Squid Divers.
How did they bully you?
I prefer playing with people and I don't have friends who play it consistently. Every lobby I joined, or tried to run, had at least one person join in and frag us all repeatedly while screaming that we should be fighting for Super Earth. If they weren't fragging they would join and just start yelling about it until whoever the host was kicked them. After 3 days straight of that and not a single game where that didn't occur, I uninstalled the game entirely and let it play out. It was utterly impossible for me to find a game that wasn't being made as toxic as humanly possible by people who just hated any BugDiver who didn't find Super Earth maps, or Illuminate gameplay, to be remotely enjoyable.