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The Helldivers 2 Community needs to get a fucking grip on itself (piefed.social)
submitted 2 days ago by Ryoae@piefed.social to c/games@lemmy.world
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Unbelievable from what I've read about just now. This is games-related because it is targeting a gaming community, one that has seemingly taken things too far than they needed to go.

Summary: A user, who I will not name, issued a challenge to the developers of Helldivers 2 to play their game on the hardest difficulty on a mission mode that is known for being difficult, poorly designed and glitchy. Should the developers complete it, he will donate $1,000 to charity of his choosing.

The fanbase? They didn't take this kindly and have now been making it a campaign to make that user's life a living hell. Even up to making said user lose their IRL jobs. I'm surprised the user hasn't killed themselves yet and I hope it never gets to that point.

If you've been on the Helldivers 2 subreddit and Steam community, you will know what is going on. I am talking of this because, I hope to never ever see this kind of behavior happen within the Fediverse, because we are supposed to be better than this. I'm not surprised that the rapid dogpiling in rabid irrationality, happened from Reddit because that's where a lot of it comes from.

There is way more to this drama than I am speaking of, but all it has been doing, is making me disgusted over game-based communities who allow this to happen. I'm disgusted at the people who could've nipped it in the bud before it got out of control but didn't. I'm disgusted at Reddit for predictably allowing it to happen.

I have not felt this disgusted towards something since the Night in the Woods incident. Absolutely disgraceful.

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[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It's why I stopped playing all multiplayer games tbh. People are fucking feral.

[–] KatakiY@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I've not actually run into more than two or three assholes in helldivers. Almost everyone is cool. Idk if it's because I exclusively play in7-10 difficulty on PC or what.

Lots of funny people, and almost everyone pulls their own weight and when shit goes wrong usually everyone has a laugh.

Also being the host helps cause I just kick the couple of people who are assholes lol

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago

Exact opposite experience as you. I put in a good 25 hours before I dropped it from all the toxicity. If you accidentally hit someone or your laser drone friendly fired they grenade you, harass you on voice chat, and purposefully don't revive. Always get kicked at the end of the match. I used to play CS:GO back when it wasnt free and I eventually left for the same reason. I feel just any online game where you have the ability to kill your own team devolves to this.

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago

Warframe recently changed pugs to automatically and instantly disband upon mission completion. It's kind of awesome. I actually don't only play solo now.

[–] TronBronson@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Yea but like its the best way to avoid the feral people in the real world so kinda sucks.