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Helldivers 2 went from one of the most beloved Steam games to one of the most hated pretty quickly (programming.dev)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] NeryK 40 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Vocal minority is the assumption when this sort of collective outrage manifests. This time though, thanks to Steam player count we will actually get some hard numbers and see if that has an effect or not.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

At current, there are 32k negative reviews. That's 32,000 people angry enough to go add or modify a review to be negative. The active player base is 100k. As far as "vocal minority" goes...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but how many are bark and no bite? Eg, they'll write the review, but keep playing anyway. That will take some time to find out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I don't think it will affect the current playerbase too much. But I think the negative rating on steam will have an effect on sales.