What happened to the community

[John]

i really only noticed the community getting meaner and spiteful after i played deep rock galactic and saw how nice their community was. What happened that made our community so mean?

[SuperMrSkully]

Kids and man/woman children who get off being superior to everyone. Couple that with fatigue patch notes that don't actually represent what has been changed, you have a recipe for mass gas lighting.

[Grimno]

Bad parenting if I had to hazard a guess

[Toilet Paper Merchant]

Well for one, deep rock has always been player friendly from the beginning. And the devs actually play their own game.

[Mr.Pessimism]

too many trolls looking to get clowns on free accounts making the forums horrible. So most people stop using them.

[LoveTruffle]

Originally posted by Toilet Paper Merchant:

Well for one, deep rock has always been player friendly from the beginning. And the devs actually play their own game.

Yep. AH and Sony spoiled all good will and burned any momentum Helldivers 2 had from launch. Now there's a lot of players bitter at what could have been.

[SuperMrSkully]

Originally posted by Mr.Pessimism:

too many trolls looking to get clowns on free accounts making the forums horrible. So most people stop using them.

This guy, right here.

[RISKINVERSE]

I think part of the difference is some people play this game because the guns feel good and they understand that this is a satire of a terrible fascist reality. Others play this game because they enjoy this satire of a terrible fascist reality a bit too much.

[Terrkas]

Different playernumbers. The bigger it gets, the more trolls it has. And you tend to notice the loud ones more. Drg has some too, but the game also is more geared towards cooperation with different roles. So when everyone does there part it feels great. In helldivers, if you are good enough, you can do the part of someone else easily yourself too. So good teamplay provides less satisfaction.

Edit: also mission lenght. In drg i can finish in 20 minutes easily. So with 1.5 hours playtime you often can do your assignment with randos and have some fun in the bar at the side. In helldivers, i might not even do all 3 missions with my Team, because it just takes longer to clear the map with randos.

[Soup]

Originally posted by John:

i really only noticed the community getting meaner and spiteful after i played deep rock galactic and saw how nice their community was. What happened that made our community so mean?

DRG was an indie game that made it big. This was a game backed by Sony, and was meant to be a AAA release.

DRG fostered it's community over years, and released countless good updates following player feedback. HD2 seemingly doesn't. Then when groups complain about not feeling heard, you get some mindless 'skill issue' retort. So people just leave and hop to the next game. Since negative interactions always have a higher chance to dissuade someone from using a product or service, more people don't stick around or return.

[żyd]

mankind fall down

[Corey Greyfox]

For some reason the toxic players were attracted to a game that makes fun of their entire belief system, maybe because satire goes above their heads.

[sadchaos]

Dwarves naturally respect other Dwarves for they are all brothers of the deep. No dwarf is left behind.
Helldivers are expendable and are treated like trash so they have grown accustom to treating others like trash. There is little care if a helldiver is left behind, so long as objective is complete.

[DapperDeeds]

Originally posted by Corey Greyfox:

For some reason the toxic players were attracted to a game that makes fun of their entire belief system, maybe because satire goes above their heads.

All 80k of us baby.

[pseudo]

DRG is a game that encourages cooperation and generates far less stress even on higher Haz levels because the devs actually give you good primaries to deal with the ♥♥♥♥ you're tasked against, in addition to abilities that actually work and feel fun to use. In HD2 everyone's a ♥♥♥♥ to each other because you can generally run off and do things by yourself far more successfully. Even if someone dies you can just mindlessly ↑ ↓ → ← ↑ them back into the game instead of having to physically locate them and devise a way to safely rescue them as you would in DRG.

If HD2 wants to have a playerbase as kind as DRG they should consider how little the average player is incentivized to care about their fellow divers.

[sadchaos]

Originally posted by pseudo:

Even if someone dies you can just mindlessly ↑ ↓ → ← ↑ them back into the game instead of having to physically locate them and devise a way to safely rescue them as you would in DRG.

This is something i really wish helldivers had.
Whenever i played DRG and if i or someone else got downed all the time without fail there will always be that one glorious hero who will back track their way through hell just to revive. It's beautiful and honestly one of the best parts of DRG.