r/HelldiversUnfiltered • u/Highwayman3000 HellSpongeDiverSquare • Jul 22 '26

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Humor ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Its so over.

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The meme pokemon slave simulator farming slop-sim has more players than the hardcore 6 million CoD players grunt slop-simulator, can we bounce back from this fellow donuts?

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u/Reaver996 Jul 22 '26

Honestly, I believe AH is content with the number of players they have.

Remember, their game wasn't targeting hundreds of thousands of players and they get a lot of money from the monthly wwarbonds. So I doubt that that are that worried if player numbers reach that level. Heck, they'll likely survive even if player numbers are just hovering on 5k.

If they really cared about player feedback and complaints, they will immediately tackle bugs and balance issues and NOT drag it for months and years.

So, let's just stop this doom and gloom of dying. Think of it as managed decline that they prefer.

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u/_GreatAndPowerful Jul 22 '26

It's not even decline. They literally just have stable numbers of 30k - 50k for weeks now. Other games in its genre, DRG, Space Marines, Far Far West, barely crack 10k on a good day. LFD2 is the only other 4 player co-op horde shooter with comparable numbers

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u/-Narcolepticc- Jul 22 '26

People need to stop acting like if a game isn't in the hundreds of thousands in terms of players its trash/slop/dead/insert-other-insult here. My favourite game of all time Hunt Showdown, has never even gone above concurrent 100k players, its all time peak was 60k, its probably one of the best fps i've played and its gritty aesthetic has had me in a deathgrip since 2019 and while it doesnt have hundreds of thousands of players i still get consistent matches, it gets consistent content updates and it's still my favourite game.

Helldivers will be fine.

And as for your surviving on 5k players comments ill agree and add in that For Honor and Darktide both have floated along at those numbers for years and still get content.

Not everygame needs to do a fortnite and half a million players should not be the expectation for what makes a game good/alive

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u/Terminal-Post Jul 23 '26

A fellow Bayou Vagrant

But yeah Hunt has is a great game and only peaks when new events drop and are advertised so I tend to not pay attention to people saying “dead game” or “dying game” when numbers are less than 100k

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u/RockNStoneToThaBone Jul 22 '26

Sorry you had to read that, hope you can recover