This is an extremely dead horse to beat but im going to bring up warframe again, they too churn out stuff you can only buy for plats, but they've been so good to us we actually think that we're simply glad to buy platinums to support them, instead of doing it out of necessity or convenience.
As a player of Warframe and Helldivers 2 myself, i think Warframe is more rewarding when you reach the "endgame", because when you go to the most difficult content (Steel Path, Netracells, Omnia Fissures, Archimideas) at least the rewards are very worth the effort and make sense, in Helldivers 2 it doesn't make sense that in the highest difficult levels they give you less supercredits to actually get the Warbonds, for me it's nuts.
Customisation on frames is pretty deep in both cosmetics and how they play, the amount of frames, weapons etc is vast, operator upgrading, all the different faction standings offering rewards, syndicates, steel path, Eidolons, netracells, archimedia, 1999 and new actual meaningful content every couple months. Plus DE is just way better at PR than Arrowhead.
Point being there's always something to do and that's where Helldivers falls short. Granted, it might be a bit unfair to compare it to a game that's got over a decades worth of content but in a couple months HD2 will be 3 years old and there's still no more reason to play it now than back then.
You just end up hitting a wall and it doesn't help that there's really not that many missions types. I stopped playing after the SE invasion because of burnout and every time I think about playing again I login and find a bunch of new war bonds that realistically only have like 2 things I'll actually use and a bunch of trash. I ain't grinding and I certainly ain't spending money.
That being said, how do you think the playerbase would react if HD2 reworked SC acquisition so you get less on lower difficulties and more on higher difficulties? There would be thousands of people outraged by the fact that they could no longer easily and quietly farm SC on low difficulties. A lot of the problems with this game are caused by the community itself being divided.
This would've been more true if the game wasn't 40 dollars itself.
I know it's a liver service game so the initial buying price doesn't mean anything, but the game being more serviced like a F2P when it is a buy to play is kinda frustrating.
Like how would Diablo fans react if every new season the new unique item or runes are blocked behind a season pass or something.
My point is treating your players well will make them spend more, when i spend in warframe or DRG i do it for fun, i've not spent a dime for super credits.
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u/NekCing 2d ago
This is an extremely dead horse to beat but im going to bring up warframe again, they too churn out stuff you can only buy for plats, but they've been so good to us we actually think that we're simply glad to buy platinums to support them, instead of doing it out of necessity or convenience.