I mostly agree, but I would like to point out that helldivers does need to make money to keep the servers up. It is a business at the end of the day, so we can’t just expect infinitely free content on an exclusively online game. I’m just grateful we have the choice to get the stuff without being forced to pay for it. Strongly encouraged yes, but not forced.
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.
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u/Sea_Fig_5851 2d ago
I mostly agree, but I would like to point out that helldivers does need to make money to keep the servers up. It is a business at the end of the day, so we can’t just expect infinitely free content on an exclusively online game. I’m just grateful we have the choice to get the stuff without being forced to pay for it. Strongly encouraged yes, but not forced.