The developer has given all players the long-awaited cape that displays a graph of how badly the game was review-bombed

June 30, 2025 | 11:41am

Helldivers 2 Item That "Commemorates" Review-Bombing Campaign Is Now Available

The developer has given all players the long-awaited cape that displays a graph of how badly the game was review-bombed

If you don't quite remember why so many people were furious at Arrowhead (for about a week), it all had to do with issues caused by the interactions between publisher Sony, Arrowhead, and the PC version of the game. In essence, not long after the game launched in early 2024, Sony attempted to require that PC players create or link a PlayStation Network account to keep playing. As the PC gaming culture tends to look unfavorably on efforts to mandate new accounts or launchers, players were outraged and eventually managed to convince Sony and Arrowhead to reverse course.

This decision caused an intense, albeit short-lived, downturn in Helldivers 2's otherwise stellar reviews, driven by coordinated review-bombing. Following the reversal, players banded together to try to do a review-boosting campaign, and the game's recent Steam reviews have fully recovered. But the outrage and temporary cratering of the game's reputation seem to have left a strong impression on the developer.

Arrowhead has had to work hard to build back toward the heady heights of its early days, though. Recent content updates have been received quite well, with peak concurrent players reaching close to 200,000 last month. Having hit a low point back in April, Helldivers 2 has been reinvigorated by the Heart of Democracy update.

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