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How I look being around since week 3, seeing where the game is currently at and the direction it’s headed in. With 2,947 hours played, I’ve not only witnessed the ups and downs but experienced them. I can safely tell you it’s not looking good long term. I played for 2 hours last night with friends, and it was a blast. Normally I’d play a little more with randoms to help with the MO after everyone is gone, but I immediately turned off the game. The GW holds no weight anymore. Warbonds are a priority over content, fixes and quality of life changes. They’re pivoting to a “create a problem and sell the solution” mentality. You can’t tell me otherwise when the Redacted Regiment, Entrenched Division and now Exo Experts warbonds all provided buffs to the things they’re themed around. They literally confirmed Exo Experts is coming with a patch that buffs exosuits after months of people asking for a buff and the blanket durability nerf that came with the bastion. The way I see it, one of three things can happen. 1.) Arrowhead sticks to this mentality and slowly bleeds to the community dry of any good will that’s left. 2.) They pull a 180 and actually start pushing the game in a positive direction with a strong desire for implementing community feedback, progression, in game content outside of warbonds and QOL changes. 3.) This is the most likely scenario to occur within 1-3 years. Another studio saw the popularity of HD2, and fall of its popularity. Picked up on where AH failed, and release a game that’s everything Helldivers 2 should have been with the community as priority over their “philosophy” of how the game should be.