Arrowhead just wants to make a game that is independent and not reliant on a specific deal so they can “call 100% of those shots.” What this means is that whatever Arrowhead’s next game ends up being will no doubt launch on PlayStation, Xbox, Switch 2 and PC
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Heavenflyers
I can’t blame them after what playstation pulled on them.
They definitely remember that launch day headache, haha.
Good, I’ve always thought that exclusives are bad for the industry anyways
Maybe they’ll skip playstation even at first. Payback for the ps+ misery sony put their playerbase through
Lets not forget that not all bad decisions were made by Sony. They had their own share of dumb decisions. Nerfing Weapons ins a PVE game and draining the fun till only a fraction of the playerbase remained.
No more stupid psn restrictions. Yay
That latter part is only true for their next game, but it doesn’t mean they will stop partnering with them.
From the article:
>“No way. Playstation are great. there would be no Helldivers if it wasn’t for them. We’re open to working with them again in the future. they are incredibly game/dev oriented. solid partners. and this is me just saying it like it is. not blowing smoke up their asses.”
It’s for the best. Sony caused a lot of issues that made the community mad at them. So it makes sense that the studio wants to move away from them
Coming to Xbox?
Didn’t the lead dev tell everyone the entire concept of HellDivers was to troll patriotic westerners?
I get it was a bit of a parody for sure, but blatantly embarrassing your most loyal players was enough for me to never reinstall.
Edit: Your downvotes won’t bring back patriotic players, but your tears are delicious.
I mean the exclusivity deal seems like it’s good at first, but when the game starts to go a little bit down and the hype window passes, I’m sure at that point they wanted to launch that game on other platforms like Xbox and get a second “launch”. But when you’re signed up to one box, you can’t really do that.
It does seem like the exclusivity thing is starting to go the way of the dodo bird.
Earthwalkers?
good, maybe I will buy this one, last one the EULA and 3rd party account requirements were too much BS and I bought a different game that didn’t require me to learn contract law to understand what it was asking of me.
Heckdroppers
Magika 3, but as a third person game, like Helldivers 2.
Let’s go.
i wonder what exactly their next title would be, and i also hope its on a different engine. magicka 3rd person would be hilarious
It took them 8 years to make Helldivers 2 and they haven’t even started development on whatever this new game is supposed to be so it’s far too early to get excited over whatever this game is.
2025 and we’re still doing exclusives….stupidity.
Games should be available for everyone, regardless of platform(unless it’s PC only, like WoW)
They should make a spiritual successor to Magicka and make it a twin stick extraction shooter.
Let’s hope it will have dlss/fsr/xess support.
Makes sense they made a ton of money no reason they need a partnership for the next title.
All my homies hate capitalist FOMO
Forbes. LOL
That’s not what the CEO said, but obviously you need the spin.
Incredibly smart call.
Heddo Daibahs
CAP!!!! Y’all are Sonys bitches now.
Not surprising – as has become increasingly obvious, the future is multi-release across every platform possible
Costs are rising but the audience isn’t growing fast enough to keep up with them – meaning, you have to hit as big a market as you can to make back your investment
Also, Sony being so incredibly fussy and difficult to work with probably doesn’t help
This is the way.
Let’s hope it also doesn’t involve nProtect GameGuard
H3LLDIV3RS
Soooo… Helldivers 3, Updated (maybe new) Engine. It has to be! Because else they’d have to proper engineer every new shit which they’d try to implement.. Even now they’re struggling but are managing it so well! However I’m super excited.
Whilst I’d love Helldivers 2 on Xbox, I think the boat has sailed on any possibility of that happening. So here’s to seeing what they’re cooking next so I can maybe play it.