Helldivers 2 Dev Arrowhead Takes Blame for Killzone Pricing Blunder
"This one is on us".Helldivers 2 has enjoyed a typically chaotic couple of news cycles this past week. Following the leak that a collaboration with Sony and Guerrilla Games would bring Killzone 2-themed content to the game, its subsequent, immediate release confirmed this. Unfortunately, developer Arrowhead appears to have set the price too high, which was met with backlash from the community. On this, it quickly backtracked, apologising, increasing the availability of the first pack, and releasing the second early and for free.IGN followed the twists and turns in detail, and during a Discord town hall, Arrowhead CEO Shams Jorjani attempted to placate players: "Clearly, we'd love to find the sweet spot of people loving the content AND the price and buy the bejeesus out of it. This didn't hit that mark."Read the full article on pushsquare.com
"This one is on us".
Helldivers 2 has enjoyed a typically chaotic couple of news cycles this past week. Following the leak that a collaboration with Sony and Guerrilla Games would bring Killzone 2-themed content to the game, its subsequent, immediate release confirmed this. Unfortunately, developer Arrowhead appears to have set the price too high, which was met with backlash from the community. On this, it quickly backtracked, apologising, increasing the availability of the first pack, and releasing the second early and for free.
IGN followed the twists and turns in detail, and during a Discord town hall, Arrowhead CEO Shams Jorjani attempted to placate players: "Clearly, we'd love to find the sweet spot of people loving the content AND the price and buy the bejeesus out of it. This didn't hit that mark."
Read the full article on pushsquare.com
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