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[Gaiff]

Pacing to cross 450,000+ on Steam today.

It might not be able to do it because of the server cap, but hot damn!

It won’t. It’s at 340K on Steam alone and if the PS5 has even half of that, it’ll massively exceed the capacity. People will just drop the game and play something else out of frustration.

This was a really sloppy job from them.

 

[sachos]

Is it way too conspiracy thinking and terminally online behaviour to think there may be an astroturfing campaign going on trying to devalue the importance of exclusivity for console platforms prosperity?

 

[Fabieter]

It won’t. It’s at 340K on Steam alone and if the PS5 has even half of that, it’ll massively exceed the capacity. People will just drop the game and play something else out of frustration.

This was a really sloppy job from them.

Its highly likely that those 340k aint all actually on the server. No way to find out how big the game is for either platform rn.

 

[Larivel]

Is it way too conspiracy thinking and terminally online behaviour to think there may be an astroturfing campaign going on trying to devalue the importance of exclusivity for console platforms prosperity?

Yeah, it's kind of weird that after Microsoft announced that some of their games will be getting PlayStation and Switch ports, you see tweets with a huge amount of likes - that 'PS users' are calling for Helldivers to be released on Xbox. Like these:



"I keep seeing PlayStation players on social media begging for Xbox players to be able to play Helldivers 2"

 

[YuLY]

It just beat the peak of GTA5 on Steam. Unreal.

 

[Heisenberg007]

Just beat Monster Hunter World and Grand Theft Auto 5.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Dayum, hopefully the servers wild hold as I barely managed to get in.

 

[Three]

Microsoft and Xbox fans:

Nintendo fans don't even care but had this been a MS game you would have had the likes of PeterOVO, Colt, JayRock and co posting crap like this while pretending to be anti-exclusives:

In all seriousness though, if on the odd chance they ever do bring it to other platforms, however unlikely, I say the more the merrier. Just do it when the servers are a little less crowded.

 

[Quixz]

To think there is a possibility of 400K on steam tonight is just wild!!

 

[RyanEvans21]

They should disable buying purchase first! Until the server can handle the people who wants to play.

 

[Horseganador]

 

[Holammer]

The game is a victim of its own success. Steam user review average is dropping because of the connection problems, it used to be 76%, went up to 77 momentarily and now it dropped to 73%.

 

[Luipadre]

The game is a victim of its own success. Steam user review average is dropping because of the connection problems, it used to be 76%, went up to 77 momentarily and now it dropped to 73%.

No one cares about steam reviews. People will buy and play the game anyway, because its FUN, when it works. Doesnt matter if its mixed of very positive.

 

[Katatonic]

Yeah, it's kind of weird that after Microsoft announced that some of their games will be getting PlayStation and Switch ports, you see tweets with a huge amount of likes - that 'PS users' are calling for Helldivers to be released on Xbox. Like these:



"I keep seeing PlayStation players on social media begging for Xbox players to be able to play Helldivers 2"

It's the crossplay campaign all over again.

 

[Pakoe]

Been trying for 2 hours to get into to game, still nothing. Fucking pisses me off

 

[nosoynadie22]

 

[tmlDan]

Holy smokes it keeps growing 377K now

 

[nosoynadie22]

Been trying for 2 hours to get into to game, still nothing. Fucking pisses me off

Possibly a considerable part of the 370k Steam users are in the same situation as you, the game is also the most played on PS5

 

[yet_another_alt]

It amazes me that people are willing to wait hours to get in. I just ended up buying the Destiny 2 Humble Bundle and dicking around in that.

 

[Thief1987]

Holy smokes it keeps growing 377K now

Half of them staring at the login screen lol

 

[jroc74]

Day 1 PC ports didn't kill Xbox. That was gamepass.

Hey, we might find out the answer to this if Sony puts a new single player game thats not a remaster or remake on PC day one. I was thinking the exact same thing....MS does so much all at once, did they create Game Pass and do day 1 PC releases at the same time?

Because they already did TLoU and Until Dawn day one or a few months after the PS5 release. Probably Uncharted collection too.

 

[Holammer]

No one cares about steam reviews. People will buy and play the game anyway, because its FUN, when it works. Doesnt matter if its mixed of very positive.

You're missing the forest for the trees. Such a sharp drop reveals the scope of the login problem.

 

[Pakoe]

It amazes me that people are willing to wait hours to get in. I just ended up buying the Destiny 2 Humble Bundle and dicking around in that.

I made dinner and am watching UFC while its in queue. Just wanted to game on the first free sunday in a while.

 

[jroc74]

Is it way too conspiracy thinking and terminally online behaviour to think there may be an astroturfing campaign going on trying to devalue the importance of exclusivity for console platforms prosperity?

Yeah, it's kind of weird that after Microsoft announced that some of their games will be getting PlayStation and Switch ports, you see tweets with a huge amount of likes - that 'PS users' are calling for Helldivers to be released on Xbox. Like these:



"I keep seeing PlayStation players on social media begging for Xbox players to be able to play Helldivers 2"

With the connection issues.....I have my doubts too.

Might be a new script in the playbook for MS, lol.

It's the crossplay campaign all over again.

I would not be shocked. How that went down was wild to see.

 

[Heisenberg007]

Holy smokes it keeps growing 377K now

I called a few hours ago (on the previous pages) that the game is pacing towards 450,000+ CCU on Steam today.

The server cap is the only issue. Otherwise, it'd blast that number.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

I dont think that 450k MP cap is true. That or rrowhead servers are prioritizing PC gamers.

Right now SteamDB says PC CCU is 378k. So that means only 70k on PS5 are playing?

 

[hepfom]

I dont think that 450k MP cap is true. That or rrowhead servers are prioritizing PC gamers.

Right now SteamDB says PC CCU is 378k. So that means only 70k on PS5 are playing?

it was probably true yesterday but who knows how many they've added since then.

 

[Thief1987]

How a small dev without a publisher could maintain 2 million CCU, and these guys couldn't maintain 350k? This is kinda embarrassing.

 

[Luipadre]

How a small dev without a publisher could maintain 2 million CCU, and these guys couldn't maintain 350k? This is kinda embarrassing.

Palworld works completely different. They dont track a bunch of shit like this game does on the server side. 2 Completely different beasts

 

[Heisenberg007]

I dont think that 450k MP cap is true. That or rrowhead servers are prioritizing PC gamers.

Right now SteamDB says PC CCU is 378k. So that means only 70k on PS5 are playing?

1) They could have increased the cap size since yesterday.
2) Even PC players who are waiting in the queue, trying to connect, would be counted in the Steam CCU. But they wouldn't be a part of the 450K population.

 

[YuLY]

How a small dev without a publisher could maintain 2 million CCU, and these guys couldn't maintain 350k? This is kinda embarrassing.

I'm no dev but it is probably a different type of connectivity. In addition, Palworld can also be played fully offline in your own server, but since you log into steam it still would count you as playing ofc.

 

[hepfom]

How a small dev without a publisher could maintain 2 million CCU, and these guys couldn't maintain 350k? This is kinda embarrassing.

hasn't this shit been explained a million times already?

 

[Fabieter]

I dont think that 450k MP cap is true. That or rrowhead servers are prioritizing PC gamers.

Right now SteamDB says PC CCU is 378k. So that means only 70k on PS5 are playing?

Do you think that everyone in the pc version is actually on the servers as well? I waited like 2 hours on pc yesterday and I was still counted towards ccu.

 

[Three]

I dont think that 450k MP cap is true. That or rrowhead servers are prioritizing PC gamers.

Right now SteamDB says PC CCU is 378k. So that means only 70k on PS5 are playing?

Again being ingame doesn't mean you count towards server capacity.

 

[Thief1987]

I'm no dev but it is probably a different type of connectivity. In addition, Palworld can also be played fully offline in your own server, but since you log into steam it still would count you as playing ofc.

Well, it's embarrassing in any case as it's already 10 days since release and they still can't figure things out, there can't be any justification for this. They are handicapping themselves and spoiling their own success.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

I hate to be that guy because it is ana amazing success but most players aren't playing those games on Steam anyhow

 

[tmlDan]

Well, it's embarrassing in any case as it's already 10 days since release and they still can't figure things out, there can't be any justification for this. They are handicapping themselves and spoiling their own success.

its really not that hard to get in, are you even playing it?

I have had NO troubles. just wait a min or two to get in lol

 

[Thief1987]

its really not that hard to get in, are you even playing it?

I have had NO troubles. just wait a min or two to get in lol

I don't know maybe you are lucky, but Steam user rating dropped 5% in a single day telling you everything you need to know about state of things.

 

[IDappa]

its really not that hard to get in, are you even playing it?

I have had NO troubles. just wait a min or two to get in lol

People yesterday I was trying to play with took a few hours. Once people got off for the night (America) we could play. Not sure how it’s doing today though.

 

[tmlDan]

People yesterday I was trying to play with took a few hours. Once people got off for the night (America) we could play. Not sure how it’s doing today though.

There was one day where it was bad, but ive played every day and its been easy to get in. Have never gotten booted either, no crashes since launch day

 

[64bitmodels]

Yeah, let them go down together with Xbox.
Smart business.

If helldivers 2 is any indication PC will bring them to new heights.

 

[Fabieter]

Yeah, let them go down together with Xbox.
Smart business.

Sony and Ms would love to end up like EA instead like valve. High risks mid reward is so much better than low risk, high reward.

 

[Sleepwalker]

 

[Sanepar]

Only thing I get is a black screen :/

 

[Roll Fizzlebeef]

i just boot it up well in advance of wanting to play, and opted not to shut it down during breaks. once in the game it wasnt so bad.

New peak of 388k

 

[STARSBarry]

played this morning but got kicked out when my game crashed during a Helldive extraction (we had our 6 super uranium too ) less than a minute until pull out and when I tried to log in iv been unable to get on the servers all day since.

bye bye 50% exp weekend, I hardly got to play, I finished at rank 37. I was 35 on Friday.

 

[yurinka]

Yeah, it's kind of weird that after Microsoft announced that some of their games will be getting PlayStation and Switch ports, you see tweets with a huge amount of likes - that 'PS users' are calling for Helldivers to be released on Xbox. Like these:



"I keep seeing PlayStation players on social media begging for Xbox players to be able to play Helldivers 2"

Yes, there's one PS player asking for a Xbox port: Phil Spencer

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

played this morning but got kicked out when my game crashed during a Helldive extraction (we had our 6 super uranium too ) less than a minute until pull out and when I tried to log in iv been unable to get on the servers all day since.

bye bye 50% exp weekend, I hardly got to play, I finished at rank 37. I was 35 on Friday.

Is super uranium found randomly like the other specimens?

 

[Die Namek Ability]

Only thing I get is a black screen :/

Go to you C:<user profile > app data > roaming> helldeviers 2 and delet the user config. For that point on never close the game while it's in full-screen mode you have to change it to windowed. Hope that helps

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Yes, there's one PS player asking for a Xbox port: Phil Spencer

Maybe Phil Spencer should barter.

Make all Xbox exclusives third party and Sony will give you Helldivers 2