that 90% we're hype players, people who only play for the hype of the game or what those losers call "flavor of the month", nothing more. the average count the past few months even before the illuminate were hovering around 110k during peak hours with 40 to 50k during weekdays, which is a little higher than the expected player count.

@meatshield

Imagine wanting your game to lose players. This is the mentality of many an online game that leads to it being dead and quiet. Rethink what removing the players from the game would do to you.

And boy was I happy in the time these players left the game. Now we got 150k people back whos attention span is a mere 5 minutes, who are bad at the game and are only back because of the hype. by end of january these people will be gone again.

It did lose more than 90%

Arrowhead is partially to blame. They've made the game insanely difficult (which isn't bad) but they nerfed everything the majority of players were using to beat missions (which is bad). They made the game hard but not fun, and there's no point in a hard game unless its fun (with exceptions that Helldivers 2 shouldn't be in).

90 percent of player base? *checks community hub and sees 144k active players a year after release*

Pretty sure the 90% playerbase was on SONY and not on Arrowhead...

Report to your Democracy officer for reassignment to freedom camp

Your Democratic Officer says they can smell you from here, spending 700+ hrs deployed and have sent me, to send you to mandatory showering for a week and a mandate of 6hrs of sunlight and the touch of grass for 5 minutes for the next 14 days.

Reported to democratic officer for misleading citizens