Community starts the next Steam operation and cleans up the reviews

The Helldivers community wants to give the game back its old reputation on Steam.

There are a few turbulent days behind Helldivers 2. The announcement that a PlayStation account would be required to play the Steam version was anything but well received by the community.

Within three days, the co-op shooter collected the 200,000 negative reviews on Steam, most of them were directed against the account linking plan. Sony rowed back – the players celebrated.

Operation Clean Up

The community described their review bombing as a “general order in real life” because, like in the game, thousands of players took part in the common goal – almost democratically.

Now Helldivers 2 is on Steam with a lot of bad reviews, but the fans are starting something like reverse review bombing and turning it into the next “general order” (that's what big missions in the shooter are called), like in this Reddit post:

What does developer Arrowhead do?

The studio traditionally handles the situation humorously. Chief developer Johan Pilestedt shared a picture of the graph on Steam with the red bars of the review bombing on X, formerly Twitter.

The considerations of turning this into a motif for a cloak seem to be quite serious. It would be fitting for Arrowhead to incorporate the memes circulating in the community into the game.

It's not every day that you see a community withdraw its review bombing after it has achieved its goal. The fans of Helldivers 2 still have a bit of work to do to restore the status before the Sony debacle.

What do you think of the situation? Is this behavior just consistent? Feel free to write us your opinion in the comments.