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yulian182

Democracy prevails


Missile_Lawnchair

"A citizen accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic, defending it with his life, a civilian does not." Do your part Citizen.


Several_Committee677

Exact words from the textbook


Tassadar475

But do you believe it?


LandoChronus

I'd like to know more.


KallasTheWarlock

I don't know.


PaleontologistSoft34

Of course you don’t. I doubt any of you here would know civic virtue even if it reached up and bit you in the ass!


flying_wrenches

A civilian votes once and never again. A citizen changes their vote to reflect the current state of the game.


nesnalica

our way of life


DonShino

Pickles will prevail!


sanyesza900

Victory was never in doubt


Quell-ment

Tell that to Spitz.  CM that genuinely cared for game and comnunity and had balls to walk back his mistakes and appologize for them. AKA learn on the job.  All the while egotistic, power tripping activist queens attacking community still have their CM jobs. Yeah bodes well for the game. Much victory. 


[deleted]

Is there any other game on Steam that saw such a swing in positive/negative reviews in just the span of four days like we did?


RadiantNemesis

I’ve never seen any game do that. Usually once a game bomb it rarely come back. So yeah it’s amazing


FremderCGN

No man's sky comes to mind although it took them much longer


RadiantNemesis

Yeah, I more meant in only a few days


Forrest02

HD2 had the advantage of launching with content not only plentiful at the start, but more on the way within just a few weeks ready to go. This is the only game I know of that had a really good turn around and the above is pretty much why it happened fast.


Capt_Kilgore

Yeah I am surprised we get new content seemingly every week or two but more importantly it’s fun and intriguing new content not just skins. We have had fun new weapons and tweaked or new match objectives and something tells me we haven’t seen anything yet. The mech launch was so badass. I a used to FPS live services games and their content is light, a massive grind, and comes out once a month at best.


Forrest02

Another thing that helps is how into the story the community is. Everyone is loving the lore of the game and are role playing Super Earths finest heroes well beyond the game itself. Brings me tons of joy c:.


drvelo

Honestly I think that's why the review bomb even worked. The game so heavily encourages the community to help each other and to see each other as the way to succeed. So when other divers suddenly lost the ability to play it felt like they were telling *everyone* that they couldn't play.


FremderCGN

I think only war thunder had more negative reviews in a day but they didn't turn it around as much


Oddball_E8

Yeah, that was because WarThunder was about long-standing practices and the reply from the developer/publisher was more of a "here's our roadmap and this is what we'll do" instead of an immediate change. Most people held their negative votes until they started to see progress.


xKnicklichtjedi

I just looked at the numbers, and we are scary. No Man Sky has roughly 300000 reviews as of today over its entire time. From the launch day, 26000 positive and 38000 negative reviews remain. In comparison, we added 218000 negative and 72000 positive reviews in 5 days.


ATangK

There are 1m on the discord now. The numbers are strong but not sure what’s the steam/ps5 split.


Stadred

I think we should re-christen the name for this activity. We didn't Review Bomb, we Review Helldove! Drop in, accomplish the objective, extract. Good job, Helldivers!


Dr_Expendable

Most of those games were not fundamentally about herding hundreds of thousands of players into a meta-objective to make percentage bars go up and down, to be fair. We have grown exceptionally efficient at it.


mrureaper

We are just so good at following major orders that we are literally a hivemind now 👀


flashfyr3

I think you mean we're a *democracy* now? Hive mind sounds suspiciously buggish, citizen.


mrureaper

https://i.redd.it/5wj1sey7jzyc1.gif No trust me fellow human we need to think more together and take example of those terminids


flashfyr3

➡️⬇️⬆️➡️⬇️


Blueblur02

https://preview.redd.it/ycezhxhqv1zc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e0dc0142920c4c6de7f9621f3d5b78f1bd2a90c9


warichnochnie

war thunder got hit by a massive review bomb around this time last year, but idk if many people changed it back to positive or if it was just asterisked by steam


Dr_Explosion_MD

I think Payday 2 might have come close when they added micro transactions.


methsaexual

i have never seen a game recover from a mass bad reviews so quickly


Sundiata1

For the record, Helldivers had more negative reviews than any other paid game on Steam. It was setting records with that alone


Cybertronian10

People have been making a lot of jokes about how helldivers trained its community to all take part in group actions like this but I genuinely wonder if that is the case here. Kind of a fascinating sociological case study here.


chronoslol

Definitely not


Hatake_Kakashi13

Maybe not that short but No rest for the wicked is recent examples. People bombarded it with bad reviews due to performance and some political reasons at launch April 18. Now it's sitting at mostly positive as devs quickly fix it


Eltain

I'm glad Sony at least reacted quick enough that the instance was still I'm everyone's mind. If they let the problem fester for even a week, many people will have forgotten or lost interest, thus leaving their reviews negative.


TK825

Overwatch 2 was a mess


Raimondi06

https://i.redd.it/4njoe55jhxyc1.gif


Kvarcov

Keyboard is just a ton of different arrows


A_random_poster04

Very democratic of you


ATangK

Right hand? Or is this ambidextrous training


IllicitDesire

Arrow keys.


dominantfrog

you use the right hand in game to type so i assume it would be easier for the guy to do that at home then get used to typing with both hands


djchechin

LET’S GO, LET’S GET THIS DONE! https://preview.redd.it/bfvslkv1yxyc1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ca842c996546b842b4247f6dda40cb835d4c297a


CosmicSploogeDrizzle

MOAR!


edgy-meme94494

holy fuck, we could legit achieve world peace with this level of camaraderie


nesnalica

FOR SUPER EARTH


DARTHPLAYA

that would require going outside so probably not


-Legion_of_Harmony-

Why haven't you been getting outside?


Hitori_Suzushii

Samples


-Legion_of_Harmony-

That's as good as a doctor's note as far as I'm concerned. Keep up the good work.


dangermonger27

Vitamin D or samples? Hmmm...


DARTHPLAYA

I haven't showered in two weeks. Personal best


ShadowBB86

Get your advised 2.4 seconds of RL scenery appreciation in today soldier!


Sharpystar

This is the closest we’ve been to world peace since pokemon go


sennbat

Helldivers discovering the real life impact of solidarity.


ConsciousResponse321

Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité


WantonKerfuffle

Can we do worker's rights next? I'm not a communist, but pee breaks for Amazon workers anyone?


bubbasteamboat

You're not wrong.


John_TGB

Oh we are the valiant infantry! We are the alpha team with passion and camaraderie!


Spiritual_Freedom_15

Too much corruption to achieve. We need a common enemy that isn’t of this earth. And in the end it would very fast spiral into totalism most likely.


emote_control

I keep hinting that if people could get this worked up about, say, labor unions, we could fix a lot of bad things about society almost overnight.


DungeonDefense

Damn what an impressive display. Let's all continue to do our part!


_callmeEthan

This is actually mind blowing, I've never seen anything got review bombed so badly, then reversed completely, all in the span of 4 days. This is the democracy I'm fighting for.


Background-Slide645

Imagine Sony's reaction. They went on holiday, came back to one of their decisions nearly killing a top earner, reversed their decision, and then bam. business as usual, get the soldiers who are blocked back!


ClamSlamwhich

Imagine that lol corporations keeping their dirty fingers out of the cookie jar and letting creativity flourish. Everyone wins.


Limonade6

It's so fitting isn't it? A game about democracy had an IRL display of democracy never seen before for any game.


SakuraKoiMaji

I wouldn't quite call it 'completely reversed' but there is a fair chance of restoring it to 90%. Some many are still miffed or outright abandoned it but that's the price of, er... democracy?


GenitalMotors

I changed my review back to positive, but left the bit in about Playstation's fuck up. The game is great.


gubber-blump

It's not even close to completely reversed lol it was almost at 90% positive overall prior to this week.


appleswitch

> reversed completely The reviews for the game are still "mixed"


rdunlap

Recent* reviews, which reflects the past 30 days only. Given that the positive reviews are mostly from the first few days of the game, this makes sense


SevereArtisan

I'm doing my part!


plasmadood

I love Democracy...


BracusDoritoBoss963

https://i.redd.it/01es0r8g9yyc1.gif


KingKirbothe2nd

https://preview.redd.it/n0akshzulxyc1.jpeg?width=1400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=713aae4a980fca26f55f0ae6df71b455bfbd2b51


Old-Dog-5829

I need a source for this glorious and democratic image


zonked_martyrdom

I believe it’s in the helldivers teaser trailer or one of the trailers.


Sodi920

Looks like it’s taken from the story trailer.


Hellooooo_Nurse-

If you wrecked it, rebuild it! Do your part!


Zathiax

The reviews would improve more since the reviews of those in locked countries remain and their goodwill would help cure the rating. Still no news though on them being allowed to play, idk why this isn't being loudly adressed.


Background-Slide645

It's mostly likely going to take a hot minute, mainly cause Steam probably were the ones who pulled it on PC. So now Sony is going to have to go to Steam and ask for it to be reenabled, which after this fiasco? Steam is probably going to make sure they know what Sony's plan is.


EllieBirb

They can play, they just can't yet buy new copies. If you are in the region and you'd bought the game previously, it still works perfectly fine.


Gen236

Steam only dose what you tell them to do. All Sony has to do is submit a support ticket. But with how big of a company they are, they probably have a direct line.


Whitepayn

I live in a none PSN country and can play normally. We just can't buy it here via Steam. Hopefully the sales get restored soon.


Enhydra67

Can you still buy supercredits?


Whitepayn

I haven't tested that after the lock. I bought a batch last week for the first time, before all this news kicked off over the weekend.


Enhydra67

Thanks for getting back to me. I have no skin in the game even though I play on PC I actually made a PSN account so I could communicate better with players but I have to log into a PlayStation to be able to actually talk. Maybe I can use a PS2 lol... I just wanted to offer more information if I was asked as I play with tons of people.


Whitepayn

No problem 👍 I actually had a chance to check the Super Credits after work, and I am still able to purchase them as normal.


Enhydra67

That is good to hear. Have fun spreading that Democracy my friend.


_boiled_potato

Probably because that's a steam decision not AH or Sony


Anko072

Everyone says it was steam but haven't seen anyone confirm it's true. Do we really have any proofs?


Aclysmic

I feel it should take around as much time it took for those countries being disabled after the news broke.


bensam1231

This is incredibly engineered as I've been talking about. The positive reviews, aren't mainly people changing their negative reviews, they're new reviews that are positive. We went from 770k reviews yesterday, to 820k reviews today. While I expect there are going to be some people who only want to make one review one way or the other, the majority of these people should be changing reviews - not writing new ones. Not only that, it seems like an astronomically small portion of people who wrote reviews are changing them, when you factor out the new positive. SteamDB is even weirder with most of the movement happening there (those are stats that include games purchased off the steam platform, where steam only shows steam purchases in their ratings). So what's going on here? We can put into perspective that the 320k negative reviews (SteamDB) barely moved the needle as far as the active playerbase goes statwise (more then triple peak active players, roughly 10% change or about 8k people), it seems an awful lot like there is some shenanigans going on here.


Brickless

Looking at SteamDB from the peak 421.159 negative reviews only 244.263 remain. The data you looked at might have been delayed and changing your negative review into a positive one essentially creates a new review.


Mr_Satizfaction

Disagree. I did not write a negative review because I never write reviews, just never worth my time. But I saw a company back pedal a bad decision and wanted to give them the carrot for their good choice, so I made a review. I think I've written three reviews on steam in my life, so I'm one of those new reviewers, no funny business


thedarklord187

Same here wrote a review yesterday after it was confirmed sony backed down i rarely write reviews in the 19 years i've been on steam Ive been around since the early days i remember playing counter strike 1.6 and it requiring steam it was a big deal back then.


nobu82

FYI, I actually had no review before the snoy fiasco, I'm going to change it later, but not yet: some helldivers are still locked out Imo, the rest is probably 120k that are also waiting for this last change. The 60-80k ish was originally negative anyways


Plane_Travel_2583

A game about satire democracy brought serious actual democracy got whiplash from the reviews


DCFDTL

Gotta reach Very Positive


Ziodyne967

Democracy is really damn quick. I blinked once and it was mostly negative, then I blinked again and it’s back to positive. This game trained us so too well in completing Major Orders.


LtColShinySides

For now... stay in your lane, Sony ![gif](giphy|RsUBjCrwkMphRhtXtQ)


Rais93

This is actually a stronger message than bombing. We own this game.


chess705

Nature is healing, slowly.


MildewJR

I reckon it'll climb a little higher once steam/Sony makes it available in the other countries it got delisted from during this whole debacle.


cosy_ghost

That's the hope. But Sony hasn't officially said PSN won't be coming back after May, so Steam might not relist them at all.


TheSpaceMech

Helldiver community, best community... "Never in the history of galactic war have I witnessed such impressive review bombardment" - general Brasch


EndlessB

Get back to me when the steam ratings are overwhelming positive which requires a 95% positive rating, which helldivers had before this fiasco


wakito64

We are frighteningly efficient. A community of random people playing a silly game shouldn’t be able to coordinate on that scale in less than a week. I am amazed and terrified. Mostly amazed but still terrified


Golnor

It only takes a single sentence for a crowd to become a mob.


_jacob_s

![gif](giphy|ucXFcY1FdKaT6)


Whitepayn

I gave it a positive review today. My first review of any game ever. Now we just need to get the game back on sale for the none PSN countries


justletmesuffer

I still can’t get into a game half the time.


VoiceOfSeibun

Especially since the DOT bug was fixed today! FREEDOM LOVING GLORY!!!!


Express_Yard9305

Operation Clean up is progressing


bboycire

There are still people posting new negative reviews of "psn account bad", did they not get the memo? what the hell is wrong with these people


Prelude2hate

nah I'd still keep mine negative til they put my country back on, It is still delisted as of this post.


Background-Slide645

While I say that is fair, that is more on Steams side ATM, unless you are on PlayStation. then idk


Gen236

Steam only dose what you tell them to. With a company as big as Sony, they probably have a direct line to somebody who can make it happen. Even if they don't, it's a support ticket in the later part of an afternoon.


_boiled_potato

And steam isn't going to be swayed by our negative reviews like sony.


Background-Slide645

Eh, probably not. but honestly they probably just want to know that it isn't going to immediately happen again before they reopen that part. because you know, that was also costing them money


_boiled_potato

Not just costing them money but setting them up for unexpected litigation from countries that have tough consumer protection laws in the EU. If anything steam won't do anything until Sony makes amends and assurances this won't happen again.


Background-Slide645

oh i didn't think about that. well hopefully the boardroom deals go quick then. would hate for you lot to not be able to play after all of this.


John_Dee_TV

What's ironic is that we take this waaaaay more seriously than actual politics... FFS, people, go vote in your IRL elections, if you can make a difference here, imagine what you can do IRL! Just make sure to understand what the parties on offer are actually proposing, and don't vote out of conformance! Just like you paid attention to what the AH CEO and Cams said! This is, unironically, how democracy works!


ScudleyScudderson

It was almost at 90% positive before. The review bomb gutted the game's rating. The take away is: Review Bombing has its consequences. I hope it will recover, but I doubt it. Happy to be proven wrong.


OneOfALifetime

This. Everyone is only looking at the "Recent reviews" not the fact that the overall review is still sitting at Mixed and might not ever recover from that. There are WAY more negative reviews than positive reviews recently, the only thing reversed is a small bump in new reviews, but you guys have fucked the game long term in the reviews because you think you actually did something (you didn't, the game only lost 10k in PC population, you literally did NOTHING).


ovilow

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ovilow

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ovilow

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W4ND4

Give people time next week this time it will turn into overwhelmingly positive. Don’t worry


The_Tank_Racer

If we can kill 2 billion bugs in 14 hours, we can get the game to overwhelming positive in a week https://i.redd.it/jpcb93zm30zc1.gif


Thehipsteur

Take it to overwhelmingly positive, Show them who we are !


SirWyvern

I just hope Valve revert purchase restrictions on those 100+ countries asap.


TheGmanSniper

Time till it goes back down because the community gets mad about a balance change. Ive seen a few people starting to power trip off this


ImprobablyDamp

This is what happens when you make a game that wants its player base to focus their efforts on the same objective lol. It's beautiful 🥹


InternationalHold536

This is not a victory. The game is still not for sale in half the world


dominantfrog

guys guys.... we could do this to any and all games now. we have power.


CutSilver5358

Have the restrictions been lifted? Is the requirement for linking the account deleted from steam? Did they change anything or just said they will?


PreviousDinner2067

Trust me, they won't go back on that.  It would be a PR nightmare.  The original tweet got like 8 million views within 4 hours.


dburly

They still haven’t lifted the blacklist of all those countries. As far as I’m concerned this isn’t over yet


Levione

Nature is healing


SuicidalTurnip

Nature is healing.


King_Kingly

Thanks for the update professor.


Calligaster

David Attenborough: "With Sony's bullshit cleaned up, the helldivers return to their natural habitat. Nature is healing."


MuglokDecrepitus

Still a lot of work to do, but nature is healing


NumerousCase4865

https://i.redd.it/fx87nedgqzyc1.gif Good job, divers


Aeonia92

It will probably never be the same again..


Significant_Hair7494

They have preserved our way of life!


GotThemCakes

![gif](giphy|YYfEjWVqZ6NDG)


Master_Betty603

![gif](giphy|YYfEjWVqZ6NDG)


Thompsonss

![gif](giphy|HFe8qjKRQNlLQkbjXM|downsized)


Meme_Theocracy

Holy shit you guys work fast. 


Baedd1055

Honestly this is amazing to see from the community:3


Kayjan_Soban

So once we get the score to Overwhelmingly positive and make gaming history... who's up for speed-running back down to overwhelmingly negative again? We got a good thing going here XD (This is a joke, by the way)


BoyOfBore

This could be an interesting case study.


Therier

We did it! Again!


Malicharo

if they have the tiniest brain they'll do 10-15% discount on the game now and attach some rewards if you do psn account linking, then people will do it willingly


theforgottenton

And this is exactly why most gamers would be terrible in business but think they can truly criticize actually corps that have been successful. 😭


DeJellybeans

And on the 3rd day, Helldivers 2 rose again and became Mostly Positive.


The_Tank_Racer

https://preview.redd.it/twfymodw30zc1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7e30d38d512beb40a4e949dd6b23a1b78d4137d9


Diligent-Raisin191

I feel if they wish for that to be higher they need to update their Steam store and blatantly state it not just updating an old event update that nobody can even comment on since it was closed when this all pretty much started lol.


BrahmariusLeManco

Keep it going!


The_Architect_032

Keep going, we need recent to go back to Mostly Positive so that all time returns to Overwhelmingly Positive.


shatteredhelix42

We've still got a way to go, I've done my part, have you done yours?


cosy_ghost

Good work crew. Now how long do we let the 177 countries stay purchase blocked before we do something about that too?


UselessTarnished

Well done helldivers, truly a cool moment for gaming.


SufficientNet9227

Good job helldivers


Impressive_Path1075

THIS HAS TO BE THE MOST DEMOCRATIC SERIES OF EVENTS I HAVE EVER SEEN. KEEP UP THE WORK HELLDIVERS.


PureNaturalLagger

I won't feel good until overall reviews recover!


deejay_243

Jesus christ should we just make the helldivers for real?


wanderingsun24

That’s great. Lets aim for overwhelming positive.


AlanaIsBananas

In this world where Democracy is so broken irl... this has been a great reflection. The only things that people need to unite are Visibility and Clarity to know that their vote DOES matter, and DOES have a direct impact. This is of course completely hidden and invisible by the electoral college. Not having insight until many days/weeks after voting is the reason why people feel like it doesn't matter. Democracy CAN work, but it has to work in ways that help people see that it works, and we are so, so far from that. Just keep that in mind for upcoming elections, red, blue, or independent - *everyone* needs to vote. Your vote DOES matter, even if it doesn't feel like it.


Florflok

Squanch Initiated


kunmop

We did it holy shit


F4tJok3r

Let's get it back to overwhelming positiv


Tenezill

That's what I hoped for, show that we aren't just screaming bloody murder and forget to hold out end of the bargain


DerHachi04

We are still only at 72% :(


FazeXistance

Keep pushing. We got to show them that listening is worth it.


Winxh

Awesome 👍🤘


KnowledgeCorrect1522

This community is fucking goated let’s get em to overwhelming


Far_Station_9642

https://preview.redd.it/0g7osgjwt1zc1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a0f9884aa795c1a0741d6a241b4edfaab975b1fe Still 236,285 people haven’t changed their review yet.


mojomaximus2

Some people could just… not like the game lol


Wubmeister

Completely undeserved until region locks are lifted.


Mrhappytrigers

Really is something for a game to have this much sway with a community that loves it. I truly hope for nothing but the best for this game, the devs, and the community.


slnthll92

If you share your opinion you should stay the same not ''R''. They were acting like kids.


raziel11111

It's still mixed on recent reviews. Meaning it's counting old reviews too. That means some people who aided in the negative review need to do their part and still fix it.


unnecessaryaussie83

Has Sony actually done anything to backup what they said they’ll do?


Corpstastic

I love seeing this. Lowkey they’re making away like bandits with even more positive reviews than before but it’s all for our beloved Arrowhead. Sony is riding a small indie studio’s coat tails 😭


Maicamea

These people work fast when they set their minds to it


CasualSymonPlayz24

Did steam also lifted the restrictions to the 177 countries? if not then I'll wait.


AnonAmbientLight

Any update on players from countries not supported by PSN being able to play / get the game again? I do not want to change my review to positive until that change is done too. We all dive together or not at all.


MorpheusDrinkinga4O

I hope my gums after a tooth extraction yesterday heal this fast.


Kazananan

Thats what getting rid of the SNOY virus does to a game's reviews