Sure, let’s dive into this. So, Helldivers 2 crashes onto the gaming scene in February 2024 (I’m talking explosive, not literal — though with these game servers, who even knows, right?). The critics are raving, and it racks up awards like Best Ongoing Game and Multiplayer Game, basically cleaning house at The Game Awards. Things seem peachy… until the wheels come off, or maybe they weren’t even on, come May 2024. Someone at Sony must’ve had strong coffee because they decide PC players on Steam now need a PlayStation Network account. Why? No clue. Just one of those corporate whims, I guess.
But the gamers? Oh, they snapped. Picture a crowd with pitchforks, except it’s reviews and ratings crashing faster than my attention span during a lecture. Then boom — Sony does a 180 two days later. They’re like, “Just kidding!” Total backtrack. By May 11, Johan Pilstedt, the game’s creative genius, is on Twitter — err, it’s called X now, who keeps up? — teasing a “review bomb cape.” Spoiler: It’s a cosmetic. Fast forward 417 days (but who’s counting?) and it’s live.
Arrowhead Game Studios, the clever devs behind the chaos, posted something about the “unquestioning commitment to the defense of Managed Democracy.” Fancy, huh? They’re rolling out a commemorative cape to honor the ordeal. Players find it in their Super Destroyer Armories — sounds intense.
The cape got a quirky name: “Pillars of Freedom.” Available for everyone because, let’s be inclusive. It’s like wearable history. The design? A wild reminder, with Steam’s review score graph in red to show those fiery negative reviews. Art, it truly imitates life.
Arrowhead did say it might take a bit for the cape to pop into players’ inboxes. Typical, right? Everyone ends up with a happy ending, despite the hiccup. Oh, and bonus — you get a free cape out of the drama!
