Rewrite this title for a blog post. Remove any site names from it The title is: 90% fewer players! After being a phenomenon, the PS5 PC exclusive Helldivers 2 is already forgotten

At the moment, there's a number that's causing quite a stir: the number of simultaneous players on Steam for Helldivers 2, the famous coop TPS that caused a sensation at the beginning of the year on PS5 and PC! It all started with an article by Forbeswho recently noted that the audience for Arrowhead and PlayStation's baby has clearly dropped, from a peak of nearly 460,000 people at the same time in February 2024 to 46,000 on June 24, a drop of about 90%… “It’s important because it’s a service game”notes Paul Tassi, on Forbes. “This is the type of game that Sony wanted to have continued success with.”

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According to him, Helldivers 2 lacks a roadmap and ambitious additions to retain players, which is theoretically verified in the game's audience on Steam. Since the peak last February and a new surge on April 1, 2024 – to 345,000 people at the same time -, TPS concurrent player count on Steam keeps dropping. Should we therefore declare the death of Sony's shooter?

When the euphoria subsides

In fact, when you take the audience of online games on Steam and zoom out a bit, you often find yourself with the same trend… A rush at the beginning (it's the release, everyone is talking about a game) then a drop and a number of players that stabilizes little by little. On Valve's platform, the curve of Helldivers 2 thus resembles that of Palworld, a huge success at the beginning of the year that brought together more than 2 million PC players at a peak last February. Between May and June, there were around 30,000 people simultaneously on Steam, but The first major update has revived the excitement around the title quite a bit with a peak of 143,000 players on June 30, 2024. It must be admitted, in Paul Tassi's defense, that Helldivers has not yet “come back” in this way.

“It’s not something to get upset about.”

Palworld's Community Manager also responded to the Forbes article. According to him, these debates around the numbers of a service game are irrelevant. “Our game had 2 million (people at the same time – editor's note), then 15,000 and now it's at 140,000! Soon, it will decrease again, and increase with the next major update… That's how it works.” So maybe Helldivers 2 is missing major updates. Still, it's not like there's nothing going on in the Arrowhead universe, far from it.. Aside from the gameplay novelties, the TPS is one of the few to have a “Game Master” who advances a scenario common to all players. Changes that keep the convinced ones, but don’t bring back those who left?