{"id":765513,"date":"2025-11-28T07:20:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T07:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/helldivers-2-sales-rise-word-of-mouth-bucking-trends?utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=feed"},"modified":"2025-11-28T07:20:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T07:20:53","slug":"helldivers-2-has-done-something-most-other-games-couldnt-and-theyd-kill-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/helldivers-2-has-done-something-most-other-games-couldnt-and-theyd-kill-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Helldivers 2 has done something most other games couldn&#8217;t, and they&#8217;d kill for it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/helldivers-2-has-done-something-most-other-games-couldnt-and-theyd-kill-for-it.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>It is no secret that the launch of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/games\/helldivers-2\"><strong>Helldivers 2<\/strong><\/a> last month has been one for the books. It may not have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/palworld-3-millions-copies-sold-plagiarism\">broken industry records in sales volume<\/a> or player numbers, but everything about it has been painting a picture we rarely &#8211; if ever &#8211; get to see in our current version of the games industry.<\/p>\n<p>Helldivers 2 is a game that sold very well at release, even beating its own developer&#8217;s internal metrics. Usually, that&#8217;s the end of the good news, as sales and player interest inevitably trail off following launch.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not what happened here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/helldivers-2-sales-rise-word-of-mouth-bucking-trends?utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=feed\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/helldivers-2-sales-rise-word-of-mouth-bucking-trends?utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=feed\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is no secret that the launch of Helldivers 2 last month has been one for the books. It may not have broken industry records in sales volume or player numbers, but everything about it has been painting a picture we rarely &#8211; if ever &#8211; get to see in our current version of the games industry. Helldivers 2 is a game that sold very well at release, even beating its own developer&#8217;s internal metrics. Usually, that&#8217;s the end of the good news, as sales and player interest inevitably trail off following launch. But that&#8217;s not what happened here. 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