{"id":845245,"date":"2025-12-13T15:31:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T15:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BqCduZfjnBMAXddq4ojxTc"},"modified":"2025-12-13T15:31:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T15:31:52","slug":"helldivers-2-developer-arrowhead-games-has-a-new-ceo-with-johan-pilestedt-taking-on-a-different-role-to-direct-100-of-my-focus-to-the-game-and-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/helldivers-2-developer-arrowhead-games-has-a-new-ceo-with-johan-pilestedt-taking-on-a-different-role-to-direct-100-of-my-focus-to-the-game-and-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Games has a new CEO\u2014with Johan Pilestedt taking on a different role to direct &#8216;100% of my focus [to] the game and community&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Johan Pilestedt, soon-to-be-former CEO of Arrowhead Games, will be stepping down to take on new responsibilities at the company as revealed by the man himself <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/pilestedt\/status\/1793267296682520846\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on Twitter today<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This move comes off the back of a difficult month for Helldivers 2, as the game suffered tremendous backlash over a <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/third-person-shooter\/arrowhead-is-actually-making-a-review-bomb-cape-to-commemorate-the-helldivers-2-psn-fiasco-complete-with-two-huge-negative-review-bars\/\">controversial decision<\/a>\u2014courtesy of Sony\u2014to require PC users to sign up for a PSN account in order to continue playing the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That&apos;s not the only sign of trouble in intergalactic paradise, though. A mixture of comments from Pilestedt (as well as dev team sentiment passed on by community managers) paints a picture of a studio re-evaluating itself in the wake of massive success, and looking to maybe <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/third-person-shooter\/helldivers-2-studio-wants-to-slow-down-the-pace-of-updates-we-feel-a-slightly-lower-cadence-overall-will-benefit-both-us-you-and-the-game\/\">slow down the pace<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That&apos;s not to say the rapid-fire deployment of Warbonds and new content in Helldivers 2 hasn&apos;t been <em>exciting, <\/em>but I&apos;m glad to see I wasn&apos;t off the mark when I said the studio was <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/third-person-shooter\/helldivers-2-is-a-fantastic-gamebut-something-has-to-change-because-itll-only-get-harder-to-balance-maintain-and-fix-while-arrowhead-burns-the-candle-at-both-ends\/\">burning the candle at both ends<\/a>, wrestling with <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/third-person-shooter\/helldivers-2s-polar-patriots-warbond-gets-an-icy-reception-as-over-70-of-21000-discord-voters-declare-theyd-prefer-more-patches-or-simply-dont-like-it\/\">balance issues<\/a> and <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/third-person-shooter\/helldivers-2-dev-says-patrol-spawn-rates-are-busted-and-that-arrowheads-walking-its-changes-back-but-we-want-to-give-it-proper-testing-to-see-that-it-works-this-time\/\">technical difficulties<\/a> since day one. It feels like everybody needs a breather.<\/p>\n<p>Pilestedt is looking to &#8220;spend MORE time with the team and 100% of my focus on the games and community!&#8221; as Arrowhead&apos;s Chief Creative Officer\u2014which is a commendable move, considering that CCOs tend to rank under CEOs on the corporate ladder. Pilestedt seems committed to leading from the front.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:593px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:74.37%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"NqZBkMmZbUeCfN6ML9Lqkn\" name=\"Screenshot 2024-05-22 150913.png\" alt=\"A post that reads; \"Hey everyone, Big update, I've decided to hire @ShamsJorjani as the new CEO of @ArrowheadGS ! We go way back and I wouldn't trust the business in any other hands than his. (...and he comes with an impressive resume and love for games) But what about me and my involvement in @Helldivers2 ? Well, I'm glad you asked! I am taking the role of Chief Creative Officer, which means I will spend MORE time with the team and 100% of my focus on the games and community!\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/helldivers-2-developer-arrowhead-games-has-a-new-ceo-with-johan-pilestedt-taking-on-a-different-role-to-direct-100-of-my-focus-to-the-game-and-community.png\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"593\" height=\"441\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: @Pilestedt on Twitter\/X.)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In an <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/helldivers-2-developer-arrowhead-names-shams-jorjani-as-its-new-ceo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> with Gamesindustry.biz, Pilestedt further outlined his thoughts behind the change. &#8220;I realised that running an organisation of over 100 people,&#8221; he reasons, would put him between a rock and a hard place: &#8220;I will [have to choose] between deepening my love for game creation, or the business track.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Replacing Pilestedt will be Shams Jorjani\u2014who gained over a decade experience at Paradox interactive before <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsJorjani\/status\/1463639132652064773\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">leaving the company in 2021<\/a>. &#8220;I reached out to Shams,&#8221; explains Pilestedt, &#8220;We had a lunch, and we asked him that if I was to reconsider running Arrowhead for the next decade, and I needed to hire a new CEO, would he be interested?<\/p>\n<p>Jorjani himself has high hopes for the future as Arrowhead Games&apos; resident business guy: &#8220;What I&apos;ll be bringing to the table is organisation and leadership \u2026 \u00a0It&apos;s a lot of the, frankly, boring business administration stuff that is a necessary part of running a company, which is hard to do when you&apos;re also juggling the chairman&apos;s hat and the creative director&apos;s hat and also being the one who is in the trenches doing a lot of the designing that Johan has been doing over the years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pilestedt has always been remarkably outspoken and involved in the community for a CEO\u2014<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/helldivers-2-hmg-heavy-machine-gun-arrowhead-johan-pilestedt\/\">cheekily hinting at upcoming stratagems<\/a>, denying the existence of <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/third-person-shooter\/helldivers-2-boss-who-proudly-proclaimed-bugs-cant-fly-issues-an-important-update-i-have-always-believed-there-to-be-a-possibility-of-flying-bugs\/\">flying bugs<\/a>, and stepping in when relations between the community and its development team got a <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/third-person-shooter\/helldivers-2-boss-apologizes-for-horrible-dev-comments-says-arrowhead-has-taken-action-internally-to-educate-our-developers\/\">little hairy<\/a> on the game&apos;s Discord. In other words, this shift makes a certain kind of sense:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I finally came to the proper conclusion that I will have to follow my heart,&#8221; says Pilestedt. &#8220;It&apos;s not only right for me, but it&apos;s also right for the organisation. Having a reluctant CEO is not something that will turn out that well, I think.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/third-person-shooter\/helldivers-2-developer-arrowhead-games-has-a-new-ceowith-johan-pilstedt-taking-on-a-different-role-to-direct-100-of-my-focus-to-the-game-and-community\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johan Pilestedt, soon-to-be-former CEO of Arrowhead Games, will be stepping down to take on new responsibilities at the company as revealed by the man himself on Twitter today.\u00a0 This move comes off the back of a difficult month for Helldivers 2, as the game suffered tremendous backlash over a controversial decision\u2014courtesy of Sony\u2014to require PC users to sign up for a PSN account in order to continue playing the game.\u00a0 That&apos;s not the only sign of trouble in intergalactic paradise, though. A mixture of comments from Pilestedt (as well as dev team sentiment passed on by community managers) paints a picture of a studio re-evaluating itself in the wake of massive success, and looking to maybe slow down the pace.\u00a0 That&apos;s not to say the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/helldivers-2-developer-arrowhead-games-has-a-new-ceo-with-johan-pilestedt-taking-on-a-different-role-to-direct-100-of-my-focus-to-the-game-and-community\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":845246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[748,787],"class_list":["post-845245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-games","tag-third-person-shooter"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO 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