I bought Helldivers 2 specifically because it’s a multiplayer shooter that doesn’t involve PvP.

I feel somewhat bad for the people that want it and enjoy PvP games. But selfishly, I’m glad to see this because I’m sick of every fucking game “needing” PvP and inevitably forgetting about its single player experience. About time one studio didn’t cave and broke the cycle in their game.

Looking at games like Halo, Call of Duty, Rainbow Six, Grand Theft Auto… All used to have a fantastic emphasis on the single player experience until they began catering almost exclusively to the online multiplayer experience. And not necessarily because it is a popular request among some gamers but because it drives profits sky high through Twitch, etc. popularity and micro transactions galore. But the games become so boring when you’re up against professionals who do nothing but play the game all day, every day, and you have zero chance at ever having a fighting chance. And most of these games enable laziness in the developers and the studios behind them.

Call of Duty at least releases a new game almost every year but the gameplay is always last year’s gameplay rehashed with a new skin/flavor. The rest haven’t released a new title in years except some updates that only benefit the PvP experience. I don’t even check Halo Infinite anymore because there are never any updates to anything but some multiplayer bullshit. GTA VI is the exception but it took them over 10 years to get the next release in the series and they canceled all offline DLC for the last game in favor of PvP bullshit.

Good! It doesn’t need it