Helldivers 2 - Hell is more diverse than ever as PlayStation's demographics continue to grow and change.

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Featurefag passing through, pay me no mind. The only reason I've even heard of this game is because of that Halo 3 ODST collab or loot drop or whatever it was.

Doctor PooPoo Head said:
A user, Key_Complex_150, issued a challenge where he wanted the developers of the game to play on the hardest difficulty on a mission mode known for being difficult, poorly designed, and glitchy. In exchange, he would donate $1,000 to any charity if the devs succeeded.

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This infuriates the fanbase, who dox him and harass his employers, including the horse sanctuary he volunteered at, some claiming he is at fault for guilting the developers into playing their own game by promising a charity donation with his own money.

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This allegedly led to him being fired from both positions.
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Fired for what, exactly? Criticizing vibeo gane devs on reddit? Nobody's getting fired for that. Did people call these places up with other/false allegations about OP instead? If they did, he makes no mention of it. Either this is fake and gay or he was the worst employee ever to the point that his workplace was looking for literally any possible grounds under the sun to get rid of him.
 
Nameless One said:
Kill yourself faggot. I don't even play the game but the ITS JUST A GAME shit is peak contrarian faggotry.

We're nuts deep in a tech and job dystopia.
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Yeah, games are so important that you should ruin ppls lives for mild criticisms, since the devs might loose a cent of revenue from it. Anyone who finds their fav videogame so important as to justify this shit should jump of a roof (and not in their fav video game).

Get a grip lol.
 
My beans are augmented said:
How does one actually get fired by an online tranny brigade? It mentioned a volunteer position being concerned about 'security' fair enough? But if my job got about 20 emails from some nerds they'd laugh at it and probably contact the police at worst.

Nothing would happen to me. Is this an American thing?
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Imagine your supervisor and his supervisor suddenly go to work and find he got 200 emails from random people calling you a Nazi bigot that bullies people online, asking you to be fired and threatening to bomb your bulding or something. They go to HR department and they just decide that the simplest solution is to kick you out.

Granted, this is more of a big corpo and American problem since worker rights are in the gutter there and many employers can fire you for any reason without notice.
 
Giant Machine said:
There needs to be opsec classes in high school. Dunno why millennials and below are ok with shitting their personal info all over the internet.
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IDK about you but our computer science teachers in high school had a section about the importance of opsec on the internet and " if you upload something its there forever " mindset every semester circa 2012; idk what changed. I believe there has been an effort the last 5 - 10 years to condition the public into believing anonymity on the internet is dangerous
 
Bioniclelover said:
They felt that the issuer of the challenge was basically trying to goad the devs into suffering for entertainment
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Sounds like a good time, watching devs of a game you love getting fucked with in game. Where is the merriment, where is the desire to see others struggle and maybe overcome? Even in the most uncharitiable light for the guys making the 2 challengers, its not even worth getting mad about. WHy would anyone feel compelled to start calling strangers to get another stranger fired?
 
Nick Wilde said:
I think I can legitimately both sides this one.

Who is salty enough about the balance of a videogame that they were willing to go to such lengths of issuing that challenge in the first place? The whole "I will give money to charity if you do it!" part isn't for the good cause at all, it's to guilt the target into feeling they have to agree, otherwise "you are denying the monies to muh charidee!" (edit: an inaccurate assumption) And then of course on the other side you just have the typical reddit white knight locust swarm being the kind of toxic retards they always are.

It's a fucking videogame. Everyone involved needs to go outside and feel the warmth of sunlight gracing their neckbeard.
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Cuckoman said:
It is reddit drama. Everyone involved is a retarded faggot that deserves whatever happens to them.

OP faggot got fired after being a faggot on reddit. Good. That should happen to everyone that participates in Reddit.
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How's that fence post up your asses feel my green redditeurs.
 
Nameless One said:
My stance is unchanged, this game should have had offline modes and local split screen from the start. A classic battlefront galactic conquest style system of all the content so far would be cool and ensure longevity, cause this game is fucking dying sooner than however long they plan for. 10 years will become a game of irrelevance, and when the servers shut down it's all gone. Fuck the live service model.

People say this game plays like an RTS but you're the pawn but it can obviously be done. The first game has offline, it's the same fucking engine. There's already mods for it, why not? Every excuse is just bullshit. At some point it costs more to keep servers up than it does to give it to the fans.
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The campaign is complete bullshit. Success or failure is entirely arbitrary. The director can say this planet takes 10,000 successful missions to conquer or it can take 1,000,000 and it all hinges on whatever arbitrary targets are chosen. It's fine for what it is, an excuse to make the game seem alive and dynamic, but actually submitting mission reports to a live service server is completely unnecessary.

Also I very much agree that this game would be awesome as an offline split screen game.
 
Bioniclelover said:
Some additional missing context which makes the situation worse:

After Key_Complex_150 proposed the original challenge, another person made another post which upped the ante and offered another $1000, but only if the devs did the challenge with absolutely dogshit loadouts, and only if they could manage to fully clear an entire operation.
This was blatantly more of a 'fuck you' challenge, and even top players would've struggled doing it.

Now, because this new challenge was more of a troll challenge that would've just resulted in the devs being railed and suffering, and is 100% not possible for the devs who we already know aren't good at the game, some 'people' felt that it wasn't made in good faith.

They felt that the issuer of the challenge was basically trying to goad the devs into suffering for entertainment, because not taking the challenge would mean no charity money would be given.

This train of thought gave rise to the idea the the issuer was "holding the charity money hostage" just to fuck with the devs.

With the above in mind, these 'people' set out to dox and harass the issuer, calling his place of work and the like to screw him over. And here's the kicker: they doxed the first guy, not the person who made the additional challenge, meaning they doxed the wrong person for the wrong reason.
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Neither the first nor second challenge issue was wrong and the devs wouldn’t have suffered :story:
In a sane world, the devs would taken them up on the challenge, noticed that, “yeah, this sucks and they might have a point,” and conceded after a few minutes of failing. It’s wild that asking them to play a challenge in a VIDEO GAME was seen as harassment — but actually it does make sense. Redditors see devs as holy cows due to GamerGate and the Sweet Baby Inc sagas, so devs are automatically good and virtuous until proven otherwise and you must kill all who besmirch them.
 
Tezcatlipoca said:
I believe there has been an effort the last 5 - 10 years to condition the public into believing anonymity on the internet is dangerous
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It's simpler than that. OP is slightly incorrect in his assertion that it's millennial and below who have bad opsec- It's not necessarily. It cuts across generations. Understanding the value of anonymity is more linked with if you were around before or after Web 2.0 and the takeover of mainstream social media.

People who were online for the Old Internet, understand the concept a lot better. People who only came online after Facebook and smartphones, think it's supposed to be a tightly controlled safespace. It's not even their fault, it's just that's the version of the internet they were sold, that's the version of the internet the corpos wanted them to buy into because it made harvesting their data much easier.
 
BlastMonk said:
Sounds like a good time, watching devs of a game you love getting fucked with in game. Where is the merriment, where is the desire to see others struggle and maybe overcome? Even in the most uncharitiable light for the guys making the 2 challengers, its not even worth getting mad about. WHy would anyone feel compelled to start calling strangers to get another stranger fired?
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It's because it's heckin bullying and gaslighting wholesome developers, they are not obligated to do anything for you!!! I can't even smh
 
Reddit is a machine for manufacturing compliant cattle. The programming spills a bit when it comes to videogames, where the cattle see the developer as the ultimate authority daddy figure they must protect instead. It's not complicated.
 
You just have to laugh how the faggot devs took this as an opportunity to say "uhhh oh yeah no more challenge posts like that please lol!" Such an obvious little tack-on ploy so they don't have to worry about ACTUALLY playing any difficulty above D5. As far as I'm concerned, it just proved that donator guy's point.
 
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