Helldivers 2 fans launch ‘Operation Clean Up’ to reverse negative reviews
Helldivers 2 – fans love and hate with equal ferocity (Sony Interactive Entertainment)
The madness surrounding Helldivers 2 and PSN accounts continues as thousands of fans try to get the game’s Steam reviews ‘back to normal.’
It looks like the trouble with the PC version of Helldivers 2 over the weekend is going to be even more short-lived than Sony could’ve hoped, as a group of fans have taken it upon themselves to improve the game’s Steam review rating.
On Friday, Sony announced that, from June, everyone would need a PSN account to play the game. The problem is that in over 170 countries PSN is not available and so, incredibly, Sony removed the game from sale in those regions.
That caused more than 200,000 people to bombard the game with negative reviews on Steam, dropping it from positive to ‘overwhelmingly negative.’ As soon Sony reversed their decision that rating crept back up to ‘mostly negative’ and now fans want to get it back in the green.
The attempts to improve the game’s review rating is led by a campaign on Reddit called Operation Clean Up, which is presented as a ‘major order’ from the game, complete with a progress bar to show how well things are going.
At time of writing there have been over 41,000 positive reviews posted on Steam, just over 18% of the total needed to reverse the 219,821 negative ones.
‘Arrowhead has worked very hard to make this game special, and you the player have shown both Sony and Arrowhead that your voice matters too,’ reads the Reddit post.
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