Helldivers 2 passed Destiny 2 all time CCU count. Top Seller all around on Steam |UP|Beats Dragon’s Dogma 2 to Reclaim #1 spot on Steam.

Evilnemesis8

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They better get working on adding servers to match the demand

I assume it's less adding servers but more looking at how their networking code behaves at a certain population threshold.
Oversights will always happen but sometimes they're never detected or become really relevant unless exposed by a certain number of players playing and how the whole stack interacts with all of that.
So, even on Monday game had over 150k players on Steam. Great

What's particularly significant today is that it peaked at EU at 151k~ and didn't dip at all.
It's now 2.5k~ ahead of the EU peak and the NA peak is only in something like 4:15-4:30~ hours, going to be a significant increase from Saturday's peak unless servers just can't handle the additional load(which is probable outcome, TBD).
 

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Am I supposed to cheer for this.

A victory for this is a victory for GaaS and port. I want Sony to be more like Nintendo, not further away.
I know we were supposed to hate GAAS, PC and Jim Ryan but if Helldivers is the new benchmark than I want more GAAS from Sony lmao 🤣

They proved us wrong. Accept it and drink some liber-tea 🫡
 

Evilnemesis8

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I know we were supposed to hate GAAS, PC and Jim Ryan but if Helldivers is the new benchmark than I want more GAAS from Sony lmao 🤣

They proved us wrong. Accept it and drink some liber-tea 🫡

The thing is that people say they hate GaaS games(on enthusiast forums) until they find the ones they like, it's always like this. These ain't the most played games around the planet for no reason.

Although, to be fair, plenty of people just don't do any MP games, but it's not the case for the majority of players.
 
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Yurinka

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BETTER THAN HALO!

Helldivers 2 Steam CCU peak just outperformed Halo MCC, Left 4 Dead 2 and Warframe! Next one to beat: Rainbow Six Siege!

I can't edit anymore the OT of the thread I created with the long comparision list because someone merged threads, so I'll keep spamming the list here from time to time to update the numbers.

These are the all time Steam CCU peak for the Sony PS Studios games released on PC:
  1. Helldivers II 196,089
  2. God of War: 73,529
  3. Spider-Man Remastered: 66,436
  4. Horizon Zero Dawn: 56,557
  5. TLOU Part I: 36,496
  6. Days Gone: 27,450
  7. Spider-Man Miles Morales: 13,539
  8. Uncharted collection: 10,851
  9. Ratchet Rift Apart: 8,757
  10. Detroit: 8,222
  11. Helldivers 1: 6,744
  12. Death Stranding: 6,093
  13. Guns Up!: 2,277
  14. Journey: 1,757
  15. Predator Hunting Grounds: 1,504
  16. Beyond Two Souls: 1,346
  17. Heavy Rain: 747
  18. Sackboy: 610
  19. Everybody's Gone to the Rapture: 191
Regarrding Sony's Bungie games, Destiny 2 reached last year its record with 316,750 Steam CCU. Helldivers II also achieved a higher all time Steam CCU peak than all Microsoft games studios with the exception of the F2P MP SKU of Halo Infinite. Some extra coop-ish shooters as reference:
  • Destiny 2 316,750 (F2P)
  • Halo Infinite 272,586 (F2P)
  • Payday 2 247,709
  • Rainbow Six Siege 201,053
  • Helldivers II 196,089
  • Warframe 189,837 (F2P)
  • Left 4 Dead 2 162,399
  • Halo MCC 161,024
  • Outriders 125,143
  • Borderlands 2 124,678
  • Remnant II 110,856
  • Warhammer 40,000 Darktide 108,395
  • Warhammer Vermintide 2 104,323
  • Borderlands 3 93,820
  • Payday 3 77,938
  • Killing Floor 2 69,987
  • Payday 50,316
  • Deep Rock Galactic 46,687
  • Left 4 Dead 30,616
  • Vermintide 24,700
  • Killing Floor 24,107
  • Borderlands 23,655

It's also right now top 1 in Steam top sellers or trending.

Regarding user reviews, Helldivers 2 started with a low score due to bug and complains about DRM (people seem to prefer pirated game and MP broken due to cheaters), but kept improving. As of now, Steam db numbers:

  1. Left 4 Dead 96.78%
  2. Deep Rock Galactic 96.02%
  3. Left 4 Dead 94.55%
  4. Killing Floor 93.37%
  5. Borderlands 2 92.85%
  6. Payday 91.58%
  7. Halo MCC 91.51%
  8. Helldivers 1 89.59%
  9. Borderlands 88.84%
  10. Payday 2: 88.78%
  11. Killing Floor 2 86.67%
  12. Warframe 85.99%
  13. Magicka (Arrowhead) 85.76%
  14. Rainbow Six Siege 85.06%
  15. Borderlands 3 84.00%
  16. Warhammer Vermintide 2 83.62%
  17. Remnant II 83.11%
  18. Destiny 2 79.98%
  19. Gauntlet (Arrowhead) 79.36%
  20. Warhammer Vermintide 78.59%
  21. Helldivers 2 75.86%
  22. Predator Hunting Grounds 75.19%
  23. Guns up! 72.50&
  24. Halo Infinite (F2P MP) 69.99%
  25. Gears 5 68.73%
  26. Halo Infinite (paid SP) 66.86%
  27. Warhammer 40000 Darktide 66.43%
  28. Outriders 65.51%
 
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historia

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The thing is that people say they hate GaaS games(on enthusiast forums) until they find the ones they like, it's always like this. These ain't the most played games around the planet for no reason.

Although, to be fair, plenty of people just don't do any MP games, but it's not the case for the majority of players.
I meant yea, GaaS supposed to be addicting, whether it is loots or comestics incentive.

I spent like around 2000h on Rocket League since it is on PS Plus in 2015 , still haven't spend a dime on comestics.