Helldivers 2 appears to have lost community manager Spitz following Sony’s decision to backtrack on its original decision to have PC users create a PSN account to play the game on Steam.
While people were up in arms about the PSN requirement, things fortunately returned to normal after Sony decided not to go ahead with its plans. However, Spitz wrote “Today is a dark day” on the Helldivers 2 Discord on May 7, with people later noticing that their account was removed from the dispatch channel where developer Arrowhead Game Studios drip-feeds players lore for Galactic War updates.
One player asked, “Soo Who gonna do the high-command dispatches,” to which Spitz replied, “Not me.”
Prior to this happening, Spitz had gone missing from Discord around the time that players had started major backlash regarding Sony’s requirement of having players log-in using a PSN account. At the time, the community manager had commented that the outrage was overblown, but later seemed to side with review bombing Helldivers 2 in order to give Arrowhead more ammunition against Sony’s PSN plans.
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Here’s what Spitz had to say on May 4:
Players making their displeasure known through reviews, refunds etc. gives us more pull in the discussion with Sony. It hurts to see the game’s popularity suffer in ratings, but discussions are ongoing and we are on the side of players in this fight.
Once Sony reversed its PSN requirement plans, Spitz arrived back on Discord and replied “Almost. Not quite” after someone asked if the community boss had lost their job. “Turns out that telling people to review-bomb and refund a game isn’t a popular decision with the publisher. But I’m still here and I’m glad that we all made a difference.”
However, it appears that Spitz is no longer around, although whether or not he was fired or simply moved to a different role within Helldivers 2 is unknown at present. Some people have speculated that he simply quit, and there’s already a petition in place to have Spitz back in the role.
Arrowhead Game Studios released a new Helldivers 2 update earlier today, which continues to fix a number of outstanding crash issues.
[Source – Kotaku]