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   InfiniteHench (infinitehench@mstdn.games)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 03:00:51 JST InfiniteHench

   I like these #Helldivers2 folks at Arrowhead. Nice interview:

   “I want us to be a role model for how to do sustainable growth, because the industry today is not in a good place. A lot of companies are shedding a lot of jobs. And it's not the people at the top that are losing their jobs, it's people who have moved half across the world to take jobs. And that’s because of bad growth decisions made by business leaders who have taken stupid risks.”
   https://www.thegamebusiness.com/p/helldivers-2s-big-challenge-how-to

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     InfiniteHench (infinitehench@mstdn.games)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 04:51:48 JST InfiniteHench

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     This interview reminds me of the time #Helldivers2 players were able to unlock a new type of anti-tank mines if we completed a Major Order; basically missions the community must finish as a collective—defend this planet, kill X million bugs, save X civilians, etc.

     We failed the mission once, failed it a second time, then on the third chance we had to choose between earning the anti-tank mines or saving a bunch of (fictional) sick kids in a hospital. We couldn’t do both

     The community chose to save the kids over earning the anti-tank mines. Kids who did not exist. There was no carrot dangled for saving them, but we overwhelmingly chose that option. And won

     Arrowhead then donated money to an IRL kids hospital. Heartwarming stuff