"Live service is tricky as hell": Helldivers 2 boss says updates are "not an exact science" because the "community changes" constantly

I do not envy any developers working on a live-service game. Between planned updates and fixes based on feedback, the pressure is constant, and one need only look at the last two years for Helldivers 2 studio Arrowhead Game Studios for a prime example, the head of which recently spoke about the foibles of keeping such a release moving."Sometimes we're more on target with an update, sometimes less. It's not an exact science," Shams Jorjani, Arrowhead CEO, said on the Helldivers 2 Discord followin