Helldivers 2 creative director and Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt believes games should “earn the right to monetise”, adding that whilst players are welcome to “support this title” by buying microtransactions, Arrowhead is “never forcing anyone to do so”.
Replying to a comment further down in the thread, Pilestedt added: “‘You have to earn the right to monetise’ – I truly believe that.
Helldivers 2 is now Playstation’s biggest Steam launch, clocking up over 150,000 concurrent users on the PC platform over the weekend.
“We really applied ourselves to not make it [pay-to-win] even though items are functionally different,” Pilestedt said (thanks, PCGN).