Helldivers 2 Dev Wants to Become the Next FromSoftware or Blizzard

Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Game Studios has released the biggest hit of 2024 (alongside Palworld), surpassing everyone's expectations with 12 million units sold in 12 weeks, which makes the game the fastest-selling Sony exclusive ever.

Now, the independent developer has made some changes to its leadership. CEO Johan Pilestedt has nominated Shams Jorjani in his former role so he can focus on game-making as Chief Creative Officer and Chairman of the company.

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In an interview with GamesIndustry, Johan Pilestedt shared the ambitious goals of the Helldivers 2 team:

We feel there we have so much more to give, and so many more games we want to make. The ambition level and appetite of the organisation has grown significantly. We now have a taste of blood, and we want more. We pride ourselves on being an independent studio. We have to see what the future holds, but there’s nothing in the plans where we want to be acquired by somebody. I want to see how high we can fly. And bringing Shams on board, we have a good potential to realise that future of turning into the next From Software or Blizzard.

Lofty targets indeed, but Helldivers 2 certainly is a great platform to build upon. Of course, there are many ongoing issues with the live game, although Pilestedt is confident they will be ironed out.

This is something the organisation has seen before. We had the horrible launch of Magicka, which was really buggy, and me and Shams recognised that we had to interact with the community, talk to them in an honest way, and tell them what’s going on as much as we could. And then take action immediately to resolve the issues. So we’ve seen and been through it before, albeit at a much smaller scale. It is higher stakes this time.

When we look at the challenge ahead of us, we feel like Frodo and Sam going towards Mordor. The oblivious approach of ‘we’ll take one step at a