A tale of two live service games: Helldivers 2 tanks as Palworld soars

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It’s the fastest selling PlayStation exclusive ever but Helldivers 2’s popularity continues to plummet, while Palword enjoys a successful comeback.

What will be the final fortunes of both games? You don’t have to dislike live service titles – games like Fortnite that are meant to last forever – to think they’re a bad idea. Or at least that it’s a bad idea for publishers to focus on them to the exclusion of almost everything else, which is what is reportedly happening at PlayStation at the moment.

The problem is, there’s been nothing big to get excited about in recent months and while Palworld has been performing just as bad recently, fans have had the promise of the *Sakurajima* update to look forward to, which came out on Friday and instantly saw the number of Steam players increase by 700%. The update adds a new area and PvP gameplay, and as a result the number of concurrent players on Steam shot up from around 15,000 earlier in June to 143,369 at the weekend.

 

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