Hell Divers 2 Officially experiencing success. There were already signs that developers would need to upgrade their servers to be able to maintain the copy Huge amount of people Whoever wanted to play, but the latest development is probably the surest. Overnight, two new fraudulent listings, ostensibly for… Hell Divers 2 In some pretty deep discounts, it showed up on Steam, convincing new adopters to buy games that didn't end up being the sci-fi co-op shooter that's currently setting the world on fire.
As spotted for the first time before VG247Independent game Formalism Her store page has been changed to match the Hell Divers 2 Late last night, it even went so far as to list Arrowhead Game Studio and Sony as its developer and publisher, respectively. At this point, the price of the game has been significantly reduced by 75% to incentivize unsuspecting players to purchase. Shortly after, players discovered the fact that they were purchasing a different game and reported it to Arrowhead, who went to the administrator Hell Divers 2 Discord server and quickly warned others not to buy into the scam. Valve was apparently notified shortly after, and the game was taken down within a few hours.
by chance, Formalism It wasn't the only game to jump on the bandwagon last night, with at least one other fake game to follow Hell Divers 2 The post was lifted before Valve quickly addressed the issue. Steam's refund policy should be able to cover people who played any of the incorrectly advertised games, but it's still a concern that anyone could do this with little to no countermeasures in place.
Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt took to Twitter early this morning to denounce “suckers” and the fact that they can be easily created:
Community manager in the similarly popular survival game In the world They responded saying that they had two similar scams pop up in their game today. They noted that it was similar to the targeted cases Hell Divers 2, boobies were pre-existing games that had just changed their names and origins. Although Valve has brilliantly handled the issue for both Pocketpair and Arrowhead, the four reported cases reveal a major flaw in Steam's backend that clearly needs to be addressed.
Otherwise, things are going well for you Hell Divers 2, which made good use of its newfound popularity. With most of the server issues gone, players were able to throw themselves into action Bugs The galaxy-killing robots continue Living outside they Starship troopers Delusions. Meanwhile, Arrowhead spins the narrative beats for a galactic war and maybe even a twist Introduction of mechanisms And an enemy faction is returning to the game. Suffice it to say, it's a good time to get into the game. Just make sure you have the correct version when you do this.
