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Helldivers 2 has been out for over a year now, and it's been "one heck of a roller coaster year," as described by Arrowhead Game Studios CEO Shams Jorjani. In a new interview with The Game Business, Jorjani explained how Helldivers 2 recovered from an overwhelmingly negative Steam user score--and how No Man's Sky provided the template.Helldivers 2 has seen massive highs and lows in its first year of release, from becoming the fastest-selling PlayStation game ever to being review-bombed almost to oblivion by angry fans. When it came to recovering from the lows, Jorjani looked to another legendary video game comeback."We went down to like 30 [percent positive] in [Steam's] user score, and usually that's the death knell for a game, but we came back from that," he recounted. "Then we fumbled with balancing and the focus for the game, and that sent us all the way down to 19%, I think was the lowest. Games that get 19% user score do not generally recover."Continue Reading at GameSpot