HD2 Community in Turmoil

 

Recently I done a blog on the incident that involved the proposer of a charity event that was named the, "D10 Dev" Event. The event was proposed by a community member that he would put up 1000$ to have certain members of the Arrowhead Dev team to participate in a mission at the highest level in the game against the Automatons. The event was to bring a sort of light to the idea that many players have had that the balance of higher level missions is off and needs to be looked into and worked on.

What made this unique was instead of just calling out Arrowhead on the balancing issue and just fussing about it, the player was willing to use it as a means to fix the balancing issues as well as raise money for charity, which to most people seems like a win-win. After the post about the event other content creators and players of the HD2 community said they would also throw in $100 into the prize pool to go to charity as well if the Devs would run the mission with a specified set of weapons, armor, and stratagems, which again were done to bring notice to the games imbalance on the higher levels. 

However, despite the intent of the challenge, there was a group of HD2 players who didn't see it as a simple call out on balancing. These divers apparently called, "Glazedivers" took to Reddit and began speaking badly about the player and rallied a bunch of those divers like them together. What happened next is sad, and honestly as a member of the HD2 community I am both angered and saddened by the events that happened as it shows that even in the HD2 Community there is a group that is toxic and doesn't have the idea of fun and love of the game in mind.

It was reported that the player in question was then doxxed by other HD2 Community members to the point that the player was forced to make life changing decisions. The cowards of the Glazedivers threatened his life, the life of his significant other, an animal sanctuary that they volunteered at and his job. In the end he was forced to remove his name from the Animal Shelter for fear that the shelter would have been further targeted by those threatening him, and he was then let go from his job. 

Because of this incident, he lost his job, his ability to volunteer, and his love for not just the game of Helldivers but his love for gaming in general. He stated in a final post that he was going to be leaving the HD2 Community as well as most likely would not play games again, at the very least not online. He stated he would now be forced to find a new job, probably move, and would not be able to volunteer any further and that it had made his home life 'harder'. 

Arrowhead and Sony came out with a stern stance on the issue of Doxxing and being Toxic to other players. But currently it is not known if they have sought out to remove the Glazedivers responsible for the Doxxing or if they will take any actions. Though it is not known what they as a company can do against the Doxxing of a player. While the player themselves might be able to seek damages and sue the people that done the Doxxing without their names or locations they may not get prosecuted for the incident. 

The HD2 Community today was filled with those that were blaming Arrowhead for the incident or at the very least for not going after the Doxxers openly and said that the game should be Reviewed Bombed and people should stop playing until they do something to help the person that has been most affected by the Doxxing. Others are saying that the community itself should figure out who the doxxers are and take their own justice out on them. There are also those that are still defending the doxxers though they are very far and few in between. 

Personally, it is incidents like this that put gamers in a bad light and makes people that are on the fence about gaming decide it's not for them. Not only is this a slap in the face to the HD2 Community and a blackeye that we will have to walk around with for no telling how long, but it also hits any Gamer Community in the gut as it forces only the bad to be seen by those that are not gamers but may of thought about becoming one.

I think the HD2 Community should find out who these Glazedivers are, report them to Arrowhead, and then demand that Arrowhead send that information to the affected parties and then tell them to pursue charges against them for harassment, terroristic threatening, Libel, and Slander, as well as demand reparations from the parties involved for causing the loss of income. But sadly I don't see that happening.

*Note: Glazedivers: A subset of Divers in the Helldivers 2 Community that are seen as highly skilled and experts on high level diving runs. They also tend to be a protecting group of Arrowhead. It is reported they defend Arrowheads decisions and rebuke those that go against Arrowhead.