Helldivers II er blandt årets største hits. Ja, faktisk er det blandt PlayStations største hits nogensinde, og det har fået ambitionsniveauet hos udvikler Arrowhead til at vokse sig større som månederne er gået.
Og de slår nu igen fast at de ønsker at forblive uafhængige, og eksempelvis gå hen og blive det næste FromSoftware. I et interview med GamesIndustry siger spillets instruktør, Johan Pilestedt, at de ønsker at cementere deres position i branchen via adskillige store, kritisk velmodtagede titler.
"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. The goal of the studio is to make really great co-op games. We really want to turn Arrowhead into a flagship studio, where people who want to make these kind-of games say to themselves: 'I want to work at Arrowhead'. When we were growing up, we really wanted to work at Blizzard, it was one of the bucket list places to work at. I think Arrowhead has the potential to be that."
Nu er Blizzard ikke hvad det har været i forhold til folkestemning og kvalitet tværs over lanceringer, så måske de har en chance? Men som Pilestedt selv siger, så kræver det mere end en succesfuld lancering.
Tror du at Arrowhead har en chance?