{"id":92030,"date":"2026-10-26T11:29:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T15:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92030"},"modified":"2026-10-26T11:42:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T15:42:29","slug":"why-there-wont-be-a-helldivers-3-anytime-soon-if-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92030","title":{"rendered":"Why There Won\u2019t Be A Helldivers 3 Anytime Soon, If Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/helldivers-2\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/helldivers-2\/\">Helldivers 2<\/a> has been a huge hit for developer Arrowhead and publisher Sony, but don&#8217;t expect a third game in the series anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arrowhead&#8217;s chief creative officer, Johan Pilestedt, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/helldivers-3-only-makes-sense-if-its-so-unlike-helldivers-2-that-both-games-can-exist-side-by-side-says-arrowhead-boss-discussing-their-new-prototype-game\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/helldivers-3-only-makes-sense-if-its-so-unlike-helldivers-2-that-both-games-can-exist-side-by-side-says-arrowhead-boss-discussing-their-new-prototype-game\">Rock Paper Shotgun<\/a> that a sequel would reset &#8220;everything&#8221; and force the player to &#8220;start over.&#8221; He doesn&#8217;t want to ask the community to do that, so Arrowhead will instead keep the momentum going with the existing game by offering new content.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Some studios can treat players like a short-term cash grab,&#8221; Pilestedt said. &#8220;We see players as the actual engine of the game: they&#8217;re the ones bringing in friends, making memes, and keeping the game alive. When you have an active community doing that, you don\u2019t need a sequel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He went on to say that the video game industry today is &#8220;panicking&#8221; because &#8220;the old live-service tricks don&#8217;t work anymore,&#8221; and that would also apply to a hypothetical Helldivers 3. If Arrowhead were to make a sequel, it would need to be highly differentiated, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The biggest competitor to a Helldivers 3 would be Helldivers 2. It only makes sense to make a distinct sequel if it\u2019s so different that both games can exist side by side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helldivers 2 has been a huge hit for developer Arrowhead and publisher Sony, but don&#8217;t expect a third game in the series anytime soon. Arrowhead&#8217;s chief creative officer, Johan Pilestedt, told Rock Paper Shotgun that a sequel would reset &#8220;everything&#8221; and force the player to &#8220;start over.&#8221; He doesn&#8217;t want to ask the community to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":92032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92033,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92030\/revisions\/92033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}