Helldivers 2 faces growing crisis as Creator Program Drama unfolds

The Helldivers 2 community is spiraling into chaos. What started as scattered complaints about performance issues has snowballed into a full-blown crisis involving content creators, technical failures, and allegations of censorship that have players questioning Arrowhead’s management of the game.​

At the center of this storm is Eravin, a prominent Helldivers 2 YouTuber who recently shared a disturbing account of how Arrowhead handled his application to their creator program. According to his video, Eravin reached out about joining the program back in February 2024 and received what seemed like a positive response. But instead of getting accepted, he was strung along for months while watching other creators gain access to early information and exclusive perks that helped them stay ahead in the content game.

The situation gets worse. After being told to “be a model creator” for six weeks, Eravin followed through perfectly — only to be completely ghosted when he followed up. Multiple emails went unanswered over a span of nine weeks, leaving him in professional limbo while his channel struggled to compete with creators who had program access. For someone who was producing high-quality, technically detailed content, getting frozen out like this wasn’t just unprofessional — it likely damaged his career trajectory in a measurable way.

But Eravin isn’t alone. LtBuzzLitebeer, another well-known creator, was removed from the program entirely after refusing to self-censor a brief clip from one of his videos. The offending content? A 10-second segment where he mentioned AI-generated clickbait thumbnails and showed examples from other channels. When Arrowhead asked him to remove it and he declined, citing concerns about censorship, he got the boot.​​

But this isn’t the only drama going on. OhDough and Clay, two other major Helldivers content creators, reported serious hardware issues they believe are connected to the game. OhDough’s PC hard-locked during a livestream and his CPU died shortly after, while Clay allegedly had an SSD bricked.

These aren’t isolated incidents. Players across Reddit and Steam forums have been reporting similar problems for months, like full system freezes, crashes requiring hard reboots, and performance issues that don’t occur with any other games. The PC version has also ballooned to over 150GB due to duplicated assets, making it roughly three times larger than the console versions.​

Arrowhead acknowledged the file size problem and blamed it on optimization for older hard disk drives, but admitted they don’t actually know how many players still use HDDs. The company recently also announced it would pause content updates to focus on performance fixes, but for many in the community, that response feels too little, too late.​

All this drama that unfolded isn’t going unnoticed. A recent thread highlighting the problems has bagged a few thousand updates and over 1.4 thousand comments, showing just how fed up players have become.

Comments comparing Arrowhead to “roleplaying Super Earth government IRL” and jokes about the recurring “it’s so over” cycle capture the frustration perfectly. Some players are drawing parallels to the Destiny 2 community’s relationship with Bungie — a comparison nobody wants to earn.

What makes this especially painful is that Helldivers 2 was supposed to be different. When it launched, the game felt like a breath of fresh air in an industry drowning in microtransactions and half-baked releases. Now it’s facing the same problems that plague so many live service games: technical debt, communication breakdowns, and a disconnect between developers and their community.

Arrowhead might have accidentally struck gold with Helldivers 2, but right now they’re doing everything possible to bury it back in the ground.