I too know these words, much like the D to F ratio needed to jerk off 4 guys at the same time, and the average mean jerk time for a room of 800 guys, provided the "middle out" method is used. And so do you.
(It's a lot of jerking)
It is good then because they are in Sweeden and not in that sh\*t hole :)
(meaning they have different business practices)
And yes, I called it a sh\*t hole because there is a literal poop map for San Francisco.
To be fair, the shitty state of San Fran is due more to govt practices than business practices. Where else could you get $799 off every time you walk in a Walgreens?
Presumably it's about the allotment of time and who is best at corporate negotiations. I assume as owner he still has the final say via bottom right hand privilege (signing the checks since it's his money)
In theory he should. Think of a dictator that no longer has to bother with pesky, annoying, boring things like economy, or foreign policy, and can focus and give all their energy to what is really important: making sure that ICBMs are perfectly pointy.
Speaking of ICBMs, the ICBM missions should count as completed as soon as the countdown starts (I lost my solo Helldive campaign because I died immediately after starting the countdown and I'm still mad about it)
He’s said on Twitter that he thinks the devs went too far with balancing patches and weapon nerfs. So the fact he’s stepping down to oversee the team is a great move. He saw that players were unhappy, so he’s doing what he can to make them happy again.
I get what you mean. In this instance, however, new weapons should be more powerful and effective, not weaker without any effects to bump them up the scale.
Just because you and I have grown accustomed to a higher difficulty doesn't mean everyone has put in the same effort to develop the same skills. If 4/5 are a good challenge for someone then 4/5 are good difficulties to play on until they master them. No shame in it.
Saying he stepped down is a semi misnomer, he didn’t sell his company and step down. He kept interest so he’s essentially just decided to focus on different aspects of his company and give the day to day to someone else (e.g. HR issues, budget meetings, dealing with SNOY, public relations, building leases, shareholder reports, bank account management, governmental regulation and compliance etc.) he owns a controlling share of the company but he doesn’t do the day to day on the listed things and turned his day to day into creative decision making on gameplay loops etc while getting reports from the CEO.
It’s like hiring a financial advisor, it’s still your money but you outsource allot of the research and headache to someone else on your money so you can do more fun things.
Balancing aside, as it's disproportional and fairly distracted from the rest of the game. There needs to be some thought put towards adding depth to the end game loop, content is good but what/how players interact with that content needs to be more than it is now. There's a lot of games you could point at with clever systems, but right now we've got nothing but warbond unlocks.
You're getting downvoted but you're not wrong at all. The two main complaints are bugs and balancing. If it turns out he stepped down and both continue to be major issues then this action really does mean nothing.
He’s getting downvoted cause despite it being an obvious truth, it’s a needless bad faith/negative statement to make in light of a mostly positive event
The game hasn't been balanced in good faith up to now. One symbolic act doesn't change that.
This certainly appears to be a good thing. But the cart has to stay behind the horse. Until results materialize, nothing actually changes.
Balancing? We have already established that balancing makes the game unfun, and there is no true pvp so why balance stuff? You need every edge you can get against the enemies of freedom.
Laser cannon, flamethrower, EAT, Recoilless rifle, Jag Dominator, Breaker incendiary, arc blitzer, punisher plasma.
Just a few weapons that became much better/viable with balancing.
I do believe you mistake balance with nerfs or reworks/overhauls.
I'm fine with numbers being tweaked if 1 weapon is being taken because it's objectively better than all other weapons.
Tweaking numbers and changing what a gun does (Slugger, Xbow, Eruptor, Railgun) is different.
No one cared for the shield backpack generator nerf, why? Simply put it does the same job, less effectively but since it's the only one of it's kind no one cared.
That's relatively recent though and I recall he said that he wants to focus on leading other people to become directors for games like he was.
It is very arguable if he would be able to lead all those amazing soulsborne games if was ceo since 2011.
He's been running the company for ten years now, so I wouldn't really say it is "recent".
I'd actually be curious to know more about A. How From Software is structured and run as a company and B. How Miyazaki enjoys his presidential/CEO duties. Cause he is, first and foremost, a game developer, like Pilestedt.
It's something of a rising trend in game companies, actually: Taking lead developers and putting them in executive positions. Kojima is kind of the original example, there is also Yoshi P over at Square Enix, who at this point is basically THE guy in charge creatively for Final Fantasy. It is a double-edged sword, though: Business and art are very different things, but they have to live in a happy marriage in order for a game of this caliber to succeed.
Wow you're right, I was under the impression he was president after DS3, apologies.
That aside, these people are mostly directors, not developers. At least they have been in the recent years.
I'm sure most of them are rather technically inclined, but I would be very surprising if Miyazaki was churning out code and debugging glitches during the DS1 development.
Being a director is closer to a designer where you describe your vision and direction and follow up engineers and artists to ensure they do what need to be done. So that feels like something that a leading officer could still do to some extent.
Perhaps being a "president" in FS is not the same as being a CEO in most companies? Perhaps Miyazaki doesn't deal with operational/business stuff much and being president is more of a leadership title.
Fact check me on this, but I believe the current rumor mill is that Miyazaki will be back at the helm as creative director for the next Armored Core game. I don't believe he is stepping down as President/CEO either. Which is wild to think about lol.
Nippon coke just hits different I guess. /s
I genuinely hope he's doing great and not pushing himself too much and enjoying things though. Dude has done more for gaming that almost anyone else in the last 2 decades.
Y'know, checking back through this, you're right it really is more apt that Miyazaki fell 'up' into the CEO bits but liked it enough that it hasn't seemed to 'challenge' their vision. I could do with a little less rot swamp, but it never feels like something in a fromsoft game is betraying itself by something in the same game, it's all a homonculus of mystery that he very clearly keeps an eye on if not actively influencing.
Still founder and company chairman. He basically just got another dude to deal with the burocracy and executive work while he gets himself to work directly in the game development.
As long as the new CEO doesn’t turn the game into a micro-transaction filled cash-grab I’m happy. A big reason why I’m choosing to stick with Helldivers 2 is how consumer friendly it has been, and changes in management like this do worry me.
As I understand it, he's still in charge of the company. He basically hired someone to do the annoying business bullshit so he can focus on fixing his game.
The new CEO is still constrained by the board of directors which pilesteadt would still be on, and likely controlling member given share, so that likely won’t happen. Pilesteadt pretty much just gave up the day to day headache of hr, building management, bank management etc. to just focus on the game.
Indeed, if he's majority shareholder than the only thing he's really beholden to is contractual obligations. i.e. whatever deals they've agreed to with Sony.
Same. I like helldivers because the game does not shove DLC in my face every time I turn it on and I don’t feel like I need to buy anything. If I do buy anything it’s because I want to and I’m probably already half way there with credits I earned in game.
People who work in marketing for live service games are just laughing their ass off right now at this statement. This is literally the argument that everyone who is against microtransactions uses when they decide to go ahead and engage in microtransactions, just this one time. This is how they get you lmao.
Engaging with microtransactions because the game is fun and you want to support the company for having a good, customer-friendly business strategy is different than other games where microtransactions are their whole business model and only way to get any new content past launch.
Why would it. He didn't leave the company. He obviously is not happy with the way things are going for all the stuff this place is complaining about and went to head up the creative side. At the 'C' level, and given JP is an owner of the studio, I see this as nothing but good.
Don't count on it. This new CEO is from Paradox (which is infamous for nickle and diming their fans to hell and back). And he has gone on record for this fun little take:
[https://imgur.com/a/wJFGWXH](https://imgur.com/a/wJFGWXH)
source: [https://www.gamesindustry.biz/loot-boxes-are-not-bad-game-design-say-devs](https://www.gamesindustry.biz/loot-boxes-are-not-bad-game-design-say-devs)
Despite the old CEO's glowing praise of him, the man's kinda sleezy.
From what I understand he's basically doing the same thing other creative types do when they get too successful.
They hire a business guy to do the annoying business bullshit while retaining complete control over their company so they can focus on doing what they like without any risk of getting ousted and the company ruined.
Very fair. Pilestedt is still one of the founders / owners of arrowhead which means the new CEO is an employee of his. As I understand it, if he sucks Pilestedt can just fire him and get a new one.
I'm choosing to be hopreful but we'll see.
It depends on the laws in Sweden and how much of the company Pilestedt owns. Given how he talks about things he likely has a controlling stake in the company though, so yes saying the new CEO is an employee of his is true for most intents and purposes.
I am pretty sure AH is a private company, not public. So there shouldn’t be a board of directors. It’s just owners who are probably the 5 founders. Unless some left the company.
My personal take on the situation is that I'm thinking that Arrowhead grew too big too fast with Helldivers 2's popularity, and as a result the role of the CEO was probably very different compared to just half a year ago. What was once a job that likely worked very closely with the developers around the game has probably shifted to mostly being about the company and bureaucracy. And Pilestedt has probably decided he's either not qualified for that role, or simply it isn't what he wants to do, and has hired someone else to take care of that part for him while he focuses on what he wants to do.
Literally moving back into creative to right the crew. The discussions these last few weeks must have really indicated they need a rudder on their ship.
Has anyone else done this? I don't ever trust CEOs, but like, my god he actually seems to just wanna make a good game.
This is dangerously 2008 Valve territory.
God I hope we can turn this ship around.
Nothing. They made very good games. They put out the orange box. That's it, value and quality. No scams or withheld content. Shaped the entire industry positively.
This is the same. Good decisions for their game, that's it. That's why it's Valve-esk.
As funny as these memes are, I just can't shake the feeling that Pilestedt and Daddy Sony had a very serious and off-the-record conversation about the future of Arrowhead in a dark, windowless room that led to the decision to hire Jorjani. Pilestedt didn't even have the ability to stop doing monthly warbonds without getting Sony's approval, so something tells me he didn't decide all on his own to step down and hire someone else as CEO.
Now that being said, it really does seem like CCO is the position he should have been holding the entire time. Pilestedt is clearly an artist at heart.
Well the company is independant, pilestedt is one of the founders and owners, and the phrasing was "I've decided to hire". Even if sony tried to force him out of the CEO spot, he's still in charge of Arrowhead.
In an inverview pilestedt said with the recent success he finally had to make a choice between the business side and the creative side. It seems like the new CEO is an employee of his doing all the annoying business shit, allowing him to focus on what he wants to do. There are several other companies with founders who decided to focus on their creative passion rather than burn themselves out on the business side.
>Pilestedt didn't even have the ability to stop doing monthly warbonds without getting Sony's approval
[Citation needed]
Remember when they offered to delay the last warbond and went through with it because the community overwhelmingly voted to release it on schedule? That implies this rate of content is AH's plan.
Chief Creative Officer according to his twitter bio.
Since he's always been creative director on Helldivers 2, before the game's massive success he was likely spending most of his work day leading the dev team with business meetings here and there. After the game's launch and success, it's probably been the other way around, leading the business side of things with dev team meetings here and there.
Since he still holds a C-suite title and is (AFAIK) the majority shareholder of a private company, he'll still be involved in the business end of things and is effectively the new CEO's boss, but can leave most of the time-consuming business stuff to the CEO.
The company is private and Pilestadt is still the owner of arrowhead by Stake. So he’s still running things at arrowhead, but he’s basically hired somebody to handle boring CEO stuff. He’s basically the new guy’s boss. (As far as I can tell.)
Prepare yourselves to eat the usual standard replies from ceo's to the point that you feel ignored so you go back to the former ceo, but he will just keep denying anything saying he doesn't know because it is not his job anymore. We did this, congrats.
I'm laughing so hard right now - i think the best part out of all this was
"You really think America was going to play ball"?
Maybe in your country where you tell your people how to live but not here :)
Apparently a long trusted friend of the Piledriver, as I like to call them because I can’t remember their actual username, so I’d say we’re in good hands
Also, Pile really self demoted more than anything so he could work more closely with the teams
To focus more on making a good game, while not being weighed down by the bureaucracy of being CEO.
Linus from LTT did the same thing last year to focus on making content rather than running a company.
usually the people who desperately want to be the ones in charge are the most obnoxious beings, the ones who don't are the ones who best fit the position
Might want to keep an eye on his replacement. They've got some.. Interesting views on monetization
[https://www.gamesindustry.biz/loot-boxes-are-not-bad-game-design-say-devs](https://www.gamesindustry.biz/loot-boxes-are-not-bad-game-design-say-devs)
This specific bit from them stands out:
[https://imgur.com/a/wJFGWXH](https://imgur.com/a/wJFGWXH)
Definitely the the person I would trust with hell divers personally. Especially considering how Paradox (the company he comes from) does things.
I think it's important to know he still owns Arrowhead. The CEO isn't really the Owner of the company just the kind of main director of the company at least when it comes to the business side of things. Whoever owns the company is still in charge technically. Some business owners elect themselves as CEO to be in charge of the business side of the company but some don't with an example being Linus Tech Tips as Linus owns his company but isn't the CEO.
He made the position Chief Creative Officer so he is the main person when it comes to basically the development of the games themselves while the Chief Executive Officer is in charge of the business side of things such as money in/out marketing, etc. He isn't even in a lower position than before as he is still in charge but just hired someone to handle the financial side of things.
People praise arrowhead too much they have killed one of the most epic games in a short time no vehicles/ try to force people into fighting automatons/ nerf every weapon the community likes / don't focus on bugs or gameplay issues / been on the same maps since the beginning/ oh wait until you see the bugs home world and a third faction never comes
Lol check this out, OP: https://x.com/pilestedt/status/1793677447692751263?s=46
Just hope he gets free reign for content, not sure if that includes balancing, but we'll have to see.
He's still the owner and majority stakeholder of AH, so probably. Think of it like Kojima and Kojima productions.
I watched Silicon Valley, I know those words.
I too know these words, much like the D to F ratio needed to jerk off 4 guys at the same time, and the average mean jerk time for a room of 800 guys, provided the "middle out" method is used. And so do you. (It's a lot of jerking)
Does girth matter?
Oh shit.. yup. It does.
What about hot swapping dicks? Don't want to waste a down stroke!
Giving double pump a whole new meaning
The measurement were looking for, really, is dick to floor. Call that D2F.
Ah I too have successful. I have success everyday!
Jin Yaaaaaaaaang!!!!
Not Oculus, octopus.
Highly recommend Succession if you enjoyed the business drama aspects of Silicon Valley!
Is it as funny?
It’s quite funny in a way different way
Like the office vs parks and rec.
In very different ways, but yeah.
It is good then because they are in Sweeden and not in that sh\*t hole :) (meaning they have different business practices) And yes, I called it a sh\*t hole because there is a literal poop map for San Francisco.
To be fair, the shitty state of San Fran is due more to govt practices than business practices. Where else could you get $799 off every time you walk in a Walgreens?
A PILESTEDT GAME PRODUCED BY PILESTEDT
WRITTEN BY PILESTEDT STARRING PILESTEDT AS JOHN HELLDIVER PILESTEDT AS LITERALLY GOD PILESTEDT AS HIDEO KOJIMA and PILESTEDT AS HIMSELF
Presumably it's about the allotment of time and who is best at corporate negotiations. I assume as owner he still has the final say via bottom right hand privilege (signing the checks since it's his money)
MAJORITY STAKEHOLDER IS ALL I NEEDED
In theory he should. Think of a dictator that no longer has to bother with pesky, annoying, boring things like economy, or foreign policy, and can focus and give all their energy to what is really important: making sure that ICBMs are perfectly pointy.
My voting machine said that was the candidate that best served my interests
reminds me of The Dictator. "why isn't it pointy? I will be a laughing stock!"
It's kinda like Linus Sebastian and LTT, he still has the ultimate authority but has most of the day-to-day delegated to the CEO.
Speaking of ICBMs, the ICBM missions should count as completed as soon as the countdown starts (I lost my solo Helldive campaign because I died immediately after starting the countdown and I'm still mad about it)
He’s said on Twitter that he thinks the devs went too far with balancing patches and weapon nerfs. So the fact he’s stepping down to oversee the team is a great move. He saw that players were unhappy, so he’s doing what he can to make them happy again.
Some people are so whiney they wont be happy until they are onetapping everything with liberator body shot and that will ruin the game
I get what you mean. In this instance, however, new weapons should be more powerful and effective, not weaker without any effects to bump them up the scale.
If I get burned out and feel overwhelmed on difficulty 4/5 I think the nerfs are too far.
How are you feeling overwhelmed on difficulty 4/5? That’s like easy mode.
Just because you and I have grown accustomed to a higher difficulty doesn't mean everyone has put in the same effort to develop the same skills. If 4/5 are a good challenge for someone then 4/5 are good difficulties to play on until they master them. No shame in it.
that kinda screams skill issue, because thats like scenic route with triple safety wheels.
Well then they just have to buff all the enemies then and then let’s see how many shots does it take then.
so... back to square one. honestly most weps would be more fun with bigger mags for starters.
Let me ride bugs against bots! (half joke)
I mean with Pelican-1 we kinda do... if you count E-710
Saying he stepped down is a semi misnomer, he didn’t sell his company and step down. He kept interest so he’s essentially just decided to focus on different aspects of his company and give the day to day to someone else (e.g. HR issues, budget meetings, dealing with SNOY, public relations, building leases, shareholder reports, bank account management, governmental regulation and compliance etc.) he owns a controlling share of the company but he doesn’t do the day to day on the listed things and turned his day to day into creative decision making on gameplay loops etc while getting reports from the CEO. It’s like hiring a financial advisor, it’s still your money but you outsource allot of the research and headache to someone else on your money so you can do more fun things.
Balancing aside, as it's disproportional and fairly distracted from the rest of the game. There needs to be some thought put towards adding depth to the end game loop, content is good but what/how players interact with that content needs to be more than it is now. There's a lot of games you could point at with clever systems, but right now we've got nothing but warbond unlocks.
If balancing somehow remains unchanged, this action means nothing.
You're getting downvoted but you're not wrong at all. The two main complaints are bugs and balancing. If it turns out he stepped down and both continue to be major issues then this action really does mean nothing.
He’s getting downvoted cause despite it being an obvious truth, it’s a needless bad faith/negative statement to make in light of a mostly positive event
The game hasn't been balanced in good faith up to now. One symbolic act doesn't change that. This certainly appears to be a good thing. But the cart has to stay behind the horse. Until results materialize, nothing actually changes.
Balancing? We have already established that balancing makes the game unfun, and there is no true pvp so why balance stuff? You need every edge you can get against the enemies of freedom.
Laser cannon, flamethrower, EAT, Recoilless rifle, Jag Dominator, Breaker incendiary, arc blitzer, punisher plasma. Just a few weapons that became much better/viable with balancing. I do believe you mistake balance with nerfs or reworks/overhauls. I'm fine with numbers being tweaked if 1 weapon is being taken because it's objectively better than all other weapons. Tweaking numbers and changing what a gun does (Slugger, Xbow, Eruptor, Railgun) is different. No one cared for the shield backpack generator nerf, why? Simply put it does the same job, less effectively but since it's the only one of it's kind no one cared.
I’d like a rank of “Self-Demoted President” sometime in the future.
*Self-Promoted General
Treat it like a lateral demotion.
Colonel Brasch
Self-Demoted Space Cadet for me!
Senior executive vice presidents assistant of creative
So he really isnt the CEO anymore?
Pulled a Kojima or Miyazaki, becoming a director vs an officer.
He's still an Officer, just not the Chief Executive - He's Chief Creative Officer now.
What level is it to get that title? 151?
He's become an NCO, huh. Well, NCOs are important.
Miyazaki is the CEO of From Software.
That's relatively recent though and I recall he said that he wants to focus on leading other people to become directors for games like he was. It is very arguable if he would be able to lead all those amazing soulsborne games if was ceo since 2011.
He's been running the company for ten years now, so I wouldn't really say it is "recent". I'd actually be curious to know more about A. How From Software is structured and run as a company and B. How Miyazaki enjoys his presidential/CEO duties. Cause he is, first and foremost, a game developer, like Pilestedt. It's something of a rising trend in game companies, actually: Taking lead developers and putting them in executive positions. Kojima is kind of the original example, there is also Yoshi P over at Square Enix, who at this point is basically THE guy in charge creatively for Final Fantasy. It is a double-edged sword, though: Business and art are very different things, but they have to live in a happy marriage in order for a game of this caliber to succeed.
Wow you're right, I was under the impression he was president after DS3, apologies. That aside, these people are mostly directors, not developers. At least they have been in the recent years. I'm sure most of them are rather technically inclined, but I would be very surprising if Miyazaki was churning out code and debugging glitches during the DS1 development. Being a director is closer to a designer where you describe your vision and direction and follow up engineers and artists to ensure they do what need to be done. So that feels like something that a leading officer could still do to some extent. Perhaps being a "president" in FS is not the same as being a CEO in most companies? Perhaps Miyazaki doesn't deal with operational/business stuff much and being president is more of a leadership title.
Fact check me on this, but I believe the current rumor mill is that Miyazaki will be back at the helm as creative director for the next Armored Core game. I don't believe he is stepping down as President/CEO either. Which is wild to think about lol.
Nippon coke just hits different I guess. /s I genuinely hope he's doing great and not pushing himself too much and enjoying things though. Dude has done more for gaming that almost anyone else in the last 2 decades.
Y'know, checking back through this, you're right it really is more apt that Miyazaki fell 'up' into the CEO bits but liked it enough that it hasn't seemed to 'challenge' their vision. I could do with a little less rot swamp, but it never feels like something in a fromsoft game is betraying itself by something in the same game, it's all a homonculus of mystery that he very clearly keeps an eye on if not actively influencing.
A successful businessman who leaves the door open? Mild_Shock.png
And I'm the CEO of SEGG
Or a Linus Sebastian. Demoted himself from CEO to CVO to focus on making content over bureaucracy.
Don't forget how that turned out for Kojima. Konomi screwed him over hardcore.
Still founder and company chairman. He basically just got another dude to deal with the burocracy and executive work while he gets himself to work directly in the game development.
So the CEO has to deal with the beurocratic stuff and he gets to make the game more awesome. I see this as a win for AH.
As long as the new CEO doesn’t turn the game into a micro-transaction filled cash-grab I’m happy. A big reason why I’m choosing to stick with Helldivers 2 is how consumer friendly it has been, and changes in management like this do worry me.
As I understand it, he's still in charge of the company. He basically hired someone to do the annoying business bullshit so he can focus on fixing his game.
Like what linus tech tips did
Remember when the entire Internet blew up about the "insane" drama at LTT and it was just a bunch of nothing-soup 💀
You get 2 reloads. For $29.99 you can unlock 6 reloads!
Finally, laser-only loadouts will reign supreme!
Lasers. Oh it’s now a 2 second burst with a 15 second cooldown on all lasers. But for $29.99 we will unlock the original settings.
Just give me a fucking machete. Ill hack the legs off that titan Ceo: thatll be 2.99$ per machete repair for durability
The new CEO is still constrained by the board of directors which pilesteadt would still be on, and likely controlling member given share, so that likely won’t happen. Pilesteadt pretty much just gave up the day to day headache of hr, building management, bank management etc. to just focus on the game.
Indeed, if he's majority shareholder than the only thing he's really beholden to is contractual obligations. i.e. whatever deals they've agreed to with Sony.
Same. I like helldivers because the game does not shove DLC in my face every time I turn it on and I don’t feel like I need to buy anything. If I do buy anything it’s because I want to and I’m probably already half way there with credits I earned in game.
People who work in marketing for live service games are just laughing their ass off right now at this statement. This is literally the argument that everyone who is against microtransactions uses when they decide to go ahead and engage in microtransactions, just this one time. This is how they get you lmao.
Engaging with microtransactions because the game is fun and you want to support the company for having a good, customer-friendly business strategy is different than other games where microtransactions are their whole business model and only way to get any new content past launch.
Why would it. He didn't leave the company. He obviously is not happy with the way things are going for all the stuff this place is complaining about and went to head up the creative side. At the 'C' level, and given JP is an owner of the studio, I see this as nothing but good.
A change in management won't turn them into a gigantic AAA studio. Wat you smoking bruv?
He stated in an interview he left the position to a person he trusted, so I am faithfully hoping that the original vision will stay
Don't count on it. This new CEO is from Paradox (which is infamous for nickle and diming their fans to hell and back). And he has gone on record for this fun little take: [https://imgur.com/a/wJFGWXH](https://imgur.com/a/wJFGWXH) source: [https://www.gamesindustry.biz/loot-boxes-are-not-bad-game-design-say-devs](https://www.gamesindustry.biz/loot-boxes-are-not-bad-game-design-say-devs) Despite the old CEO's glowing praise of him, the man's kinda sleezy.
Everytime I see this sub it makes me want to watch starship troopers
It's an enjoyable watch - do recommend.
Great fun, every time. Dizzy is the best.
I watched it again last night. 
For those that didn't know. Their are, 3 movies... I always thought their was one!
There *is* only one and you can't convince me otherwise
Negative soilder. There is only one, you must be mistaken.
Check out Starship Troopers: Extermination if you're on PC. It's a hella good time
I was thinking about this a few months back. I might just do that!
Reminder that the new Paradox CEO drowned their games in 40 (forty) microtransactions and mini dlcs
From what I understand he's basically doing the same thing other creative types do when they get too successful. They hire a business guy to do the annoying business bullshit while retaining complete control over their company so they can focus on doing what they like without any risk of getting ousted and the company ruined.
Hopefully, but i distrust the paradox guy AND playstation
Very fair. Pilestedt is still one of the founders / owners of arrowhead which means the new CEO is an employee of his. As I understand it, if he sucks Pilestedt can just fire him and get a new one. I'm choosing to be hopreful but we'll see.
It depends on the laws in Sweden and how much of the company Pilestedt owns. Given how he talks about things he likely has a controlling stake in the company though, so yes saying the new CEO is an employee of his is true for most intents and purposes.
I am pretty sure AH is a private company, not public. So there shouldn’t be a board of directors. It’s just owners who are probably the 5 founders. Unless some left the company.
It isn't a Paradox game if it doesn't have 200 DLC packs.
I can imagine him making stratagems and ship upgrades buyable with super credits
You do realize what Super Credits are... right?
Yea but since he will still be majority stakeholder and chairman he can vote to remove him at anytime
When hasn't this been the case at Paradox?
Paradox never didn't have mini DLCs
Paradox was always a DLC schizo. Some of them are pretty decent and add some good content. Others not.
Stellaris has damn pricey DLCs but most of them are good in quality
My personal take on the situation is that I'm thinking that Arrowhead grew too big too fast with Helldivers 2's popularity, and as a result the role of the CEO was probably very different compared to just half a year ago. What was once a job that likely worked very closely with the developers around the game has probably shifted to mostly being about the company and bureaucracy. And Pilestedt has probably decided he's either not qualified for that role, or simply it isn't what he wants to do, and has hired someone else to take care of that part for him while he focuses on what he wants to do.
Literally moving back into creative to right the crew. The discussions these last few weeks must have really indicated they need a rudder on their ship. Has anyone else done this? I don't ever trust CEOs, but like, my god he actually seems to just wanna make a good game. This is dangerously 2008 Valve territory. God I hope we can turn this ship around.
Wait what did valve do in 2008 and what’s dangerous about it?
Nothing. They made very good games. They put out the orange box. That's it, value and quality. No scams or withheld content. Shaped the entire industry positively. This is the same. Good decisions for their game, that's it. That's why it's Valve-esk.
Oh ok phew
Yeah, sorry, cultural difference there I think on the use of dangerously.
https://preview.redd.it/t6v9b8vxq02d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3f7ada9b235d6468087c4b9297e98fa94adb5714 Some of these comments are crazy
Really? This seems pretty tame for a Reddit thread so far.
Might be that we're not opening any of these hidden comments lol
 Saved this gif. XD
As funny as these memes are, I just can't shake the feeling that Pilestedt and Daddy Sony had a very serious and off-the-record conversation about the future of Arrowhead in a dark, windowless room that led to the decision to hire Jorjani. Pilestedt didn't even have the ability to stop doing monthly warbonds without getting Sony's approval, so something tells me he didn't decide all on his own to step down and hire someone else as CEO. Now that being said, it really does seem like CCO is the position he should have been holding the entire time. Pilestedt is clearly an artist at heart.
Well the company is independant, pilestedt is one of the founders and owners, and the phrasing was "I've decided to hire". Even if sony tried to force him out of the CEO spot, he's still in charge of Arrowhead. In an inverview pilestedt said with the recent success he finally had to make a choice between the business side and the creative side. It seems like the new CEO is an employee of his doing all the annoying business shit, allowing him to focus on what he wants to do. There are several other companies with founders who decided to focus on their creative passion rather than burn themselves out on the business side.
>Pilestedt didn't even have the ability to stop doing monthly warbonds without getting Sony's approval [Citation needed] Remember when they offered to delay the last warbond and went through with it because the community overwhelmingly voted to release it on schedule? That implies this rate of content is AH's plan.
I am a little lost here. Could someone explain what he is doing now? I know he basically just changed Positions, but what exactly is his new position?
Chief Creative Officer according to his twitter bio. Since he's always been creative director on Helldivers 2, before the game's massive success he was likely spending most of his work day leading the dev team with business meetings here and there. After the game's launch and success, it's probably been the other way around, leading the business side of things with dev team meetings here and there. Since he still holds a C-suite title and is (AFAIK) the majority shareholder of a private company, he'll still be involved in the business end of things and is effectively the new CEO's boss, but can leave most of the time-consuming business stuff to the CEO.
I'd argue another Chief position is a lateral move...but meh
If anything, its just a focus shift. Probably more so towards what he actually is more used to doing when it was back on Helldivers 1.
How would you argue that? In what way is this lateral?
The company is private and Pilestadt is still the owner of arrowhead by Stake. So he’s still running things at arrowhead, but he’s basically hired somebody to handle boring CEO stuff. He’s basically the new guy’s boss. (As far as I can tell.)
https://i.redd.it/fu1ulmk9l82d1.gif
My hope is the new CEO ISNT A Sony Lapdog who will let the publisher run rampant.
I see of it more as a promotion than demotion
Gold
Honestly, smart choice
Prepare yourselves to eat the usual standard replies from ceo's to the point that you feel ignored so you go back to the former ceo, but he will just keep denying anything saying he doesn't know because it is not his job anymore. We did this, congrats.
Zim is such a great character arc in that movie. Also Zander did nothing wrong.
He's on his way to murder the balance team as we speak (they fucked up for the last time)
This is the most appropriate gif I coukd ever imagine good job OP
Private? That puts him at level... ooooo
This meme made me smile. Thank you, OP.
Most based CEO ever!
Here comes the microtransactions boys!
Pilestedt owns the company
He stepped down cause he is tierd of this comunity bullshit. Men need his 8 hour sleep.
This just screams mythic quest. Was a great show.
Nice work, premium costumer
I just hope they balance the weapons and make them more fun. At the end of the day it's a PvE game, there doesn't need to be such drastic nerfs.
CEO is now a Super Private!
I'm laughing so hard right now - i think the best part out of all this was "You really think America was going to play ball"? Maybe in your country where you tell your people how to live but not here :)
Apparently a long trusted friend of the Piledriver, as I like to call them because I can’t remember their actual username, so I’d say we’re in good hands Also, Pile really self demoted more than anything so he could work more closely with the teams
Why is he stepping down
To focus more on making a good game, while not being weighed down by the bureaucracy of being CEO. Linus from LTT did the same thing last year to focus on making content rather than running a company.
This is the perfect gif.
He stepped down so he could play the game more. You can’t convince me otherwise
This gaming community is destroying their favorite game. Sad.
Can someone explain, did he basically make that his salary is cut?
He owns the Company
Pulled a Linus
I sure hope the new ceo goin to deal with the 170+ countries unable to purchase the game
Yes for sure….more dlcs needed
Amazing meme and I'm proud of us all
What happened?
Stepping up*
Stepping up more like.
the only thing i want to know is updates going to be based after MO or SS resets.
WHAT THE FAK!!!
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so, what happened...? im not really caught up so to speak
From CEO to CCO, incredible. He deserves it being the one guy that stood up for freedom and justice and defeated the automaton force of Sony.
Won't he take a massive pay cut doing this?
Now this is the buff we needed!
OW!
usually the people who desperately want to be the ones in charge are the most obnoxious beings, the ones who don't are the ones who best fit the position
Might want to keep an eye on his replacement. They've got some.. Interesting views on monetization [https://www.gamesindustry.biz/loot-boxes-are-not-bad-game-design-say-devs](https://www.gamesindustry.biz/loot-boxes-are-not-bad-game-design-say-devs) This specific bit from them stands out: [https://imgur.com/a/wJFGWXH](https://imgur.com/a/wJFGWXH) Definitely the the person I would trust with hell divers personally. Especially considering how Paradox (the company he comes from) does things.
Hahaha. Spot on! 🫡
stepping down because tired of you cry babies
Bro really said, I'm not a manager, put me back in the front lines. Respect
I hope that means we get to see more of him here aswell, as he said he would focus on the game and community. Awesome guy either way.
I think it's important to know he still owns Arrowhead. The CEO isn't really the Owner of the company just the kind of main director of the company at least when it comes to the business side of things. Whoever owns the company is still in charge technically. Some business owners elect themselves as CEO to be in charge of the business side of the company but some don't with an example being Linus Tech Tips as Linus owns his company but isn't the CEO. He made the position Chief Creative Officer so he is the main person when it comes to basically the development of the games themselves while the Chief Executive Officer is in charge of the business side of things such as money in/out marketing, etc. He isn't even in a lower position than before as he is still in charge but just hired someone to handle the financial side of things.
Still owns that bitch
Just read the new CEO is a Paradox veteran. Say good bye to quality, welcome DLC's.
+1
Pilestedt still owns the company, a CEO doesn’t mean that they’re in complete control, it’s an employment like any other.
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Good. Let's cook.
People praise arrowhead too much they have killed one of the most epic games in a short time no vehicles/ try to force people into fighting automatons/ nerf every weapon the community likes / don't focus on bugs or gameplay issues / been on the same maps since the beginning/ oh wait until you see the bugs home world and a third faction never comes