Compared to most other live service games around, the MTX in Helldivers 2 is both unobtrusive and minimal
A vast majority of the content is earned in game, with no way to purchase it with MTX. Also you earn the premium currency in the game by playing, so there no content locked out permanently behind MTX purchases
It's a move in the right direction compared to most games with MTX, they do deserve some credit here even if they aren't perfect
I've (happily) paid for one Warbonds set, earned another. And close to unlocking my third.
A couple of points:
There's a few individual (mainly cosmetic) items on daily rotation available for instant unlock, but you still have to earn medals in the game to unlock e.g weapons in the Warbond sets.
And there's no time limit on the Warbonds, you can unlock them at any point in time.
Reviews are already coming back, I'm tracking the Steam graph and we're back to "mixed" now. The Daily graph for 6th May was very encouraging!
For the game that has micro transactions. Already knew it from the Steam Marketplace, but rule of cool is in full effect, even in a medium historically thought of as geeky.
>It'll be interesting to see how long it takes for the reviews to be updated in the days ahead.
Bad news, many won't. Nasty side effect of review bombs is that people "forget" to update just as quickly as they start the drama.
Good news, Steams review system means they heal naturally. But it'll probably take months to get back to "outstanding" rating again, or whatever Steam calls it.