Helldivers 2 is a massive success, and while that's come at a cost—former Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt, who's now moved into a mainly creative role, told GamesIndustry that they received "horrifying" threats from some players—it's also helped inspire some major ambitions for the future of Arrowhead. Pilestedt isn't looking to take the studio public, though, but he does have hopes that it could one day become "the next FromSoftware or Blizzard."
Among many other things, that will mean adapting to the spotlight. For the most part, Pilestedt says that interactions with the community have been positive, but it hasn't been perfect, of course: Concerns about game balance are something the studio has recently resolved to address, and of course there was the big mess with the post-launch requirement to sign up for a PSN account, which cost a lot of goodwill.
