One of the biggest recent trends in gaming, the live-service model has simultaneously been associated with some of the best games in recent memory, and some of the worst. In theory, a live-service game should offer the ideal gaming experience, promising fans a never-ending experience that's often completely free to play. However, in practice, many live-service games will often fail to deliver on this core premise, with many publishers/developers instead using the model as more of a facade to hide half-baked content that they plan to fix post-launch. Helldivers 2, thankfully, is a far cry from that.