Sheesh, I didn’t realize it was doing that bad. I recall hearing them implement some really questionable business moves in Payday 2, so this is pretty funny to see.
Questionable business moves in a game about literally robbing banks is a pretty funny sentiment.
More like explicitly stating no loot boxes, then several years later announcing loot boxes and editing their own forum post to remove the no loot boxes section of the comment.
Not to mention the conviction of the previous CEO of insider trading.
I don’t get why companies everywhere think that making a promise, then quietly editing it out before breaking the promise is going to work at all for them?
While that’s a good burn, isn’t opera a super shady company
“A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad”
What happened to this game? Payday 2 was a game that never seemed to die. Super popular. It just sucks or what?
Payday 3 has online only lobbies. On launch nobody could play for weeks because they were entirely overrun. Truly a baffling decision after the steam deck launch, probably made because they had some deal with their server provider. All while also competing with payday 2.
Just checked and payday 2 is sitting at 20k current players while 3 is still <300.
For comparison helldivers launched several months later, also had always online with launch server capacity issues, at a much higher scale, and fixed them within a week. That’s with Sony resources backing them, but still. Payday was out for weeks before it was playable for most.
Just checked for laughs and helldivers 1 has more players than payday 3 right now.
It’s not only that. The progression system was f-ed, requiring you to switch from your favourite weapons to other, shittier ones just to get an achievement. Some weapons had barely any, some had a lot, so you could end up getting the progress from your favourite weapon in a match and had to switch to grind a pistol or some stupid shi like that. The devs defended this system forever, but finally gave up once the numbers were at the level seen in the screenshot.
It was VERY undercooked. As in unfinished UI, console prompts being pasted on top of m/k, no server search, broken matchmaking, lack of content, lack of build variety, no offline mode, terrible progression systems.
Pretty much everything that could go wrong did except for the gameplay itself being better.
To be fair it neither of the other games had much on launch content. I wouldn’t be surprised if they managed to turn it around.
haha, $company you’re so relatable. You’re a friend, you get me. Not a souless machine inhumanely optimised for profit twisting flesh into eldritch parts to power the rituals that sustain you.
