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Starbreeze admits Payday 3 is massively underperforming (www.gamedeveloper.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Payday 3 launched for Windows PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X | S in September 2023 but has seemingly struggled to win over players. The title currently has a 'mixed' rating on Steam with over 36,000 user reviews, although the vast majority of recent reviews have been 'mostly negative.'

Maybe release a game when it's ready, so many of these online games are releasing broken and getting their roadmap pushed back because they have to fix it asap.

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[–] [email protected] 107 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (8 children)

Make your game require always online connectivity
Rush your development, causing network issues, bugs, missing QoL features
Push ahead with monetization schemes despite problems
Players vanish
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Congratulations Starbreeze, you made a game so shitty that it's not even worth pirating. They will practically have to relaunch the game to reclaim the playerbase at this point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Man, was this game a disappointment. So many privacy agreements just to install the bloody thing. The entire experience was a letdown. PD2 was so so so much fun and this game arrived just wobbly and with pre-shat pants. What a damn dud.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

50 hours of gameplay! If you include the amount of time it takes to read the Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and End User License Agreement.

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