Starbreeze admits Payday 3 is massively underperforming

yamanii@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.world – 159 points – Starbreeze admits Payday 3 is massively underperforming
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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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Yeah, I've played Payday 2 but I wasn't going to pick this up for any more than $10US.

This review from a Japanese player with 426hours playtime was really telling..., to summarize:

  • Way too late to form a strike team, are they even working to fix it?
  • Years ago the CEO put comments to the media about wanting to make a game to run over the long term. If you want that then don't put out a game that flops at the start.
  • The developers have full on ignored player feedback, and just putting in what they feel like and maybe a handful of Payday 2 brought in as a bonus. Infrequent updates on the Steam Community, never responding to users, releasing a DLC people couldn't play and saying "have a nice weekend" on X.
  • A patch finally comes but it introduces new bugs, many big issues still unaddressed, game still dropping frames and unoptimized.
  • Are the devs shitfaced drunk while making this game? If they can get money while hardly doing work I'd want to work there.
  • I uninstalled the game, and even if the game were to massively improve, I wouldn't return as the studio treats players like nothing but money generators.

Stop blaming Devs and blame corpo above them. Can't guarantee that's the case here but it's almost always their fault rather than the Devs when things go wrong on a launch like this.

Maybe they should unionize or walkout or something, costumers can't fight their fight.

As proven with Volition, if we don't buy their game in protest they are closed down anyway instead of getting another shot at something we actually want, nothing can change from this side.

It's easier said than done tbh. It seems to be slowly changing lately tho, there's hope still.