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Payday 3<\/a> developer Starbreeze has sparked backlash after confirming plans to make a \u201csignificantly lower level of investment\u201d in the game\u2019s second year.<\/p>\n

Starbreeze\u2019s struggle with Payday 3 after last year\u2019s disastrous launch is well-documented, but its recent series of year one anniversary updates were well-received by players who had hoped for similarly significant updates during the co-op shooter’s second year. Indeed, Payday 3\u2019s recent Steam user reviews are on \u2018mostly positive\u2019, with all reviews on \u2018mixed.\u2019<\/p>\n

However, that goodwill may now be under threat after comments from Starbreeze acting CEO Mats Juhl in a financial report<\/a> caused some Payday 3 players to express concern that the studio was now prioritizing its Dungeons & Dragons game<\/a> instead.<\/p>\n

The backlash revolves around Juhl\u2019s comment on Payday 3\u2019s level of investment for year two versus year one. It is below, reproduced in its entirety.<\/p>\n

During the quarter, both the third and fourth DLCs for Payday 3 \u2013 \u201cChapter 3: Houston Breakout\u201d and \u201cChapter 4: Fear & Greed\u201d were released. In conjunction with both launches, a lot of free content was also released to all players, including a new free heist. Both DLCs received a very positive reception from the player base and the game’s rating on Steam, among others, has taken significant steps upwards. The game’s MAU (monthly active players) is holding steady considering that we in September left Xbox GamePass. The level of investment during Payday 3’s first year on the market, both through launched DLCs and “Operation Medic Bag”, has been at an elevated level. Ahead of year two, we are confident in being able to continue delivering amounts of value to our players with a significantly lower level of investment.<\/p>\n

That last line (\u201csignificantly lower level of investment\u201d) is the one causing all the damage here, and players are blaming it on Starbreeze shifting focus onto Project Baxter, its in-development Dungeons & Dragons game. Elsewhere in the financial report, Juhl said production on Project Baxter had ramped up (along with the payment of licensing fees to Wizards of the Coast), and that as Payday 3\u2019s game-saving Operation Medic Bag updates ramp down, the game will enter year two \u201cwith a smaller team focused on continuously updating the game with new content.\u201d<\/p>\n

Disgruntled players have taken to Steam reviews to let their feelings about this be known. \u201cDead game,\u201d reads one negative review, \u201clike this time for real.\u201d \u201cDropping this game as soon as it started to show promise is insane,\u201d said another. \u201cSignificantly lower,\u201d another review reads. “I’ve tried defending this game for so long, but it is really frustrating seeing the company executives kill this game before it has a chance to fully recover just to fund their next project that will more than likely flop, just like Payday 3,” another reviewer said. “Save your money and the headache; Payday 3’s future is genuinely grim.”<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a similar outcry over on the Payday subreddit, where fans are already hitting out at Starbreeze and Project Baxter.<\/p>\n

Project Baxter hate post number 17974<\/a>
byu\/Acrobatic_Divide5304<\/a> inpaydaytheheist<\/a><\/div>\n

Despite this, Starbreeze sounds like it still believes in Payday 3, even if some of its players do not. \u201cStarbreeze remains financially strong, with a healthy balance sheet almost free of debt and a cash position to execute our strategy,\u201d Juhl said. \u201cSales of Payday 3 still have great potential to improve, which is offset somewhat by continued relatively stable sales of Payday 2 and third-party publishing of, among other things, Roboquest. During the same period last year, we booked the revenue attributable to Payday 3’s launch, which makes the revenue in the comparison period uniquely high.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking of Payday 2, significantly more people are playing that game on Steam (27,553 24 hour peak) than Payday 3 (1,314 24 hour peak), despite the former being over a decade old. In September, Payday 3 director Miodrag Kova\u010devi\u0107 stepped down to work as a designer instead<\/a>. Lead producer Andreas Penninger and global brand director Almir Listo were put in place to act as the “creative force” behind the game “in the interim.”<\/p>\n

Starbreeze is still hiring for Project Baxter, meanwhile, as work on the game \u201ccontinues at full speed.\u201d \u201cInternally, we have weekly playtests of Baxter, and active discussions with a number of industry-leading players regarding potential collaborations around Baxter’s development and launch,\u201d Juhl said. Starbreeze said it has 191 total employees, most of which are based at its head office in Stockholm, Sweden.<\/p>\n

Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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