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

submitted 8 months ago by yamanii@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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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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[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 36 points 8 months ago

The live service bubble is bursting.

[-] GlitterInfection@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

God I hope!

[-] Katana314@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

If they wanted to focus on live service, I’m surprised they made a trilogy of games. In the meantime a bunch of other devs just kept adding content to the one game their players play.

Not good for Payday’s fans to compete within their trilogy for attention.

[-] Phegan@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

I hope the take away from this is that no matter if a game is live service or not it needs to run, not nickel dime players, and be good. Or it will bust.