Summary
Swedish developer Starbreeze Studios, the team behind the poorly received shooterPayday 3, has addressed the negative feedback the title has received, revealing in a new blog post the current progress of its efforts to improve the game. In addition, the company told fans it will reveal more details on how it plans to course-correct in the near future.
Payday 3has faced a large amount of criticism ever since it launched last September. Among its many perceived issues was the small amount of content it offered players relative to its price, with some critics going so far as to call the Deep Silver-published title as being shallow. Since then, Starbreeze Studios claims it has closely kept its ears to the ground regarding player opinions, and the developer is now set on taking more substantial steps to addressPayday3’s shortcomings.
In a recentblog postsigned off by Starbreeze Studios Global Brand Director Almir Listo, the company announced that it has put together a team comprised of veteran developers from its communication, community, design, and production departments that will focus on makingPayday 3meet player expectations.Payday 3’s recent reviews on Steam are still mostly negative, so it is apparent that Starbreeze Studios has a lot of work to do before it can win back the trust and confidence of its audience.
The team Starbreeze Studios announced is currently devising a plan on how to improve the game, with this plan and the timeline of when players can expect any changes to occur being set to be revealed in February. Starbreeze Studios claimed it wants to be able to deal with any possible improvements one by one aside from just simply being able to react to opinions. This sentiment could have been influenced by the developer’s past attempts to properly tackle issues, such as when itfixedPayday 3’s matchmaking problems.
Starbreeze Studios aims to turn thePaydayseries' latest entry into the heist experience players expect from a sequel. In some regards,Payday 3already does a lot of things better thanPayday 2, so it is completely possible for the former to surpass the latter if Starbreeze Studios continues to work on it.
WhilePayday 3was able to recoup its costs within two weeks of its release, it failed to meet the sales expectations of Deep Silver’s parent company, Embracer Group. In addition to resulting in a better game experience for players, a turnaround forPayday 3could help with its disappointing sales performance.
Payday 3
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Step out of retirement back into the life of crime in the shoes of the Payday Gang, the envy of their peers and the nightmare of law-enforcement wherever they go. Several years after the crew’s reign of terror over Washington DC has ended, they assemble once again to deal with the threat that roused them out of early retirement.The legendary Payday Crew, dreaded by the law and underworld alike, is back. Ripped from their peaceful retirement to rejoin the criminal world by a new threat, one born from the chaos the Crew left in their wake. to identify and crush this new threat, the Crew is leaving their Washington DC roots behind them and moving to New York City. A new location will bring with it new challenges, but also new opportunities for a heister with a plan.A professional heister knows it takes planning, hard work and a good amount of luck in order to execute a successful heist. In PAYDAY 3 the choice is put in the hands of the players, deciding how to tackle the heist, whether you sneak or go in guns blazing, whether you let your hostages go or keep them around as pawns, whether you go at it alone or bring friends. The choices are endless and in your hands, they will vastly change how the game plays.
