Payday 3 director Miodrag Kovačević is stepping down following a disastrous first 12 months for the stay service heist shooter.
Developer Starbreeze Leisure posted on (*3*) to announce the change in administration, saying Kovačević will work as a designer on Payday 3 as a substitute. Lead producer Andreas Penninger and world model director Almir Listo will act because the “inventive drive” behind the sport “within the interim,” although the long run way forward for Payday 3’s management stays hazy.
“Going into 12 months two, [Kovačević] can be stepping away from his position as sport director and focusing his efforts as a designer elsewhere within the venture,” the publish mentioned.
“Within the interim, whereas researching and planning 12 months two, [Penninger] and [Listo] would be the inventive drive behind the upcoming updates we hope you retain having fun with and enjoying. Thanks to your continued assist. We salute you.”
Payday 3 launched in September 2023 to sturdy participant numbers that rapidly withered away, attributable to server points that compelled then Starbreeze CEO Tobias Sjögren to apologize. “We’re so sorry that the infrastructure did not maintain up as anticipated, and though it is inconceivable to organize for each state of affairs — we must always be capable of do higher,” he mentioned earlier than leaving the corporate.
Virtually a month after its launch and Starbreeze apologized once more for its lack of communication, after which only a week later mentioned sorry yet another time for not delivering a promised patch and once more going quiet. It mentioned in January it was “nicely conscious” followers weren’t glad.
Frustration with the studio and common disbelief spiked once more in June when Starbreeze lastly launched what it known as an “offline mode,” which gamers had been calling for since launch, but it surely required a web-based connection to entry and made the sport run worse than regular.
Starbreeze initially boasted Payday 3 had 3.1 million gamers as of October 2, 2023, however this quantity has dwindled, no less than on Steam, as many extra gamers are presently enjoying Payday 2 than its sequel. In response to SteamDB, Payday 3 has a 24-hour peak of simply 794 in comparison with Payday 2’s 11,868, regardless of the latter launching over a decade in the past.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.