Payday 3 developer Starbreeze Leisure has admitted the heist shooter is performing “considerably decrease” than it will like in each gross sales and participant engagement.
As reported by Game Developer, Starbreeze admitted to the wrestle in its newest financial earnings. “Payday 3’s gross sales and participant exercise are at present at considerably decrease ranges than we want,” it stated. Enhancing Payday 3 might be its “largest focus and completely precedence” going ahead because it makes an attempt to “be sure that that the sport lives as much as expectations”.
Starbreeze appeared hopeful concerning the future, nonetheless. “There are lots of examples from the sport trade, the place a problematic preliminary time in the marketplace is was long-term success,” it stated.
“There isn’t any easy recipe out there, however a typical thread from the constructive examples is to take gamers’ criticism to coronary heart, dare to help your recreation, and protecting an open and sincere dialogue together with your stakeholders. That’s precisely what we are actually doing with Payday 3.”
Payday 3’s launch was plagued with server points that pressured Starbreeze CEO Tobias Sjögren to apologise. “We’re so sorry that the infrastructure did not maintain up as anticipated, and though it is unattainable to arrange for each situation — we must always be capable to do higher,” he stated.
Nearly a month after its launch and Starbreeze apologised once more for its lack of communication, and then only a week later stated sorry another time for not delivering a promised patch and once more going quiet. It stated in January 2024 it was “effectively conscious” followers weren’t glad.
Starbreeze boasted Payday 3 had 3.1 million gamers as of October 2, however this quantity has dwindled, at the very least on Steam, as many extra gamers are at present enjoying Payday 2 than its sequel. Based on SteamDB, Payday 3 has a 24-hour peak of simply 302 in comparison with Payday 2’s 29,785, regardless of the latter launching over a decade in the past.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll discuss The Witcher all day.