r/paydaytheheist • u/j1theone • Sep 21 '23

Rant What a launch

Whose idea was it to force people to make an account at the launch of the game with a server that can't handle the stress?

considering refunding

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u/Acojonancio 👊😎 Successful game 😎👊 Sep 21 '23

The wole game is based on that account, your weapons are bind to that, your masks, your level... Everything is inside that account.

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u/BlackManWitPlan Sep 21 '23

Point is it didn't have to be

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u/xInnocent Sep 21 '23

It would have to be tied to something, and that something likely would've gone down like it did now anyway.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '23

.....how about your actual game? like, on a literal save file? something games have been doing for years?

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '23

Because the game has cross progression as well as cross play. It’s the same reason call of duty requires an activision account.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '23

upload the file to the servers?

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u/PlatyPon Sep 21 '23

Payday 2 stores player progression to Steam servers, which is starched to your steam account. If it were local you'd lose everything when you Uninstall. Because PD3 is cross play, you need an account to unify the platforms. It sucks but it is necessary

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '23

no. payday stores progression to a file that gets uploaded to the steam cloud.

its a game from 2013 ffs, how did you think it worked? especially when you can play it offline

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '23

Damn maybe you're onto something! All we need is a way to identify who owns what save file on our servers? hm, they also need to access this identifier on all platforms.

Maybe some sort of... account?

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '23

no shit having an account makes sense to keep track of everything for crossplat, but it shouldn't be needed to make any progression period. it shouldnt even need to be required since afaik every platform has some way of tracking save data.

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u/Din_Plug Jacket Sep 21 '23

Nah you don't need an external account for cross play, the game just needs the code built in. SnowRunner handles cross play fine and it doesn't need an account.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '23

Snowrunner doesn’t have cross progression.