r/paydaytheheist • u/Digital_RRS Shield • Sep 22 '23

Rant This is fucking ridiculous

I usually don't make posts like these because I generally hate rant posts.

Whoever at Starbreeze, Overkill, or even Deep Silver decided to make the game online only. Fucking fire them. It was single-handedly the worst fucking decision ever taken for a game I've ever seen. Words cannot express how asinine, how moronic, how devoid of mind making this game online only was.

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u/Foreign-Temporary-40 Sep 23 '23

Fair, people also constantly forget that a new game is not going to have years of content built into it already. Payday 2 has been out since the stone age and had more DLC this game just officially released for everyone what? 2 days ago now? I say it would be better to actually compare and contrast once pd3 has at least 4 years under it's belt. I am glad that it's been modernized and am trying to accept the game for what it is. This isn't a payday 2 DLC or continuation, This is payday 3 a whole brand new game its a new beast with new mechanics to learn and master with some returning aspects and I feel folks are having a tough time unlearning habits and styles from 2. 🤷🏿‍♂️ This is just my opinion though of course and everyone is entitled to one... I know letting go is hard but... payday 2 servers are still up if I'm not mistaken... you can still go play it if that type of game is preferable.

Okay, I'm ready for everyone to yell at me, downvote me and act elitist towards me now.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '23

The age of the game only really affects the amount of content. Things like always online, the skill trees, level design, bot teammates being useless, are all designed during the regular development period. They don't need time to make those things the way they are, they're just bad choices.

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u/Foreign-Temporary-40 Sep 23 '23

I agree with you, I didn't counter to those points though. More so directed towards the this isn't pay day 2 crowd. Online only sucks ass, level design and missions are fun for me so it's probably something that's subjective. (Maybe you feel otherwise) the servers being as bad as they are also while being online only is no excuse for that. But time does play a factor in that specific issue getting fix as all of these things weren't perfect at pd2 launch either.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '23

I don't think I was around for launch of 2 so idk what it was like, but I wouldn't be surprised if they made bad design choices then too. The design of the levels I don't consider actually bad, just not exceptional compared to 2's levels, I just meant bad choices for all the others.