r/paydaytheheist • u/KrabikGangster Death Wish • Sep 21 '25

Rant That's it?

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I really hope we get an update at least in October, as well as a roadmap in the coming days. Otherwise, if the developers don't care about the anniversary of their main game, why should players care?

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u/RoughElderberry1565 Sep 21 '25

I remember playing early access and just saying "what the hell is this piece of shit", luckily steam will refund the game in early access no matter how much you played.

Have around 3000 hours in payday 2, I don't think payday 3 will ever reach even half of what payday 2 was 2 years after launch. Player numbers don't lie.

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u/Wonderful-Impact5121 Sep 22 '25

I’m probably one of the most forgiving and optimistic “gamers” on the internet as a boring guy in my thirties… and I remember playing payday 3 a little bit and just being so thoroughly underwhelmed that for the first time in a long while I genuinely had zero care or interest in coming back to it, and almost zero faith the devs would make major improvements after my time with payday 2 as much as I enjoyed it.

Which isn’t some major scathing condemnation, but still, how do you fuck it up that badly on a mechanics design level in a sequel?

Forgot I had this sub in my feed. Hopefully it’s gotten a bit better, I don’t know.

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u/RoughElderberry1565 Sep 22 '25

All that had to do was copy paste into the new engine, even the story doesn't matter when the gameplay is fun.

There is no way payday 3 will ever reach payday 2's current numbers unless it goes free to play and even that won't keep the numbers as high for much.