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Comment on Starbreeze admits Payday 3 is massively underperforming

Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Make your game require always online connectivity
Rush your server implementation causing network issues
Push ahead with monetization schemes despite problems
Players vanish
Surprised Pikachu face

Congratulations Starbreeze, you made a game so shitty that it’s not even worth pirating. They will practically have to relaunch the game to reclaim the playerbase at this point.

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tux@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Don’t forget taking forever for an initial patch release, despite there being multiple game breaking bugs.

The state the game was at release was absolutely awful.

The only folks who kept playing that I know were folks grinding for the final levels/achievements/weapons. Which consisted of playing in unenjoyable ways like using bad load outs, doing stupid crap like tagging a billion guards, etc. Who wants to pay money for an unenjoyable grind?

They released a decent patch, some new content and DLC but everyone has already moved on. They totally screwed themselves, sucks it’s an IP that I like, but more games need to fail like this so publishers stop doing the same bullshit

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- Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah, I’ve played Payday 2 but I wasn’t going to pick this up for any more than $10US.
  
  [This review from a Japanese player with 426hours playtime was really telling…] (steamcommunity.com/profiles/…/1272080/), to summarize:
  
  Way too late to form a strike team, are they even working to fix it?
  
  Years ago the CEO put comments to the media about wanting to make a game to run over the long term. If you want that then don’t put out a game that flops at the start.
  
  The developers have full on ignored player feedback, and just putting in what they feel like and maybe a handful of Payday 2 brought in as a bonus. Infrequent updates on the Steam Community, never responding to users, releasing a DLC people couldn’t play and saying “have a nice weekend” on X.
  
  A patch finally comes but it introduces new bugs, many big issues still unaddressed, game still dropping frames and unoptimized.
  
  Are the devs shitfaced drunk while making this game? If they can get money while hardly doing work I’d want to work there.
  
  I uninstalled the game, and even if the game were to massively improve, I wouldn’t return as the studio treats players like nothing but money generators.
  
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  - NOSin@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Stop blaming Devs and blame corpo above them. Can’t guarantee that’s the case here but it’s almost always their fault rather than the Devs when things go wrong on a launch like this.
    
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    yamanii@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Maybe they should unionize or walkout or something, costumers can’t fight their fight.
    
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Glamborghini@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Man, was this game a disappointment. So many privacy agreements just to install the bloody thing. The entire experience was a letdown. PD2 was so so so much fun and this game arrived just wobbly and with pre-shat pants. What a damn dud.

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- Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  50 hours of gameplay! If you include the amount of time it takes to read the Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and End User License Agreement.
  
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Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Echoes of the anthem launch (and eventual christmas themed death)

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