Can the game recover?

[d3cex]

What do you think guys? Back in december I was thinking that yeah, but now... Honestly I don´t know, no news, and the game since 15 of January doesn´t have 1k players at the same time. I think that the game has potential, but i think that NOW is very hard to recover

[5.0 V8 S650 | 0-60 in 3.9 sec]

With competent devs - yes. With Starbreeze devs - not just no but hell no.

[Kasiornis]

Always the same question. You can obviously see the game is going down, slowly and steadily. Almost half of the year since the release, game lost 99% of it's playerbase.
Apart from one(1) minor QoL feature, two free-reworked heists and one paid DLC - game received no meaningful updates, devs ignored all feedback and suggestions and been silent as much as humanly possible.

Supposedly they gonna gather a team of superhero devs who are gonna create a plan how to save a game somewhere in the future.
They can salvage the game, no doubts, bring it up to a playable level an get some of the players back. If they stop being stubborn and defend flawed systems, become more open and player-friendly...so many "if"
But to reach Payday 2 level...yeah, pretty much impossible without some inhumane effort.
And judging by their indiffirence during these 6 months - I doubt this will happen ever.

[Kosm]

No the game is dead. Incompetent devs and management ruined it.

[Old Shoe]

nope it is dead. they will release the planned DLC outlined in the roadmap because they are bound by contract to, then it will die officially.

[Свети Отац Сава]

Originally posted by d3cex:

What do you think guys? Back in december I was thinking that yeah, but now... Honestly I don´t know, no news, and the game since 15 of January doesn´t have 1k players at the same time. I think that the game has potential, but i think that NOW is very hard to recover

if pay day2 recovered after it's launch i dont see why pd3 couldn't especially as game is already good.

[RageMojo]

Originally posted by Свети Отац Сава:

Originally posted by d3cex:

What do you think guys? Back in december I was thinking that yeah, but now... Honestly I don´t know, no news, and the game since 15 of January doesn´t have 1k players at the same time. I think that the game has potential, but i think that NOW is very hard to recover

if pay day2 recovered after it's launch i dont see why pd3 couldn't especially as game is already good.

This is nothing like PD2. There was grumblings, not outright rejection. PD2 never really dipped below 5K concurrent players in its entire history.

We also dont live in 2013 anymore. In 2013 people were far more willing to come back and give things a second chance. In 2013, 500 new game released on Steam, in 2023, 10,000 new games released on Steam.

Why would i give devs repeated chances to fix it when they wont even really acknowledge the issues. Even their current response is vague and meaningless.

Meanwhile i have Humble Bundle every month, and Christmas sale backlog, free games from Epic i still havnt gotten to, Amazon give-away's i havnt even installed yet, and every other company trying to give me free trails of their dumb subscriptions, Microsoft is relentless and gives away free subs for tons of other things you might buy.

Overkill/Starbreeze have no idea how much the world has changed around them. They need to be kissing players butts and giving out specifics or their next game will be DOA from pure Social media bombardment. Not like it will need it with their current track record, Raid, Walking Dead, etc.

[Адамска]

I can't speak for anyone else, but for me personally, it's not on the table.

[CaptainLagbeard]

Can the game be saved? Yes.

Do they want to save it? They're supposed to tell us sometime this month.

[Moray Eel]

It will not recover, OP.

[sleepy catboy graaaaah]

at the rate updates are coming out (snail pace) the only thing that's getting an offline mode is the servers when the game gets sunseted in a few months

[Order of Extacy]

Originally posted by SLEEPY CATBOY ZZZZZ:

at the rate updates are coming out (snail pace) the only thing that's getting an offline mode is the servers when the game gets sunseted in a few months

It took the game dying for us to get an offline mode ;-;

[Hatfield]

Originally posted by Sonc:

Originally posted by SLEEPY CATBOY ZZZZZ:

at the rate updates are coming out (snail pace) the only thing that's getting an offline mode is the servers when the game gets sunseted in a few months

It took the game dying for us to get an offline mode ;-;

Sums up the current state of modern gaming.

[Ranch]

With new devs and management i believe so yes. With the current ones though? Not happening. They are incapable of doing so