Is the game dead?

[SeaBunny]

I know the player base is really low, but back then I used to get some people. Now I don't see anyone at all even on the "popular" maps.

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

Yeah. This game is deader than disco.

[nerd dredd]

Originally posted by Payday 3 is trash. Don't buy!:

Yeah. This game is deader than disco.

man this is deader than just 1 karen in the shop

[Bad]

yes it's dead, I wonder what the 300 people that still play everyday find so enjoyable in this game

[Kasiornis]

You can open SteamDB and see the playercount yourself. It went from 90k ppl at launch to 200 people now. No matteer what exactly happened - it clearly shows something is deeply wrong with the game which causing people to leave.
Among may other reasons, the main ones in my opinion are:

1)The unfinished general state of the game. It features multiple bugs and shenanigans you'd expect to see in Beta, but not in a finished product for a full AAA price.
2)Very questionable game design decisions, starting with dedicated servers which alone caused the massive negative feedback and problems for the players, followed by flawed combat, skill system and progression in general. Only one build is viable for loud and only one is viable for stealth, only two guns are viable in combat etc etc. This seems okay at start but quickly grows UNfun later on.
3)Severe lack of communication between devs and community, they share so little news it hurts, and do this during their little streams they never announce so almost noone checks these either. For a person unwilling to google hard for these bits of info - the general picture is "complete and deafening silence". Which hurts the community the most.
4)As consequence of that - lack of updates and fixes too. Game is roughly in the same state it was at the release, in almost half of the year later.

In general the state of the game is - "Unfinished, unpolished, flawed and broken. And devs show little interest to fix that"
They pretend they do. But do nothing noticeable nonetheless.

[Moray Eel]

Actually, the game is not dead. It is doing very well and is incredibly popular and successful ;)

[Dr. Faustus]

It was actually dead on release and everybody told them it will be, even before release, during beta, that it will be dead on arrival if they release it the way it is.

They cant say, the community didnt try help them and that the community didnt gave feedback. They just didnt listen.

I believe they really really really thought, they were genius masterminds, creating a new CoD with millions of players. Im pretty sure, right now 5 months later, they still dont understand what went wrong. They really just dont understand it.

[Kain Mightyena]

This game is more dead than a graveyard...

[Lokaror]

Allegedly there are many more people playing it on consoles than steam. I wouldn't know, as i dont buy online only games that don't have a damn good reason for being so.

[Finn]

Us: The progression is awful and needs to change.
Devs: We don't plan on changing the progression.

[Shibuya CEO - 3rd week of Tren]

they ruined payday

[Spill]

I will not join anything but overkill. I wont join anytrhing overkill until im lvl 100

[Dr.Bourinos]

Well, they released garbage and sol DLCs a couple of weeks later while the game was still horrendous. So yeah, that had to have an impact on the number of players.

[Ranch]

The peak in the past 24 hours for this game on steam was around 500 people
Payday 2 had a peak of about 39k
Ya id argue this game is dead.

[Cryptic Draugr]

honestly? I think a lot of people are just waiting for more content to come about. Yes the game made changes that a lot don't like, but doing the same heists over and over with next to no real variation does get quite old. I have nothing left to unlock so i'm just earning money at this point. I have zero reason to play the game and so far the devs havent given me a reason to play the game.

[Kasiornis]

Originally posted by Cryptic Draugr:

honestly? I think a lot of people are just waiting for more content to come about. Yes the game made changes that a lot don't like, but doing the same heists over and over with next to no real variation does get quite old.

Well, imagine you just got two more heists, your favorites from PD2 you always loved.
You play them here too, but in a few weeks they'll grow stale as well.
And that is the main problem.

Payday 2 had the same amount of heists on release, which were in some ways worse than heists in PD3. Yet they game had replaybility, it was FUN.
And PD3 isn't. The very same "changes you don't like" is a reason the game becomes boring so fast.

And then you go on forums, realize that literally everyone dislikes these changes, devs promise to adress that and they never do.
And then you realize that no amount of content can help if the game is flawed from the beginning.
It will keep being un-fun.