why no demo version?

[SargoXIII]

Payday 2 demo was the most used demo on Steam for a very long time. Why is there no demo for PD3?

[sokolov]

It was the most used demo on Steam because pirates used it to play cracked games online before Spacewar became the standard.
Also no demo for PAYDAY 3 because it's an online-only game and Starbreeze would bleed money providing free service to people that likely won't buy the game. Well, they kind of do given the fact that pirates can access the servers and play the game for free.

[SargoXIII]

Originally posted by Sokolov:

It was the most used demo on Steam because pirates used it to play cracked games online before Spacewar became the standard.
Also no demo for PAYDAY 3 because it's an online-only game and Starbreeze would bleed money providing free service to people that likely won't buy the game. Well, they kind of do given the fact that pirates can access the servers and play the game for free.

I guess we won't know what this game is like until they give us a free weekend.
It's a shame that this game failed, because if they just copied a lot of the parts from pd2 (the pd2 creators left to make other games, but just upgraded the graphics), 3 would have been a huge success.
Or, if Starbreeze had done a better job of convincing the creators who left, things would have been better, which is a shame.

[One-HiT KiLLeR]

Because you can buy the game and refund it under 2 hours of playtime. That's your demo.

[sokolov]

Originally posted by SargoXIII:

I guess we won't know what this game is like until they give us a free weekend.
It's a shame that this game failed, because if they just copied a lot of the parts from pd2 (the pd2 creators left to make other games, but just upgraded the graphics), 3 would have been a huge success.
Or, if Starbreeze had done a better job of convincing the creators who left, things would have been better, which is a shame.

Starbreeze has a strange habit of purposefully avoiding anything regarding the pre-2015 payday, they did invite the original devs for the anniversary, sure, but when it comes to fixing things or when people point out something that worked before SBZ took over, they just ignore it completely.
Maybe something happened back then, no one really truly knows.

I guess in the end it is all about money, player retention & "accessibility" more than actually working on something that may require a certain level of skill to play.

[🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡]

Because the game is already a demonstration of incomplete game design and missing features.