Year 2?

[Rainer Durst]

Do you think Payday 3 will get a year 2?

[It's Adam Lazlow]

Even with the recent news that they are reducing team size for Year 2, as they conclude Operation Medicbag, I would expect PAYDAY 3 to be supported, or "supported" up until their next game, Project Baxter releases, planned for 2026.

If support ended for PAYDAY 3 before they had a new product, a souce of income to rely on (a new game to sell, like Baxter) then they would just have a gap of a year in the company where they don't do anything. And that's unacceptable in the business world considering Starbreeze is a publicly traded company and they have shareholders to provide for.

And because of this, I do believe PAYDAY 3 will technically be supported up until their next game is ready to be released.

Now, since PAYDAY 3 is already not very successful as a product, and paying developers to create content they can sell as paid DLC costs money, and if they don't even make a profit on their work because people aren't buying the DLC, then they cannot allow to do that.

So even if they will technically support the game, expect less and less frequent content updates, up until the point when it all stops and the next game releases, leaving PAYDAY 3 behind.

[Vaakalintu]

Game's gonna be abandonware in 1-2 years

[SonGomi]

https://storage.mfn.se/dfe0856e-3fda-444b-b835-28a1e4121c4d/starbreeze-interim-report-q3-2024.pdf

it doesnt look good for payday 3

[Kirov]

Will get new content for some time before ending up like TF2 with fix there and there.

[Concelated]

Year 2 probably, but by 2026(Baxter's expected release date) You can be sure they are pulling the plug

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

Well, technically, we are on year 2 now.

Seems Baxter is their main focus and priority now. SBZ management don't give two ♥♥♥♥♥ about PD3 or the playerbase.

[NOT penis man gaming]

i wouldn't put a lot but i would totally bet they keep going for another at least 16 months. if they would pull the plug once baxter comes out and not just pull the plug now it would have to have a really successful launch, and it won't.

All that we do know is there's a december update that's supposed to have armor 2.0, first world bank, holdout, and a new character (basically confirmed jacket)

[[BC] Loocifer morningstar [TAG]]

Originally posted by NOT penis man gaming:

All that we do know is there's a december update that's supposed to have armor 2.0, first world bank, holdout, and a new character (basically confirmed jacket)

Where do you get those info i can't found something usefull on their website other than "a new legacy map this year" and a "character dlc"

[NOT penis man gaming]

Originally posted by BC Loocifer morningstar TAG:

Originally posted by NOT penis man gaming:

All that we do know is there's a december update that's supposed to have armor 2.0, first world bank, holdout, and a new character (basically confirmed jacket)

Where do you get those info i can't found something usefull on their website other than "a new legacy map this year" and a "character dlc"

they released a video around halloween and if you look closely you can see FwB on the heist selection screen. can't remember where holdout was, but i'm sure theres screenshots on the payday subreddit. armor 2.0 is listed in the armor 2.0 operation medic bag update, but it's entirely possible it gets pushed back to a later update.

people think the new character will be jacket because they have a blurred picture of the char that looks like him (white, short hair, wears a jacket similar to jacket) and that in an earlier dragan files video they talk about this random extremely violent crime scene nobody knows about. aswell, in a QnA derek ray did when they were announcing houston is coming back, they have a question at the end that doesn't have a username on it (the others did) asking "Do you like hurting people?" which is a line from hotline miami. furthermore, in the halloween update video, they use a tape recorder, some also say Almir quotes the ending of Hotline Miami 2, but I didn't find it anywhere


https://youtu.be/Nr4yL6jZSk0
3:05: First World Bank and Holdout on the left

edit: another thing is that since the character is going to be paid, it's likely that it's a licensed character from another franchise as they wouldn't be able to put Jacket, or john wick, jimmy, scarface etc. for free.

[NOT penis man gaming]

aaaaand jacket is pushed back...

[mostly5]

I still hope they put John Wick back in. I love playing him in Payday 2

[Moray Eel]

Originally posted by mostly5:

I still hope they put John Wick back in. I love playing him in Payday 2

They will never put john wick in payday 3

[[BC] Loocifer morningstar [TAG]]

Originally posted by NOT penis man gaming:

aaaaand jacket is pushed back...

thanks for all the infos and yeah a character dlc seems useless if not accompagnied by maps and guns.

[NOT penis man gaming]

Originally posted by BC Loocifer morningstar TAG:

Originally posted by NOT penis man gaming:

aaaaand jacket is pushed back...

thanks for all the infos and yeah a character dlc seems useless if not accompanied by maps and guns.

it'll probably be like pd2 character packs where you get a few weapons (likely only one or two considering one weapon in pd3 is a lot more unique than one in pd2) as well as a mask or something. e.g. Hlm2 Digital Special Edition gave you jacket's piece (and akimbo version), multiple SMG modifications, jacket, and some several masks.