How did such a prestigious company fail this bad?

[xpwn]

Could've sworn this company was praised just a couple months ago and now it may as well be on the same levels of EA and Activision, they were so good they did a collab with valve! (I'm talking about de_bank) people are defending this game by saying "Oh PAydAY 2 alSo haD a BAd LuAnch!!!111!!" We'll why didn't they learn from their mistakes from PAYDAY 2? when the big ugly bar stats got hate, they changed it, so why are they back?

So long story short, game that HAD potential.

[x0Z3ro0x]

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If "I don't like it so it's a fail" was a person.

[Moray Eel]

Even payday 2 at launch had a solo offline mode while this doesn't, and the comments that the same batch of interns that made The Walking Dead cobbled this together in another year due to the many years of total silence and absence of information other than blurry jpegs seem to ring truer now than two weeks ago.

[xpwn]

Originally posted by x0Z3ro0x:

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If "I don't like it so it's a fail" was a person.

Most* people don't like it so it's a current* failure and the company has currently lost all it's reputation*

[MrBananaGrabber]

They are like other development companies, in that they are in financial ruin and mass firing loads of staff.

https://www.eurogamer.net/big-layoffs-at-embattled-payday-studio-starbreeze

[CaptainLagbeard]

That article is from 2019


Edit:
But to summarize all that happened...

Overkill made a The Walking Dead game which they likely hoped would fund Payday 3. But it flopped extremely hard costing them a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of money leading to them having to lay off people and reorganize.

And to stop going entirely bankrupt, they had to go back to Payday 2 and so we got the 3 sets of smaller campaigns after the White House heist... Vlad's little mexican adventure, dealing with the triads and all the Texas stuff.
Kind of feels like they put in more effort to make Payday 2 DLC than they did to making Payday 3...

And so we get to launch of Payday 3 some years later, where the game came out and isn't all that great, has a severe lack of content and has a ton of bad decisions of which one, the always online nature of the game, even prevented a lot of people from even playing the game in the first place.

[Liro Raériyo]

prestigious? what? i think you need to retake english class if you think thats an appropriate word