Apparently payday 3 is only launching with 8 heists...

[Kain Mightyena]

This is according to master indigo's video on youtube covering some payday 3 gameplay. This is honestly such a pitiful and outright laughable amount of content at launch, even payday 2 had more on launch day. Its very clear that this is the result of thier new monetization scheme and im not all for it what so ever.

[Driftkel]

And that's one of the reasons why I wouldn't pre-order and wait instead come release time.

[Modest Mauser]

Yeah but, OP. Just buy the affordable $90 gold edition and they'll give you more maps sometime later! You know what they say "potential > consistency", so start throwing your money around! Hope this helps. =)

[W.A. the Anum]

Originally posted by Kain Mightyena:

This is according to master indigo's video on youtube covering some payday 3 gameplay. This is honestly such a pitiful and outright laughable amount of content at launch, even payday 2 had more on launch day. Its very clear that this is the result of thier new monetization scheme and im not all for it what so ever.

i mean its a double edged sword here. the heists themselv can be longer or, over all, are just more complex. We dont really know yet.

Though, i also dont deny that 8 is really not a whole lot compared to the number Payday 2 had at launch, which was 12. Even though, as of right now, Payday 2 has already a lot heists by now and a lot other content next to heists like lots of masks, weapons and other stuff for sure.

Im sure that at the beginning, Payday 3 "might" will feel like it has not "a lot to offer", and, honestly, i might wait a bit to really get it. I mean i have to wait to ANYWAY because my PC needs a better GPU and CPU first for the recommended settings anyway.

Still, i dont complain about the number buuuut yea, 8 is really not that much for a start but we will see how "good" they are. there is no reason to complain "Y E T".

[PropaneNightmarez]

Originally posted by Modest Mauser:

Yeah but, OP. Just buy the affordable $90 gold edition and they'll give you more maps sometime later! You know what they say "potential > consistency", so start throwing your money around! Hope this helps. =)

I wouldn't call that affordable, that it is rather a lot of money but that's just my opinion

[W.A. the Anum]

Originally posted by N3T_RUNNR:

Originally posted by Modest Mauser:

Yeah but, OP. Just buy the affordable $90 gold edition and they'll give you more maps sometime later! You know what they say "potential > consistency", so start throwing your money around! Hope this helps. =)

I wouldn't call that affordable, that it is rather a lot of money but that's just my opinion

i think that was sarcasm btw...

[Modest Mauser]

"Completely Overkill DLC V2.0" in PD3 or riot, IMHO.

[Underdrill]

PD:TH launched with 6 which are all GOAT tier even today. Though to be fair, that game is a budget title, £15 at its highest price. 3 more came post launch, 2 of them paid.

PD2 launched with 12 heists. Looking back on it, the selection was pretty poor. Sure we have classics like Rats and Framing Frame, but Jewelry Store and Four Stores are super short and easy, plus Ukrainian Job counted as part of that list. The price for that was £25 on launch.

PD3 is therefore in the middle, but also the most expensive base game at £35. If it has 8 PD:TH quality level missions on launch, with high replayability and lots of weapon and cosmetic unlocks, then I won't mind. This game is definitely going for quality over quantity when it comes to heists, I'm really liking what we've seen of the two revealed so far, and they're meant to be the more straightforward missions in the game. And of course, all future heists should be accessible for free so as long as one person you know owns the DLC.

[Felixinius]

Payday 2 was in a similar fashion upon release. I think it was 10 or 12 heists only during launch.
I can already see they will make the same DLC fest.

I think the best case scenario would be to only get the base game now and wait until a sale to get the future dlcs.

[MITE]

Do you guys think the all of the new released heists will be included in DLCs? Or will they also release a couple for free?

[Moodyman90]

While 8 is a bit low, at least it's 8 different heist. People tend to forget that Payday 2 barely had 12 heist to it's name when it first released.
Bain had Jewelry Store and Bank Heist.
Vlad had Four Stores, Mallcrashers, Night Club, and Ukrainian Job
Elephant had Big Oil and Framing Frame
Hector had Watchdogs, Fire Starter, and Rats.

That's 11 heist. And that's me being mean but forgiving because Bank Heist has four variations (Cash, Gold, Deposit, Random) that I'm not counting as separate but what is Ukrainian Job but Jewelry Store again and day 3 of Fire Starter is just Bank Heist with extra steps.
Within a few month they did released Diamond Store for free though. There was also Pro Jobs at the time which was just a "no restarting allowed" modifier for extra XP.

[Noma]

All those complaints, and three months later, everyone in this thread own the game, even the dude who said he would wait. Funniest ♥♥♥♥.

[Red John]

Originally posted by Noma:

All those complaints, and three months later, everyone in this thread own the game, even the dude who said he would wait. Funniest ♥♥♥♥.

Because we all want PAYDAY 3 to thrive, but it has a long way ahead to be as fun as PAYDAY 2 was at launch as well as adding QoL features from PD2.

[Modest Mauser]

Originally posted by Noma:

All those complaints, and three months later, everyone in this thread own the game, even the dude who said he would wait. Funniest ♥♥♥♥.

I don't. You know this is the PD2 forum, right? The mouse icon here isn't for PD3.

[Driftkel]

Originally posted by Noma:

All those complaints, and three months later, everyone in this thread own the game, even the dude who said he would wait. Funniest ♥♥♥♥.

Um you sure about that? I don't own that game but I would want to some day. I got that game for a friend.

[Zombie_jelly17]

Originally posted by MITE:

Do you guys think the all of the new released heists will be included in DLCs? Or will they also release a couple for free?

hard to tell