Payday 2 has three times the Payday 3 players right now

https://www.pcgamesn.com/payday-3/steam-players

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Deadeyegai@lemmy.world · 61 pts · 2y (2 replies)

TL;DR

New Game with huge matchmaking issues vs Older Game with no matchmaking issues

BruceTwarzen@kbin.social · 14 pts · 2y

Pretty sure more people would play overwatch, warzone and cs:go if it was still around

DigitalCatcher@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

Wasn't there issues with them bringing Payday 2 to the Epic Games Store and trying to have EGS and Steam players cross-play with each other?

bl4ckblooc@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Payday 2 has been around forever at this point, so it makes sense. I think it’s probably been around longer than GTA V and has been getting updates and DLC the entire time.

Aurix@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 2y

And it was free many times.

Sol0WingPixy@ttrpg.network · 30 pts · 2y (7 replies)

As someone who dipped their toe into Payday 2 and is beginning to swim in Payday 3, I’m not shocked. Payday 3 is missing a lot of quality of life features that Payday 2 has, and has a lot less content. Plus, Payday 2 has been around forever and Payday 3 is fundamentally different enough that a fair fraction of folks probably just won’t ever feel any need to switch.

That said, I think Payday 3 has a better skeleton that Payday 2, especially for new players like me, and I’m excited to see it grow (and become something more than the minimum shippable product) over time.

JJROKCZ@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y (6 replies)

Eventually they’ll just force everyone to switch by shutting off payday 2

orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts · 4 pts · 2y

Ah, the ol’ Overwatcheroo.

RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (4 replies)

This isn't blizzard were talking about.

JJROKCZ@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (3 replies)

They spent millions making the new game, they aren’t going to let everyone stay on the old forever

RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Your forgetting what company this is. Yes, theyre their for the money, but they're genuinly devoted to making their fan base happy. They would never pull something like that.

Zekas@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

I wouldn't bank on that. Sooner or later every company has a fall from grace, it's what capitalism does.

Rampsquatch@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y

They are a company that exists to make a profit, they aren't your friend.

verysoft@kbin.social · 18 pts · 2y

Game with actual content vs game with no content.

sudoku@programming.dev · 17 pts · 2y

Sounds about right

Thanks4Nothing@lemm.ee · 14 pts · 2y (1 reply)

We (Payday 2 Players) also racked up hours upon hours (I think I am around 1000 total) and they didn't really give us anything for all that work. We got a underwhelming skin. A bare bones weapon, and some weapon charms ...do they realize how hard it was to beat every heist on Deathwish without a hacker in the lobby? A Charm? For Real? Give me my deathwish mask back and I will play your new game

Thanks4Nothing@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 2y

Oh yeah...and voice chat. How you make a game that requires players to communicate without a voice chat option is beyond me. The pings are not enough.

mykneedoesnthurt@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y

Is this like a math problem?

glimse@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

More power to you if you like it but man I cannot imagine wanting to play a game like this with strangers

AlexisFR@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 2y

Did they fix the game already?