Current Events > O-kay, let's check in on Payday 3 shall we?

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https://www.pcgamer.com/payday-3s-launch-has-gone-so-badly-that-starbreeze-says-its-now-looking-at-the-possibility-of-some-sort-of-offline-mode/

The launch of heist-shooter Payday 3 last week has not gone well. Persistent server problems have frustrated players, and the game's always-online requirement means that even people who want to play solo are having trouble getting into the game. The net result: A disastrous "mostly negative" user rating on Steam, where 68% of the nearly 25,000 user reviews are now thumbs down.

Developer Starbreeze has issued a statement on the situation, saying that Payday 3's matchmaking software ran into "an unforeseen error" which left it unable to handle the large number of players trying to get into the game. Making matters worse, a new version of the matchmaking software that rolled out over the weekend seemed to improve the situationuntil a software update made on Sunday by Starbreeze's "third-party matchmaking partner" caused new instability in the server infrastructure.
"We are disappointed in the issues our playerbase has faced during our launch weekend, but we are confident in our core product and the quality of Payday 3and all available metrics point to it," Starbreeze CEO Tobias Sjgren said. "We have a lot of diligent and consistent work ahead of us to regain community trust, but we will work hard to do it."

The one potential upside to the mess is that it could mean Payday 3 ends up with a proper offline mode for singleplayer action. Starbreeze said that it is now looking for a new matchmaking services partner for Payday 3, and also making the game "less dependent on online services."

So even with all those years of time making a co-op multiplayer game that was intended to be always online, they didn't beta test a single motherfucking thing prior to launch and then admitted "oh, this doesn't look good..."

Definitely going F2P within 6 months.

Oh it's fucked, I was able to play in the early access (except day 1 because the idiots put the wrong version up on PS5) but since launch it's been a complete shit show. I managed to play like 3 games with my brother since last Thursday. They fucking suck and this launch is one of the worst I've seen.

Should have stuck with Peer2Peer like Payday 2 so all this could be avoided but their reasoning was "cheaters!" and "keeping the console and PC version in sync!"

I will never understand developers needing to make their games only online, why even offer solo play if you're going to force an Internet connection for your game to work

I'm sure they are hard at work making a million masks