Payday 2 now has ten times more players than Payday 3 on Steam
In terms of Steam players, it's not been going well for Payday 3. The newest installment in the Starbreeze co-op FPS heist series has launched on Game Pass and Steam, but the numbers on Valve's platform are still dwarfed by its predecessor, Payday 2. Steam doesn't tell us everything, of course, but it's a fascinating window into where players of the series would rather spend their time.
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Payday 3 has lost 90% of its Steam players in less than a month
Payday 2 has three times the Payday 3 players right now