Payday 3 Review (JKB66)
how mio is still game director of payday 3 is baffling. completely ignoring the community and content creators is not the way to help a game. especially a dead one like payday 3. i'm done playing this not only because it's not fun after a few hours, but because of mio and out of principle that i won't play this because for whatever unknown reason mio thinks this PvE game has to be balanced to the T, instead of letting us have power fantasies and way more fun (it's almost like payday 2 had power fantasies and more fun, and was a perfect starting point to what payday 3 should have been, but instead, all was thrown out of the window and now this is a shallow, over-balanced, most unfun heisting game). it's sad to see it get this bad, but i just can't support this anymore. not until it gets a lot better and the playerbase is revived (which, to be honest, isn't looking great right now as far as the near future).
edit: mio is gone and we have almir to guide us through year 2! i will wait to change my review to be positive until we see some great changes happen (server browser, vote kick, voip, etc.)
edit 2: this game might as well be dead. they have taken support away in favor of sbz's dnd game project baxter (backshots), and has also recently announced that 1/4 of the remaining payday 3 devs are going over to PUBG TO HELP WITH SOME CROSSOVER EVENT?!?! WTF STARBREEZE. now first world bank is launching, which is great and all, but at this point i'm not even excited for it. there's no fwb secret until 2025. and to add insult to injury, after telling the players multiple times over the past couple months that armor 2.0 will be released in december... december comes around, and they say "oh, uhhh it's not ready yet, give us until spring 2025." SPRING 2025. WTF. it must not have been going as smoothly as they said it was, it must not have been "ALMOST DONE" like they said it was. i'm surprised this game still has any players. After about 15-20 hours, there's nothing new to do, no replayability, the in-heist rng is almost non-existant which makes there be no variety between times you play the heists. there's just absolutely no point in playing this anymore. nothing against almir, or haua, or any of the community managers, or even the actual devs. this is a starbreeze upper level decision. trust me, if starbreeze realized just how much of a money printing machine payday 3 could have been (like payday 2 was with each of it's dlc's), they would not have even started to make project backshots. that is what is killing this game. and even in the q3 investors report, they said there will be "significantly less involvement" in the development and continuation of payday 3. no matter what it is, starbreeze always messes this shit up.
maybe the real payday 3 was the $100 i wasted on the gold edition (which i lost money on because of their reduced prices for dlc's after syntax error, and in return we got some suits, gloves, and maybe a mask, i can't even remember). fucking pathetic.