Payday 3 on \u201clife support\u201d as players struggle to find a game Starbreeze StudioPayday 3\u2019s dwindling player count appears to be making it extremely difficult for players to find a game, leaving many to question if the game is already \u201cdead.\u201d When Payday 3 launched on September 21, the game faced immediate backlash due to technical issues that left the game nearly unplayable for many players. Server and matchmaking issues paired with a controversial online-only requirement frustrated many players and sank the game to a \u201cMostly Negative\u201d score on Steam not long after release. Despite an initial surge in player count, reaching 69,112 peak Steam users during the launch weekend, Payday 3 has since witnessed a significant decline, managing a peak player count of just 1,595 in the last seven days. Remarkably, the game\u2019s predecessor, which was released more than ten years ago, reached a peak player count of 46,138 in the last seven days. These player count stats, combined with the difficulty of finding others to play with, have left many to wonder if Payday 3 is \u201cdead\u201d already. One frustrated player took to Reddit to share their experience shortly after purchasing the game, \u201cI just bought the game and barely able to find a match.\u201d That sentiment echoes across the community as many players report that it\u2019s increasingly difficult to find other players and engage in the cooperative gameplay that defines the series. Upon asking if Payday 3 is already \u201cdead,\u201d the community responded by shutting down that idea but suggesting that it\u2019s fairly close to it. \u201cIt\u2019s not dead, but it\u2019s certainly on life support,\u201d one player shared. \u201cA LOT of people bounced since the game was virtually unplayable for the first week or two, with matchmaking errors every other game if not every game.\u201d Another player, hopeful for a revival, added, \u201cIt\u2019s fairly dead, yes. I expect it to populate again with the 2 new heists and progression update dropping soon, however.\u201d \u201cThis game burned the majority of its good faith from the horrendous launch. It will be a long road to a comeback, if it ever does, as there\u2019s still a lot lacking in terms of pure fun factor when compared to Payday 2.\u201d Payday 3 developers Starbreeze Studios have announced that the next update will arrive before the end of November. It remains to be seen whether this update can bring back fans of the series who have seemingly already dropped back to Payday 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Payday 3 on \u201clife support\u201d as players struggle to find a game Starbreeze StudioPayday 3\u2019s dwindling player count appears to be making it extremely difficult for players to find a game, leaving many to question if the game is already \u201cdead.\u201d When Payday 3 launched on September 21, the game faced immediate backlash due to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}