The launch of Payday 3 has not precisely gone to plan. While this was imagined to be an enormous return for the co-op heist collection, the sport launched with varied points and it appears gamers are rapidly dropping it in favour of returning to Payday 2.
We’re roughly one month on from the launch of Payday 3 and whereas the sport’s first patch was promised weeks in the past, delays have pushed fixes again. At this level, gamers are starting to drop the newer recreation in favour of Payday 2, which regardless of being a a lot older launch, continues to be considered because the superior recreation to the sequel.
On Steam, we are able to see that during the last 24 hours, Payday 3 has peaked at 3,200 gamers whereas Payday 2 sits greater than 10 occasions above that, with a 24-hour peak of over 36,000 gamers. At the time of writing, there are 2,441 gamers in Payday 3 proper now, whereas nearly 18,000 individuals are enjoying Payday 2.
The excellent news for Starbreeze is that Payday continues to be well-liked, which suggests individuals are nonetheless within the IP as a complete. Now, we’ll simply have to attend and see if the builders can rapidly sort things up and get Payday 3 to the extent followers count on earlier than investing their money and time within the sequel.
It is value stating that Steam charts do not inform the entire story right here for the broader playerbase. It is true that Payday has at all times been hottest on PC and has been an enormous vendor on the Steam platform. However, Payday 3 on PC can also be out there by Xbox Game Pass, so a bit of gamers aren’t being accounted for. We additionally do not have participant numbers for the sport on Xbox or PlayStation.
KitGuru Says: Payday 2 is a decade outdated however followers of the sport seem eager to keep it up. We noticed an analogous scenario happen with the Battlefield collection after the launch of Battlefield 2042. After being disenchanted by the sport at launch, hundreds of followers went again to older titles within the collection, like Battlefield 1 and Battlefield V. However, after months of patches, gamers did lastly begin returning. Payday 3 may comply with an analogous sample however it can take time and a variety of further dev work.
