PAYDAY 3 ANNOUNCEMENT PDF

More than half of their quarterly report is focused on explaining why theyвЂ™re putting all their eggs in Payday 3вЂs basket, which means they know this egg cannot afford to spoil.Koch Media, a game publisher that runs the game publisher Deep Silver and is owned by the game publisher Embracer Group, has today announced Prime Matter, a game publisher.Д«ut wait - this one is different! Prime Matter is a вЂњnew premium gaming labelвЂќ thatвЂ™s вЂњdedicated to delivering immersive games from studios all across the world.вЂќ In a press presentation prior to todayвЂ™s Summer Game Fest reveal, Koch showed off the type of games it was aiming to bring to the new label. But Starbreeze canвЂ™t afford to screw up again.

They tried this once before, with OverkillвЂ™s The Walking Dead, and the delivery was so abysmally bad that the gameвЂ™s meteoric self-implosion was the stuff of legend.

A lot of us Payday the Heist veterans hated Payday 2 on release because it felt so unpolished compared to Payday the HeistвЂs mirror shine.Д«ut of course, a вЂњquality over quantityвЂќ model only succeeds if the content is, well, high-quality. Payday 2, for better or for worse, went with quantity over quality, and a lot of the guns had only minor stat differences and a lot of the heists were simplistic one-day smash-n-grabs. Maybe there were only had 9 heists, but each had their own identity and were incredibly cinematic. Sure, there were only 13 guns, but they felt great to shoot and each filled a distinct and valuable role. PDtH came out right at the peak of a glut of Left 4 Dead clones trying to capitalize on the award-winning formula L4D pioneered, and Payday the Heist won that struggle through sheer quality of what little content it had to offer. After all, Payday the Heist may have been the first Payday game, but that didnвЂ™t mean it wasnвЂ™t competing with opposing titles of its time. Because itвЂ™s just not realistic to one-up Payday 2 on the basis of quantity.ДЄnd this wouldnвЂ™t even the first time Overkill succeeded by prioritizing a вЂњquality over quantityвЂќ model. IвЂ™m worried that when they release Payday 3, people will complain вЂњ why should I play this when Payday 2 has so much more content?вЂќ But I think if they go back to the Payday the Heist formula (quality over quantity) theyвЂ™ll be able to avoid that response. Because for reals, could they really pull that off again, now that Payday 2 already exists? ItвЂ™s literally impossible for Payday 3 on release to beat its predecessor on the quantity metric, considering Payday 2 is one of the most jam-packed titles in Steam history. Way more missions, way more guns, way more weapon/mask customization, way more melee weapons, and a semi-coherent story line where the heists had a tutorial and a bit of continuity.Д«ut like I said 9 minutes into this old video, I donвЂ™t see any way Payday 3В can possibly succeed if they take the quantity focus, even though it worked for Payday 2. The prevailing opinion is that theyвЂ™ll go for quantity after all, Payday 2 had a ton more content on release than Payday the Heist did, and that worked out great for it. Since we donвЂ™t have any actual gameplay to discuss, the prevailing question is whether Overkill is going to focus on quality (like in Payday the Heist) or quantity (like in Payday 2) when designing the content that will be in-game on release. Users on the Steam Discussions forum and Payday subreddit have been rampantly hypothesizing how the gameвЂ™s going to be. StarbreezeвЂ™s current logo for the upcoming Payday 3

PAYDAY 3 ANNOUNCEMENT PDF

StarbreezeвЂ™s quarterly report has been published in PDF form, showcasing a PowerPoint discussing the future of the company, its IPs, and (most importantly) the upcoming Payday 3 in very limited detail.

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