Rant: My Payday 2penneth/ aftermath.

So yeah, shit when down during this years crimefest, where overkill in their infinite fucking wisdom decided that adding micro-transactions was a good thing to do. This pissed people off for three main reasons.


1. They lied about including them, and their forum mods handles the criticisms poorly
2. Their current business model means that they are now raking it in
3. They added it during an annual community event

This is my take on those three:

1. Way back when Almir said that Payday 2 would never have micro transactions, and up until recently that seemed to be the case. Then they added them and the community went to shit. First there was feelings of betrayal, which seeing as Payday is "a community driven game", was to be expected, considering that the micro-transactions turned the game into "CounterPay DayStike 2", and the skins added in the safes changed stats, building on the already pay2win nature of the game with the countless DLC's. Then when the community of the "community driven game" responded badly, they didn't get listened to, they got silenced by moderators who wouldn't allow Overkill to get criticised for a blatant stab in the back.

2. Many of the successful games on steam run on a combination of 3 different models.
 - Free, with Micro-transactions.
 - Paid with DLC.
 - Paid with Micro-transactions.

Take Team Fortress 2 for example, the game is free to play, with no DLC and then Micro-Transactions being tacked on. Originally you had to buy it. Then they added in the Mann-conomy and they made it F2P, but also gave a free item to the players who bought the game, and gave them an "trader" status as they had invested some money. People were not annoyed by this as they were compensated and free players had to make a transaction in the store to get the ability to trade.

AND ALSO ALL MAPS, WEAPONS, CLASSES, CONTENT ARE FREE.

Payday 2 is now a Paid game, with DLC, that restricts play, i.e not just new masks.etc, but actually locks maps, weapons, most of which are terrible, but then there are some which are really OP and very useful, and perk decks. and as of Crime fest, Micro transactions. Now adding them was a pretty stupid move, but then adding skins which increased the stats of weapons was just pure un-bridled dumb-fuckery.

3. It was just awfully timed. It was like telling someone they had inoperable cancer while they were out celebrating their birthday.

TL;DR Summed up into three reasons. Betrayal of the community, Fucking stupid business model, bad timing.

I mean there has to be some sense in what im saying. The player base has dropped by over two thirds since the introduction of Micro-Transactions. Also the reddit forum moderators have refused to work now, annnd the top sub-reddit on the PAYDAY 2 reddit is named "Fuck you Overkill"

Dan.