



They need it to release, and sell well, in order to continue supporting the series, but also stay afloat. Payday 3 is an important game for Starbreeze. This is also when difficulty will be assessed, which can then lead to the final stages of game development. The team put each map together, find the areas in which players must operate, figure out what weapons are good to use, and implement various challenges to keep the gameplay entertaining. The design phase of game development is when level design happens. Unfortunately no release date has been confirmed. The tweet confirms that the game is very much in development, and the developers are currently in the design phase of that development. Now it seems like Starbreeze is in a position to put Payday 3 out to players at last. That money has been needed to avoid killing the company completely. This is because the costs associated with supporting them alongside the PC version are too great. Recently the company put out news that the console versions of Payday 2 would remain unsupported, potentially forever. This is a process that allows them to reorganize the company, as opposed to forcing them to close it and sell off assets in order to pay off debt. The future has looked bleak for the series ever since publisher Starbreeze filed for reconstruction. Players need to keep the police at bay while they load their truck and escape, otherwise they leave with nothing. First they need to subdue the guards and customers, take hostages, and then collect as much loot as possible. It puts players in the shoes of bank robbers, and has them robbing various types of stores. The game has been rumored for quite some time, but now it seems as though developer Overkill and publisher Starbreeze are going all in on this next release. A recent tweet from the official Payday 2 Twitter account confirms that Payday 3 is in development. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Lets hope they actually make it to 2022, and that the new titles will be actual note worthy games. “ It is in New Starbreeze Publishing AB that the Group’s cash flows will be generated,” the developer says.Īfter the failure that was Overkill’s The Walking Dead and the continuing hardships they’ve dealt with Starbreeze hopes to get things working again with the new reconstruction plans, betting it all on their new titles in development. With Starbreeze Publishing AB holding the rights to the Payday IP. As such, the plans include, splitting its publishing and development arms, Starbreeze Publishing AB and Starbreeze Studios AB. Starbreeze says it will be giving out formal reconstruction plans to its investors. The blog post states “ The company estimates that these cash flows will be positive, based on expected new publishing agreements in 2020 and an expected release of Payday 3 in 2022–2023”ĭue to the expected cash flow, fans of the series should be happy to know the next big installment in the same franchise, Payday 3 is in fact coming and should be expected around 2022-2023. Specifically, the confidence comes from the conclusion of a publishing agreement of Payday 3 during the first half of 2020 and financial backing from it, and a payment from the publishing agreement of Payday: Crime War. This time the developer, having high hopes, had a recent blog post on their site saying a cash flow is expected to come about soon due to their latest installment in the Payday series, which if you weren’t already aware of, is a mobile game titled Payday: Crime War. Payday’s Swedish developer Starbreeze returns following rough times from lay offs of staff, selling off their publishing rights on their popular games, and especially the utter failure of Overkill’s The Walking Dead.
