{"id":1366086,"date":"2025-10-21T16:34:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T16:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/g3NygppxcpDYeaaGiEpZcf"},"modified":"2025-10-21T16:34:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T16:34:32","slug":"starbreeze-hands-off-payday-2-to-another-developer-as-it-goes-all-in-on-trying-to-salvage-the-beleaguered-payday-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/starbreeze-hands-off-payday-2-to-another-developer-as-it-goes-all-in-on-trying-to-salvage-the-beleaguered-payday-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Starbreeze hands off Payday 2 to another developer as it goes all-in on trying to salvage the beleaguered Payday 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Things are not going well for Payday 3 but, conversely, Payday 2 has never looked in ruder health. Payday 3 launched in 2023 and has struggled to find anything like the audience of its predecessor: at the time of writing <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/steamdb.info\/app\/1272080\/charts\/\" target=\"_blank\">SteamDB shows<\/a> just over 500 players on 3, while around 27,000 are on its 12 year-old predecessor.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an issue for Starbreeze, which has a long history of great and interesting games but for the past decade has been basically a Payday studio. Thing is, Payday 2 is so popular that it&#8217;s had to continue to support the older game, which now has so much DLC that last month <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/payday-2-gets-a-new-dlc-subscription-service-and-its-a-pretty-good-deal-but-a-lot-of-players-are-mad-anyway\/\" target=\"_blank\">saw the launch of a subscription service<\/a> (which is actually a pretty good deal, though some groused about it anyway).<\/p>\n<p>Now Starbreeze has announced that Payday 2&#8217;s maintenance and future content is all being handled by Sidetrack Games, which has previously created several pieces of Payday 2 DLC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re excited to announce that we\u2019re partnering with Sidetrack Games to support the PC-versions of Payday 2 with quality-of-life improvements and general game fixes,&#8221; <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/news\/app\/218620?emclan=103582791433980119&#038;emgid=553504715299620866\" target=\"_blank\">says the Starbreeze statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sidetrack (formerly known as the M.U.G. Team) is a talented team with deep roots in the Payday modding community. Their work on RAID: World War II showed that they have the skill and perseverance to deliver quality updates over a long time. They know the Payday 2 engine inside and out, and they&#8217;ve already gotten started.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1888px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"LE5dhwG3KQU8yL9QfVrY7n\" name=\"payday-3-long-scaled Cropped.jpg\" alt=\"Payday 3's criminal protagonists stand on a rooftop overlooking a city.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/starbreeze-hands-off-payday-2-to-another-developer-as-it-goes-all-in-on-trying-to-salvage-the-beleaguered-payday-3.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1888\" height=\"1062\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Starbreeze)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Players won&#8217;t have to wait long to see the first fruits: Sidetrack&#8217;s first update arrives on Thursday, October 23, and is &#8220;focused on the stability of the game and improving the overall player experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For its part, Sidetrack will now work on both Raid: World War II and Payday 2, and calls this &#8220;a big opportunity for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is almost certainly good news for Payday 2 fans, but all eyes will now be on Starbreeze and whether it can somehow turn Payday 3 around. The game&#8217;s initial reception was extraordinarily poor, and even the devs themselves admitted it was &#8220;<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/payday-3-dev-reflects-on-disastrous-launch-the-game-just-felt-unfinished-it-was-a-bad-experience\/\" target=\"_blank\">a bad experience<\/a>&#8221; at launch. But it&#8217;s far from a bad game, and Starbreeze clearly thinks it&#8217;s worth doubling down on: as well as the Sidetrack news, the studio recently cancelled a Dungeons and Dragons game in order to more completely focus on Payday 3&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As our new CEO Adolf [Kristjansson] has mentioned in recent interviews, we are increasing our focus on Payday as a whole and Payday 3 in particular,&#8221; Gustav Nisser, Starbreeze&#8217;s head of commercial, <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/payday-2-gets-a-new-dlc-subscription-service-and-its-a-pretty-good-deal-but-a-lot-of-players-are-mad-anyway\/\" target=\"_blank\">told us last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Starbreeze&#8217;s most recent statement on Payday 3 was October 3, where it announced it was &#8220;<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1272080\/PAYDAY_3\/\" target=\"_blank\">more than doubling the team size for Payday<\/a>&#8221; and that &#8220;we want to fix all of it. Not only fix [the issues], we want to surpass your expectations and give you the game you didn&#8217;t even know you wanted. A Payday that&#8217;s great today, and amazing 10 years from now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"5c316702-c999-46b5-b645-4509120c08bb\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2025 games\" data-dimension48=\"2025 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:400px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:100.00%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"Vji3V6i3HDWUHeQ22PrjFL\" name=\"New Project (8).jpg\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/starbreeze-hands-off-payday-2-to-another-developer-as-it-goes-all-in-on-trying-to-salvage-the-beleaguered-payday-3-1.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-games-2025-upcoming-pc-release-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"5c316702-c999-46b5-b645-4509120c08bb\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2025 games\" data-dimension48=\"2025 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2025 games<\/strong><\/a>: This year&#8217;s upcoming releases<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/starbreeze-hands-off-payday-2-to-a-another-developer-as-it-goes-all-in-on-trying-to-salvage-the-beleaguered-payday-3\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things are not going well for Payday 3 but, conversely, Payday 2 has never looked in ruder health. Payday 3 launched in 2023 and has struggled to find anything like the audience of its predecessor: at the time of writing SteamDB shows just over 500 players on 3, while around 27,000 are on its 12 year-old predecessor. It&#8217;s an issue for Starbreeze, which has a long history of great and interesting games but for the past decade has been basically a Payday studio. Thing is, Payday 2 is so popular that it&#8217;s had to continue to support the older game, which now has so much DLC that last month saw the launch of a subscription service (which is actually a pretty good deal, though some&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/starbreeze-hands-off-payday-2-to-another-developer-as-it-goes-all-in-on-trying-to-salvage-the-beleaguered-payday-3\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1366087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[91,748],"class_list":["post-1366086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-fps","tag-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Starbreeze hands off Payday 2 to another developer as it goes all-in on trying to salvage the beleaguered Payday 3 | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Things are not going well for Payday 3 but, conversely, Payday 2 has never looked in ruder health. 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