It’s been a tough time for Starbreeze, with the gang behind Payday 2 and Brothers: A Tale Of Two Sons going through a very real possibility they wouldn’t survive another year. As they proceed to attempt to get better from critical monetary issues, they now foresee a vibrant and profitable future led by one game: Payday 3. We ought to anticipate the most recent within the really-quite-good cooperative heist FPS in 2022 or 2023, they’ve stated in a brand new monetary submitting. Which appeared without end away till I realised it’s nearly 2020? As in, 2020 begins inside three months? And then it’s principally 2525? And we’ll be residing on the Moon? Time, eh.
Starbreeze have been speaking about Payday 3 since 2016 however that is probably the most they’ve stated to say about it since their cloud of economic doom rolled in. They’ve now estimated a big boost in cash flow primarily based mainly on signing a publishing settlement for Payday Three within the first half of 2020 then launching the game “in 2020-2023.”
Ah y’know what, now I say it once more, that does really feel ages away. But I’m okay with a break. Starbreeze and their Overkill studio added new maps and characters and issues in free updates and paid DLC for a stable 5 years. They took cooperative heisting nearly all over the place they might, together with hitting a secret Illuminati base for spooky artifacts and busting into the chuffing White House to swipe presidential pardons. They can’t escalate from there, solely reset. Time out to reset expectations is ok. And time to get better from moneyhell.
Starbreeze filed for administration in December 2018, searching for time to rebuild the corporate so that they’d be better-equipped to repay collectors and survive. They’d been in bother for some time, and this was not helped by Overkill’s The Walking Dead later flopping arduous and getting pulled from sale a couple of months after launch.
Five months after saying they may not survive one other 12 months, Starbreeze are nonetheless right here and looking forward to Payday 3. Fingers crossed.
