Starbreeze openly talks about the failure of Payday 3

We’re currently at that time of year when companies share their financial quarter results, and on this occasion we have information from Starbreeze, the developers of Payday 3. The game came out in September last year. The Swedish company confirmed the current situation with video games and The situation is somewhat alarming.

The numbers don’t support the success of Payday 3 because It was stated that the video game was far below the company’s expectations.. Neither sales have been as expected, nor can active users overshadow its failure, and despite everything, Starbreeze itself says absolute readiness to correct all the shortcomings of the game. Later in February they will publish a roadmap detailing the expected changes.

Although Payday 3 is available on Xbox Game Pass, it hasn’t achieved the popularity expected from the franchise.

Users are making it clear that despite the title being taken from the highly rated sequel, Payday 3 still has a lot of work to do to bring back the glory it saw in previous installments. The fact is that Payday 2 itself managed to amass a whopping 400,000 active players on Steam in the last quarter.

History of development This third part has undergone many changes., making a premature announcement and even avoiding the possible closure of Starbreeze; has already been corrected, albeit with doubts towards its investors after the last financial report. We don’t know how the video game will work on Xbox Game Pass; as it is one of the games available on the service on launch day for both consoles, PC and the cloud.

Besides Payday 3, Swedish studio is working on a new video game based on Dungeons and Dragons intellectual property; was announced last December and with a short launch window for next 2026.