Earlier this month, Starbreeze introduced a new $5 monthly subscription for Payday 2 that grants you access to its enormous catalogue of DLC, but there was a catch. The studio also quietly increased the price of the Infamous Collection—which includes every expansion—by $50.
It didn't take long for the community to flood the game with negative reviews, dragging its Steam score down to 'Mixed'. Many of these denounced the price hike as a "scummy" way to incentivise a subscription service for a 12-year-old game, simply because Payday 3 underperformed, and called on the studio to reverse the move.
Starbreeze has done just that, but it also claimed that the price increase was an honest mistake: "Heisters - we've seen the feedback on the Infamy Collection pricing change that happened earlier this month, and have investigated. The pricing has been reverted to where it should be, and we apologize for this error."
Naturally, nobody believes them, and this statement has only incited even more backlash. "Ahah what a silly mistake someone randomly slipped and increased the price of the bundle by 50% just as a subscription model came out lmao what a wacky coincidence," replied @zen_lef.
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