Payday 3 developer Starbreeze has announced it's canceling one of the heist shooter's most-requested features, namely the ability to play the game without an online connection.
As spotted by ResetEra user Santar, Starbreeze revealed the cancellation of Payday 3's offline mode during a second-anniversary livestream yesterday. The studio claims that the offline mode is "not feasible" for the "direction" in which it's heading with Payday 3.
The announcement that you won't be able to play Payday 3 offline comes after Starbreeze announced a major company policy shift yesterday, resulting in the cancellation of its live-service Dungeons & Dragons game and a pivot towards the Payday franchise as the studio's primary focus.
That shift will also seemingly mean more games in the Payday franchise, as well as a sharper focus on the heist genre in general, so we may be about to see a slew of new Payday spinoffs and sequels in the future.
Of course, that's assuming that Starbreeze can turn Payday 3's fortunes around. The game has had a pretty hard time of things since launching back in 2023; just a few months after its launch, Starbreeze admitted it was operating at "significantly lower levels" than the...
