The Payday 3 comeback is finally happening. I've been screaming from the rooftops to anyone who will listen (usually annoyed colleagues and uninterested friends) for some time now that the game is good, and certainly in a better state than it launched in. The free weekend just proved that, as the team pulled in over 320,000 players—250,000 of which were new to the game.
"Thank you," Starbreeze CEO Adolf Kristjansson said in a new blog post. "Thank you to the veterans who carried a crew of rookies through their first heist (you were kind, supportive, and you welcomed the new recruits into our community). Thank you to the rookies who tripped every alarm in the building, but still returned for more! Thank you to everyone who recommended the game to a friend, and convinced them it was worth their time. You turned a free weekend into something far bigger than we planned for."
Kristjansson openly admits that a year ago, Payday 3 would never have been able to pull off a free weekend this successful; the game "had not lived up to what you expect from this studio." But as over 320,000 players worked together to fill their duffel...
