Payday 3 Dev Looking Into Adding Offline Mode, Blames Third-Party for Matchmaking Woes
As Payday 3’s matchmaking issues continue, its developer is looking into adding an offline mode.
Developer Starbreeze has seen Payday 3 suffer a disastrous launch, with severe online problems sparking a backlash from players. On Steam, the co-op heist shooter currently has a “mostly negative” user review rating. As of writing on September 26, more people are playing the decade old Payday 2 than Payday 3 on Valve’s platform.
As player complaints grew more vociferous on Sunday, Starbreeze boss Tobias Sjögren tweeted to address concern about Payday 3’s always-online requirement, saying “the team is looking at possibility to add some sort of offline mode”.
So, what went wrong? In a note to press trumpeting launch-weekend stats of 218,250 concurrent players across all platforms, and a peak of 1,347,510 unique players, Starbreeze pointed its finger squarely at its third-party matchmaking partner.
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