Payday 3 Drops To "Mostly Negative" On Steam Following Matchmaking Issues

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Payday 3 launched four days ago, but you'll be lucky if you've played a handful of heists thanks to all the server issues. Granted, the game has bots, so you can at least play by yourself, right? Unfortunately, no. Payday 3 is always online, so if the servers are down, you're completely locked out of the game.

Authentication issues cropped up on launch and were resolved later that day, but shortly after, matchmaking as a whole became unavailable. Fixes were deployed the next day, but there was still instability. "Sorry for having kept you waiting in the safe house," Payday 3 tweeted. "We are slowly but surely getting the services working for you all."

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This instability grew into "an increase of matchmaking issues" which grew into "all platforms [are] unable to matchmake". One day later, Payday 3 tweeted, "Things are starting to look better", but over the weekend, matchmaking issues cropped back up as recovery halted and the service dropped. Two hours ago, the official social channels said that players are able to get into the game again, but the team is "still working on stabilising the matchmaking services".

According to an official statement from Starbreeze, "Matchmaking software encountered an unforeseen error, which made it unable to handle the massive influx of players. This caused an unrecoverable situation for Starbreeze's third-party matchmaking partner."

Starbreeze implemented a new server software across all regions, but an update made by the partner on Sunday "introduced instability" once again.

This has caused a lot of frustration in the community, compounded by the fact that they can't play the game at all due to the already controversial