14 DAY TRIAL // Overkill has issued a formal apology to the PayDay 2 gaming community and vowed to do better in the future.
If you’ve been following the news this past couple of weeks, you might have noticed that the PayDay 2 community was in uproar, and things still haven’t calmed down. Now, you might wonder why this game and this community are so important. PayDay 2 is one of the most played games on the Steam platform, and it’s been in the top ten for a long time.
The developers from Overkill managed to achieve this performance by focusing on two important aspects. First of all, the base game was relatively cheap, really well put together, with great graphics and an interesting concept. Secondly, the game remained pretty much free of microtransactions for a long time. That second part has changed.
Why is Overkill apologizing?
The developers didn’t just put out items that you can buy, but they did involve real life currency that could get better stuff for some users. Since this is a cooperative multiplayer game, they must have thought that the community won’t be too upset. It turns out that people were furious. If you want to get into more details, we covered the microtransactions in more detail a while back.
The bottom line is that the number of players has dropped, despite the intentions of Overkill. They said on a couple of occasions that they need more money to keep going, but the community is built on a different foundation.
“The past few weeks have been some of the most challenging in the history of this community. Players have been angry with us, media have written about us en masse, and our volunteer moderators went on strike. For all the distress we've caused the past few weeks, I'd just like to take the time and say that we’re sorry. We've done a lot of things right in the past, but these past few weeks we screwed up. We need to get better at many things, and we will do our best to improve as soon as possible,” developers said on Steam.
From what they have stated until now, they are working with the community so that things get better, but they didn’t say that they were going to take out microtransactions. They are also assigning eight developers to talk with people on the forums for better communication, but it remains to be seen just how successful they will be in appeasing the community.