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Don't forget taking forever for an initial patch release, despite there being multiple game breaking bugs.
The state the game was at release was absolutely awful.
The only folks who kept playing that I know were folks grinding for the final levels/achievements/weapons. Which consisted of playing in unenjoyable ways like using bad load outs, doing stupid crap like tagging a billion guards, etc. Who wants to pay money for an unenjoyable grind?
They released a decent patch, some new content and DLC but everyone has already moved on. They totally screwed themselves, sucks it's an IP that I like, but more games need to fail like this so publishers stop doing the same bullshit
Yeah, I've played Payday 2 but I wasn't going to pick this up for any more than $10US.
This review from a Japanese player with 426hours playtime was really telling..., to summarize:
Stop blaming Devs and blame corpo above them. Can't guarantee that's the case here but it's almost always their fault rather than the Devs when things go wrong on a launch like this.
Maybe they should unionize or walkout or something, costumers can't fight their fight.
As proven with Volition, if we don't buy their game in protest they are closed down anyway instead of getting another shot at something we actually want, nothing can change from this side.
It's easier said than done tbh. It seems to be slowly changing lately tho, there's hope still.