With Payday 3 way out on the horizon, Starbreeze needs to do what's necessary to find its way to financial solvency.

It has sold off the entirety of its publishing holdings, including System Shock 3 and Psychonauts 2, either back to the developers or to their new publishers.Įven though Starbreeze has put together a plan of action to keep itself afloat over the short term, the tumult that has followed the company since the publishing relationship with Dead By Daylight's developer, Behaviour Interactive, ended in 2018 has been abundant. Since late 2018, when Starbreeze's numbers start to careen into the void, Starbreeze has been under reconstruction orders (and had to request an extension). Starbreeze has been through the ringer - several of them, actually - since shortly before Nermark took over in December 2018. This does mean that Starbreeze is getting back to supporting their flagship franchise, likely to both support the game and the development of Payday 3, which the Swedish publisher announced earlier in October. According to Nermark's post on Steam, the sheer amount of content was 'confusing for returning or new players and a blocker for people to get into the game.' Prior to December 2018, which is when Starbreeze and Overkill stopped supporting Payday 2, there had been six years of free DLC content.

New DLCs will be a mix of paid and free updates.' We want to move forward and make more of PAYDAY 2, and to do so we need your support to continue producing content. 'We do not do so with ease or take this lightly.

'To get it out of the door immediately yes, I know we’re breaking a promise,' Nermark wrote on Steam.

Nermark admits that this is breaking a promise to the community, as Payday 2 players were told that there would not ever be paid DLC to contend with. Unfortunately, according to Mikael Nermark, Starbreeze's CEO, some of the content will be coming with strings attached. Starbreeze's CEO, Mikael Nermark, announced on Payday 2's Steam community page that it has to break its promise of 'forever free' content and introduce paid DLC in order to support the publisher's long term financial health.Īfter almost a year in development purgatory, Starbreeze has announced that it will be resuming Payday 2 content.

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