Payday 2 now has ten times more players than Payday 3 on Steam

When it comes to Steam gamers, it’s not been going nicely for Payday 3. The latest installment within the Starbreeze co-op FPS heist collection has launched on Recreation Cross and Steam, however the numbers on Valve’s platform are nonetheless dwarfed by its predecessor, Payday 2. Steam doesn’t inform us every little thing, after all, however it’s a captivating window into the place gamers of the collection would moderately spend their time.

We’ve talked about Payday 3 so much not too long ago. Earlier this month we famous how Payday 2 had three times the players of Payday 3, after which how Payday 3’s player numbers had dropped by 90% since launch, and now it’s gotten even worse.

There’s after all scope for the co-op FPS game to rise again up when Starbreeze fixes the myriad points with the sequel, however gamers are exhibiting they’d moderately simply return to Payday 2 as an alternative.

As of proper now, Payday 3 has simply over 2,500 gamers whereas Payday 2 sits at over 25,000 – a complete ten occasions larger. By itself, this could possibly be an anomaly, however Payday 2 has been hovering round 20,000 to 40,000 gamers for some time, with Payday 3’s launch not seeing common participant numbers drop within the earlier recreation in any respect.

The 24-hour peaks as of Tuesday, October 24 are additionally fairly telling, as Payday 2 had nearly 40,000 gamers, whereas Payday 3 had 3,500.

Payday 3, in line with SteamDB and SteamCharts, has been seeing a sluggish and regular decline. Payday 3’s first massive patch has as soon as once more been delayed, and matchmaking began as something however steady. Starbreeze has mentioned more heists are coming to Payday 3 in the future, however the extremely unstable launch hasn’t been doing the sport any favors. All these Payday 3 Steam reviews at launch definitely didn’t assist.

The Payday 3 server issues have been blamed on a Starbreeze third-party associate, with the studio saying it is going to be “evaluating” a brand new associate to assist resolve the issues. It’s one of many many issues that has plagued the sport and precipitated the launch increase to undergo, however there’s no telling fairly but if the shooter will handle to bounce again.

For those who’re nonetheless within the new Starbreeze recreation and will use some steering although, we’ve put collectively a breakdown of the very best Payday 3 weapons and all of the Payday 3 vault codes you’ll must know too.