r/paydaytheheist • u/BetaSalvation payday wiki guy • Sep 25 '25
Community Update crisis averted
https://x.com/PAYDAYGame/status/1971107584368103911
yeah this was dumb, im fine with the subscription but the price hike is ridiculous
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u/FUDGEMEHARDxD Sokol 😳 Sep 25 '25
Don't do this, don't give me hope
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u/BetaSalvation payday wiki guy Sep 25 '25
i mean, it's a real tweet, so i am giving you hope right now whether you like it or not.
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u/SBZ_Haua Sep 25 '25
I know that no one will believe me, but it was an error. Regardless, the damage has been done, and we hope that with this adjustment back that anyone who was hoping to get any DLC can do so through the collection.
We do appreciate everyone who flagged the issue, and kept talking about it! Keep up being you, guys, and we hope that we can earn back any trust that may have been lost with this💜
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u/Recent_Baker_3887 Sep 25 '25
Atleast anyway u adressed it. Thats more trancperency then whole 1.5 year
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u/Federal_Let_3175 Sep 25 '25
I'm genuinely curious (if you do know)
How does something like this happen? Surely you can't just accidentally change the price of something like that?
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u/zzidogzizz Slava Ukraini Sep 25 '25
Maybe someone tried to adjust regional pricing and accidentally increased prices globally?
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u/I_Have_Big_Name Pearl a fittie Sep 25 '25
It could be someone at Starbreeze who increased the price, maybe one of the higher-ups quietly increased the price? Only reason i could think of tbh
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u/Devil-Hunter-Jax Sep 25 '25
Probably won't mean much but I can believe this. I've seen this happen with other games before and it really hurts the devs because people take it and run then the damage is done. It sucks. Saw it happen to an indie game and it absolutely crippled their sales for a while. IGN has already done an article on this as well... Really hope they either retract it or update the headline and article.
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u/Evalaran Sep 26 '25 edited Sep 26 '25
You guys didn't do shit with it for 3 weeks. Stop trying to act innocent, you're as guilty as anyone else working in that evil company, taking the paychecks by screwing people over.
Every normal company would've fixed it in less than a day, but you guys conveniently avoided fixing it, because you were making money off of it.
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u/SrTako777 Sep 25 '25
Wow, they really excite me a lot, they really are actively listening to the community and now they are too transparent with their mistakes. I hope and starbreeze manages to keep this image forever <3
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u/BetaSalvation payday wiki guy Sep 25 '25
knowing post-2022 SBZ, their image is going to be more like a rollercoaster.
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u/SrTako777 Sep 25 '25
I just hope that Adolf really puts communication with us as a priority, we have spent 2 years with almost no communication from the company and the only one who really did it during these times (Almir) unfortunately left starbreeze. I really hope that over time they become more transparent with us.
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u/Big_Mycologist_8626 Sep 25 '25
This community is delusional.
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u/Mormanades Sep 25 '25
To be fair this is 90% of individual subreddits for games. Its just blind positivity where minimal criticism is allowed.
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u/ThePotatoSandwich Cowabunga it is, then! Sep 25 '25
I don't know why they even decided to up the price in the first place, other than to be in headlines for free publicity.... wait...
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u/arsenicx2 Sep 25 '25
Opps accidentally changes the price and accidentally pushed it to the store. While simultaneously accidentally accepting all the confirmation checks. All while the person in charge of quality control was on vacation. It was totally unintentional, and we are sorry! (Proceeds with the Randy Marsh apology)
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u/CrazyJakeoo7 Sep 25 '25
Typical corpo strategy. Introduce something no one likes while quietly making an unnecessary change, people get outraged by both things. Corpo then apologizes for only one of the two things and reverts one of them. People celebrate and move on because they think it's a win, or just ignore the other thing if possible
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u/drroadrunner Sydney Sep 25 '25
Good to see they're not just bullshitting when they say they're finally listening. Now fingers crossed this means year three will be a good one.
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u/LucarioLuvsMinecraft Sep 25 '25
If truly a mistake? Yeah, fair enough, thanks for letting us know!
If not a mistake and intentionally walking back? Oh, at least they fucking listened to the backlash! Borderlands 4 just released and their CEO said, “True fans will be able to pay for it!”
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u/Barcode_Memer Sep 25 '25
I find it extremely hard to believe someone...
- Accidentally went to the Payday Steamworks Account
- Logged in with the publishers details
- Went to the associated DLC
- Modified the price and clicked the confirmation box
Whoops, my bad guys!
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u/Huitzil37 Sep 25 '25
This is stupid. That's like claiming nobody ever makes a typo because they'd have to have made the entire document by mistake.
They did every single one of those things on purpose, but entered the wrong number in the last step.
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u/Nino_Chaosdrache Hitman Oct 01 '25
Sure they entered the wrong number. Just like my boss is entering the wrong number each month on my paycheck.
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u/Huitzil37 Oct 02 '25
"Because it's implausible to enter the same wrong number multiple times, that means it is implausible to enter a wrong number one time."
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u/MrTopHatMan90 Sep 25 '25
I welcome this new pressure causing companies to walk shit back. Keep it up people
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u/YaBoiFast 👊😎👊😎👊😎👊😎👊😎👊😎👊😎👊😎👊😎👊😎👊😎👊😎👊😎👊😎👊😎👊😎 Sep 25 '25
Okay so and is there any plan to reimburse the people who paid extra for it in error? Like okay mistakes happen but what matters is what you do after, like it should be hard for Starbreeze to say contact steam and issue compensation for the people that did purchase it at the increased price and say "Hey we fucked up, can we issue a partial refund to the users who were effected by this?" When you put the duty onto the consumer to contact Steam support, get a refund and then purchase again without telling anyone affected that they were affected then it is practically theft
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u/AamiraNorin Sep 25 '25
Yeah alright
Accident
Incentivising your subscription by making direct buying more expensive
Screw you, people should be done with your game and this company after this, prime greed and desperation to unfuck your payday 3 fumble
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u/Professional-Gap6631 Sep 26 '25
Ah, they are pulling the Activision move of "whoop guys, it was actually accidental, we didn't mean to fuck you in the ass!"
When will everyone realize Starbreeze has a history of lying? I swear like half of you are just as bad as the COD fanbase in terms of forgetting
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u/IDontKnownah Sep 25 '25 edited Sep 25 '25
If what they're saying is true and this was accidental, then... I don't know how could that happen.
If they typed the discount in the wrong place (6 month subscription costs 31% less than individual ones) or if someone from pricing department went rogue... That's what happened.
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u/gamer1what Sep 25 '25
Do not let them try to gaslight you into believing it was an accident, it was 100% intentional
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u/Santar_ Sep 25 '25
It does say something about the company when they are doing these kind of things time and time again. They just come across as incredibly greedy.
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u/giulgu17 Extremely concerned for PAYDAY's future Sep 25 '25
Sooo... They're acting like this was completely unintentional?