PAYDAY 3 is one of the most anticipated cooperative titles of this 2023 that will allow us to enjoy alone or accompanied by friends (or other players) a lot

The official Steam page for Deep Silver and Starbreeze’s PAYDAY 3 game has been updated to show the use of this ever-controversial third-party DRM.

  • Norgur
    107•11 months ago

    Denuvo has become a very strong indicator to me that not the game devs are calling the shots during development, but the Excel-sheet-business-suit-monkeys are.

    Only some business-fool would look at a proposal to buy that piece of performance-guzzling crap and go “Hey, then everyone who’d be a pirate otherwise will buy my product and spend money in muh cash shop, that’s totally worth the investment”, ignoring the immense drawbacks for paying costumers.

    especially in a frickin’ coop-shooter where piracy will never be as big of a deal because people want to play together with others on your frickin’ servers anyway…

    • forgotaboutlaye
      33•11 months ago

      Yeah, I don’t get it – the game is essentially online-only (not sure if you can play with bot teammates like the previous titles, but that wasn’t too enjoyable anyway). Why pay for Denuvo as well unless you’re out of touch?

      • 520
        12•11 months ago

        If past Payday games are anything to go by, you can play offline with just bots.

        You wouldn’t want to, given the choice, and it’s not the point of the game, but you can.

        • Viirax
          3•11 months ago

          Well, you can play “offline with bots”, but, unless something has changed since last I checked, it’ll be always online, which means that even if you want to play offline you need a constant connection to their servers anyway.

          Almost feels like they’re going out of their way to see how many features that harm users they can add and still be able to sell well…

          • 520
            8•11 months ago

            Last I checked, Payday 2 has had actual offline play since launch. It is Payday 3 that won’t have a proper offline mode.

            Unless this got silently changed somewhere?

            • Viirax
              1•11 months ago

              I was talking about Payday 3, probably should’ve made that more obvious. PDTH and PD2 both work completely offline as far as I’m aware.

              • 520
                1•11 months ago

                Ahh I see, apologies for the confusion. Yeah I totally don’t get the regression in that regard