Starbreeze has introduced that Payday 3 sport director Miodrag Kovačević, in any other case often called Mio, will probably be stepping down from his function with a purpose to work “as a designer elsewhere within the venture”.
In a message on X (previously Twitter), Starbreeze says that whereas it researches and plans Payday 3‘s second 12 months of content material, lead producer Andreas Häll Penninger and group head Almir Listo will probably be taking on the sport’s replace schedule.
No timeframe is given as to when Payday 3 will get its subsequent full-time inventive director, so it seems to be like we’ll simply have to attend and see what Andreas and Almir convey to the venture within the interim.
Usually, reactions to Mio’s departure seem like principally constructive. One consumer says that this choice “was possible with how issues went down throughout Yr 1”, whereas one other says that Mio’s departure is “unlucky” however “a large W” nonetheless.
Mio’s exit from his function as director comes as Payday 3 continues to flag by way of participant depend and consumer evaluations. A fast have a look at SteamDB reveals that Payday 3 at present has just below 600 gamers on-line with a 771-player 24-hour peak, whereas Payday 2‘s 24-hour peak is way greater at just below 15,000.
All informed, it has been a tough journey for Payday 3. The sport launched in September final 12 months to middling evaluations, and though it loved tens of hundreds of concurrent gamers at launch, these numbers rapidly dwindled as gamers fled, seemingly with a purpose to return to Payday 2.
In February this 12 months, Starbreeze admitted that Payday 3 had carried out at “considerably decrease ranges” than it wished, and former CEO Tobias Sjögren stepped down in March, partly due, it appears, to the sport’s poor efficiency.
In response to Payday 3‘s woes, Starbreeze introduced an formidable initiative known as Medic Bag, which entails overhauling most of the sport’s key programs. Final month, a roadmap was launched displaying off a few of what’s coming within the subsequent few months as a part of that initiative.
In case you really feel like checking it out, you possibly can seize Payday 3 proper now on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Collection X|S. It is also accessible as a part of an Xbox Recreation Move subscription on each PC and Xbox.
