PS5 Heist Shooter PAYDAY 3 Will Seemingly Require an Internet Connection At All Times

I lost interest in pay day for around 6 years now, so it doesn't bother me as I did not even plan in getting it in the first place.

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'We need this for metrics!'

checks Diablo4 notes
'don't forget battle passes and the in-game store!'

Interesting, a big part of why I never have these games a chance is I always thought they were online-only games…

MS buying publishers for GP is like making games always online

@Mio_Nakashima Supposedly it’s done because it’s harder to cheat this way. Cheaters would completely ruin any monetization

He does understand Unreal like every engine doesn't need to be always online?

Payday 2 I actually played loads offline, I never could be bothered with randoms. It’s a shame that this is always online but the games I guess were always that sort of game.

I mean, my broadband router is on 24/7 and my PS5 is always connected to it.

But hey let me moan and complain for the hell of it, right?

@Atreus97 And when the servers are off on their end through no fault of your own, you’ll play the game how?

I never understood why this is a problem, most people have their PS5 connected and broadband always on?

Looks like someone is making same mistake as Blizzard with Diablo 4...

@TripleKing333
What a tragedy. Perhaps I'll go for a walk, or ya know, play something else.

@riceNpea you might have to explain how?

I can play all games i buy offline even if they are in Game Pass, and I don’t even need my Xbox online to play games I download from game pass. I think my primary Xbox only needs to be online for the download and once a month for installed game pass games to be playable.

Always online means the game won’t work at all if your internet goes down for the day or if the servers are overloaded.

@Atreus97 Don’t walk off a cliff. That would be tragic.

So, we traded the ability to play with other people for always online? Is it too late to reverse course?

@Atreus97
In theory sure that should be fine but in practice it hasn’t worked yet. Just look at all of the server issues Diablo 4 had on launch with people losing hundreds of hours of progress due to no fault of their own. Not to mention that not everyone’s Wi-Fi is good and not everyone regularly has Wi-Fi. Online only for single player is pointless overall and does more harm than good.

@Atreus97 People with bad internet?
You lose the right to play your game when the devs decide, if the game is a massive flop it could be in a year's time.
Why add this restriction in the first place?
sometimes internet cuts off

There's a third game coming? I had no idea lol, I only ever hear about 2 for the last several years.

@SJR
1) Not everyone’s internet connection is stable; 2) servers go down, it’s good to have single player content to play in such situations, which shouldn’t require the online connection;

I'm not expecting Pay Day 3 to do all that well tbh. Especially when the only games that they made after 2 was the terrible and misleading walking dead game and Raid: WW2. Those games were practically a copy paste version of Pay Day 2 so it's difficult to get excited about this and especially with this type of news.

I've never played these games yet but assume they are a bit like GTA or saint row?

I think this will be Game Pass so will try it out there and see how I get on with it.

Quote unreleased suicide quad game but what about Diablo 4?

@djlard what d4 is and what this is trying to be, isn't the same. Always online may not be what people think d4 should use, but its far more egregious here.

@Total_Weirdo no. They aren't like that at all. Waiting for game pass....smh. y'all don't love gaming.

I didn't think this was news. I always presumed PayDay was a always online game anyway. Its an online co op game. It never started as a single player game to begin with.
So can't really grumble with it.

@Total_Weirdo I enjoyed payday 2 ,it's more technical in how you plan it takes alot of pre thought and being with some gd friends helps a lot ,the ai was as dumb as a bag of bricks when I last played it

People literally walk around 24/7 with their head down looking at a screen, then complain that a game requires a constant connection.

Find that odd.

It's actually worse than complaining because the PS5 requires permanent connection to a source of electricity, because you have net connectivity half way up a mountain these days.

Net access is more widely available than mains water or mains power.

Let that sink in for a moment....

Payday 2 was a great game and I always played it with my friends and randoms as well. So the always on Internet is not bothering me.
September is the heist month!

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As long as PS+ or GamePass has online only games it doesn't bother me as much.

@Soulless666 did u have the same prob with AI as I did ? They were useless , I might have well taken a toddler to do the bank job with me

Boo for always on, though I know this game isn’t one really meant to be solo.

I mean, i thought these games were made to be played online. its not something like left 4 dead where you have AI companions. you either play with other people or you have an objectivelly worse experience.
its different from Diablo 4, another always online game but the game was designed to be played solo but you still get server lag.