Overkill studio, the team behind the PayDay franchise signed a deal back in 2012 with 505 Games. This deal allowed the team to release the well received PayDay 2 onto PC, as well as help the studio raise funding to bring it to home consoles.
Everything seemed peachy and PayDay 2 came out to a lot of positive buzz. Then things took an unexpected turn back in October of 2015 when the studio added microtransactions to the game. While these aren’t anything new, Overkill originally announced and promised that they would never be implementing any sort of microtransactions. You buy the game, you get the whole game was the idea they set forth.
Then it would seem that 505 got involved and microtransactions were implemented too much fan backlash. Now Overkill has regained the full rights to the game and their first order of business is to remove all microtransactions from the game. The studio also announced continued support on PayDay 2 for at least another eighteen months
The Overkill staff will also be hosting a Reddit AMA this Friday, from 4pm-6pm EST discussing the changes and what is yet to come for the franchise.
PayDay 2 will once again be at E3 –they always have a very interesting booth– and have released a teaser trailer to show off what’s in store.
Check it out below:
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