#Payday 3 cancelled series
And while it’s hard to say for sure that this means System Shock 3 is canceled, the loss of the core team is a pretty bad look.Unlike the gameplay from previous titles of the series which revolves solely around the operations of The Payday Gang, Crime War lets the player experience gameplay from the law enforcement's perspective for the first time ever. Given that we’re seeing so little progress and there have been so many issues, it’s a wonder if this game ever comes out. This means that the team was caught in a hard situation where they had a ton of legacy and hype to live up to, something that has doomed many sequel projects in the history of the games industry.
Luangkhot also confirmed that the statements from the RPGCodex posts were legitimate. But what appears to be the final nail in the techno-coffin of this game is that according to the poster, “I don’t actually know what’s going on, but the team is no longer employed there.”Ĭombining this with the layoffs in December 2019 that former community manager Sam Luangkhot later confirmed, also admitting she was “worried” for the prospects of the company, doesn’t paint a very pretty picture. And other than that in-engine trailer released a while back, there has been precious little shown of the anticipated sequel so far. And we were on our way to make something unique and possibly fun, but probably not what the audience was hungry for.”ĭeveloper OtherSide Entertainment has yet to respond to these claims. So, we had to be creative and clever and weird. We were a small team and knew we couldn’t compete with current immersive sims in production quality and breadth. “Those high expectations drove a lot of expensive experimentation. That company is now back focusing on their core games, like Payday. If you’re wondering what Starbreeze has to do with this, it’s because at one point the Swedish publisher held the rights to publish System Shock 3, before shedding them midway through their financial reconstruction efforts. READ MORE Payday 3 releases new details, including setting in New York with more tech The Swedish publisher had a laundry list of problems that nearly bankrupted the studio, and oh yeah, the game bombed. That game suffered from a lack of direction rushed development and a ton of bad decision-making. This happened with an infamous Starbreeze project, Overkill’s The Walking Dead. As is too often the case in making games, a critically missing lack of direction and over-hype have led to the game being essentially lost in limbo.
Going into more detail, the poster reveals a key detail.
And as a result, System Shock 3 is looking more and more like a dead effort. The content, both in terms of art and gameplay elements, is just not there. The core systems are there in some form, but much of the actual meat of the game is missing from these bones. According to these posts, the game is barely even through the rough first stages of development. The game is in turmoil, to put it bluntly. I never suggested we were halfway done, core systems are a great foundation for a game but most of the work is content development which we were critically behind in, both in real assets and in tool support for an efficient pipeline.” I thought some first person information would be welcome. “The only reason I’m posting is because I saw so much confusion about the state of the company and the project.
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