Payday 2 DLC Bundle $50 Price Hike Was 'An Error,' Starbreeze Insists

Payday 2 developer Starbreeze has admitted it "messed up" erstwhile it introduced a premium subscription work alongside hiking the terms of its $100 DLC bundle by 50%.

The subscription — launched earlier this week — bundled "full entree to much than 65 DLCs, packed with heists, weapons, and cosmetics... for a debased monthly cost" of $4.99 per month, oregon $19.99 for six months. At the time, the institution said it allowed players to "explore Payday 2's monolithic contented room astatine their ain pace, mastering the creation of heisting 1 transgression astatine a time" and the subscription — disposable via Steam — tin beryllium canceled astatine anytime."

Starbreeze did not, however, pass players reasoning of buying the Payday 2 Infamous Collection that it had softly accrued the terms from $100 to $150 astatine the opening of September, conscionable a fewer weeks earlier it launched the subscription. Fans slammed the developer for "trying to gaffe [the terms rise] nether the radar."

Now, successful a connection to GameDeveloper, caput of commercialized Gustav Nisser admitted the developer had "dropped the shot connected coordinating internally and communicating with our assemblage properly."

"The antagonistic absorption makes implicit sense, and the assemblage has made it wide however the terms alteration and its timing looks from the outside," Nisser said. "We hold with the community, we messed up connected this one, and we person reverted the terms connected the bundle effectual immediately."

He continued: "In hindsight we should person realized however it would seem. Since the bundle lone charges for the items you don't own, and the bundle discount is cumulative with immoderate different discounts (i.e. discounts connected the included items), the existent afloat terms of the bundle tin alteration significantly."

"Heisters – we've seen the feedback connected the Infamy Collection pricing alteration that happened earlier this month, and person investigated," Starbreeze told players connected X/Twitter. "The pricing has been reverted to wherever it should be, and we apologize for this error."

Starbreeze's Haua besides explained connected Reddit: "I cognize that nary 1 volition judge me, but it was an error. Regardless, the harm has been done, and we anticipation that with this accommodation backmost that anyone who was hoping to get immoderate DLC tin bash truthful done the collection.

"We bash admit everyone who flagged the issue, and kept talking astir it! Keep up being you, guys, and we anticipation that we tin gain backmost immoderate spot that whitethorn person been mislaid with this."

A speedy cheque connected Steam.db confirms the terms for the Infamous Collection has so present been reverted, though it's not wide if anyone who's paid the further 50% complaint implicit the past fewer weeks tin assertion backmost the difference.

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