As of Sept. 25, Payday 3‘s Steam rating continues to plummet while the game’s servers remain basically unplayable a week after its early access launch on Sept. 18. On the couple of days after release, the server debacle was generally viewed as a launch issue in an otherwise well-made game. Now, however, it’s reaching the point of just becoming an issue.
Payday 3 currently has over 20,000 reviews from players on Steam, and 70 percent of those reviews are negative. Here’s the thing, though: Nobody seems to be saying that Payday 3 isn’t a fun game. The chief complaint (and the one that’s impossible to ignore) is the fact that the server issues are quite literally making the game only playable for a handful of hours each day, and that’s if you’re lucky.