They are only sorry the fans saw right through their plan. There's no reason to increase the price on old digital content.

Payday 3 didn't make enough money, so they're following the players back to Payday 2 to try to shake them down there.

What a sad decline for such a great dev :c

Starbreeze rolling back bad decisions and pretending they didn't know? What is this? A Tuesday?

payday still exists? I haven't heard of the game in years. I'm surprised they even attempted this as a whole because it sounds like it's only going to piss off their remaining userbase.

BEING SAID, I think their main issue here isn't the fact that the price went up in the first place, it's that they decided to make it almost 25% more as the increase after having it be ~52% off for ages. This rollup should have defo been more gradual if they wanted people to not be pissed about that. An instant 50$ increase in price is a tough amount to swallow for a 12 year old game, regardless of if DLC is involved, even moreso when it boosts the price to $170

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I actually like these "DLC Subscription" type things, particularly for older games with tons of DLC. There's a huge barrier to entry for someone trying to pick up an older game, and being able to pay $5 or $10 and 'demo' all of the DLC for a month is a nice way to see what's worth buying or if the game is even going to have enough longevity to make buying the DLC worth it.

Obviously when it's accompanied by a huge increase in the price of the DLC, it sours it considerably, but at its core, the subscription itself is not a bad thing.

Someone I know wanted a recommendation for a multiplayer game recently. One of the games I remembered existing was Payday 2. DLC and subscriptions involved? Never-fuckin-mind.