Fidget Kyun

That feeling already started slowly before, I was a bit disappointed with the idea behind DLCs like the Completely Overkill Pack or Western Pack (but fortunately, they made it so that bringing a minigun in a bank heist, per example, actually feel like bringing a minigun in a bank, heavy, low on ammo and kind of inappropriate. Until now). The Alesso heist was ridiculously irrelevant (like if you go loud, there is a fucking war but the gig is still going??) but there weren’t that feeling like the whole game was going bad. The silly weapon skin is the last straw.

Of course I don’t think that PayDay is a simulator in any ways, nor that it have a heavy storyline (just some background plot that was about to get bigger). But you can’t deny that there still is a huge difference between the original PayDay and a show-off shooting game such as Team Fortress 2 in terms of spirit. I liked the mask personalization per example, as well as the other masks in the DLCs as long as it didn’t make me feel like in a MMORPG which running out of ideas (it didn’t yet). But microtransactions are the first step to a “lolrandom” item shitstorm. This didn’t matter in Counter-Strike because litterally no one give a shit about this game’s lore, it didn’t matter in Team Fortress 2 because they were able to explain it without putting the lore in disarray (not that hard with Team Fortress tho, they even improved it). But it matter in PayDay 2 because it just don’t fit. And don’t tell me the lore don’t matter in this game, we’ve been having a web serie and a whole main thread with the Dentist and the Hoxton Breakout as well as short films along the game. I just need a better introduction than just Vlad going like a bling-bling gangsta that repeatedly says “sputnik” as a running joke. It also don’t fit the means of payment because PayDay 2 is filled with DLCs (most of which are now useless because of the recent “rebalance” by the way), I’ve studied on how to fund a video game and this just sound like a marketing guy who is thinking “this thing work on other games, I want this in MY game” and nothing else.

As for fitting the lore well look at it this way all it is pretty much is Vlad has made a deal with a larger crime organisation and those people are willing to hydro dip weapons (hydro dipping weapons is a thing that happens in real life too and if you google it there are designs that are way crazier than the skins that have been added). 

As for the drilling safes thing it’s just the best balance they could make blending realism with still being able to work in form of a videogame. No matter how you go about it with the whole microtransaction thing following the crate model you gotta have a box and something to open which is why they chose safes and drills so it’s still related to the payday universe but y’know still follows the formula. 

As for saying it doesn’t fit the means of payment because payday 2 is filled with DLC I’d also disagree with that when it comes down to it whether it’s payed DLC or digital items brought in an in game store both are the same thing, in game content that you pay money for.  If overkill took one of their weapon packs and put it in an in game store rather than have it as DLC on the store page on steam how would it be different from games like TF2 where there is a store you can buy content you can only get through the store while also having other items only obtainable through microtransactions? 

That feeling already started slowly before, I was a bit disappointed with the idea behind DLCs like the Completely Overkill Pack or Western Pack (but fortunately, they made it so that bringing a minigun in a bank heist, per example, actually feel like bringing a minigun in a bank, heavy, low on ammo and kind of inappropriate. Until now). The Alesso heist was ridiculously irrelevant (like if you go loud, there is a fucking war but the gig is still going??) but there weren’t that feeling like the whole game was going bad. The silly weapon skin is the last straw.

Thank you Overkill. Just thank you.

Crimefest was advertised to have free content for everyone and now we’re getting microtransactions that literally contradict everything Overkill has said in the past about microtransactions. 

We’re complaining for a good reason for once, jesus christ. They make more then enough money on the loads of DLC, and if they wanted more money, maybe work on another paid DLC heist or something we actually want.

This microtransaction model that Overkill is doing is actually pay to win, except it’s for a game you have to pay to play. Those ugly skins give you benefits that other players couldn’t have without forking over money. This is somewhat comparable to the slight power creep with DLCs, but at least the DLC weapons were interesting or different. These are just awful reskins. 

While what you said (about modding and community members) may be true, it’s simply not justification for the people who AREN’T modders or community specialists. 

Now saying the skins make it pay to win is a bit of a stretch, from what I can gather so far in my experience very few of the skins actually have any stats and those that do the boost isn’t really that major and usual also has a downgrade to go with the upgrade similar to current weapon mods. None of the skins at least that I have seen make any weapon overpowered but let’s say for arguments sake that there is a skin out there with a stat that makes it overpowered why is that really a problem? I mean Payday 2 isn’t a pvp game it’s a coop game if someone has a better weapon than you it doesn’t do anything but help you out.