Oh, there are decent groups out there, for certain. Just few and far between.

When I lived in Nevada, bottled soft drinks were considered groceries and thus not subject to tax—-if you bought a $1.99 Mountain Dew, you paid $1.99 for it.

Lot of things in that guy’s head were wrong. Math, how to talk to humans, realizing error and admitting be wrong. Props to that line cook for bestowing on him the miracle of flight.

Yeah, there are some countries where this is doable. You can pay for stuff with US dollars in parts of Mexico. But it is soooo stupid to assume that applies everywhere.

I honestly don’t get all the hate. I mean, the anger and rage I can understand. Much like Zenimax and Valve’s launch of the doomed pay-for-mods system, this update and change it policy was not properly communicated or handled (in a PR sense). And skins with attached stat boosts is just dumb, to me. It’s one of those…

While I agree that the way they’ve handled this situation is abysmal, the fans are just making this toxic.

Like it or not...these companies..these people that are making games..art..a product. Call it what you want. They need money. They are here to make money so they can take care of themselves and any family..and I do understand some of the outcry against it. Maybe they should of released other cosmetic things. I'm not…

possibly one of the reasons nobody is speaking up about the positives about it is because maybe they just don’t even want to bother arguing against toxic people, which is like talking to brick walls.

The gaming community proves itself to be quite pathetic yet again.

So what will these same gamers say when people get laid off b/c of their abysmal suggestions? If it makes you mad, stop playing. You don’t have to ruin a studios reputation and rally people to do the same. Stop playing, don’t maliciously tank their reviews, and move on.

First up? Stop playing Payday 2 and get it under 10,000 concurrent players. Next, tank the Metacritic userscore.

Speaking as someone who hasn’t played Payday 2 in years but loved it...

I don’t want to be pedantic (except, why else am I posting this?) but that’s not quite how Reddit scores work. The score is a total of all the votes in upvotes - downvotes style, but depending on subreddit settings it won’t go below 0. If you click into the AMA, right now it has 35% upvotes so it’s not technically…

I think gamers have spent so much time locked in their parent’s basement that they forget that companies (and more importantly, the people that work for them) need money to survive, support their families etc and if something isn’t working the company will try to figure out something that does to get that revenue…

Just a little correction real quick! It’s not really accurate to say it didn’t get a single upvote, if you look over on the right it says the post is 35% upvoted. So it’s not that nobody upvoted, just that more people downvoted.

Payday 2 is a great game and I don’t think micro transactions should kill it. Yes hardcore fans are hardcore fans and view this as a break in trust but the game is still good. I wish all of my friends still played it, but they have unfortunately moved on quite a while ago

Yeah the articles before seemed to have left out the PvE part. This article is the first Kotaku one I can think of that has mentioned that tidbit of information. Now knowing that this “Microtransaction Nightmare” seems like misplaced rage.

I don’t entirely get the hatred that the Payday 2 gaming community has for what is going on. If it’s a game that was released over two years ago - and I think it’s a safe bet that they aren’t attracting any new diehard buyers at this point - how can they possibly continue to maintain the game and servers being used…

People love to get outraged over petty things. I’ll never understand it.

The Greedfest folks are interesting. They love the game, but now, they’re trying to kill it because the developer is trying to pay its employees but sucks at communicating? Can you still play the game effectively (not pay-to-win) without using the microtransactions? If so, this seems like a huge overreaction.