Its still weird for me on how they removed lots of bad bundles, but kept the plat to credit/resource ones.

Then removed the “new player slot bundle” that could only be purchased once and costed the exact same amount of plat you start with.

I have no idea what to think.

In one hand, I really liked Tribes Ascend a decade ago, there is something about the Spinfusor that just scratched an itch I never knew I had.
And a breeb In the other, I remember the game going into a death spiral because Hi-Rez kept releasing OP weapons that took way too long to grind for, then nerfing them as soon as most of the players grinded for enough free currency to unlock them, basically making people rush to buy them with real money to get a temporary advantage.
Then they ended the game to focus on Smite and Paladins.

Maybe a miracle will happen and this will revive Tribes, or it will die in the same pit as every other attempt to bring back arena shooters in the last decade.

What a shocker.
Payday was bottled lightning and Payday 2 was their cash cow.

They almost went bankrupt twice (three times if you count their previous studio, Grin, that also closed due bankruptcy) and needed two “help us not go bankrupt” events to stay afloat.

They broke promises left and right, abandoned three console versions of PD2, bungled two games (Walking Dead and that Payday Mobile), Starbreeze also bungled a game with RAID WW2, added microtransactions as event reward (removed later, but will be back for PD3) and aside weeks of server problems, they also had to delay a Day 1 patch for almost two months because of the cert process for consoles.

And all that is without saying that the base game is a downgrade of PD2 with the terrible xp system, always online (even for solo) and upcoming battle pass/paid currency system.

I don’t think this game will be as successful as the first without the extensive mod and workshop support.