If you’ve played Payday 3<\/em> after its launch, you likely fell victim to the game’s widespread matchmaking issues since Sept. 21. Developer Starbreeze officially addressed the outages in a press release today, attributing the situation to an “unforeseen error” with the game’s third-party matchmaking system and saying it aims to make the game rely less on online services. <\/p>
Payday 3 <\/em>has experienced a plethora of issues with its matchmaking since its full launch last week. Players couldn’t find matches at all for most of the time, making the title effectively unplayable. The issue didn’t appear in the beta and early-access periods, Starbreeze said in a press release<\/a>.<\/p>
The widespread server issues in Payday 3 <\/em>caused players to clamor for an offline mode<\/a>. Having the ability to play offline could let players bypass the issues with the matchmaking services (or at least save players the trouble of having to matchmake in the first place). While the wording in the press release might hint at an offline mode, it could also refer to other corporate and software arrangements. <\/p>