So, the situation with Overkill has gone completely downhill regarding the microtransactions for Payday 2, which involved the Sputnik Loot Safe that required a fee to open to get weapon skins that had a small boost and stat tweak. They then released The Completely Overkill Pack for $19.99, in which each owner of the pack received an exclusive set of safe and drill and are entitled to one item (a weapon skin) out of the available 25, without having to pay the per-time fee.
That resulted in the moderators going on strike because of death threats in the forum, who have demanded that Overkill explain themselves, which they did.
For two hours, producer Almir Listo answers questions and apologizes, saying things like ”“We could’ve done much better to make people feel appreciated because it’s not a success if people are angry. That’s a bad thing, that’s a really, really bad thing. It doesn’t matter how good of a feature you release, if people are angry, they’re angry, and that’s what people are going to focus on.”, but eventually he got tired of answering many of the same questions that are just rephrased and gave up explaining.
Naturally, after this interview gamers took this as a sign of weakness and turned up the attacks on the developer. Stay tuned for how this all balances out as Overkill, which stated when the Safes were first introduced noted they’d lost a lot of money focusing on Payday 2 by doing things like having 75% sales instead of going ahead with Payday 3.