Payday 2 dev adds DLC subscription to its 12-year-old game as a "cost effective alternative" after price hike, admits "we messed up" as players torch its Steam reviews

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It's not looking like a payday… for Payday

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(Image credit: Starbreeze Studios)

Payday 2 developer Starbreeze is ready to apologize after sending players into a frenzy. It increased the price to buy DLC without telling them… then announced a monthly DLC subscription service as what it describes in an post on Steam as a "cost effective alternative."

There are several things wrong with this picture, those players might argue. First, the heart of the issue: Starbreeze only announced its DLC subscription plan, which costs $5 a month or $20 for six months, after surreptitiously bumping up the price of its entire Infamous Collection DLC pack by around $50. Then, there's the principle.

Ashley Bardhan
Ashley Bardhan
Senior Writer

Ashley is a Senior Writer at GamesRadar+. She's been a staff writer at Kotaku and Inverse, too, and she's written freelance pieces about horror and women in games for sites like Rolling Stone, Vulture, IGN, and Polygon. When she's not covering gaming news, she's usually working on expanding her doll collection while watching Saw movies one through 11.

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