Starbreeze has announced its agreement with 505 Games to acquire the full rights to the PAYDAY-franchise. The consideration for the acquisition amounts to 10.9 million B-shares in Starbreeze, equivalent to 30 MUSD (approx. 249 MSEK).
After the transaction Starbreeze will own the full rights to the PAYDAY-franchise for any future developments or commercialization, including PAYDAY 2 and PAYDAY for mobile platforms. Starbreeze will retain full net revenue from PAYDAY 2 on the Steam platform starting retroactively from May 1st,2016. Revenue generated by the console game PAYDAY 2: Crimewave Edition will continue to be split between the companies as before, and 505 Games will continue to publish the title.
Furthermore, 505 Games will retain a 33% revenue share of Starbreeze’s net revenues from future sales of PAYDAY 3 capped at 40 MUSD, and after Starbreeze has fully recouped its development and marketing costs.
In addition, Starbreeze confirmed that there will be PAYDAY 3 will be released in the future.
Bo Andersson Klint, Starbreeze CEO, said:
“PAYDAY is very close to my heart, and has laid the foundation for Starbreeze success in recent years. We’re very excited to bring our heisters home to the safe house. To start with, we believe in the continued success of PAYDAY 2 and will support it for at least another 18 months continuing expanding the game.”
Last but not least, Overkill has released a new patch for PAYDAY 2, and revealed that it will remove all microtransactions from the game, and will make the black market section available to everyone.
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THIS IS VERY NICE!
yeah lol so generous. remove the microtrans that have been hated and lost like a third of there playerbase now. who cares? there still gonna release 2-3 PAID dlc`s a month still and milk there “fans” dry.
starbreeze died after the darkness came out. maybe riddick: athena. 505 where never good.
Always buy Payday 2 DLCs at least 75% off.
or just use g2a,kinguin,cd kdys and gmg right???
BUYING DLC? I don’t think so.
to late you will piss of the people who bought them.if you let the people who bought microtransactions keep them its not fair and pay to win still.
Too bad for them…
How are they plotting to pay up? Robbing banks ?
They better make their next one on UE4, their current engine is really dated.
this game cost like 170$ with all the dlc and what i hate if you lost connection you cant rejoin i stopped playing this game 9 month ago
Watch the video, it goes deeper than that.
eh me and my friends loved the first one but hated the second one
went from having to level up to have a chance in the hardest difficulty (overkill 145+) to the second game where we played on the hardest difficulty so that we could level up lolo