If you can believe it, Payday 2 has over 10x more players than Payday 3 on Steam

Payday 3 is firmly in its rough patch era. The game's popularity has dwindled to a worrying degree, at least from what we can see on Steam. The heist simulator only came out on September 21, so it's been a little over a month since launch.Perhaps the more shocking reveal here is that, as it stands, way more people are currently playing Payday 2 on Steam than they are the new game.At the time of writing, Payday 3 has 2,122 players in-game, compared to 29,495 in Payday 2. SteamDB also lists Payday 3's 24-hour peak concurrent at just 3,234, which is more than 10x lower than Payday 2's 36,538 concurrent. Read more