We are not frightened of GTA Heists or Battlefield Hardline, says Payday producer.

The gaining of GTA Heists and Battlefield Hardline isn't putting pressure regarding Overkill as it prepares to reprieve Payday 2: Crimewatch Edition.
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"We don't want to do Payday 3 and Payday 4 and Payday 5: Advanced Combat or whatever. We want to continue pushing out stuff for Payday 2 for those that already bought into it."

While GTA Online's Heists and Battlefield Hardline have already released this year, the makers of Payday 2: Crimewave Edition are not intimidated by the gaining of rivals in the growing proclaim for crime-sim shooters.
Overkill's in the region of-handy of Payday 2 is due in June, and promises again a year's worth of content in a bigger-looking package upon PS4 and Xbox One. According to producer Almir Listo, there's no pressure in going going on adjoining blockbuster brands in the sky of definitely same content.

"We'on not in a approach of view any more where we have to be alarmed," he told VG247. "We have our community and we know what they hurting and this just makes the heists genre more competently-liked."

"I'm looking treaty subsequent to to GTA Heists upon PC and seeing what Hardline has got," he accessory. "From our outlook we just ample the challenge. Any competition can unaided make our game augmented. We will of course accomplishment their games and have a lot of fun and we'll learn from them, what they did suitable and what they could have ended improved."

The indigenous Payday: The Heist was released the thesame year GTA 5 was officially announced, and mannerism back Battlefield Hardline was anywhere oppressive public knowledge. For Listo, it acted as proof that the Hollywood idea of a bank robbery could create for willing gameplay."Payday proved that there are players out there who love to experience that crime fantasy," he said. "That's one of the reason why we've seen other heist games pop up. If anyone knows how difficult it is to make a great heist game it's us so we wish them the best of luck."
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Overkill has been in it for the long-term particularly subsequently than Payday 2, a game that has had on summit of 50 updates past forgive and is promised to be supported for at least two years.
"We don't want to do Payday 3 and Payday 4 and Payday 5: Advanced Combat or whatever. We want to continue pushing out stuff for Payday 2 for those that already bought into it."
It's this dedicated Payday community that is one of the game's biggest strengths, according to Listo, and gives the Overkill team confidence in its upcoming release. The company hasn't only added its own content, but developed crossover material with Hotline Miami, and Keanu Reeves action movie Jon Wick as it expands the Payday universe.
"Thanks to the Payday community, we as a company are in a great spot," he said.
"Financially we have everything secure since we were bought up by Starbreeze. Payday really put us on the map thanks to the community and it meant we can stay independent and focus on our own stuff.
"We do these updates not because we were frantically looking for the next thing to work on, but because we wanted to continue to give the fans something who had already bought into the experience."
Payday 2: Crime wave Edition is out in June on PS4 and Xbox One.