Starbreeze announces that they have successfully acquired the Payday franchise. That means that will be getting the full rights to all Payday games including the Payday 2 and even the mobile version of the game.
According to publisher Starbreeze, they paid about $30million to buy over the franchise. Besides announcing the new, Starbreeze also added that they will be working on the next installment of the game Payday 3. They did not reveal any details about Payday 3 which is to be expected.
Starbreeze will be getting the full net revenue from Steam and will still split the revenue with 505 Games for Payday 2 and 67% of revenue for the upcoming Payday 3.
Talking about Payday, Payday 2 developer Overkill Software also announce that they will be removing the microtransaction system on Payday 2. They also added that they will are still working on some new content for the game and added that they will be supporting the game for at least 18 months.
