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Ashley Bardhan

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

Payday 2.

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.

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