Payday 2’s annual Crimefest has started, and the players are up in arms. Unlike before, however, their sight aren’t aimed at each other in-game, but towards Overkill Software, everywhere that the word is out; microtransactions are now part of the game.
As a review, since 2011, developer Overkill Software promised that there would be no microtransactions in the game at all. This was the arrangement their captive user base was happy with, and this presumably means most, if not all, of their players preferred to buy the game full price over a microtransactions based model.
Fast forward to today, and Crimefest has launched safes as announced earlier. What has scandalized players because they did not see it coming, however, is that the unique drills needed to open the safes would be sold on the Steam Market. These safes contain said weapon skins, which rounds up why fans are upset.