The next Payday game is a Roblox fan creation that already existed

Payday developer and publisher Starbreeze has officially sanctioned Notoriety, a popular Roblox heist shooter that previously existed as a Payday-inspired fan game.

notoriety will now be relaunched on Roblox as Notoriety: A Payday Experience and will feature “authentic Payday goods, characters and heists.”

It’s unclear what the terms of this deal entail for both the Starbreeze and Notoriety development teams, though Notoriety is a wildly popular — and profitable — Roblox experience with more than 227 million hits and 1.3 million player favorites. on the platform.

“Notoriety was born out of a love of heist games, with Payday serving as a key source of inspiration,” Notoriety developer Evan Pickett said in a Starbreeze press release today. “This official licensing partnership allows us to stay true to our vision while incorporating elements that Notoriety and Payday fans will recognize and enjoy.”

For its part, Starbreeze said that it “deeply admires the skill, passion and creativity that Evan poured into the creation of Notoriety” and that the Payday license opened the Payday universe to “a new perspective”. Hey, 227 million visits is a lot of eyes on the Payday franchise.

Payday 3 launched in October 2023 and has struggled to capture the same level of interest as its decade-old predecessor. miscellaneous game updates followed to try to turn things around, although the commercial failure of the project was seen The CEO of Starbreeze has been firedits previous game director resigns, and an employee describes its launch as “disastrous”.

“The whole scene collapsed and everyone left,” Starbreeze Community Head Almir Listo he said in October. “The game felt unfinished. It was a bad experience for our players.”