Things Are So Bad For Payday 3 At This Point, Even Crime Boss:...

A new Rockay City trailer pokes fun at a recent Payday 3 misstep, and it's actually kind of clever.

Starbreeze recently handed Payday 2 off to a new studio, Sidetrack Games, so it can focus its efforts on salvaging the mess that is Payday 3. Whether Payday 3 can be saved is a wide open question, but as a new trailer for an entirely different game makes painfully clear, it sure doesn't look good right now.

The trailer in question is for update 18 of Crime Boss: Rockay City, and we might as well get this out of the way first: Yes, Crime Boss: Rockay City has had 18 updates since it launched in June 2024, yes it's still running, and yes, people are still playing it—not many people, no, but some. (More on this later.)

Its continuing survival is notable because Rockay City brings a genuinely impressive cast of C-tier celebrities to the table—Michael Madsen, Chuck Norris, Michael Rooker, Danny Glover, Danny Trejo, Kim Basinger, and Vanilla Ice—and yet is one of the most utterly mid-tier, 'why did they make this' videogames ever. It's not flat-out bad, mind, but as PC Gamer editor Wes Fenlon put it in a 2023 preview, Rockay City feels like the kind of game Uwe Boll would've turned into a movie."

Anyway, back to the trailer: It looks like a fairly straight-ahead gameplay trailer, with generic first-person shooting laid over a pumping backbeat, but if you pay attention you might notice an odd repetition to it.

Saws and drills won't cut it for this one... 🪚🪛The new Afterburner heist is available now with free update 18! 🔥The third Break the Bank community event is well underway, so go start up Crime Boss! https://t.co/fibGO1hIcR pic.twitter.com/Tjxkg17QWqNovember 4, 2025

Weird, right? But it's not just weird: There's a significance to the style, noticed by Viper04191 on X: "The most diabolical thing about this trailer is how it references the horrendous Payday 3 Party Powder heist trailer that got quickly removed, edited and reuploaded after people pointed out how they used the same clip of the player walking into the vault 5 different times." (They later corrected to note that the trailer in question was actually for Payday 3's Delivery Charge update.)

I missed that particular bump in the road but a quick search reveals that sure enough, Starbreeze did in fact drop a Payday 3: Delivery Charge trailer back in September that has the viewer entering the same goddamn vault five separate times.

Starbreeze quickly pulled the trailer, as Viper04191 said, and th

Source: PC Gamer