The multi-hour quest to complete Birth of Sky in DSOD. We ended up needing to pull in a fourth just so we had more bodies to throw at it. Was one of the last ones we needed to get all of them done, and the success was a serious rush.

And Wolf, stay off the dance floor

I'd always get on with my friends and we would have the most unhinged conversations while playing. The game has gotta be one of my all time favorites

I've made some great memories and friends along the way because of this awesome franchise. Something about this game was really special to us because we still keep in touch, despite some of them not even playing the game anymore. I'm sure that will change very soon however because ALL of them are very excited about Payday 3. Thank you so much to all the passionate people who have worked on this franchise and always made it their top priority to give the community their PAYDAY.

PAYDAY 2 has meant so much to me since I started playing in November 2013. Most of my friends list consists of wonderful people I've met in public lobbies, and I still talk to many of them today. I especially remember Crimefest 2014, refreshing the website every few minutes, waiting for the next content reveal and content drop, and dropping in with a group to see what's new. PAYDAY 3 has been my most anticipated game since it was first announced and I'm so excited to create many new memories and meet many new heisters along the way!

I bought the game in 2016, after looking for new FPS games to play, and I fell in love with the gun customisation, the heists, etc. even though I wasn't good at the game.

Eventually, my friends' decision to stop playing the game in 2021 caused me to lose interest for a while,
until one day in 2022 my aunt asked me to teach her how to play, and since that day I've put almost 800 hours into the game.

I can't believe a game I bought almost 7 years ago got this far, and I can't wait to play Payday 3 :) <3

3 Friends, Green Bridge, All Cloakers, everybody's downed within 30 seconds. That just shows the chaotic energy of Payday 2.

I've been trying to get all PAYDAY 2 achievements since 2014

If you had told me 9 years ago, that'd I'd be sinking nearly 2,000 hours into Payday 2, buying every heist packs, and playing in VR, I would've been like "Who are you?"

I remember back in August of 2013 I saw my brother playing PAYDAY 2 with his friends, I promptly went and bought the game for my 360. Just before Crimefest of 2014 I had a PC built specifically to play PAYDAY 2 on PC because of the content draught on Console.

I met most of my friends on PAYDAY 2 few I still speak to and play PAYDAY 2 and other games with today. I remember joining a Transport: Downtown around 2016, where the host was testing out a mod which made heisters randomly speak from certain events, such as: the possibility to yell "Stay Down!" when killing a cop.

With countless !!!Access Violations!!! Later, the mod works and we still heist together to this date.

Honorable Mention - I met his friend about a year later on Hoxton's Revenge, It was his first time playing the game. From what I've been told, I complained about the heist being on Hard and not Overkill at the least. I also got told that I was laughing at him for using an Amcar at level 80+. We all laugh about it now though... Or are they laughing at me? ._.

Got the game when Hoxton Breakout came out. Since he was my favourite in the first game so i knew i had to get the game absolutely then. Now i have 1900+ hours sinked in.

10 years. 10 years of robbing everything that ain't bolted down, and even then, that too. I remember playing the original PDTH, made friends, which I then played PD2 with, for ages. We eventually drifted apart, new friendships were made, and throughout, Payday 2 was there! From the highs, to the lows, it's one of the games that I returned to more than any other. I'm excited to see what the future with Payday 3 holds!

PAYDAY2 was one of the first English games and co-op shooters I ever played. It opened up the whole new gaming world to me, and I still come back as PAYDAY2 is my foundation as a gamer.

Been a payday veteran since the launch of Payday 2, love every minute of it, and played it with many friends over the years, still one of my go to games to stream to this day, thank you for making great gaming memories for me Overkill. Also shout out to Dragan, gotta be the best heister to be added, UNLEASH THE DRAGAN

I remember telling my parents that this was a cool game where you play as a "good guy Robin Hood" type of figure, because I was afraid they wouldn't let me play it otherwise.

A decade later, that little lie has resulted in life changing friendships and thousands of hours of fantastic memories in and out of the game. Thank you PAYDAY!

I remember seeing a video from Russian badger back in 2021 and decided to download the game and try it out and have been addicted to it ever since! #CREAMYLISTOARMY

I grew up with payday 2, reaching 1000 hours on console. 2 years ago I changed over to PC, payday was the first thing I downloaded! Within the 1100 hours I have on steam today, I reached the ultimate achievement of the DSOD mask. Little me would've been so proud. :')

I remember seeing this game 10 years ago and was so hyped about it but was unable to buy it. A year later, a friend bought the payday 2 4-pack thinking it was with the dlc and handed me a key. Oh boy, I didn't know what I was going into. I'm still playing this game now and met so many new friends across the world. I remember when I first put my mask, my first bank robbed, the first time I cleared shadow raid dw solo. This game changed my life, and will be tatooed on me.
So hyped for PAYDAY 3

I started heisting around the time we met the Dentist. Some friends of friends had been playing and it looked like a blast; I couldn't have imagined what it would become! Now my crew are my family, and PAYDAY will always be part of what we made together.

i remember when i first got payday 2 in like 2020 (late to the party, i know) my friends and I played Reservoir dogs and were just really confused and lost the whole time but it was a lot of fun! now payday 2 is one of my most played games, i adore the story and cant wait to see where it goes in payday 3 (i pre-ordered gold edition)

I remember first playing the Payday 2 demo on the Xbox 360. I distinctly remember the only heist being bank heist and loving the Commando 553 / Gruber Kurtz weapons. I also remember a glitch in the map where you went under the scaffolding on the roof of the bank and it would clip you into the vault every time. Fun times, it was a memory that stuck with me on my journey from 360, to xbone, to PC and across a steam account loss. I will always mark payday as my favorite game. Timeless, as always.

Per finire il colpo alla Murkyweather andai a dormire alle 3 di mattina

I think i first heard about PAYDAY 2 in 2018, but i haven't heard about it so much.
But then, in 2020 i bought it on sale basically because almost my entire friends list had PAYDAY 2. Then, in 2021 i downloaded it because my friend recommended to play it with him. That was a blast, we did like 10 heists on Death Sentence and i really liked it.
And when 2022 hit the calendars, i became a true PAYDAY fan.
Even though i'm rather new here, thank you for everything, heisters and fellow developers at Starbreeze.

Keep those helmets flying!

Got the game from a friend back in 2019 and got a couple of hours on it since, about 2000.

I remember jamming so hard listening to crimefest 2014 while I fought blood, sweat and tears against overkill cops.

I saw my cousin played PAYDAY 2 back in 2014. When I saw him played it, I thought it was a cool game and figured I tried it. Bought it, loved it, met new friends and my crew along the way. Won a speedrun tournament 1st place, and I still play PAYDAY 2 to this day. 7,385.7 hours and still counting. Thank you PAYDAY 2.

My favorite memory was doing OVERDRILL for the first time. There was a crash halfway through so I didn't get the achievement but once I rejoined moving all 70 bags of gold was a breeze.

I only started playing recently around when the Ukrainian prisoner heist released and immediately i was hooked. There's nothing more satisfying than blasting through waves of cops while listening to that awesome soundtrack

I've played Payday 2 since 2016 and i loved it. Met some friends playing it and my wallet hated every new dlc. Had to buy, there was no choice. I did 100% in it and i loved most of it. Grinding for robbedacop was a nightmare. The game one of the kind!

I got the game in 2021 so i didn't have much time with it. Even tho its been only 2-3 years for me, its was a blast. This is one of the best games i played in my life, thank you OVERKILL

Getting on payday 2 with my friend on the ps4 and staying up all night playing heist and unlocking masks. truly a wonderful time it was.
THANKS,OVERKILL

I remember how I was excited when the game come out and was so happy to see old map from PAYDAY The Heist coming back

Finally getting the DSOD mask solo after crying at Lab Rats.

Every single public stealth heist I took part on was a mix of annoyance and laughs. I will never forget it.

ECM rush best mechanic!

Picklocking safe deposit boxes in 2013 all wearing Obama masks...And 5 hours of trying goat simulator on dsod(Never again)

All I can say is thank you to the team at StarBrezze for for putting PayDay 2 crime wave edition on the consoles. Without it, I never would made the friends I see in person every year to this day. Words can’t express how grateful it is to have a game, community, and developers to this day be as strong as ever. Here’s to another ten years and to the launch of Payday 3. Thank you.🥂🥹

Growing up during highschool i didn't really have the best of computers. And Payday 2 was the really only game i could run. And the amount of friends and time i played this game with was amazing.

That one game with soul. There is so many little things that you can remeber this game for. From UI design, through guns and characters, for fun moments with friends. I hope PD3 will be same memorable...

The S P O O N.

PAYDAY: The Heist was one of the first non-f2p games I played and got instantly hooked to the heisting genre.

When I've heard they were releasing PAYDAY 2 in the summer of 2013 I just immediately had to pre-order it after a long day of high school.

So many friendships being built and genuine moments me and all my friends have experienced over these 10 beautiful years of PAYDAY 2's life. We've seen eachother, the game and the community grow alltogether in these beautiful moments.

May the next 10 years of PAYDAY 3 carry the same heartwarming feelings for us all. 🦊

The goats really did up the anti. Never thought goats would increase the difficulty.

when i played payday 2 with my friends for the first time a couple months ago

I’ve only ever been a console player and I picked PAYDAY 2 up around early 2016, it has provided me with some great memories and friends alike and the level of difficulty in the game always keeps me coming back as well as the ginormous achievement list always giving something to grind for.

I played Payday 2 since the beginning, but only with randoms. Randoms who were always nice and ready to teach new things. But it s thanks to Payday 2 i made my best friend. Now it s almost since 8 years i know him and we re still strong together and robbing banks. See you on Payday 3 brother!!

My friend told me that there was a minigun in payday… and now I’m addicted to the game. Thanks Abounded!

My best memory was from doing a charity stream during the weekend after release. We raised $11k for charity while enjoying Payday 2 for 36 hours. Also have many great memories of doing silly challenges and celebrating my bday with friends in Payday! Thanks you all (especially Apo, Merky, Nacho) for still being here and hanging out after 10 years! Looking forward to creating more memories in Payday 3!

My first experience with Payday 2 was in 2014, I was excited because I had money and could afford a game for my PS3, and there it was, PAYDAY 2. Robbing banks and doing it with friends seemed like a great idea. From that moment this game has become one of my favorites, and thanks to it I've got a very nice community both on Twitch and Youtube which I appreciate very much.

The first time i tried overdrill with my friends, we had did it, we made our way into the overdrill chamber, we only had to put the code and take all the gold, but my friend misclick and the gaz entered, we lost 30 minutes of gameplay, but we laughed a lot afterward !

So many great memories on this great game, doing all the heists on DSOD with my 3 friends was one of the best experiences ever. Exploring builds and doing fun challenges for hours at a time was amazing. Absolutely can't wait for PAYDAY 3!!!

I remember how, i play payday 2 on xbox one,Then in 2020 year i buy Payday 2 on PC and buy Gage Russian Weapon Pack, and i thought that Gage is a Bodhi and i thought that Bodhi is russian.I play payday 2 few hours, then in 2023 year my friend told: who play with me payday 2? And then i started playing payday 2 many hours. Now i have Infamy III and more dlc. And i want to say for payday 2, Happy Birthday with 10 years old.

I remember the days where I can’t stealth on any maps, even when I was already watching tutorials. Still can’t to this day

I still remember when I first downloaded the demo back in 2013... found a couple of heisters while matchmaking who are still my friends, 10 years on... Surreal to think that PAYDAY 2 has been with me from the 6th grade all the way to my senior year in university... so many memories...

What a journey. Payday 2 after the ups and downs of the game, the game still took place at my heart. Its a game that bring back fond memories of my life. I met some interesting people that i became friends with. The game is fun in many ways, that you can make a funny build or just try hard. Thanks Payday 2

i hate cloakers <3

I think my favourite memory of this game is actually fairly recent, My first attempt at crude awakening i thought id try DSOD stealth, Not only did i complete the run but got all additional loot and the correct sample first time. Such an epic heist to top 10 years of an amazing game and community.

The first time i was playing death wish difficulty with my friends, we were playing Slaughterhouse. It was going easy, we opened the vault easily and proceeded to carrying the bags. Then my friend said "Hey, are those two dozers carrying miniguns?", In the next ten seconds everyone got downed and groupchat was a total chaos. Everyone one was blaming each other. Thank you Starbreeze and Overkill for separating my friend group for over 3 months <3

I remember that struggle when I tried stealthing Election Day. I failed for 3 hours straight, and I told myself I would never play stealth again. Now I completed every stealthable heist on DSOD. God I love this game.

I remember playing the demo non stop for payday 2 on the ps3.
I finally ended up purchasing the game on PC during 2015 together with The Gage Ninja pack.
Then i did my first ever stealth heist to get that sweet ninja mask!

One of my most loved memories was back in 2013 when me and my friends still played on xbox 360, we finished Rats with all bags and didn't defuse any bomb, this game made my best memories in a online game ever.

thanks for everything

Shadow Raid was so fun to learn to play in stealth.
The Big Bank trailer was a thing…
Crimefest weeks were so hype!

Started payday 2 back in 2014.
Hotline Miami and big bank got me hooked to this game. Now after so many years, I was approved as a Japanese translator for the game, leading a big door towards my secondary career.
I work as a game translator/gamer article writer, all because payday2 has gave me a new path.

And even now, I love this game and all the developers who are working with this game.

Now my dream is to continue the hunt for the secret in payday3, and spreading the heisting wave in Japan through the Starbreeze partner program.
I’ll see all of you on the other side!
The next 10 years of PAYDAY3!

Payday 2 carried me over my depression in lockdown.I've met so many cool people over there that helped me to stay positive and keep going ;-)

Back some years ago, I was doing the Meltdown heist with friends, and suddenly i start hearing all of them laughing so hard and when i went to see what had happens, one of this friends had pulled an Austin Power move and fit the Longfellow perfectly sideways in the middle of the back alley, in a way that was impossible to even try to remove it from there, we moved all the bags left by hands and one Forklift and it was not a quick thing. We still laugh about that to this day, especially because that was not the only time that this friend pulled something like that

I remember exactly when I started: December 3rd, 2013. Two days before Gage Weapon Pack #1 released. Played the demo version of the game late November. The game was tough as nails, when leveling was slow and the money economy in shambles. But it was great.

I practically grew up alongside this game, through my teenage years to adulthood. I've seen the highs and lows. The very deep lows. But I never gave up on the game. It was truly something special.

And now... 10 years later? It's still great and special, but just more... spongy. And an actual slaughterhouse. It's comical.

I wish to go back in time, when it was more simple. And less convoluted. But the passage of time cannot be stopped. Or reversed.

Thank you, Overkill Starbreeze. It's been a bumpy road, but a damn fine road it is. Hopefully it will be less so for the future. Don't mess it up, would ya?

I remember having discovered payday2 on a demo of PS3 then after I bought it and I never left it I made the PS3/PS4/PS5 versions.. Time flies so fast

have made some very long lasting frienships playing this game. Though im not as good as other players it has been a blast playing this game!

Doing The first world bank on death wish back in early 2016 over and over again never succeeding.

I started playing the game when i was able to download it for free on steam, i remember having so much fun back then until i lost my account. Didn't care much about it because i've been able to actually buy the game and most of the DLCs. Payday is honestly one of my favorite games of all time and i'm glad of where everything is today. I wish everyone happy heisting and remember to keep those helmets flying!!

I remember the hype with the Breaking News update and the White House Heist.
We got update after update a clear conclusion of the ARG and see all the community discover the truth behind the White House... Man, what an epic investigation by all the community !

No regerts to get hyped during 10 years of PAYDAY 2 !

I remember it like today. The year 2017, we had som sort of a picnic at school and suddenly I go on steam and see that payday 2 is for free. Elated, I started telling everyone to pick up the game. To this day I still remember being thrown right into Car Dealership on DSOD with zero experience. It was an amazing experience.

If you're reading this then you propably know who I am and I don't need to introduce myself, but I've put over a decade of my life into this game and eventually led to creating a ton of content that many of you have enjoyed, that includes the Developers of this game including the Management. I am happy to be around with such fantastic people that I've met over that time, PAYDAY has been a huge part of my life, with over 87 658.1277 hours of my life put into it that some of it got lost in the process, but it was mostly just good memories...

Beating the secret will forever be one of the most epic moments ever

man, payday was the first game in my steam library that wasn´t free to play, i spent hours and hours playing it and nevet got bored, i have met incredible people and friends, gotta be my favorite game right now, 10 years... thanks for being with me for the mayority part of my life! and as Bain said one "Lets do this" !!!!

Played the game in 2016-2018 but didn't really get into until 2020-2021 with one of my friends who lived in a whole other country then me and we went for alot of the death sentence one down heists we even got the secret ending for the game with one random guy who was a lot of help to us

Completing all heists on DSOD… solo. It was a journey.

The Alesso heist stealth in a pub game. We had failed multiple times until we gave in and exchanged discords. We're still some of the closest online brothers ive had.

Started Payday 2 in 2018, I will never forget when my friend didn't tell me about the parachutes in birth of sky, kinda odd thinking that was a half decade ago

I remember the payday 2 demo on steam which is now gone I think and I was instantly hooked!
I’ve met a lot of nice people on there which I didn’t have in a lot of games. I’ve played so many hours in the bank heist in the demo. Now continuing playing on the full realise been a blast ever since!
‘ It’s PAYDAY Fellas!’

Too many to count; But the time I got the legendary weapon skin 'City of Gold' accepted to the game was pretty good- even better after there was a whole event named after it, casino yacht heist included.

When I started playing Payday 2 I thought about one thing, to become rich and cool doing all sorts of builds and destroying crowds of police with all the weapons in games, it was great to play and I will never forget those days when I killed crowds of cops with a shotgun and grenades it was really fun a lot of fun and I don't regret a single second that I spent in the game when payday 3 comes out I will definitely buy it no matter what

I've always loved that game since the release. However, i started playing back in 2016 when the Scarface DLC was released. I was a HUGE FAN of the movie. And thanks to OVERKILL. Thank you guys for this game to be so awesome after so 10 years! Love y'all!

I was playing Breakin' Feds with my friend trying to do Stalker and, on our about 100th attempt that night, I put in 2015 hoping that would be the correct code. I was correct, and I have never been happier than when we finally completed the achievement on that run.

This isn’t much of a payday 2 memory but more of how I got introduced to the franchise. Around Christmas 2012, my mother went to our local GameStop and asked the cashier a good first person shooter game that would be a good Christmas gift and the employee recommended Payday: The Heist. That employee is the real one and he put me on to the best video game of all time and I’m forever grateful to have been here for even longer than this anniversary! Payday 3 here we come with more memories to be had!

Sometime in mid 2014 I picked up the game and was practicing stealth on Shadow Raid with a friend, he was teaching me the ropes. We were super serious, cautious and planning how we're going to do things. Then, while sneaking around the containers, a guard began to walk straight up into the sky. He probably got to around twice the height of the warehouse. We were in tears and laughed for a solid 5 minutes. Probably one of the best gaming memories for me.

Truly one of the few games I always come back too, whether to heist for hours or just to remember the good old times, back in 2015 me and my buddy used to go on a trip to branson every year. Wed bring our laptops and use the really crappy wifi to do stealth missions together racking up the paydays! Thank you guys for making such an amazing game, and cant wait to see what you all cooked up for us with payday 3!

I played it first time in 2015 and it changed my life, the game fulfill all my fantasies of doing the ultimate heist and being a notorious criminal badass from watching a lot of crime and heist movies like Heat, PAYDAY will always have a special place in my heart, there's no other franchise that I love more than PAYDAY

From PAYDAY: The Heist all the way to PAYDAY 3, what a ride we've had. There's been ups and downs, but here we are!

Just getting on my PS4 after school and playing PD2 with my friends was always aweasome.

I've been an avid payday fan ever since the first game came out for steam, i had so many memories shared from this franchise that I can't quite express with words, when payday 2 first launched that's how i met my long time friend Dieter, we've been through thick and thin but somehow we always come back to play one more heist, back in 2017 i lost a very important family member and the payday community took me with dear hearts and helped me through my grief, now that the game reached 10 years of age i look back at all of the things we've done together and how important it was, video games are not just forms of entertainment but they also help people who are going through really bad times, thats why i want to thank everyone from the dev team all the way to the people who play this game, you guys are awesome and deserving of love! Anyways, I'll see you all at Shade's safehouse 🫂

Crazy to think that PAYDAY 2 is 10 years old today. I started out as a fan 10 years ago, then I got hired by Starbreeze 5 years ago. And in just about one month we will be launching our next game in the franchise! ✨

I was still pretty new to the game, playing the Street Escape at night (for what heist I can't remember) with a newly maxed out Sociopath deck, not even knowing about skills, trying to use as few bullets as possible. In between assault waves me and a crew of randos were moving the bags to the escape vehicle when a cloaker randomly spawned in a dark alleyway, lit by a single light post, crawling out of a sewer grate. I completely forgot I was on Mayhem and ran up to him, killed him with a couple blows from the MotherForker, with Jacket saying "I really enjoyed that" as I left the alleyway and went on my way. It was the perfect movie moment, and it'll always stick in my mind as one of my favorite kills I've ever gotten in Payday 2.

Trying to figure out how four heisters fit inside a delorean stuffed to the briim with meth and guns.

I remember booting up the PSN store one day on my PS3 and seeing a gamed called Payday The Heist, and played the shit out of it, i never got payday 2 until 2015 on my Xbox One, ive been playing Payday 2 since on PC

I first saw Payday 2 on the xbox and i played it with my brother i had a blast and when i got a pc one of my friends had it and showed me how it was on pc and the rest was history.

Playing Payday 2 with my friends on the ps3 for a few weeks and then we all bought new pcs at the same time during christmas 2014.
It has been a long time since then and many hours of fun been had with Payday 2

I remember starting this journey in 2015, the first heist I remember playing was Hoxton breakout, still one of my favorite heists, I remember grinding that heist until I got to max level, fun times.

Got it on sale during the spring break event in 2015. Spent many long nights making friends with randoms on Shadow Raid. Loved every moment playing this game and loved participating in the secret during 2018.

Started heisting in 2011, got PDTH the day It came out and played hours upon hours with fandoms and had great fun. Fell in love with all the characters but Hoxton was my favorite because we have a similar vocabulary. Fast forward to payday 2 and I taught my friends to heist and we took on all the scores as they all came out throughout the years we never slowed down. Payday is a huge part of my life, felt like Christmas when I heard we were breaking Hoxton out. I look forward to heisting with you all in Payday 3, and I’m glad to have Wolfy back:)

I fell in love with this game around 2020, I saw my friend play it around 2016 but I wasn't able to play it back then. Immediately when I bought the game, I couldn't stop playing! Payday will always have a special place in my heart, and I cant wait for Payday 3!!

I salute all the creators of PAYDAY 2 this game I've been playing it since 2015 to date 2023 I still enjoy playing it and I can't wait to discover the new PAYDAY 3 game 🤘

I made friends in Payday 2 who live more than 13 000 km away, and this year I finally met them

After almost 2 hours in big oil I accidentally unlocked Dr Miserable. I just couldn't figure out the puzzle lol

Payday was always on my radar but never gave it a try until 2016. 1000 Hours since then and i would say its one of my favorite games of all time. Happy 10th Anniversary Payday 2. Let's make it atleast another 10 when Payday 3 comes out!

I bonded, over months upon months of different maps, White House, Shacklethorn, and Shadow Raid, by trying to stealth on the highest difficulty with my now girlfriend, but I couldn't be happier for all this game gave me

I remember when I was young I got PD:TH not knowing how many hours I will pump into this franchise. When PAYDAY 2 released, I was begging my dad to get the game for me. Now I am 20 years old, still playing the same game I begged my dad to get for me when I was 10.

PAYDAY 2 is also the reason why I am really interested into Game Development, and I am currently working on eventually becoming a Game Dev myself.

Thanks developers for making such an amazing game, and I am looking forward to all the great memories we will get playing PAYDAY 3.

I got Payday 2 in 2021, but I started playing it a lot in september of 2022.
In 2023 I descovered that there was a secret ending, and in july I completed the secret ending of Payday 2.

My favourite memory has to be the time where me and my friend bought the completly overkill pack. We LOVE the game and hoped this would help bring some new great content to the game. I was so excited to get my mask and weapon skin

Just think, 10 years have already passed, but how quickly. Playing since 2014, I have found many wonderful people thanks to this game. And it can also be fun to spend an evening in the company of friends and chatting over a game. It was especially fun when new contracts were released.

I remember back when I lost my mind at Shadow Raid at the Hardest difficulty.
Also spending hours crafting builds for Infamy before 3.0 came out. Lots of procrastinating.

I had 30 friends who played PAYDAY2, but I was the only one who eventually unlocked all the achievements.
Still, I had a great time playing AIRSOFT wearing the official store mask and playing co-op online.
Happy 10th anniversary!

I started robbing Payday: The Heist on my old PC.
Some time later I bought Payday 2 and it was the most fun and unforgettable memory I have ever played cooperative games with friends. Years passed and I constantly returned to this game, bringing more and more friends, we quarreled, put up, made plans for life and robberies :)
This game holds a special place in my heart. Now I have upgraded my computer, pre-ordered Payday 3 and am looking forward to the release of this game. I am sure that the game will be able to leave more good memories.
I believe in you developers.<3

I remember getting the game as a gift early around 2013-14 from a close friend hopping into the game with a laggy mouse doing a bank heist, so inexperienced so wide eyed just enjoying playing a new game with my friends. I always hopped on the game when they did, acting as the bag boy in stealth as I was bad at it. As I got better and the friend group started to not play anymore, it was just me as Wolf and my friend who got me the game as Bonnie. I miss playing payday with him.

I met most of my friends cause of payday 2 even most of my current and old class mates play this it has been a wild 10 years i hope to atleast 10 or 20 more

From my first day in PAYDAY The Heist to the final days of PAYDAY 2, the PAYDAY franchise has always been close to my heart.

I consider myself blessed to make the friends I have a long the way bother heisters and developers and I hope to make more as we progress to the 3rd installment.

My favorite PAYDAY moment was back when the Big Bank was being showcased at E3. My friends and I were denied entry as we didn't have passes, as we sat outside pondering how to get in, there we saw two gentlemen with the Overkill bomb on their blazer jackets. It was Ilija and his brother! After an energetic exchange they found out what had happened and snuck us into E3 to enjoy the new map and meet the Overkill crew.

They had given us special access to the booth and we enjoyed the whole experience in its entirety.


Thank you Overkill and Starbreeze for all the love over the years! Here's to another decade of larceny and mass murder!

first time i played this game in 2015, every single lobby i joined, i met amazing players, they always balanced between explaining the game while still giving me a chance to explore it myself, been in love with the game ever since

I originally started playing after watching youtube videos but after me and my friend started playing it together we found out it was a great way to make new friends.

First it was seeing some random videos on my YouTube homepage about the game, then the trailer, then playing it myself years later, to the 10 anniversary -
It's been a ride. It's been an honor.

I learned about Payday back in 2012 thanks to a friend and since then I have been hooked! My best memory about Payday 2 is that back in 2015 I met my best friend in a game of Election Day, we got to finally meet face to face last year!

Got into Payday 2 because of a friend. And instantly fell in love with the game. The humor, Gun and build variety, the awesome music that kicks in when things go wrong and you have to start going guns blazing. It's something no other game has been able to recreate for me. Truly a one of a kind game this. I'm super excited for Payday 3.

Thank you for all the fun you have given me since 2013, and continue to amuse to this day. Gracias Totales.

My first memory of PAYDAY 2 was being gifted it and playing one of the branch bank heists for the first time back in 2017 with my friends. I've loved it ever since and can't wait to see what the future holds for this lovely franchise.

My favorite memory in PAYDAY was learning how to do the H&T Bank from my older brother while I was a kid.

I remember all the way back in 2013 I was on my school bus heading to school when in between songs, the two radio hosts began talking about their disgust for this little bank robbing game that was about to release called PAYDAY 2. To be honest, they sold me on the game. Ten years and a thousand hours of playtime later, all I gotta say is thanks for the recommendation Mr. and Mrs. radio hosts.

I've been here since 2011, watched the Overdrill get discovered in real time, always logging onto the old Steam Forums every day after coming home to check if there were any new breakthroughs.

All the months of hype in 2013 just before PAYDAY 2 came out were insane back then. Me and my buddies could not stop talking about the game. I still remember my first heist in the pre-order beta - Four Stores on Hard with Full Force Forward blasting through my headphones, synergizing into an orchestra comprised of echoing gunfire and EDM.

It's been a long ten years and PAYDAY 2 has been a major part of them. Hopefully PAYDAY 3 will allow me to feel just as nostalgic in 2033 as I am feeling about PAYDAY 2 and The Heist in 2023. All things considered, this was a good ride.

My greatest memory is when I played Shadow Raid with ALTeRYX007! Although im fairly new to the game I still had a lot of fun and made countless memories that I will remember forever! Thank you PayDay, Thank you Starbreeze!

The years spent attempting the apartment heist, I swear I still cannot find that phone

While I journeyed to complete all of the achievements and challenges, the best ones were when I needed a team of heisters who would be able to help me get some of them. Above all the story was my favorite, events with hidden puzzles or speculations.

Doing 25 bags over and over again in cook off even if it took more than an hour it was always fun to share this time with randoms and cracking some jokes in the chat

As quite a few of us, I first started playing because of Badger. His videos introduced me to this game, and I've been hooked ever since. Now, over 3 years and almost 1.000 hours spent in-game later, I'm still playing the game. Part of that is of course the fun gameplay. But the thing that really keep me tied to this game is the community. Yeah, you. My best memories are those playing with randoms for hours, only to maybe never see them again. The conversations we had in the lobby, the loot we scored mid-heist. All will stick with me. You know, we might not be the best community out there - that one goes to Deep Rock Galactic - but we're damn happy being number two. As SBZ says, keep those helmets flying friends. Cya all in Payday 3 <3.

I've had problems in my adolescence and thanks to PAYDAY 2... I found a place that is welcoming and well received. Also PAYDAY 2 made me something known on the internet and I really... I REALLY APPRECIATE IT!!!!

Um dos jogos mais divertidos que eu já joguei, muito foda

My first experience with PD2 when I properly started it was with the heist "Big Oil" and it took 1hour and 15minutes to finish that damned heist. It's been my favorite ever since <3

I blew up 20 civilians. Bain was NOT happy. :D

I first found the PAYDAY franchise in early 2018, and began playing the sequel shortly before the Breaking News event happened.

In 2019, I grinded the game non-stop, meeting new friends and joining communities along the way. However, I eventually started getting bored since no new content was being released.

While I was about to quit the game in 2020, Infamy 3.0 was the update that brought me back into the game and made me meet the awesome ECM rushing community, which I'm still part of.

In summer of 2022, I learnt how to make mods and custom maps for the game, an aspect of the game that's kept me going since.

I remember when I played Payday 2 with some friends and we used to get many achievements and complete the different jobs in the game I wish I could go back in time and be with them again with the band

My playstyle finally settled into what I really enjoy during the Piggy event. No sweeter feeling than sprinting down the street in VR with a microgun on your arm, mowing down whole squads as you blitz past them.

Even though I joined the Payday 2 community way later than some people here (4.6.2020). Im glad I did, along with my friends we had a great time playing throughout every heist in the career mode, from trying to kill Buluc to trying to complete every heist solo on DSOD while I was in a hospital. I couldn't have been happier for those memories. It's really weird that I have been with this game for 3 years and yet I have so much good memories with it.

Happy to be a part of the crew. <3

I think easily my most fond memory was back when the Hotline Miami heist released. My friends and I tried for hours to get the overdose achievement for the Graham mask. For hours we couldn't get the right ingredient spawn only learning after all that time we were on the wrong difficulty. Brought about a good laugh after a small bout of frustration. Been playing since launch and I'm excited for the future!

my best memory from payday 2 is when cloaker said "its cloaking time" and cloakered all over payday gang

i was recording my girlfriend play payday2 for the first time and her first heist was on carshop and i had her go up the stairs on mayhem difficulty and she didnt know any better and thought it was all her fault she got caught, we still laugh about it to this day 3 years later

Payday 2 was a big game with me and my friends since launch. Never will be able to forget set pieces like Big Bank and The White House!

My best PD2 memory is way back in 2014 when I first played the free demo on steam.
In my very first heist I got so disoriented from the combat (this is on normal btw) I ended up spending 10+ minutes drilling into the security office thinking that it was the vault. And yes that meant I had the thermal drill on my back the whole time I didn’t realize it.

Cooking meth nonstop for 4 hours in Cook Off

I played PAYDAY 2 on 4 different platforms. This game followed me during my passage from teenagehood to adulthood, and i am happy PAYDAY got to grew up as well and become 10 years old.

Got my copy in 2017 when 5 million were being given away for free. Little me, who was struggling to save up money, was shocked at the very idea of getting a game I'd dreamed of buying FOR FREE. Nearly a thousand hours were lost to this game afterwards.

I watched Kknowley's story series on the game and was instantly hooked on the game wanting to kick Murkywater butt. It felt so refreshing just using Sokol for everything, with that red cap and Crimson Comic. Perfection.

I’ve been a longtime fan since the original in 2011. Back then I could only play games with a very underpowered 2010 MacBook. I played a fan-made port to Mac and put countless hours into it. A few years later PAYDAY 2 came out and I actually had a PC this time, so I picked that up for real too.

Been playing it ever since, and I even met my partner and best friends playing it. We’re absolutely stoked and can’t wait for PAYDAY 3!

I'll never forget the time me and my friends I met on payday 2 were all working together getting the keys and suitcase in framing frame to unlock a new grenade launcher. We even all wore president masks in theme with the heist!

I remember being gifted this game back in 2016 and only sinking 40 minutes in to it. But one day in August of 2020 I wanted find a new game to become my main game and realised I had PAYDAY 2 sitting in my Steam Library and from there, the rest is history.

I had my first contact with Payday 2 in 2015 or so, the old Safecracker Edition for the Playstation 3. I spent so much time on those old heists, I still vividly remember getting the right engine first try on Big Oil by piecing out the info around the map, that's when I knew it was love at first sight. I've played for many more years on PS4 and continue to leave my trail on PC to this day. And it never once got old.

Me and my friends in celebration of Payday 3 being announced finally attempted “The Secret”. One of the most satisfying things I’ve done in games.

I played Payday 2 in 2022 because of RussianBadger's videos, little did I know I would be in for the life of heisting. I've never experienced such an great game (with it's minor cons, but still pros) with endless upgrades to your loudouts, weapons, masks and clothes. All and all, Payday 2 is a great game I hold close to my heart, this was a fantastic experience, and I thank you OVERKILL and everyone else that worked on this game for Payday 2.

Doing all the achievements on the original PS3 version.. finding a lifelong friend from a random lobby. What a trip it has been..

There was this one time on scarface mansion, very hard difficulty, where only my friend and a jacket Ai was alive. I remember cheering the Ai on as it carried us through the end of the heist.

Step 1: Place 14 explosive mines in one place
Step 2: Look at explosive mines up close
Step 3: Fire 000 buckshot into explosive mines
Step 4: Funny

QUESTION.
I COOKED METH.
I HAVE DONE NOTHING BUT COOK METH FOR 3 DAYS.

I started playing in 2014 and I played the game religiously until Crimefest 2015. I did come back eventually and despite everything that has happened, good and bad, Payday 2 holds a very special place in my heart - 2600 hours over 9 years, 1325 of 1328 achievements, and 8 years (on and off) working on a mod.

Payday 2 might have its problems and had a rocky road, but it's undoubtedly a very special game that I will never forget my time playing and I don't regret a second of it.

I met my best friend on Payday 2 just a few months after release. We've played all sorts of games together since then, but we always come back to pull one more score.

Payday 2 is the first game I played on my PC back in 2018. Since then I have had so many fond memories with me and my friends trying to rob a hospital with flamethrowers, to us trying to draw that cool S in preplanning.

I remember this one time I was doing Overdrill with a crew and volunteered to do the floor tile code once the vault opened. Unfortunately despite following the diagram in the guide I pressed the wrong tile and failed the attempt...
And the second attempt...
So the third time we had someone else do it, and finally succeeded. Pretty funny story but to this day I refuse to do the tile puzzle if it can be helped...

Lockdown got us down real hard, but getting this game with some pals help us got through it. Also help me connect with many people around the world. Thanks for the fun game Payday!

This game gave me so many happy moments,but my favourite one was when i beated my first heist in deathwish,i felt so proud,the epic music,the shooting and the danger,also jacket voice Made it 100 times better

Saw PAYDAY 2 on steam back in early 2016, told my best friend at the time about it and we both went into EB Games to get Steam Gift cards and bought the game together.

My friend bought me PD2 during christmas 2021. Since then played nearly 900 hours and got infamy lvl 50. One of our first heists i can remember was failing the jewerly store on overkill for 30 mins :3

I have so many it's legitimately hard to pick, but if i had to pick one it's probably when my friend and I got the ability to buy masks with continental coins. We immediately bought the kawaii mask and began to heist striking true fear into the eyes of the officers.

I remember playing back on the 360 in 2013, playing Framing Frame with friends, stopping a Guard from calling in the radio by jumping at him and getting arrested. not what i intended but it delayed the call long enough for a friend to deal with it.

When Payday 2 released on PS3 i played hours and hours it, with my friends or people that was such a cool people while heisting such a perfect heists in that time (2013-2014)

Because of the PAYDAY, I'm working in gamedev and make music for custom heists. So thanks to the PAYDAY team and everyone who I've interacted with in my payday journey. I wish you the best!

I remember preordering the Career Criminal Edition and being excited for the game after PDTH, talking about it with my buddies at school. Doing it all over again but this time at a comfortable office job.
2014 was probably the best year for the game and the community. I hope we get more 2014s in the future.

After modding the game for over half a decade I've really grown to love the engine it's built on. I think it gets a bad wrap, and I'm sad to see it go, but sometimes we have to move forward. Considering how well it's lasted, we should all raise a glass to 22 years of Diesel!

I've bought PAYDAY 2 back in 2020, and I've spent around 500 hours playing it with my friends. I didn't know what to do when I started the game out, but after some time I've gotten the gist of the game, I've had so much fun trying different builds and guns, and I hope to have more fun and spend more time in PAYDAY 3! Keep those helmets flying!

I remember when I first played Payday 2 on the Xbox 360. I always had an un-imaginable amount of fun playing a game that was always giving tons of action in each heist, and the idea of a game where you can rob banks after banks was a phenomenal concept that had been executed greatly. I fell in love with this game for the past 9 years since I got it. And once I got my hands on the pc version a couple years ago I was so happy to finally have the ability to play with mods and new features, but most importantly to be a part of events like these. Thank you so much for developing this masterpiece that we The Heisters will cherish till the end of time!

Happy Heisting!

The best memories from this game is from heisting with my brother and finding new cool guns.

Spending 8 hours trying to stealth the dragon heist on the highest difficulty, i failed but i still had fun

I first started Payday 2 just around 20 days before the Breaking News event. I didn't even play with other people and leave normal difficulty until some guy helped me through harder heists. if you're out there, thank you.

Mentioning the "meth" recipe to a classmate, realizing we both play PAYDAY 2, connecting and becoming close friends, being excited every day after school to go home and play PAYDAY 2 together, pushing through Death Wish to get the mask, when it was still the hardest challenge in the game.

I freaking miss those days :(

Man, It's super fun sending Almir himself to custody with a rocket launcher. You won't find that kind of interaction with a developer in another game.

playing the goat sim payday dlc on my xbox one

My first memory of payday was when the border crossing heist released i remember playing it and listening to dirt and dust and that was the moment i feel in love with payday!

At first, I wore a Fatman mask and spent my early days in Pro Job with the strong style of Eagle Heavy Assault Rifle and Patchett L2A1 SMG, always suffering from ammunition. As time passed, my friends left PAYDAY 2, but I was still left behind in PAYDAY 2. From Bodhi, to Jiro, to Jacket, and then to Hoxton when OVERKILL splendidly handled SWAT. In the meantime, new friends are still being made. Before I knew it, I had a new safehouse and said goodbye to Pro Job. The days of fear of ZEAL continue, but I still remember the pleasure of firing dragon breath bullets while placing the ECM jammer in Crime Spree. But I never forget to shout I NEED MEDIC BAG. I will never forget to shout WANKER. Wolf is still dancing on the dance floor with Get The F**k Out. I always want beginners to take root in this game, continue to play this wonderful game in Japan, and hope to build a community with various people. As Heister, we can keep the helmet flying.

AAAAHHHH, I NEED A MEDIC BAG !!!!

Joined the gang back on PS3 with the Payday the Heist demo. Later bought the full game on PC (and found out that First World Bank didn't actually end after grabbing money in the vault???). I was later told that they were making a sequel, got given a beta invite by a friend, which led to me preordering the game an hour before it launched. It has since remained installed on each of my machines for the next 10 years, and still is installed to this very day. ♥

Back on the early 360 days, I once led a 4 man crew of strangers to completely clean out the Harvest & Trustee Bank using nothing but flashlight clicks and the crappy 360 messaging system. I'm still incredibly proud of that.

I met many friends over the years in this game, followed by many good memories. Too many to pick a favorite. Thanks Overkill for what you've done for the game and here's to hoping Payday 3 will be even more successful

I think my favourite memories of Payday 2 has to be all the times where I've played with my girlfriend. Just seeing her slowly get better as we play has been such an amazing expirience. Though getting a follow from both Payday twitter man and Almir on twitter is also cool

I remember, I randomly had this strange urge to try Payday 2 on my PlayStation 3 one day, which I just happened to have from a PS plus deal a while ago, and I instantly fell in love with the game. I would go on to buy the Crimewave edition sometime later and I would sink countless hours into this game. I would always anticipate new updates on consoles and when they came I would boot up the game and absolutely devour any new content they added, crime spree being one of the fondest as at the time it was one of the funnest ways to grind with its interesting difficulty progression and unique modifiers. Years later I would get my new PC and would buy Payday 2 once again, where I am now still happily heisting, hoping to achieve Infamy 100 before Payday 3's release. Shoutout to Red Archer Live as well for keeping the console hype for all those years. Here's to a better future with Payday 3.

My friends finally got all the achievements to do the secret ending, and to celebrate, made the most disgusting Dallas masks to finish the game in. They all looked so dumb. I had the time of my life.

I came across Payday 2 in 2020 and I knew that it was the perfect heist simulator! I spent dozens of hours playing the game and ultimately had a great time!

When me & my friend Demeschik finally finished Framing Frame in stealth back in 2013 without any guides (since those didn't really exist anyway). Simple nowadays but very satisfying back then.

Man, 10 years
Started playing since 2014, I was pretty much a kid, but I was having a blast all the way through.
As of now, me and a couple of friends are trying the Secret Ending, it's been fun and will always be.
We pre-order PAYDAY 3, so expect us there!!
oh, and Doffi, buy payday plz

I remember picking up the game on release day for my Xbox 360. Then a long week of playing and convincing my friends to buy it too!

Getting every trophy and completing the safehouse. It was my goal from when I first started, and it only took me 1300 hours!

This game really us the yes.

I started playing PAYDAY2 during the pandemic in 2020. Since then, there is literally no year without PAYDAY in my life.
My favourite memory is probably when I played Shadow Raid for the first time with my friend Sosa95. It was very enjoyable.
PAYDAY2 is perhaps the most unique videogame of all time.

Payday 2 has been such a great game. COngrats on the 10 years. Favorite memory was playing with my friend going through Career Mode honestly/

Everybody remembers OVERDRILL, that realisation that you'll have to carry 70+ bags of loot but DAMN it was worth every gold bullion you pulled out with your hands

Back in 2013, me and my friends had no money to buy games, so after school all we would do is play the Payday 2 demo on xbox 360 together over and over again, doing the same heist over and over for hours every day. Good times :D

I got the game in 2015 with the Game Of The Year edition, from this date, I have been heisting none stop to the point of being at 12 000 Hours registered on Steam. Proud of being in the Payday Crew <3

Me and my friends got payday to all play together and I can't even say how awesome it was doing Heists together and me and my friends we are very imaginative so when we got a bit to into it we started to do a full roleplay it was a BLAST and the fun things we encountered while playing. Thank you payday for letting us have this AWSOME experiencem