favorite memory was actually a very recent one, me and the team worked hard to get 'beneath the mountain' done (at least opening the 4 vaults) in under ten minutes. whole call was shouting when we clutched it with <10 seconds remaining

I first played Payday 2 around the time it came out on the xbox360 back in good ol' 2013, I liked it but I pretty much forgot about it until 2016 when my brother bought me the game on steam, and ever since then, I've been hooked. And while I have had my ups and downs (holy shit never do that alien mayan bullshit again...) with this game and the community, I'll always remember that its thanks to Payday that I've met a lot of my online friends.

I was first introduced to this game in 2021, a friend of mine suggested it to me and whilst I normally don’t like the games he requests, I decided to give this game a try. Now I have over a thousand hours and have completed every single achievement. I’ve met a lot of friends playing this game and I’m extremely glad I decided to listen my friend’s recommendation. Funnily enough he ended up getting bored of the game and now I have more hours and achievements in the game than he does. Thanks for all the memories and I hope Payday 3 can be just as good, if not better.

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 🫂

My favourite memory was doing my first heist, which I think was shadow raid. I was slowly doing it and constantly failing for about an hour until 3 people joined with high infamy levels. They saw how bad I was, and instead of leaving or mocking me, they taught me multiple ways of completing the heist, how to get loot and the best ways of doing the game. Since then I’ve had many encounters like this, on both sides, being educated and educator and it really shows how kind the community is to one another.

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.

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

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

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.

One of my fondest memories was during my earliest days as a player. I met a high level stranger who took me through some heists and helped me grind some exp together. I don't remember his username anymore, but he was one of my earliest interactions with the playerbase and I'll always remember him as the person who got me through my first Death Sentence heist.

Me and my mates have absolutely loved payday 2 even though we came late to the heisting party. joining in early 2021 but have loved it ever since

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.

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.

I had and I am still having great time playing payday 2 either alone or with friends. It is truly the GREATEST game I've ever played and I would ony hope that there were more heists

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.

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...

First time I heard of PayDay was back when Yogscast played it. Played the PD2 when it was free for 2 weeks, got fully addicted to it, my friend was generous and asked his mothers credit card to gift me the game. It was back in 2015 and I couldn't have hoped that I will meet so many great friends down the years. All the fun stuff we had, the hunt for achievements, trolling our new friends who just started playing. I owe to Payday 2 a lot, till this day we still are in contact with one another. Thank you Overkill for this amazing journey of mine you have given and to all the other players too.

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

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

my favorite memory is when I preordered PD2 because this game has made me lot of online friends and probably spent way too much time on this game

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!

I remember my brother gifting me PAYDAY: THE HEIST, since them payday has been a small part of my life. Same thing happened with Payday 2, with my brother gifting it to me and I playing it every day and having fun.
Now with the close release of payday 3, a new chapter of this continues and what a surprise when my bro again gave it to me, it's like tradition at this point. Thank you brother and thank you Payday for hours of fun.

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

I feel my favourite memory of the game is attempting overdrill when I celebrated achieving infamy 1. The gold was holy yet dallas yelling Ahhhhhh!! I NEED A MEDIC BAG!!!! Still echo in my ears to this day. Oh wait… That was ME?!?!?

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...

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.

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.

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 remember the first time I got this game for xbox 360 turning it on going hours around safehouse for no reason and trying to do jewelry store stealthy

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 spend a lot of time with this game, i meet a lot of people and have a lot of memories <3

Im so glad i played this game! I met amazing peoples who helped me with stealth and DSOD!

See ya all in Payday 3!

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!

For the first 200 hours since getting Payday 2, I only played it at 10fps, and yet I enjoyed every second of the game. Fan of the franchise since 2015, and gonna just keep going, forever a heister.

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 haven't played payday 2 as much as everyone else as of now I only have 272 hours in payday 2 but my payday memory is finding an amazing community of really nice people alongside amazing developers who are passionate about there game and I've even met some of my best friends on payday 2 I'm looking forward for 3 happy anniversary payday 2

10 years and so many Ukrainian Jobs completed :)

Cleaning the halls of No Mercy using the Compact 40mm grenade launcher. Not a cop in sight

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

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!

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

When Car Shop first came out and I played the heist for the first time, after grabbing the car keys, I thought the cars would become escape points, and the heist would just end there. Then, I got the prompt to unlock and enter the car. I remember my first reaction after getting inside was, "WHAT YOU CAN DRIVE NOW IN THIS GAME???" Thank you for the thousands of hours of fun in Payday 2, and I'm hugely looking forward to Payday 3! Here's to hoping we get to run over bulldozers, so we can watch their silly ragdolls zoom across the floor sometime eventually in Payday 3 lol

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

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

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.

Whilst I haven't been playing for a very long time, I'll always remember properly prepping a squad, hopping into VR myself and absolutely destroying the First World Bank, working together to survive through OVERDRILL for a solid hour and a half!
I stood at the entrance to the vault-area with a long-barrelled Vulcan Minigun, shredding anything that was in my line of sight whilst the team grabbed, bagged and threw the gold down the vents. Time flew by, and we loved every minute of it.

Though it isn't the coolest experience in the world, it was one of the many in PAYDAY 2 that brought me and my friends closer, and even more so as the future calls us to 3.

For the past, and To the future! 🥂

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...

I remember doing your usual bank heist, after some time, a fellow robber has decided to join me, we completed the heist in ease, and later on became great teammates, sadly he passed out. Rest in peace, the legend

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!

Shared a lot of time having fun with my school friend in this game since 2015. That was cool! Too much memories to share here, but all of them are amazing! Like car heist in dinosaur masks, april fools mods and more

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.

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.

Reset my save file to play with my partner who just got the game around the time we first started dating. We beat the entire story line and even got to the Secret together. Playing this game was a true bonding experience.

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

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 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 remember my first introduction to payday being the [[POLICE ASSAULT IN PROGRESS]] video on youtube. i looked more into the game and the first heister i ever laid my eyes on and immediately fell in love with was clover. she's still my most favorite to this day <<3
happy 10th birthday to payday 2 and welcome to all the things that are to payday 3 :))))

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

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

Decided to try the stealth system for the first time and do First World Bank. I got super unlucky over and over again and ended up failing over 50 times, but then I got the perfect run and finished in about 30 min. Now I can stealth pretty much any mission no problem. And I made sure that my stealth build always includes the comically large spoon.

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

Back when i was just a 100 hour fella i was doing the white house on very hard with my friend. me and him couldnt do it. but its the fact we kept trying and we still enjoyed it. gotta be some of the most fun ive had on payday 2

I ever tell you 'bout the time I cooked meth with my buddy Keith? Yeah well we were in this forest shack and all shit and then the police came up and then Captain Winters was all like "You have pay'd your last day." And then we were like shieeet man!!! We gotta fight off the police assault !!!! and my buddy keith was all like-

I still remember the day when my good friend and I were able to clear Henry's Rock on Death Sentence One Down. Payday 2 has been a game that thoroughly scratched my achievement hunting itch and moments like that, getting the Tabula Rasa achievement or Reputation Beyond Reproach will stick with me even after Payday 2 as a game has not.

Started playing PD2 in 2014, and since then, I was still playing despite all the controversies in 2015, the final heists in 2018 and even to this day I still play with friends, public lobbies and sometimes solo for a chill stealth heist.

Thanks to Payday, I've met so many wonderful people that either were new to the game or they already have a bigger infamy number than me. I've also had the great opportunity to work as a translator for the game since the Silk Road update.

Thanks to all the devs, producers, fellow translators, modders, partners and content creators for working on such great game during the 10+ years, and hopefully I can see you all in PD3!

My favorite memorty is when i finally completed every heist on DSOD... 2 weeks ago

me and my friends are trying to get all achievements back in 2017 it was crazy but we barely managed

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.

Played since Payday 2 Beta. Found new friends for life. Completed all (but one) possible tasks (achievements and trophies). 'Free' Epic version made possible to start to get all achievements again (now at 870/1327 in 2 months).

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 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.

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 ;-)

I've played ever since 2014 on PS3 till 2016 and changed PS3 for PC version. Payday 2 was, is and most likely will be a greatest PvE game ever created.
I'm glad I've been a part of the journey and made memories that will last!

I started playing this game on xbox 360 just playing the first heist over and over in the demo. Once i got a pc i bought the game and i have been hooked ever since. Cant wait for PD3!

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

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.

I bought this game after my friends and my brother suggested it to me in 2022. now i have close to 1000 hours and almost done with completing every heist in DSOD ( only need 5 more) i have made countless memories in this game with randoms and my friends alike

One of my favorite moments is rushing to get all the achievements when a new heist launched. Thank you overkill for the content over the years, and thank you for more on the way!

I started playing back in 2020, right before Scarface went off sale. Playing with friends, trying to get all achievements and beating everything on DSOD was amazing, even if we failed the heist. In the almost 3 years that I've been playing this game i have managed to rack up 800+ hours of playtime and Payday has quickly become one of my favourite games of all time, and one i will frequently revisit.

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

This one was recent. Loud rats day 2, I fall off one of the bridges between the buildings and get downed in the air, putting me into my last down. One of my friends inspires me back up before I hit the ground, and the fall damage instantly puts me into custody. Everyone playing, including me, couldn't stop laughing. This game is so silly sometimes.

I don't have a lot of memories since I've joined just when the Dragon Heist first released back in 2021, but Payday 2 made my life happier in a way. I've found a lot of friends via the game, shared laughs, sorrows, and genuinely had a great time with friends and the game itself.
Payday 2 even gave me a new hobby in a form of modding! I've made a lot of custom weapon skins for the community over the past year until recent, and I'll keep making them until Payday 3 rolls around.

No matter how much Payday 2 disappoints me now, it still has a really special place in my heart.

Happy birthday, Payday 2. Happy 10 years.

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.

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.

So many memories over 9 years and 5k hours - between finding ways to tackle every challenge, the various community projects and forming long-lasting friendships.
What I remember the most is the excitement of there always being something to look forward to. Each month or so bringing the next score, some unexpected story development, new toys or obstacles.
I hope Payday 3 can reignite this spark.

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!

I remember how I complete FWB in PD:TH with 15fps in my old pc... Good old days

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!

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.

This game really us the yes.

My brother got this game for us when it first came out ten years ago. I vividly remembered when he left me for dead to secure extra bags of gold. Looking back, I would’ve done the same thing.

Playing payday 2 beta for the first time. Old skill trees, no perkdecks, max level 40. Got a really heavy nostalgia for my time in payday 2 beta after playing the payday 3 beta.

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

Bashing a cloaker with a comically large spoon. This pretty much sums it up.

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

I always knew that this game existed but never could play it myself until 3 years ago. Love at first sight. I remember playing Diamond Store on Hard with just AMCAR in my hand and Razormind playing in the background. One of the 4 man COOP game GoATs and hopefully Payday 3 will be just as great if not better than Payday 2

I cant imagine my life without Payday, the friends i made, the hours i spent playing with my dad and friends, i cant forget the time me and my dad were having a mental breakdown over Lab Rats

AHHHHHHHH I NEED A MEDIC BAG !!!

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 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.

ECM rush best mechanic!

I’ll never forget believing in John Wick at a time when only payday fans were aware of him, which he was hated by at the time. The film proved me right and I’ll always associate the two franchises.

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.

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

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.

I'll never forget my journey to complete The Secret and getting all heists done on DSOD, and even after all that I'm still playing Payday 2 nearly everyday! <3

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

Payday 2 had just come out, console was still getting updates. Cloakers were just brought back from payday 1, and still weren't working right. A Cloaker misses their kick that was aimed at me, then seemingly not knowing what to do from there it just staring beating down nothing.

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

I remember very vividly one time I was playing Framing Frame and... I met a group that I just got along with so well, coming up with our own codenames as we swindled away the gold from the Senator... It felt so good and solidified PAYDAY 2 as one of my favourite games of all time.

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

My friend introduced me to this game to play as a joke, after I recognized the gameplay it was the game I was wanting to remember when I played on the xbox 360, Payday 2, after that I played until I said enough and made people that I probably won't forget early. so thank you Overkill for creating this gem.

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!

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!

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

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 like trolling my friends by throwing the drill out of a third-floor window in Hotline Miami day 2. I discovered that I could do so back in 2015 and it's still just as hysterical as the first time.

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

Before I had my own money to buy games with i spent countless hours playing the Payday 2 demo on PS3. Then Payday 2 was the first game I ever bought after getting a laptop.

I remember running through Hotline Miami when it first came out to get all the achievements first, didn't succeed but it was still fun. Here's hoping for more fun heists, colab or not! (Preferably another Hotline Miami one though :))

I remember when the Secret Ending came out, and I went on to solve it with a friend. Back then, we both only had shitty computers, both of us running an intel laptop with iGPU. We both ran the game on 5~15FPS. Our PC ran The Whitehouse Heist around 5~8FPS and it was a bloody nightmare. The Watchers came at us and my friend held 'em off while I did all the work on the Vault. Our game crashed midway into the heist at least twice or thrice, but finally and thankfully, we finished it. It was such a mindblowing experience, man. I honestly shat myself when I found out that PAYDAY was going in a mythos direction, but it was one helluva ride.

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

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

Payday 2 is a videogame of all time. There are many things I can say about it. It's my favourite game ever. I had a lot of memories playing it. My core memory was when I booted up the game and played it with my friends.

I remember playing the Payday 2 demo on my old XBOX 360 8 years ago. Now I'm playing it on PC and I've met so many amazing and incredible people, some of whom I still talk to, to this day. And I look forward to meet even more people and friends in Payday 3!

10 Years of stealing our weekends playing all day.
What about 20?
Gamers, Lets do this!!

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.

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

With over 2956 hours played its safe to say, that Payday 2 is one of the best games ever!

DSODing Shadow Raid with my friend with all but like 3 loot bags. We worked for roughly an hour to get there and I'm proud we did.

Tho I haven’t played payday for long I still remember some good times with my friends. I remember the day I played it it was before school and it was early in the morning it was fun even tho I had zero idea what I was doing but I had a good time. So thank you for making a good game and I can’t wait for payday3.

The wonderful game full of surprises.
Ever fought off a police army with a spoon?
No? Then get on Payday 2!

For me my PD2 memory would have to be, in general, the excitement of coming home any day there was a new update

I started playing like everyone else, and got very early into modding various things, such as models. As I gathered more experience on how the game worked, I started my first LUA scripts and fell in love doing just that. PAYDAY 2 will *always* keep a special place in my heart, because that's why, thanks to it, that I got a job as a game programmer today.

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 playing Jewelery Store on the Xbox 360 version with a friend when the 360 and PS3 were the only console versions. It wasn't until the summer of 2021 where I really got into the game. I still remember going through Undercover with some friends and being nervous about not messing up. Now I look back at my other achievements like completing OVERDRILL and The Secret solo or mastering Murky Station or the hours I put in on Cook Off alone for Infamy grinding.

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

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!

My first time getting intereted in payday franchise was back in 2017 when I saw my cousin play car shop and after a while I finally got a better laptop and started playing payday 2 myself in mid 2019. Now I have almost 2.5k hours and look foward to playing payday 3.

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.

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.

I started Payday 2 with the beta back in July 2013. Bought the game on launch and couldn't put it down. I did my degree for the next three years and spent far too much time heisting than studying. Taking part in community events, befriending other players, and eagerly awaiting every new update really hit the core of what the Payday experience is about, and I'll always be so fond of this game.

I met some of my best friends playing Breakin' Feds stealth in a public game! We strategized and and tried on many attempts for HOURS until we got that perfect run!

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. ♥

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

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!

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.

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 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 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.

Doing Alesso heist no killing people achievement while going loud since the start, truly a wonderful experience (and I got the achievement as well!)

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!

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

Cooking meth nonstop for 4 hours in Cook Off

My favorite moment in Payday 2 for me has to be doing white house stealth with a friend. After at least 8 tries we finally reached the end, and all we had to do was grab the pardon documents, but me being the way that i am smashed the glass, instantly sounding the alarm. We still made it out but I never got to live that down. Here's to another 10 years of heisting!!!

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

In PAYDAY 2. There was a very funny moment that occurred just out of nowhere during the Cook Off Heist and a Cloaker didn't spawn in at all for a good bit than out of nowhere one spawns and chases me and I screamed extremely loudly while being chased
All of my friends heard it.

Finishing the White House heist when it first came out in 2018 to finish up the original storyline, and then finally coming back to it two years later to finish the secret with the help of a friend I met through PAYDAY

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/

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.

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

Payday 2 was one of the first games i ever played on PC. I still remember my first Heist i played during a free Weekend and grinding through the demo until i bought the full game.

During the launch of payday 2 I was sad to see no Cloaker back then I didn’t have access to the internet so I didn’t know when updates were coming out and one day on four stores I’m in the China store and next minute I hear the iconic sound we are used to now I looked behind me and there he was sprinting full force at me I would say I was amazed and happy to see him back but to be honest I was scared out of my mind and scream and what made it better is the line he said was “you wanted me back I’m back” this moment has stayed with me for many years

I remember playing the game for the first time, playing a heist and being amazed at all the things I could do.

Playing No Mercy with my friend in Death Wish, it is very crazy

Spending summer days shielded from the heat by heisting with some buddies. Learning how to stealth Shadow Raid with one of those friends, and ending up dorming together and playing whenever we'd have down the between classes.

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" !!!!

The community on the game, steam and discord has been a large part of my life and it's been a wild ride with ups and downs. I honestly have no idea where I'd be without it. You guys totally changed my entire life, thanks for being cool!

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

Wow... 10 whole YEARS of Payday 2. That... I would never have imagined that I would be able to see a game like this grow so big (I mean that in how big the community is and by how much storage this game takes like holy shit 85+ Gigabytes my god). Although I don't play this game that much nowadays my friend Clover plays it a lot! She bought it in early 2020 and loves it to bits! I will say that my earliest memory of this game was... ah, I forget the year but one of my old friends introduced me to this game all the way back on the Xbox 360 and wow I just... I don't know what to say without repeating myself but man... It's been a long journey.

This goes to Payday 3 and another successful decade! 🥂

Crazy to think I started playing this game back in 2014 at age 14 and am now still playing it in 2023 at age 23.

I've met many people throughout that time that I still play with to this day.

Really shows how timeless this game and franchise is.

Can't remember exactly just when I started playing, had the game on my library for a while but I couldn't ever give it a proper chance, the only thing I know is that the game quickly became my most played game ever. I've put over 700 hours into this game, which isn't a lot on the grand scheme of things yet I am still proud of, and of all those hours my favorite moments were playing with a friend from his start to helping him beat the secret ending, that friend who I got the game for a while back and who is now my boyfriend. Thanks to this amazing game I got to spend hours upon hours with him, and thanks to this game my liking for FPS games started, so suffice to say this game became an integral part of my life and I wouldn't want it any other way.

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.

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!

The S P O O N.

I met my girlfriend through this game, I was hosting a heat street on Mayhem and she joined and we ended up talking a lot after. Pretty cool game if you ask me :)

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 remember the Payday 2 demo on PS3, where you could go up to level 10 maximum, there was only one heist and you could play with other players. It was possible to see players on this demo for a little while after the game's release, and it was great to see this little community!

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

Too many memories to even recount. Been with the game since late 2013

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 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!!

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 Dallas said "It's Payday time" and paydayed all over the bank security.

This game consumed a lot of my time, and with mods, it consumed even more. Truly one of my personal favorite games of all time. Please keep this game alive even if it stops getting support ;-;

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!!

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

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.

I remember back in January of this year, me and my 3 friends were really invested in beating the heist "Breaking Feds". It is renowned for being difficult, and it took us around 66 attempts to beat the heist on MAYHEM difficulty (considering I was new to the game, and my friends had played the game in the past meaning they were a higher level than me). My stealth build back then was horrendous, but after 66 tries we did it. We had some really good laughs that evening. It took us around 2 days to beat the heist, considering the night before we had given up on the 20th or so attempt. It was late when we beat it, but when we beat it felt like the whole world had changed, and we had finally beat the Breaking Feds. To this day, it is still a running joke about how many times we attempted the heist... and the iconic line "Can't believe were coming back to this place.".

I have around 1200 hours in the game, started back in 2015 I think.
One of my favorite games of all time.

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.

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!

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 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 started playing PD2 in the beta and haven't stopped. But the best part of the game for me is the crew of close friends I've gained through it. We all still talk almost daily and have been for most of the past decade with full intentions of continuing with Payday 3

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.

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!

Me and a friend were playing Car Shop and it was looking doomed. I had managed to secure one of the cars, but my friend was lagging behind. With only five seconds left on the clock we thought we were done. But then he slammed the gas and slammed the car into the van and quickly got out and we escaped, granted one car less than expected but still, we escaped. Good times all around, haven't laughed quite so hard in a multiplayer game as I did then.

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