Payday 3‘s Starbreeze has ousted CEO Tobias Sjögren less than six months after the title’s underperforming launch.
As reported by Game Developer, board member Juergen Goeldner has been named interim CEO in the wake of Sjögren’s release.
“On behalf of the board of directors, I would like to thank Tobias Sjögren for his achievements during the past three years,” said Starbreeze chairman Torgny Hellström. “Tobias took over the helm of Starbreeze in a challenging phase of its journey and we wish him well in his future endeavors.
“The company has a clear strategy centered around creating attractive games on our own and licensed IPs,” Hellström continued. “The board’s consolidated assessment is that the execution of strategy needs a different leadership.”
In February, Game Developer also reported that Starbreeze considered Payday 3 to be performing at “significantly lower levels” than expected. At the same time, Starbreeze said correcting the multiplayer title was its “biggest focus and absolute priority”.
“What we’ve got is a skeleton… a backbone for the devs to build off of and continue the titanic success that was Payday 2,” Hamish said in our review of the title.
“Two or three years from now, Payday 3 will be chock full of new guns, heists, heisters and masks but at present pickings are very thin,” Hamish continued. “The perk system is underwhelming but the gun play is fun and the challenge – something long since lost in all but the hardest of Payday 2 content – is there.”
Payday 3 is available now on Windows PC, Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X, and PS5; it’s also on Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass.
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