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.

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 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 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? ._.

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 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.

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'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!

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 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.

I've had such a fantastic decade with my regular crew and nothing can ever surpass the amount of times a judge shotgun has made heist go from professional to comedy. One burning memory is watching someone panic hit a balcony guard on golden grin and having them fly across the entire length of the casino dead into the pit. Thank you payday 2, welcome 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 my first ever attempts at loud heists, being carried by higher level players, barely scraping enough cash to buy a minigun. And now I've done the secret end and got a full collection of every weapon noob me ever wanted.

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!!

One of my favorite memories is when I met a girl who knew PAYDAY 2, and played it. We had just met at the time, and I invited her to play Panic Room and a few other heits with me! We were best friends for a few years, and have been in a relationship for over a year now!

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.

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

I actually bought the game during the 2018/2019 Steam Winter sale, and fell in love with the series ever since, with my desire to fictionally heist more and more.

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

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

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.

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 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’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.

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've bought Payday becouse i watched youtube about and i thought this game is cool, and is was cool. i am playing this game for over 2 years it is always the same as i remember

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.

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 remember my friend talking about this game back in 2019, and how cool the stealth of the game was, and in summer of next year he got me the game on sale, and what a ride the game was! can't wait for PD3!

I remember how cocky my partner was when it came to fighting the Bulldozers. They would get excited about every opportunity to get one of them... until the first day of Hoxton's Heartswarming, that is.
Not being able to stun Dozer, coupled with their ability to run, made my partner panic everytime they spot that hulking mass rushing their way! Complete switch from predator mentality to prey mentality was jarring to watch at the time!)
P.S. They are much more confident nowadays.

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

The first time i played it was around 2018 on an xbox 360.
I was pretty alone at home, so this game was a lot of company for me. Thank you for everything!

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! 🥂

"guys, the thermal drill, go get it!"

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

I remember during the peak of the pandemic when oone of my friends told me to buy PD2, so I bought the game and the next couple of years were filled with joy, meta builds and some funny bugs. Most notably I remember trying to do Scarface od DSOD where we shat ourselves everytime there was a dozer since we were all dodge and didn't have someone with a rocket launcher.

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.

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

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.

Nearly always failing stealth 5 minutes in.

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

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 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.

PAYDAY 2 was one of the games with which I met some of my closest friends, from trolling them by putting the cloaker noise on my sound board to finish our last job on death wish back when it was the highest difficulty or doing the white house secret with them, I cannot count the amount of found memories I have from this game alone. Compared to other veterans, I might not have played 6000h+ but I enjoyed every second of my play time.

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

Met one of my mates through Payday 2. We endured DSOD together with our final heist being Goat Sim. That final rush we felt when getting into that truck will never be forgotten!

I still remember booting up my Xbox360 with my first copy of PAYDAY 2, Seeing the laundry safehouse, going jewelry store heist and thinking that this was the best game I've played in years. 2023 is here and not only EVERYTHING has been improved but I still think that PAYDAY 2 has been the most pleasant and entertaining experience I've had in all my videogame history.

Cheers heisters for this decade and the ones to come!

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...

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.

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 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

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

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.

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 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?!?!?

I met my best friend through Payday 2, and the fact that the series has somehow lasted an entire decade through a history of ups and downs is nigh miraculous.

Over one-thousand and seven-hundred hours of heisting and achievement hunting later, and it has remained a mainstay in my gaming library as the best way to experiencing blasting away cops and vault doors with friends!

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

One of my fondest memories was the lead up to the release of the Big Bank Heist. One of the first major heist DLCs to be released that really took me back to that Hollywood blockbuster feeling with the introduction of The Dentist and hearing the opera singing for the first time in the trailer and just having the similar cinematic moment in game with the singing happening right at the end of the heist when the bus crashes into the wall and it was a full force attempt to get all the loot to the van.

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 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.

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've played this game for 600 hours... and last week was my first time in 4 years of playing solo, that i have played with a full group of friends. I will cherish that memory of us all on bank heist: gold for the rest of my time.

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" !!!!

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Getting the game after convincing my mother to buy it for me back in 2016. It's been a long journey since then and I've met a lot of friends along the way, and it's been a pleasure to meet some of the most talented players I've ever seen. This game has picked me up when I was low, so I'm looking forward to what's on the horizon for payday!

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

Started on the 360 in 2014 and moved to PC early 2015. Played consistently till 2018 and came back a month ago in prep for 3!

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

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

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 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 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 the release of "The Bomb Heists" - DLC pack. On release, me and my buddy had multiple attempts stealthing "Bomb - Dockyard" on the highest difficulty (was Death Wish back then) until we finally finished it without leaving a trace. What an exciting moment.

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

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-

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?"

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!

I remember cooking meth with the boys in the middle of a school night, those were some of my best memories with the game. This game has always been one of my favourites, and seeing the community grow is very satisfying, especially when it's with a community that you love. From the memes, to the lore, thank you payday

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

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

I got this game in a steam summer sale for free, back when I was 11 on my office computer. I only played mall crasher, but I enjoyed it so much that I went to my grandma's and begged her to buy me the gold addition for my Xbox, which could run it. I got it, and it escalated to where i got barred from playing it due to me sitting in my room for hours replaying heists like golden grin casino endlessly.

Thank you for all the good memories - the developers, the modders and the players have given to me and many others over the years.
Here's to another payday!

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.

Being scared shitless at the sight of a cloaker for the first time. A generally horrifying experience because of its looks and noise. Looks like I am going to be even more terrified in Payday 3.

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

Dying because there's no medic bag

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!

Cooking meth nonstop for 4 hours in Cook Off

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

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 watching payday 2 on YouTube since 2014 because I couldn't afford it, on 2015 by surprise my dad came out of nowhere with the ps3 version of the game, I was crawling on the roof out of the emotion and since then I played payday 2 until now

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.

My brother was going through some tough times and the only way I could really spend time with him was when he got home and played on his Xbox 360. One day he booted up Payday the Heist and I was hooked! We took turns per heist, hours were lost, love this game but more importantly I got to spend lots of time heisting with my bro, which we still do years later with Payday 2 and soon Payday 3. Thanks Almir and all the developers for so many fun memories.

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 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!

And Wolf, stay off the dance floor

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.

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

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

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 !

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!

ECM rush best mechanic!

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

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 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.

"Aaaah, I need a medic bag!"

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!

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! 🥂

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.

I first saw Payday on YouTube and was immediately interested by the concept. As a result I played the demo on the Xbox 360 but soon upgraded to an Xbox One where I next played in 2015 with the Crimewave Edition. Since then and over a thousand hours later, I've rebought the game on PS5 and am once again racking up game time, eagerly awaiting PayDay 3.

As for a specific memory, I remember me and my mate being unable to complete Car Shop. Now I see it as a quick, easy heist to do if I want to shake things up a bit but back then we used to play for hours, trying to complete that damn heist!

Anyway, happy birthday Payday 2! I hope to be here in another 10 years time, reminscing on my PD3 memories!

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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...

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 remember I used to go all the way around the right side of Diamond Store to get to the camera room.
My very first heist was Art Gallery and almost every time I go infamous and go back to Level 0, I do Art Gallery on Normal in memory of that.

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 hate cloakers <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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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!!!

This was back when I first joined the Payday 2 discord in 2020 i was looking for people to play with and I found some we eventually tried no mercy on death sentence knowing we would fail we didnt even make it past the first objective but we got some good laughs thanks to the rocket launcher I hid in my back pocket

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

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.

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

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

The amount of suffering i endured playing DSOD Loud is huge! But I'm still loving the game! Would recommend the experience to the whole family!

I remember getting into Payday during a free weekend and have been a fan since

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.

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

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.

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

Met a couple good friends when i was first starting the game on shadow raid a couple years ago, shout out to specctr and speedy for getting me through my first shadow raid DSOD and overdrill

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

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 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

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 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.

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. ♥

Long time payday fan, playing PD:TH in 2011 and playing payday 2 over the past 10 years has been a rollercoaster, the ups and downs but with my friends it's been a lot of fun... Can't wait to see what Payday 3 brings to the table!

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

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.

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

The S P O O N.

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

After 1500+ hours, I can say with certainty my best (and recurring) memory of Payday 2 is using the wrong meth ingredient.

This game really us the yes.

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 🤘

During late 2017 I was not in the best mood due to personal reasons and was playing PAYDAY 2 to keep my mind off those problems. I joined a public lobby filled with 3 other nice people who were able to tell that I wasn't doing well and were very supportive to me, eventually I was able to vent to them about my problems (one of which involved my sexuality, at the time I was still questioning myself) and one of the players I was playing with was also bisexual and gave me reassurance that what I was feeling was okay and encouraged me to explore myself. Not longer after I came out as bisexual and I partly owe it a lot to that player whom I sadly don't remember and wish I was in contact with.

I want to thank you guys at Starbreeze for making a game that had this much of an impact on me and I'm highly looking foward to PAYDAY 3.

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:)

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!

Nightclub, around 2016. Loud and in Overkill difficulty. Right now it sounds lame, but I'll never forget the satisfaction of carrying all the loot to the van, somehow surviving on my last down while the rest of the crew was in custody.

From the demo on the 360 back in 2013, to playing on a crappy laptop in windowed with 600x800 resolution, all the way to today with over 2.5k hours in the game and even giving back to the community with becoming a moderator of the community discord. Payday 2 has been a big part of my life in the best way possible. It's made me laugh, made me cry, gave me something to look forward to in life, and introduced me to some of the most amazing people I have ever met. So, here's to 10 years of payday with hopefully even more to come, keep those helmets flying!

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.

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 remember feeling sad when the PAYDAY 2 beta was coming to an end and I posted about it on the discussion forums and somebody gifted me the game out of nowhere. I didn't know who he was nor their name but I'm forever grateful for that user because I've been heisting since launch with around 7000 hours across a 10 year timespan, pretty much growing up with the game throughout the years from the end of 8th grade all the way to the end of college. I'm excited for what PAYDAY 3 will bring.

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.

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 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.

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 :))))

10 years and so many Ukrainian Jobs completed :)

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

I remember my first time doing Overdrill with an open lobby online. The feeling of having to survive the assault while everybody was in custody and completing the heist while only ever going down twice was a clutch and a rush I will never forget!

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.

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.

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!

Wow, didn't expect to this game that turned 10 year old. I remember that i shared this game to my three friends. They bought it. We used to play that game every day. Best crew :)

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!

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

On my first attempt on overdrill with some friends we got right to the vault, but got the puzzle incorrect and had to try again all from the start. It left us speechless lol

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.

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

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.

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 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

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

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 spending 2 hours in deathwish Cook Off, securing a lot of bags. I don't know if it was really the best decision reflecting on it, but it was fun nonetheless!

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!

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

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.