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

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

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 :)

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

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 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!

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!

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/

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 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

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

my greatest memory for sure has to be the secret and everything revolving around it, solving the achievements made me grow close to a few friends, unlocking the trophies to start the secret made me improve (and started my obsession with trohpies). and the final vault at the white house has to be one of the most rewarding things you could ever do in payday besides maybe overdrill.
major props to overkill on this one

I remember when I first played the game like 8 years ago on Xbox 360 and it being amazing and I loved it but also being buggy and not having a lot to do right away and stealth being confusing and hard af. But over the years, they have done a lot of stuff, and i'm so happy that payday is my favorite game ever and starbreeze is the best developer company outthere, they love the community and always listen to em. LETS GET HEISTING HEISTERS

Got into PAYDAY way back when a friend gifted me PD:TH just after the Wolf Pack release, ended up with me grabbing the Career Criminal edition of 2 and playing the beta (I remember the day Nightclub was added, still my favourite heist :D )
Been playing constantly since, got my death wish mask in feb 2015, and did a whole bunch of modding too
Here's to sinking another 2000 hours into PD3!

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

I remember 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!

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

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

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. 🦊

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

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.

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!!!

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

I 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.

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

I 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.

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

Keep those helmets flying!

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

Dying because there's no medic bag

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.

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 ever heist being money branch heist I spend an hour lockpicking since I thought it was an achievement after seeing the game had over a 1000 achievements

I remember when my friend gave me a beta key for Payday 2. Bought it on release and it has been a big part of my gamer life ever since 🙂 ty for the good times and I am very excited for the Payday 3 collectors edition

Payday 2 was one of my first pc games, and it was (and it is) absolutely wonderful. I still remember all those helmets flying, and the epic heists with our beloved gang. Probably one of the best gaming experience you can have. I'm ready for Payday 3 and don't forget ; Let's do this.

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!!

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

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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 !

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 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!

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

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

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

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!

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!

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 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

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

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.

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 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

It's been a long journey.
My favorite game of all time.

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

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

The game I never knew i needed, and I truly did not deserve! <3

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 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 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

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.

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.

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! 🥂

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!

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.

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 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!

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

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.

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 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 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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

thanks for everything

AAAAHHHH, I NEED A MEDIC BAG !!!!

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

I 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

My favourite memories must either be making friends with fellow heisters and talking to them to this day, or failing DSOD right next to the escape van.

Thanks for making my favourite videogame series of all time, can't wait to see you all on the 18th.

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.

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.

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

And Wolf, stay off the dance floor

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

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

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 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'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 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.

First started playing Payday in 2017 when they gave away 5 million copies for free. Loved it so much that i played this game with 13fps for 600 hours on my old pc now i have almost 900 hours. Looking back the friends i made just because of payday are one of the best friendships i ever had, for a game thats about shooting cops the community are the sweetest. Looking forward to pd3 hope we get to see its 10th year too

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 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.

payday 2 has been with me since 2021, i have beaten stealth in this stealth game, thanks for these 2 years waiting for payday 3

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

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.

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

It took me 5 hours to stealth Framing Frame day 3 on DSOD and it took me 4 months with a break in between to beat White House DSOD. I also remember trying to unlock the Bushido trophy and after failing so many times the one time I completed it, I forgot I had a modifier on and it didn't count the achievement. Still the game is fun and I love it,

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.

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" !!!!

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

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

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.

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!

My Payday memory is making so many friends in this amazing community. So many people are so nice and helpful. Thanks everyone for the good times!

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

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

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

I freaking miss those days :(

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

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

See ya all in Payday 3!

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!

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

I 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 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.

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.

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

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.

Sorry i speak french :)

J'ai commencer à jouer à Payday 2 en 2014 sur xbox!
Je ne pensais pas commencer le jeu qui allait rapidement arriver dans mon top 3 ! Je n'ai que de bon souvenirs de nuit blanche avec des amis sur le jeu ahah

Et quand j'ai découvert la version pc ce fut un nouveau monde qui s'offrait à moi sans oublier la VR!

Merci à toute l'équipe! Hâte de découvrir 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 met this cool guy called "Roger" in the first month of playing Payday 2 on PC. We were just two randoms playing heat street. We started looking for the tortoise together and it became a whole thing! We've been good friends ever since that day, after six whole years...

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.

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...

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

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

I’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.

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

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!

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Obviously I'm not the earliest heister in this game.
I joined the game in 2018,and I still remember the astonishing secret lore things--
A heisting game with bunch of mythology and occultism mixed into its lore? Hell yeah!
So ye,that's why I'm still playing this game,digging lore details etc.
Thank you again,for bringing such a wild and spectacular payday universe to everyone!

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 think my first encounter with Payday was the infamous "Giant Toothbrush" video from back in the day and seeing how the devs went back and made it even bigger hahaha!
I'd just bought a gaming pc a few months before payday 2 was released so it was the first game I ever pre-ordered on steam and I must say it was worth it, from harvest and trustee's to the white house, helmets have flown and will continue to in Payday 3

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!

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

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.

I remember entering the old safehouse and being completely clueless on what to do... Till I found out I had to put money on the lady with the scale... half a year later though! :D

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!

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!

Started playing on PS3, moving to PS4 and also playing it most of the time on PC!

PayDay 2 had me locked into a whole new era of FPS, a game that featured many different amazing aspects. I remember always messing up Shadow Raid when I was younger, nowadays it's one of my favorite Heists, alongside The Diamond and Meltdown!

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!

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

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 remember when for april fools one year, this bouncy explosives got activated. I have a friend Who used to main Golden AK and RPG and Went crazy during days because of this until we told him. That moments with him and the rest of the Crew (we met in-game 8 years ago and still play) where Amazing. This and million more. I hope to get new memories with this people on the new one too. They are basically family to me now. I am 26 years old now (the youngest in the group) and they have been with me during all kinds of moments and even got some tears when I moved continents. Thanks for letting me have this awesome interactions with people I would definitelly not know now.

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

This game really us the yes.

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

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

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

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.

When I was young, when I was a noob in 2015, I played PAYDAY2 on a laptop run with its battery. The laptop was on low energy mode so fps was almost under 20, everything was lagging. But it still a very great time in my life. Then I started learning from community players, learning their stealth walkthrough, learning their bulids, even learning speedrun. Later in 2018, at the end of the game' storyline, I became a fandom translater for about half a year. Now, 8 years passed and I still love this f-word-ing game!

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!

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.

This game has gotten ups and downs through its history but the community is what truly made Payday 2 what is now with its 10 years.

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!

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

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

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. ♥

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!

ECM rush best mechanic!

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

The S P O O N.

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