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.

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

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.

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 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

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!

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

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

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

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

I remember 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I 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...

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!

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

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!

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

I remember 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!

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

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

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

I made a friend on big oil and after years of playing payday2 we met in real life many times.
We are roughly 200 kilometers apart.

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

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 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'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

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

10 years and so many Ukrainian Jobs completed :)

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

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

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

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

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

I remember 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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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

I remember coming back from school and playing this game every day with the very same gang I played with during Payday: The Heist. My laptop could barely handle the game at the time! But I still had a blast.

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

I 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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I 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!

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!

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.

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

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

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

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

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 :)

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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

The S P O O N.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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! 🥂

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.

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

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! ✨

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

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.

Happy Birthday PAYDAY 2!
Now here’s what I got to say about the game, so as I’ve stated back in 2013 I got this game for the Xbox 360 not really understanding what I was buying at the time and let tell you the first time I played I didn’t really pay attention to the music at first but then after certain songs appeared during the heist tracks such as “Razormind” or “Wanted Dead or Alive” I knew immediately as a young witchlet that I would adore this games soundtrack for days to come, another thing is that this game had actually a great memory during my transition, in like 2014 of December I was gifted by a good friend of mine the Clover DLC which I believe was the first female heister in the game and it meant a lot to me since it felt like validation in a way and it made me so happy. The last thing I wanted to share was that (I recently found out that I have autism) this game actually kind of helps with my urge to keep doing something and my sensitive senses in a way. For example I always press the F key which is just shouting at cops even when I don’t have too and just the bouncing music in the headphones and plus just always there being something to do Ingame. But yeah this game means allot to me and it’s been a great 10 years of PAYDAY 2!

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.

ECM rush best mechanic!

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

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

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 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 :)

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.

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

See ya all in Payday 3!

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

i hate cloakers <3

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

One of my fondest memories was from when Breaking News update was just ending and maybe a week after the White House heist had just released I met one of my life long friends who I hang out with just about everyday that I can.

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

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!

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

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

Thank You so much for these years overkill.
The year is 2018, the year where i joined steam and the same year that i joined payday2. it was a memorable year for me because it was a new beginning and after five years,here we are.

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

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!

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

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:)

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

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

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

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...

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

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

I remember 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.

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

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

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!

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

Was playing a solo DW run of no mercy. Got the patient on the last door opened, cracked vials, 750+ kills and 45+ minutes later, I got the achievement.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I'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.

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!

This game really us the yes.

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

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

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

my payday 2 memory is weird bc first time i played it was when my brother show me the payday 2 gameplay on youtube and when he show me it i already love it <3

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

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!

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

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

I remember 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 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-

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

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!

I have had problems in my adolescence and thanks to PAYDAY 2.... I found a place to be welcome and well received. Also PAYDAY 2 made me something known on the Internet and I really... I REALLY APPRECIATE IT!!!!

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

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

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

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.

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'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

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 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!

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

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!

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

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 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.

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

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!!

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

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

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

I 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

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!

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.

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

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

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

My 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.

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.

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 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!

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

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.

Dying because there's no medic bag

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

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

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 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

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.