 In 2012 , Starbreeze also announced that they had acquired Overkill Software , the developer of Payday : The Heist , granting them rights to all of Overkill 's propriety technology and intellectual properties . At the time , Overkill was working on the sequel , Payday 2 , a game that was set to " broaden the Payday template " . The game was a massive commercial success , and was profitable from pre @-@ order sales alone . Payday 2 also became Starbreeze 's best selling game of all time , and helped the company to make a record profit for the first time after suffering an accumulated loss of $ 14 @.@ 4 million between 1998 and June 2013 . The game 's success also prompted publisher 505 Games to invest $ 5 million in Starbreeze in March 2015 to continue to improve and develop additional content for Payday 2 over twenty months . The game was ported to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One under the title Payday 2 : Crimewave Edition . 
