David Goldfarb spoke with Polygon where he stated that he is leaving Overkill Software in good terms. PayDay 2 sold wonderfully and David admits that the game wasn’t a AAA title but it sold as well as any AAA video game.

I’m abandoning AAA. Payday 2 wasn’t triple AAA but it had AAA sales. But I just want to find genres that I can subvert

David Goldfarb isn’t a stranger to big successful video game hits. Through the years, David has worked on video games that includes Mirror’s Edge, Battlefield 3 and Killzone 2. Now it’s time to take a step back and work with a little more freedom.

Currently, David is looking to open up his own studio where he can have creative control. Only about four developers will be present within the studio and it’s unknown what the first IP will be.

I never wanna really do that again, big teams. And there are a lot of reasons for that. Even when I was doing it it felt f***ing fraudulent,” he said. “And there are people who are totally valid in that context but if you’re a journalist or a game designer who thinks the thing that matters the most to you is you need freedom, and I think I’m one of those people, then eventually the world will decide or you will decide, there is no other thing. It will happen one way or another.

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With a new generation of gaming ahead of us, Goldfarb was not shy of telling readers what he had in mind. The guy is determined to take chances, “I was really tired of making these huge games and not being able to be risky.”

Goldfarb states, “There’s like a year of DLC planned. I’m hoping – I don’t know if we’ll get [female characters] as our first DLC, because we’d have to redo all the animations so it doesn’t look like a dude walking around with a female body. But I’d like to do that.”

“Believe me, I have said this and we’ve talked about it, so I think it will happen, it’s just a question of when on the timeline. Because I want, like I said, I want my daughters to be able to – no, I’d need to wait a bit for that – but in theory, it’d be cool for them to mask up. I just think it’d be cool if we had both, that’s all. It’s definitely on our list. One of the many things that are on our list.”

He even mentioned that some people on the team don’t like the idea of prominent female characters in the game, as if it will ruin the dynamic role of the characters.

He goes on to say, “We had some that said, ‘Well, we don’t want to publish it because that’s not going to succeed. You can’t have a female character in games. It has to be a male character, simple as that.’”

From my perspective, I really like the idea of Payday 2 having a woman character. The game recently came out, and I’ve been enjoying it a lot. I would definitely consider buying the DLC that contains the female character.

For the guy that said “You can’t have a female character in games”. I believe that we should have the options to choose who we want to be. There are a lot of successful games where the female is the main character, and it is never going to stop.

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