Swedish games firm Starbreeze has admitted that it could have communicated changes around Payday 2 better with its community. 

The title's new subscription service was announced yesterday but comes hot on the heels of the company increasing the Infamous Collection bundle, which rounds up every bit of DLC for the crime romp, into one package. This used to come with a 52 per cent discount, but this was decreased to 33 per cent at the start of September. 

As a result, fans were not happy as they felt it was pushing people towards the subscription service. 

In an email to Game Developer, the company's head of commercial – Gustav Nisser – said that Starbreeze could have communicated the changes to the Payday 2 ecosystem better.  

"We dropped the ball on coordinating internally and communicating with our community properly," he said.

"The negative reaction makes complete sense, and the community has made it clear how the price change and its timing looks from the outside. We agree with the community, we messed up on this one, and we have reverted the price on the bundle effective immediately." 

He continued: "In hindsight, we should have realised how it would seem. Since the bundle only charges for the items you don't own, and the bundle discount is cumulative with any other discounts (i.e. discounts on the included items), the actual full price of the bundle can vary significantly."