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Why is my Payday 3 private lobby not working?

John Hansen by John Hansen
September 25, 2023
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Private lobbies are a great way to play some of your favorite online games with your friends. You won’t have to worry about random players jumping in and ruining your experience. In Payday 3, you can create a private lobby when you select a heist and then change its lobby type setting to either Friends Only or Invite Only. This makes sure you are only playing with people you know or team up with the bots. Here is why your private lobby isn’t working in Payday 3.

How to fix my private lobby not working in Payday 3

If you are trying to set up a private lobby in Payday 3 and it’s not working, the most likely reason isn’t your fault at all. Payday 3 is an online-only game, so the servers must be running at peak performance at all times for it to run well. Unfortunately, many matchmaking issues are keeping people from playing, especially at launch, and the weekend following. Even though you aren’t really trying to matchmake with others, the game cannot create your private lobby if the matchmaking servers are having problems.

If you can’t get into a private lobby in Payday 3, try and join a regular lobby. If the servers are down, you should either be stuck waiting there a long time or receive a similar message saying matchmaking failed like with your private one. You could always check the status of Payday 3’s servers, but as noted above, if you are trying to play just after launch, there have been a lot of problems getting the game to work days after release. You might be stuck having to play something else, or you’ll go insane from watching the game struggle to get you into a lobby.

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John Hansen

John Hansen

John grew up idolizing Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog during the height of Nintendo vs. Sega. He also quickly became obsessed with The Legend of Zelda and enjoys zombie and various team-oriented games, Overwatch in particular. Nowadays, he is merely counting the days down until Bioshock and Banjo-Kazooie make their reemergence back in the market.

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