Hello everyone!

Almir here. So listen, PAYDAY 2 has had a great E3. We are humbled by the great response and we probably haven't heard the end of it.

Now the work of finishing the game continues.

I'm happy to announce the final prize of the Secret group. An hour ago I told the people in the Team Evil Stream that this was happening.

I am inviting members of this group to join the PAYDAY 2 focus test group. Bain has given me and continues to give me tips on the best heisters in this group.

We won't be able to invite everyone at once, but my ambition is to invite as many of you as possible in time. Does this mean that all 800+ members will get an invite? Possibly not - but hopefully so. It all depends on how the focus tests go.

We will start with 20 people. These will be able to stream the game to the world when I have given them the signal. These 20 have already been decided and contacted.

They will focustest different parts of the game. They will be asked to give us feedback and we will discuss the game with them. As you understand, it's a unique opportunity for PAYDAY fans to participate helping us finish PAYDAY 2. We want to give our fans this possibility because we make PAYDAY 2 for our fans.

I'm proud to give you this possibility and I hope that when I ask you to join the focus test group, you will say yes.

I will contact you when I will be able to invite you. Please don't send me e-mails about this, as I already have really, really many e-mails that I need to take care of after E3. :)

Here is a short Q&A about this.

Q: Almir, I am dissapoint. Why can't everyone in the group get something?
A: I would love to invite everyone to the group. But this is a huge group consisting of a host of some of the biggest PAYDAY fans there is. If we are going to make this a meaningful experience for us and the focus test group, we will need to take it slow and make sure we can deal with the feedback we will be getting.

Q: But still, can't you give everyone something?
A: As I said, my ambition is to invite all of you to this group. Chances are that isn't possible so I don't want to promise anything.

Q: How do you decide who can join?
A: I go through the group list and I think long and hard. There are many factors involved; where does the player live, what has the player done before. But all of you have already made the biggest criteria - you're part of this group. So it's possible for anyone to be picked.

Q: How many do you pick at a time?
A: This is hard to say. We start with 20. If that works fine, we increase it. By how many, I don't know right now.

Q: When does it start?
A: Today. ;)

Q: When can I see what the focus test group is doing?
A: As soon as I give them permission to they will be able to stream when they play.

Q: How will it work?
A: We will tell the focus test group to play the game from time to time. How often is up to us. How long is up to us. Which levels and what to test is up to us. We will ask them to fill out forms and talk with me on Steam.

Q: I will never get invited...
A: Not with that attitude! :) As I said, I will try to invite as many as possible. I'm sorry we can't invite everyone at once, but I want it to be a good experience for us and for the focus testers.

Q: If I leave this group, can I still get invited?
A: No, you have to be a part of this group. In rare cases, I invite people from outside the group. In 99% of the case, I invite people in this group.

Q: Where can I read about this?
A: I will create another sub-forum in this group called "The Final Prize - focust test forum" where I will invite the focus testers to discuss the game with me and the others. If everyone behaves and acts in a good way, I will let everyone in this group participate in that forum. To show which ones have been selected, I will make them officers or moderators. We will listen to all feedback, but we will listen extra to what they have to say because they have played the game.

Thanks a lot everyone - I will see you at the safe house.

Almir