The price of Hitman 3 increased.....

[Echoplex25]

I already have 1 and 2, and I only really use the demo to play them all in 3
But I'm pretty shocked that they increased the price.
World of Assassination already comes with 1 and 2 (which I already own) and Hitman 3 was already $20 during the winter sale, so why is it almost $40 now?

[PowerZox]

♥♥♥♥ these devs (or publisher idk). First selling off to Epic Games and now this... ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[tmwfte]

Originally posted by Aris:

This is talking about extra options to get Hitman 3 without having to rebuy games/DLCs you already own.

Try this. Download the demo. Launch it. See if it grants you the access packs to what you already own in H1 & H2. You might have to restart Steam. See what happens afterwards in the in-game store.

I don't know if it will make any difference at all (I honestly doubt it given by how they've already messed up a few things), but if you're not limited by bandwidth, it might be worth a shot to see. Since it does say that the options won't be visible to front and centre to newcomers.

[packy17]

Originally posted by pb:

They have previously released WoA on Stadia and surprisingly managed to get it right. The WoA itself was free and contained the ICA Facility missions. Then you could buy packages that expanded the game: H1 levles + optional Patient Zero, H2 levels + optional H@ gold content, H3 levels + optional deluxe content + optional 7DS content. So you could pay for either game or all of them. My expectation was that it would look the same on Steam.

Why was that your expectation? They clearly explained what this was and what it would cost when they announced it. And they did it during a Steam sale. I don’t see how IOI is at fault here.

[Sard]

Originally posted by tmwfte:

Originally posted by Aris:

This is talking about extra options to get Hitman 3 without having to rebuy games/DLCs you already own.

Try this. Download the demo. Launch it. See if it grants you the access packs to what you already own in H1 & H2. You might have to restart Steam. See what happens afterwards in the in-game store.

I already did this exact thing myself, and it didn't change anything. The optimistic expectation before this mess was that doing it this way would offer an unlisted way to buy Hitman 3, presumably at a reduced price comparable to the last sale. But the in-game store just redirects you to the new WOA package.

[TommyEV]

Originally posted by pb:

They have previously released WoA on Stadia and surprisingly managed to get it right. The WoA itself was free and contained the ICA Facility missions. Then you could buy packages that expanded the game: H1 levles + optional Patient Zero, H2 levels + optional H@ gold content, H3 levels + optional deluxe content + optional 7DS content. So you could pay for either game or all of them. My expectation was that it would look the same on Steam.

So... mhhhh... like H3 since day 1?

[pb]

Originally posted by PowerZox:

♥♥♥♥ these devs. First selling off to Epic Games and now this... ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥,

Yes, this problem is magnified by the fact that H3 has not launched on Steam from day one. I bought it at full price on stadia and now it's gone (since Jan 18). I want to re-buy it now on Steam, but to this day (two weeks since dropping them an e-mail) I am waiting for the instructions how to transfer H3 progress from stadia AND H1+2 progress from Steam to the new WoA on Steam (I will probably not bother buying if it's not possible, since it would be hundreds of hours down the drain), and in the meanwhile they decided to screw over H1+H2 Steam owners by disabling the standalone H3 purchase. How not to dislike them?

[edit] to add insult to injury, WoA and the deluxe packs are 10-15% cheaper (looking at base prices) at epig store than on steam, at least in my currency.

[Liam Neeson Punching Wolves]

Originally posted by XxRebel:

I'm convinced some people just like complaining. The game was on sale for $20 for almost a month and IOI let everyone know in advance that the price would increase. Everyone had their chance to buy it for cheap.

This is a pretty bad take.

But I am on the Steam Forums.

[SgtHorton]

Me and many others dont give a ♥♥♥♥ about World of Assasination mode, they just want to buy and play offline Hitman 3. Developer could just add any new mode in DLC or if they want to make it free, then can just lock access to other single player compaigns while giving World of Assasination for free.

The ONLY reason why it is still such a mess is that developer is milking same old levels over and over and over instead createing new ones.

Or if you really want to create game as service, just make everything free to play and monetize it in other ways.

[Lil' Lily]

Hitman 3 has been out on Steam for an entire year.

IOI also put it on sale, and gave people plenty of notice what they planned to do.

I can understand people getting angry because they can't buy the standalone Hitman 3 anymore, but really, if you weren't interested in buying it in the entire year it was available to purchase, then why are you screaming about it the day you no longer can?

[packy17]

Originally posted by Liam Neeson Punching Wolves:

Originally posted by XxRebel:

I'm convinced some people just like complaining. The game was on sale for $20 for almost a month and IOI let everyone know in advance that the price would increase. Everyone had their chance to buy it for cheap.

This is a pretty bad take.

But I am on the Steam Forums.

It's not. IOI did their due diligence in letting people know up front (and during a sale). Some people missed out and are mad about it. Like, okay, sure, I agree that this isn't ideal for the small subset of people who own all H1 + H2 content and just for whatever reason didn't buy 3 (even though it's now been on Steam for over a year), but the new package is better for literally everyone else, especially prospective new buyers. If they did this without warning, I'd be on your side, but they didn't.

[pb]

Originally posted by SFE:

Hitman 3 has been out on Steam for an entire year.

IOI also put it on sale, and gave people plenty of notice what they planned to do.

I can understand people getting angry because they can't buy the standalone Hitman 3 anymore, but really, if you weren't interested in buying it in the entire year it was available to purchase, then why are you screaming about it the day you no longer can?

What if I bought it two years ago but not on Steam? If they put it on Steam at launch, I would have bought it here, but they chose not to. But it's somehow still my fault? I had the game on Stadia until Jan 18, with no reason to purchase it here (esp. with the lack of progress sync). Now I have the reason but no good way to do it.

[SgtHorton]

Originally posted by SFE:

Hitman 3 has been out on Steam for an entire year.

IOI also put it on sale, and gave people plenty of notice what they planned to do.

I can understand people getting angry because they can't buy the standalone Hitman 3 anymore, but really, if you weren't interested in buying it in the entire year it was available to purchase, then why are you screaming about it the day you no longer can?

Well maybe im planning to buy 1 year for now, so should i expect that it will cost 60$ by then? Maybe $80?

Truth is, developers of this game are scumbags, trying so hard to not do real work af actually creating new levels but they still increase price of old stuff.

To this day they refused to implement proper offline mode.

[SgtHorton]

Originally posted by packy17:

Originally posted by Liam Neeson Punching Wolves:

This is a pretty bad take.

But I am on the Steam Forums.

It's not. IOI did their due diligence in letting people know up front (and during a sale). Some people missed out and are mad about it.

In what world making same old game more expensive is normal thing? Never seen that before, only seen that with remasters and remakes, but World of Assasination is not a remake/remaster, its same old game with new DLC that is new game mode.

[RebelStorm]

Originally posted by Meshify:

Originally posted by SFE:

Hitman 3 has been out on Steam for an entire year.

IOI also put it on sale, and gave people plenty of notice what they planned to do.

I can understand people getting angry because they can't buy the standalone Hitman 3 anymore, but really, if you weren't interested in buying it in the entire year it was available to purchase, then why are you screaming about it the day you no longer can?

Well maybe im planning to buy 1 year for now, so should i expect that it will cost 60$ by then? Maybe $80?

Truth is, developers of this game are scumbags, trying so hard to not do real work af actually creating new levels but they still increase price of old stuff.

To this day they refused to implement proper offline mode.

You want them to create new levels but complain about them trying to make money. Do you think game development is free? The level of entitlement here is absurd.

[packy17]

Originally posted by Meshify:

Originally posted by packy17:

It's not. IOI did their due diligence in letting people know up front (and during a sale). Some people missed out and are mad about it.

In what world making same old game more expensive is normal thing? Never seen that before, only seen that with remasters and remakes, but World of Assasination is not a remake/remaster, its same old game with new DLC that is new game mode.

It's more expensive because it now includes all of Hitman 1 and the standard Hitman 2 levels at no additional charge.

This is why they let the people who didn't own Hitman 3 yet know ahead of time that the base price would be increasing + why it was happening. Now the day is here and everyone's mad because they didn't read it.