I might actually buy this on sale...but...

[[drunk] 2021 Giant Stance]

The way the made the games is so confusing now. I have no idea what I have or haven't played

[Bankai9212]

Part 1 just includes hitman 2016 maps if you want everything you get the package that’s 70.

[Osmium]

You will almost certainly want the World of Assassination bundle, the one that's currently $70. Wait until it goes on sale for 60% off and you can grab it for a nice $28. The only "must have" DLC is the $10 Hitman 2 expansion pass. If you want all the DLC anyway, the deluxe edition has pretty much everything except for a few cosmetic bundles that are sold for $5 apiece.

The "part 1" thing on sale is terribly misleading and is a glorified demo. It contains only part 1 of the trilogy with maps from 8 years ago. Upgrading that to the complete game costs $40.

[Bankai9212]

Wouldn’t call it a demo it comes with 6 maps. That said woa already has a demo so this whole thing is just dumb.

[Osmium]

Originally posted by (Drunk) 2008 Chevy HHR SS:

The way the made the games is so confusing now. I have no idea what I have or haven't played

You may be happy to know I just figured it out. There's an unlisted page on Steam just for upgrading Part 1 and that upgrade is also on sale. There's a really convoluted way to find it, but here's the link:
https://store.steampowered.com/sub/981937/
Buy part 1, the thing on sale right now for $12, then the thing I linked for $16. That gets you the basic trilogy plus the DLC for Hitman 1. Then you buy the Hitman 2 DLC for $10, which is here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1829590/HITMAN_3_Access_Pass_HITMAN_2_Expansion/
That gets you all the maps and 95% of the content out there for the least amount of money. You are correct that it is way too difficult and you shouldn't need to go to a forum for help in just buying the game, but there it is.

[JoshG48]

Originally posted by Osmium:

Originally posted by (Drunk) 2008 Chevy HHR SS:

The way the made the games is so confusing now. I have no idea what I have or haven't played

You may be happy to know I just figured it out. There's an unlisted page on Steam just for upgrading Part 1 and that upgrade is also on sale. There's a really convoluted way to find it, but here's the link:
https://store.steampowered.com/sub/981937/
Buy part 1, the thing on sale right now for $12, then the thing I linked for $16. That gets you the basic trilogy plus the DLC for Hitman 1. Then you buy the Hitman 2 DLC for $10, which is here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1829590/HITMAN_3_Access_Pass_HITMAN_2_Expansion/
That gets you all the maps and 95% of the content out there for the least amount of money. You are correct that it is way too difficult and you shouldn't need to go to a forum for help in just buying the game, but there it is.

so if i own nothing, i buy https://store.steampowered.com/sub/981937/ & https://store.steampowered.com/app/1829590/HITMAN_3_Access_Pass_HITMAN_2_Expansion/ and then i own all hitman content?
H1,2,3 and some dlc but not all.
crazy how convoluted they have made this, makes me not want to buy anything, never spent this much time figuring out how to buy a game ffs.

[Bankai9212]

Originally posted by JoshG48:

Originally posted by Osmium:

You may be happy to know I just figured it out. There's an unlisted page on Steam just for upgrading Part 1 and that upgrade is also on sale. There's a really convoluted way to find it, but here's the link:
https://store.steampowered.com/sub/981937/
Buy part 1, the thing on sale right now for $12, then the thing I linked for $16. That gets you the basic trilogy plus the DLC for Hitman 1. Then you buy the Hitman 2 DLC for $10, which is here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1829590/HITMAN_3_Access_Pass_HITMAN_2_Expansion/
That gets you all the maps and 95% of the content out there for the least amount of money. You are correct that it is way too difficult and you shouldn't need to go to a forum for help in just buying the game, but there it is.

so if i own nothing, i buy https://store.steampowered.com/sub/981937/ & https://store.steampowered.com/app/1829590/HITMAN_3_Access_Pass_HITMAN_2_Expansion/ and then i own all hitman content?
H1,2,3 and some dlc but not all.
crazy how convoluted they have made this, makes me not want to buy anything, never spent this much time figuring out how to buy a game ffs.

Compared to how it was before it’s less convoluted this new part 1 makes no sense.

[knocks]

LoL, here I was thinking I could complete the trilogy and purchase Hitman 3

[Bankai9212]

Originally posted by knocks:

LoL, here I was thinking I could complete the trilogy and purchase Hitman 3

You always could woa just included everything to make things confusing hitman 3 was always 60 bucks.

[Osmium]

Originally posted by JoshG48:

so if i own nothing, i buy https://store.steampowered.com/sub/981937/ & https://store.steampowered.com/app/1829590/HITMAN_3_Access_Pass_HITMAN_2_Expansion/ and then i own all hitman content?
H1,2,3 and some dlc but not all.
crazy how convoluted they have made this, makes me not want to buy anything, never spent this much time figuring out how to buy a game ffs.

Not quite. There's 3 things total:
1) Hitman World of Assassination Part 1. This gets you the first game in the trilogy and all the DLC for Hitman 1. This is the thing you forgot in your post. You're not allowed to buy the upgrade without having this first. This is $12
https://store.steampowered.com/sub/963307/
2) World of Assassination Upgrade. This gets you Hitman 2 and 3. Without this, part
1 is a terrible deal. Together they are pretty good. This is $16
https://store.steampowered.com/sub/981937/
3) Hitman 2 Expansion pass. This is all the DLC for Hitman 2 and unlocks the rest of the available maps. This is $10. It's the one that makes the huge button in these forum posts so I won't link it again.

The DLC for Hitman 3 is pretty optional and that's all the stuff I didn't include. The good stuff is 12 + 16 + 10 = $38 total. The first two things will get you started for $28 and covers 90% of the content. You kinda have to buy 1) and 2) together. Thing 3) on the list gives some unique items and the remaining maps and brings you up to 95% of the content for an additional $10. The remaining 5% is all the other stuff combined and isn't good value for the money. Only pick that up after you've played the game and want some cosmetics.

I agree, this whole thing is kind of ridiculous to figure out. Once you've got the game, it's pretty fun, so there's that lol.

[♡]

It's hard to see this as anything other than an attempt to deliberately mislead & scam people. It's actually so bad, that I'd say it borders on an outright scam! It's made me think twice about wanting to do business with this company again, just on principle alone.

This should really be mass reported on Steam. It's such a dishonest way to try & trick people. Thankfully, I was immediately suspicious when I saw it was half the price it was from the last big sale. I knew something had to be up.

In my region it's on the store as "HITMAN 3, HITMAN 3 Access Pass" - That first part kind of makes it look like Hitman 3 is there, along with the 1 & 2.....which makes no sense, because I already own 1 & 2, so why is the option even there to buy absolutely nothing new, but content I already own in the first place?!

They could just have a separate option of "Hitman 1 content, Hitman 2" as two seperate 'DLC' packages, but I guess that would just make way too much sense & be too straightforward. Given their history of unnecessary anti-consumer always online live service, etc, it certainly looks like something done in bad faith.

[Bankai9212]

It’s because hitman 3 is needed to access that content to begin with. But go ahead and report this to steam and tell us how that goes.

[♡]

Yeh, explains perfectly why they can't just list the packages clearly as "Hitman 1/2"....

Other games have already done this. You can list separate packages on the store, that redirect to the same game launcher.

It makes me sick how many boot lickers & sycophants are out there. You'd think they actually work for the company with these stupid excuses.

Evidently you missed the whole "HITMAN 3, HITMAN 3 Access Pass" taken verbatim from the store. Gee, I wonder why they say "HITMAN 3" so many times like that in there....could it be to deliberately mislead people :/

[Bankai9212]

It states that you are getting hitman 1 access pass but again it’s through hitman 3s engine.

I’m a bootlicker how? I never said to buy it and I think the bundle is dumb and IOI shouldn’t have bothered to begin with especially without changing the names I’m not even excusing them

It’s said that because it’s needed to access the dlc/access pass. Also if you read its hitman 3 access pass: hitman 1 season pass or etc.

[JoshG48]

Originally posted by Osmium:

Originally posted by JoshG48:

so if i own nothing, i buy https://store.steampowered.com/sub/981937/ & https://store.steampowered.com/app/1829590/HITMAN_3_Access_Pass_HITMAN_2_Expansion/ and then i own all hitman content?
H1,2,3 and some dlc but not all.
crazy how convoluted they have made this, makes me not want to buy anything, never spent this much time figuring out how to buy a game ffs.

Not quite. There's 3 things total:
1) Hitman World of Assassination Part 1. This gets you the first game in the trilogy and all the DLC for Hitman 1. This is the thing you forgot in your post. You're not allowed to buy the upgrade without having this first. This is $12
https://store.steampowered.com/sub/963307/
2) World of Assassination Upgrade. This gets you Hitman 2 and 3. Without this, part
1 is a terrible deal. Together they are pretty good. This is $16
https://store.steampowered.com/sub/981937/
3) Hitman 2 Expansion pass. This is all the DLC for Hitman 2 and unlocks the rest of the available maps. This is $10. It's the one that makes the huge button in these forum posts so I won't link it again.

The DLC for Hitman 3 is pretty optional and that's all the stuff I didn't include. The good stuff is 12 + 16 + 10 = $38 total. The first two things will get you started for $28 and covers 90% of the content. You kinda have to buy 1) and 2) together. Thing 3) on the list gives some unique items and the remaining maps and brings you up to 95% of the content for an additional $10. The remaining 5% is all the other stuff combined and isn't good value for the money. Only pick that up after you've played the game and want some cosmetics.

I agree, this whole thing is kind of ridiculous to figure out. Once you've got the game, it's pretty fun, so there's that lol.

yh, cheers i managed to get it all sorted, i have played a lot on xbox but it just left gamepass so i thought i would buy on steam.
that unlinked woa upgrade saved me a few £, so cheers again.

[Osmium]

Originally posted by JoshG48:

yh, cheers i managed to get it all sorted, i have played a lot on xbox but it just left gamepass so i thought i would buy on steam.
that unlinked woa upgrade saved me a few £, so cheers again.

Happy to hear you got it straightened out! I noticed I kept retyping that sort of explanation a lot and decided to make my own post to try to help clear up some confusion. My reply to you was the basis for the guide I ended up making.