IO Interactive wants PC gamers to buy Hitman 2 again to access its missions in Hitman

[WYP]

One of Hitman 3's best features is now a liability on PC.



Read more about IO Interactive forcing Hitman 2 players to rebuy the game's content for Hitman 3.

 

[spolsh]

Way to damage a franchise ... well done IO

 

[Greenback]

They didn't force me to buy 2 again, they stopped me buying 2 copies of 3 as my son plays them and I'm not buying h2 4 times so I'll just wait for steam and a sale at this point

 

[Dicehunter]

Considering IO will lose out on a hell of a lot of sale, Epic must've given them a big pay cheque for 1 years exclusivity.


I'll get this on Steam on sale in 2 years time.

 

[ImprovizoR]

Way to damage a franchise ... well done IO

I am going to continue repeating this until everyone eventually gets it:


GAMERS ARE STUPID!


The vast majority of them anyway. They have no impulse control and no sense of anything that goes beyond "ooh, shiny! Must have it". This is why pre-orders, DLC's, Season Passes, Exclusive crap etc. still exist and why they're profitable.


This will do nothing to IO or Hitman other than make them a whole lot of money. Every major studio is aware of how dumb an average gamer is and how likely gamers are to spend money on worthless crap.


We have broken AAA games selling millions of copies with a promise that they will get fixed in the future. We have Early Access titles that never seem to go beyond Early Access. Just look at StarCitizen for crying out loud, the greatest scam in video game history.

 

[grec]

This article is a tiny bit out of date now, the dev team at Epic are looking into ways with which users can register their Steam games to activate the DLC on Epic, it's more of a technical issue rather than an active marketing decision either way.

I never bought Hitman 1/2, but I got Hitman 1 for free with Epic and loved it so I'll definitely be buying 3 + the 2 DLC, and think a lot of people are in the same boat on that one.

 

[Greenback]

What I don't understand is you need an Io account to play Hitman, surely that would tell them you own the games I would of thought