Economics of Hitman games in the modern day

I said my piece several days ago both on here and on Reddit, but I think it bears repeating that this is literally just an expansion pass by a different name. Like, that’s all it is. We got this stuff as part of the more expensive Gold Edition back in 2018, and even some of the free stuff had free unlocks (admittedly not nearly as customised, i’ll be fair).

Generally if I pay upwards of £80 for a game, I expect all the content to be in there. IOI is in a stronger financial position than last year so it’s clearly not a case of needing to do it to recoup debts, this was done to capitalise on the audience, and frankly, I expected better of IOI than for them to pull this. Not only is this DLC sectioned up and releasing throughout the year, the naming scheme is juuuust ambiguous enough to generate hype and keep the attention of the people who will pay for it.

I strongly urge people to vote with your wallet and not let this succeed. I’m pretty sure it will do regardless, but the less money they get from this particular scheme, the better, and there’s more chance they’ll merge it with the Deluxe Edition.

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