I was very vocal a year ago about the whole EGS vs. Steam issue. My take then, as it is now, is that I don’t care what storefront/platform the game opens from. A lot of people were pretty adamant about wanting all of their games “in one place” and so were planning on either not buying the game at all on EGS or buying another copy once Steam starts selling it. I just click a single icon on my desktop and the game starts. It doesn’t matter to me whether the EGS client, Steam client, or any other client opens at that point to actually play the game.
My question now is just whether anyone who did buy it on EGS with the intent of buying a second copy once Steam starts selling it would now rather just stay on EGS given that progress doesn’t carryover or if they intend to buy the second copy still?
I personally don’t care about that
All my Hitmans are on Steam, and all my stats are on Steam. Epic was just a… side-kick.
No doubts. When the game is bought on Steam
I will be more than happy to play the game like I do it for the very first time and achieve everything again. Not a problem for me
Personally I’m buying it again on Steam and never touch the Epic version again. My main worry was losing HITMAN 2 exclusive items and thankfully that has been addressed, I don’t mind having to do HITMAN 3 stuff again.
On the specific question you’re asking, I’d be surprised if anyone who this time last year was in the camp of “I’ll buy H3 on EGS in 2021 because I want to play the game now, but I’ll also buy another copy when it releases on Steam in a year” would have changed their mind in the interim after learning of today’s update to the PC progression carry-over situation.
If anything, there’s even more reason today for people who in 2021 would have considered buying a second copy of H3 on Steam than there was this time last year, because this time last year it looked like if you transferred your Steam H2 progress to EGS H3, you’d never be able to transfer your Steam H2 progress to Steam H3… and today we’ve learned that that is possible, even if EGS H3 progress is lost in the process. This news makes it more likely that people might buy a second copy of H3 on Steam, IMO.
On the subject of progression transfer - and as someone who is very protective indeed of my completely 100%-ed H1/H2 progress on Steam - I might give it a few days after the Steam release before doing my progress transfer import from Steam H2 to Steam H3. I remember the stories of progress transfers going irretrievably wrong due to the IOI website being hammered this time last year, and I do NOT want that happening to me!
Somewhat interesting side-note: I looked in my Steam library at my own Hitman stats after @Count.Rushmore mentioned that. Apparently I played 400 and some hours of Hitman 2 but less than 1 hour of Hitman (2016). I think I must have bought HItman 2 and somehow bought Hitman 1 thinking I needed it to play the H(2016) levels in H2. Then I bought the add-on/access for Hitman (2016) in Hitman 2 so I played all of Hitman 2 within HItman (2016).
It’s fair, therefore, to say I have never actually played Hitman (2016). In any case, I uninstalled both of them a while ago and only have Hitman 3 installed now. I still hope I don’t have to have the Steam version to use the PC VR stuff but we’ll find out this week!
Who are you asking? Personally, I have no reason to unless I have to buy it through Steam for VR. I think most of the rest of the people who have recently commented on this thread are going to buy it on Steam though.
Neither are a platform, PC is. IOI is just being unnecessarily finnicky. It doesn’t treat H2 transfers from EGS to Steam as different platforms, but H3 is apparently different.
This is a bad idea IOI. I know people in this thread all but can’t wait to ditch EGS and re-do progress regardless; but I am not one of those people. I like my save file being a sign of my knowledge of the game; and nulling that progress because of a goddamn launcher change is insulting. Players should absolutely have the option to transfer progress from Epic to Steam, even if it means rebuying the game on Steam. It’s a little disconcerting this ruling is being enforced for no other reason than to be a middle finger to early buyers.
It might even be against Epic’s terms of service for developers, as their closed beta for publishing clearly states all games require crossplay support if they want to be on EGS (and there’s no reason to think they wouldn’t apply this rule to previously published games in their catalogue), and while it’s speaking about multiplayer games, there’s enough ambiguity in their words (like mentioning accounts and third party servers and the like) to suggest it means any online game, single or multiplayer, that interfaces with more than one launcher. Cross-play, in this context, could very well mean cross-launcher everything.
Epic made that rule to very specifically avoid this exact problem.
Kindly think your next moves very wisely. Please keep me informed of progress.
Why? You took the risk buying it early when there was no guarantee that there would be a path to transfer H3 progress to Steam at a later date. If it had been implied or outright stated that it would be in the last year, I’d agree with you. But it wasn’t and so this is a self-created problem.
I wonder if it will be releasing at midnight Thursday morning (and in what time zone) or if we’ll have to wait for the Steam daily reset at 10am PST.
Also wonder how well the servers will hold up (for both the game and the transfer website). Since a bunch of people already got to play it maybe it won’t be too bad.
