I wanna say something positive about the twitch drops: the purpballer is actually pretty good. instead of having the stats of the ICA19 vanilla it has the steady aim perk of a Silverballer or Floral Baller. Which I prefer in all honesty, plus it looks nice
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Oh good, it’s a silverballer reskin, not an ICA19 reskin!
So why the odd name then?
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A prime sub DOES “support a creator” financially same as any normal sub, but isn’t eligible for paid sub Drops for some reason.
Possibly because they want you to purchase your way into an auto-recurring subscription and forget? (The free prime sub only goes for a month and stops. You need to remember to re-check it to stay subscribed – and get every monthly game manually too)
Or encourage more spending from customers individually instead of having that cash-flow go through Amazon Prime’s service?
No way to really well why it’s that arbitrary. But that’s the way it is.
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idk why it’s a silly idea. Btw fourth times the charm i finally got an SA run!
Okay, so with the release of the new free Seasonal Decorations and CelebrET DLC, there’s new stuff in the safehouse.
But please, IOI… don’t give me notifications on objects that I don’t own!
Entering the gym to find a bunch of Star icons, making me think there’s something I have that I didn’t check out yet, but… no, it’s just new Splitter items that I can’t access anyway…
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It’s been the same for every ET DLCs so I wouldn’t have expected the Splitter to behave differently. Kinda weird all of them aside from the Undying focus on the gym though :x
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Ah, okay. I must’ve forgotten then. I mean, last time I would’ve seen that was in June for Disruptor which I never bought.
I bought the Undying at release.
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The Drop had one too.
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So one streamer revealed on their stream that IO gave a bunch of other streamers early access to The Splitter ET so they could record content for their YouTube channels, to promote the game/ET.
Unfortunately, it was also stated by this streamer that one of the others streamers IO selected was atrioc. The guy that got busted for using an AI porn site that was using other streamer’s faces without consent - including people he knew and his friend’s partner. Which had a huge backlash due to using female streamer’s likenesses without consent and the deepfakes distributed online.
Do better choosing who you want to do stuff with. First Conor McGregor, now this moron as well? Seriously… Do you look into people’s pasts at all or do you not care as long as it can lead to game sales?
This guy should’ve been blacklisted like MrFreeze2244 was years ago. @Combatglue
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Live again in case someone still needs their purple baller
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IOI, Hitman devs, Combatglue… Please make an account on BlueSky. Get away from Elon’s melting website, please… (Also so I can better keep up with news, I barely use twitter anymore)
Also about a day ago, IOI/Samir and friends held a livestream talking about the patch notes and roadmap! (…did anyone on the forums notice? Did we get notified about it here?)
They used the HITMAN twitch channel instead of the IOI Official channel… Why do you guys have two channels and how long has this been going on? 
Ahhh… so that’s two behind-the-curtain streams I missed now… 
Awww
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Putting my Season Of The Splitter content on hold due to missing Disruptor DLC, i hope to fix this asap 
Stay tuned for updates 
I think I’m going to create and maintain a topic for the new Hitman Streams.
Could be useful.
Edit: done
(also I don’t know if it’s Swedish thing, but ICA is pronounced with a soft C, not IKA. Certainly accidental, but not a good look)
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Is Holiday Hoarders really seasonal content?
In my mind/memory it’s always there.
It’s always there if you bought the game but IIRC it’s only available around Christmas for people who use the “free starter pack”.
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to give a little extra knowledge to this situation, atrioc had a 6(ish) month hiatus after this incident
during that time, he invested his own time and money into having all those likenesses removed from the sites (through use of an ever-running kill code that he co developed), and during the process earned thanks and forgiveness from pretty much all the people that were affected by it
i’m in no way saying that excuses his mistakes, but personally i feel if the people involved in the matter could see it to forgive him then who are we to push for a blacklist? everyone has the capacity for mistakes, i believe taking accountability and steps to rectify those mistakes should be largely considered when making an overall judgement of someone
he also has had more success in promoting hitman to a much wider audience than almost any other content creator, through both regular streams with fellow speed runners & multiple competitions that invite anyone and everyone to attempt a custom made contract to win large amounts of money straight from his pocket
this alone is reason enough for IOI to be grateful towards him, and as i said above if the people directly affected by his actions aren’t pushing to cancel him then i don’t see why IOI should feel differently
just my two cents, obviously it’s a murky situation that i’m sure a bunch of people will feel differently about
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to compare that to the mrfreeze situation, (i was a regular viewer of both channels around the time of the “incidents”) i’m fully aware of the atrioc situation because he himself was fully transparent and published a video explaining the whole incident when he returned to youtube
i’m only aware of the mrfreeze incident because i heard it through secondhand sources, as far as i know he’s never mentioned it in any way which feels more like trying to sweep it under the rug
also not that it should have any impact on the situations, but mrfreeze has long been a HEAVY critic (some could say chronic moaner) of almost everything IOI does around hitman. it’s not dissimilar to a lot of the comments on the forum, but on a platform like youtube that kind of disposition and tone doesn’t exactly do any favours for IOI in the way of attracting new players
again, just my opinion and anyone is welcome to disagree
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Only because he got caught out and wanted to try save face and not have his content creator career die. It wasn’t something that was in the works beforehand, so it doesn’t count.
If they’ve purposefully distanced themselves from Conor McGregor for sexual assault and blacklisted MrFreeze2244 for using his Hitman channel to groom underage children - there is a recurring theme here on when IO choose to distance themselves from someone. Now they’re just selling out/ignoring it for financial gain by having their game promoted and it should be called out that they’ve made a bad call.
Especially since the recorded video hasn’t even been posted.
again it’s only my opinion, but i think actual SA and underage grooming are quite more severe than looking at a porn site. it’s weird af, don’t get me wrong, but his actions didn’t directly harm anyone involved
Besides the emotional turmoil he created for the people whose likeness was used because he accidentally promoted the site in question which had a surge in usage prior to them pulling the content. Which would’ve been pre-downloaded and will live on forever on the internet now because nothing is ever gone forever.
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