I’ll just repost my thoughts on the matter here
The Elusive Target concept and formula are just outdated. The whole selling point of the celebrities are, well, the celebrities themselves. The ET formula doesn’t add anything and only takes away the enjoyment. The arcade, while it’s replayable, forces you to play the mission with a mandatory restrictive complication that is only fun to do maybe once. This is particularly annoying with the Bruce Lee arcade where completing the mission with the complication is ass numbingly long and makes multiple playthroughs a pain.
You could just release those packs as standard missions with challenges and the enjoyability and replay value will greatly increase. You could keep the limited time aspect only for the people who don’t own the DLC and maybe also restrict some elements like the challenges, that way all players still get to try the mission for free but there is an incentive to buy the DLC to get the extra stuff.
Hitman is all about freedom of approach and replayability. The ET concep goes against this core principle. There is a reason a sizable portion of the community has been asking for permanent elusive targets since pretty much H1, and the arcade doesn’t fully satisfy this need.
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