Don’t worry, modders are taking care of it lol
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You’ll probably get bored of the game sooner than that, or there will be an apocalypse, but then no one will worry about the game, or IOI will go bankrupt - but then it will probably unlock full access to the game before that happens, so it can be played offline.
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Well, hard disagree from me on that then. I’ll leave it at that as it’s not only off topic, but definitive.
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Dude, I still haven’t gotten bored with Sonic 1. I don’t get bored with games, I just play others for a while until I come back around. Nobody seems to have realized this about me by now, but I value my entertainment above all things, including life, health and happiness.
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Simple guide for everyone on Hitman Forum.
Is Heisenberg wrong? → No → Heisenberg is never wrong
Is Heisenberg wrong? → Yes → Heisenberg is never wrong.
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Oh no, Heisenberg, can be and has been wrong. But you’d better have the evidence to show it. 
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Case in point… 
I, for one, thoroughly enjoy pretty much every discussion I have with you!
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This community:
“I hate it how the game basically railroads you into SA because it has the best rewards”
Also this community:
“I hate it how this new game mode doesn’t railroad you into SA by giving it the best rewards”
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Agree, but most probably IOI will remove this online restriction when they stop support WOA and move to next hitman game. Because what I’ve understood from this article is that they use Online service to understand gamers need, analizę and provide updates. So when this comes to end it also removes DRM.
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We can only hope that they’ll be that reasonable.
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They must do that, because online restrictions removes half of content which game provides. So when they decide to turn off servers - this is only option if they want have profits from sale. Take a look on GOG case when they released game there.
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One of the reason why Hitman moved to being a live service online game, was in response to the release of Hitman Absolution. Because of the popularity of other linear sandboxes like Gears of War and Call of Duty at the time, IOI decided to crunch and complete Hitman Absolution as a very linear game.
By the time it was sent for packaging on CDs, IOI wished that they could have updated and changed much of Hitman Absolution. IOI found that a year later that a lot of players were still engaged in the contracts mode introduced in Hitman Absolution, and wished that they could have expanded and rewritten the code for the contracts mode.
Now, you can play Hitman Absolution with your CD, but it is frozen in time to 2012, a decade ago.
The advantage of the live service, always online Hitman Trilogy is the low cost, and capacity for IOI to constantly update the Hitman Trilogy. Someday it won’t be updated and will become legacy digital data, like Hitman Absolution. RIP.
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That’s all fine and dandy, but unless how it exists when they decide to stop hosting it on the servers can be made completely playable without them, it’s not worth it.
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Most likely IOI won’t generate an offline version of Hitman, since it is all coded from the ground up to interact with online servers. It would be a lot of work to create a version that runs in offline mode, other than what IOI have done already. A lot of legacy online games are disappearing though, such as what Ubisoft did recently. But Hitman was designed with porting of new content on a regular basis, which will keep the host servers busy for many years to come… Hitman is IOI’s premier title, so it may be more than a decade before the servers are shut down.
The fact that they will shut down eventually is all that matters. Whether it’s ten years, twenty years, or tomorrow, it makes no difference; all are equally enraging. Without full offline play, this is not a game that I can look forward to playing even into my old age. That is unacceptable.
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Well this is good to know, thanks 
Even if they patch in an offline mode, it’s not going to give the game immortality anyway - it’s just putting it on life support. The game’s chances of immortality died the moment the game released.
Patches aren’t going to be around forever, so even if IO did develop an offline mode - at some point far into the future those patches would become unavailable and then the offline mode dies and only people with the game already installed will still have it. Anyone else will be let the husk that shipped in January 2021.
Dude, I’m all for Let’s Get The Pitchforks Out if IOI don’t patch H3 to be much more fully featured offline and I’ve said as much, but sentences like these where you go out of your way to sound like a knob are pretty wearisome and don’t help the cause.
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So get a pc and install mods that let you do that right now. Seems preferable to letting millions of people suffer
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This is the kind of thinking that leads to the ruin of franchises. Stuff like the “always online” issue needs to be called out, lest Hitman become a caricature of itself.
Even as a PC player myself, I can admit that (1) that’s not so simple for everyone, and (2) that should not have to be resorted to in order to avoid “always online” in a game that is fundamentally single-player only anyway. Hitman simply should have never been an “always online” game.
If you’re not willing to sacrifice millions to a cause, you’re not fighting hard enough for it.
/s
(or am I?)
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