Well done on digging this up early a week ago! 
It baffles me that they donât make these free on any of the other platforms? Like, you can do freebies on EGS (one could argue its known for it!) and even the consoles allow for it.
I know Iâll never get an answer from IO, I just wanna point out these decisions for what they are; strange and confusing.
They did the same with giving away Episode Sapienza - that was only on steam too.
Okay, I wasnât going mad there then. That was also a bit stupid.
Like, I still hate the Sapienza edition, and even for free itâs still a pretty bad deal, but you could at least make it free on all the platforms, not just your apparent favorite child.
As someone who will migrate from Xbox to PC next year.
And bought Part 1 on sale + Lee Pack for 10 total at the start of the month.
With plan to steadily complete it, amongst other âessentialâ games on my library.
Itâs great, itâs 5 less for me ^^.
In general it will signal and boost the game, maybe.
(Now if IOI could have a cross-platform-save-transfer, if not cross-progression, so I can keep their now patented FOMO celebrET actual-mission suits, and general progression, that would be great.)
Cross-DLC is less common in fairness to IO (particularly consoles â PC), but proper cross-progresson of time playing the game and items unlocked shouldâve absolutely been a thing by now. EOS was designed to help with this!
Though we know from experience in 2021 that they can do cross-platform DLCâs and saves, they just choose not to.
I donât mind the DLCs. Itâs business.
What I mean by cross platform save transfer, is âone-time deal like the Hitman 2 to Hitman 3 progress transfer, but Hitman 3 platform A to Hitman 3 platform Bâ, just in case full on cross-progression with full synchronisation is too much.
A forked copy into another plaform.
Which I think is much more feasible, and fair of an open wish.
When I talk cross-transfer itâs mostly to conserve:
- ET suits (DragonâŚ)
- my full completinism of ET, Silent Assassin
I know there is 
, but itâs not the same.
And it would be a shame to break my involvement into the live service just because I chose / have to change platform.
I really disagree with this. You bought something on one platform, and I do not think itâs unreasonable for players to have it available anywhere else.
To give an example, Paladins allowed for cross-play, Cross-progression and cross-purchases on all platforms (with the notable exception of Sony for the latter two apparently). So itâs not like this is unheard of. That had DLC and microtransactions and an account-based system. Not unlike the IOI account system, which also tracks these sorts of things from linked accounts.
Hell, Twitch items carryover regardless of platform. Thatâs how absurd this all is. Free items carryover between platforms but not ones earned by its users or that are paid for.
Peacock really shouldnât be used by IO as an excuse to not do it. And like with many of their business decisions, I suspect their silence on the matter makes it feel like implicit endorsement. Youâre still playing their game, so why do they care? You still have to buy DLCâs, and they arenât against an offline mode, they just havenât implemented one with scoring.
This is what confuses me with the iOS portâŚwho is this for exactly? If youâre on PC and consoles, then you probably donât want to lose any progress, so this mobile port not letting you continue with your own account that has all the other DLC or progression associated with it is ludicrous and off-putting to anyone interested.
OTG gaming is a side experience that syncs to other devices, not a solitary one, at least in my experience. I play Fall Guys on the regular on Mobile, but thatâs usually when iâm bored and AFK, not because I use that as my main gaming platform. And again, that syncs to my EGS copy because it actually uses the full power of EOS, instead of one small part of it.
Interporability between ports has many benefits, and itâs high time IOI saw that too without being blinded by avarice. But apparently they need the prospect of money or excellent PR to make such changes (I.E Stadia transfers and the Xbox play anywhere ecosystem)
Donât sell yourself short. This is the kind of request that gives companies such as IOI too much wiggle room to appear gracious and philanthropic and in control, while still being unneccessarily restrictive. A one time deal just isnât good enough, and should not be what anyone is asking for.
If their servers cannot handle platform data concerning cross-platform chaos and carnage, then maybe they need a better server setup that actually caters to its user base more, and not their own weird and wild business decisions.
As you can probably tell, I am not a fan with how IOI treats its users, and I think they deliberately cultivate an image of being an underdog-turned-AAA studio to evade any problems they create by relying on a userbase that is ready to defend or downplay their more heinous actions (or in the case of the disruptor DLC, flat-out ignore the controversies surrounding content for selfish reasons unrelated to the company).
Give them an inch, and theyâll take a mile. Do not let them take a mile.
Great the makeshift pack is a DLC I need! I say as I get up from my seat
⌠for Steam only⌠I meekly sit back down and cough awkwardly
Can they give out the street pack one for free instead? Cause I really donât feel like spending any kind of money on thatâŚ
Oh my gosh it probably is..
Nice, I never bought that one and itâs my favorite of the two 
(Iâll vote for Stellaris or CK3 for Labor of Love though :x )
Ah yes, the weapons I use in freelancer when I donât want to risk the cool looking guns 
enjoy for free, though I wish theyâd just patch them into the game in a similar way the Requiem set was.
At least they are giving away a cool pack, since itâs very useful for Freelancer given the Epic rarity of some of itâs items. Still, yeah, why not give it to all platforms?
I must question most of the weaponsâ usefulness. The Scrappy Sniper Rifle is identical to the Druizhina 34 (so itâs immediately worse than the Sieger 300 Advanced/ Ghost), the Shotgun is a reskin of the concealable 12G shotgun (of which there are two in Freelancer, one of which can be consistently gotten from New York). And the SMG is silenced, but mostly inaccurate, so most other options in its rarity tier are better. Even the Katana is too specialised to be useful outside of a specific challenge/ objective.
The Makeshift Assault Rifle is probably the best weapon in the pack; there arenât many ARâs in the mode, and it is a reskin of perhaps the most useful AR in Freelancer (the RS-15), which is both silenced and a high rarity.
Almost 21:00 on 26th of November, still not free 
20:10ďźBJTďźon 26th of Novermber,still not free
IOI stuff is always a 1/2pm gmt.