Hello! It is really amazing to see a new face here! 
I love your little banner you’ve made with and it really does perfectly match the Hitman theme. (i’ve been looking for a high res version of that background by the way - maybe you have it?)
I’ve been really enjoying modding and hanging out on the forum for over a year and this year I have made so many friends doing so. 
Here is some feedback:
I do feel like IO itself is a big negative force for me - they are participating in more and more anti consumer practices and there has been a large lack in community communication. I even left for a while and I won’t be buying more stuff from IO, even though Hitman is my fav game. (and that is super sad to say as you could imagine)
Communication:
For example, there isn’t a place to ask questions and get answers, along with there being little public communications from IOnions. In the past I’ve tried to get some questions together and send them to Samir, and he has answered them in our messages, but this isn’t ideal. I do hope he is managing okay in his sick leave.
Business practices (more serious and less out of your control) :
IO like to use the fear of missing out to the maximum and make everything always online and limited time, now also including the new dlc availability, just to name one problem. Obviously it comes down from the top with Hakan (the CEO) being all in on live service and is planning the same with 007, but anything you could do to be more community first would be amazing. For example the VR team has done wonders this year - there have been failed attempts at VR before, but this time they really put a lot of effort in and were great at fixing things and adding QOL for long after launch, and even adding more features like Freelancer support recently.
There have also been a lot of incredibly immoral collaborations which you may be aware of and have really deeply upset me. People like MrGregor who has a case against him SAing a woman were ongoing at the time of his dlc release and the mission was rerun whilst the case was in court and had to be removed. They then followed this up with JCVD who is pro Putin/ Trump and incredibly anti LGBTQIA+, and he is still in the game. Hitman is not available in Russia and has a diversity statement first thing as you load up the game. They then collaborated with a mobile game company with Hitman things being available through essentially gambling hundreds of $/£. That mobile game also has notoriously bad and sometimes misogynistic adverts. There is a big lack of care a plain negligence on the research team. IOI also lost tens of millions publishing Mindseye, a game which had obvious problems with an abusive CEO. There really needs to be more checks and I advocate for some apology or at least acknowledgment of this.
Social Media:
I wish these places were more natural and unique, and shared more community goings on, like they used to; the accounts have become extremely formulaic with the Hitman account fully focused on posts about limited time missions, all with practically copy and paste vocab and emoji spam. On the 007 side all there has been is repackaging of trailers into low quality gifs spread evenly between the trailers’ releases.
Streams:
There have been some really nice high effort ones for events like the 25th franchise anniversary with interviews and more. There were also some laid back gameplay streams from Samir which were nice, and would also be a good opportunity to answer questions if those sort of streams were to come back. Another thing we would love is more sharing of concept art: people absolutely looove that sort of thing!
I hope you have a nice time on the team!
Edit: I hope I wasn’t too mean!
So, whatever it is: Just @ me and ask!
Then I went back to try the first one Codename 47, but for some reason it didn’t stick. You know how it is: Sometimes you are mid-game and don’t play for a while due to RL stuff and then you never go back.
