Thoughts on H3 pricing model for H1/2 content (hopefully this doesn’t come off as too soapbox-y)
As far as pricing goes, I think the problem is that IOI is inconsistent when it comes to pricing content from older Hitman games within the newer game engine.
When Hitman 2 launched on Steam back in 2018, the GOTY Legacy pack (all Hitman 1 content, within the Hitman 2 engine) cost $20 at full price. It still is that cheap in fact, as you can see here: HITMAN™ - GOTY Legacy Pack on Steam
It’s especially ironic that buying Hitman 1 access pass from within Hitman 3 is more expensive than buying the same content within Hitman 2. They raised the to $30 in Hitman 3! They really made the same content more expensive after three years. HITMAN 3 Access Pass: HITMAN 1 GOTY Edition on Steam
This is pointless as noted above, as you can just buy this content within Hitman 2 and then location import.
IOI isn’t willing to give nearly as generous a discount for Hitman 2 within Hitman 3 than they ever gave for Hitman 1 content in either Hitman 2 or 3.
Don’t get me wrong, IOI is free to price their content however they see fit. However, if you change your pricing standards for “old game content” drastically between releases, don’t be surprised if you get review bombed. Personally, I think that Hitman 2 (gold edition) content within Hitman 3 should be priced at $30 maximum.
This is a general Hitman 3 problem though, not necessarily Steam specific.
Well, looking at the steam store pages for the H1/2 access passes it says they’re in my library…but in the demo the constant saving makes them pop in and out of availability. sigh It’s progress, I guess.
Use this form and if enough people report it, they will put it in Known Issues (I hope).
Platform:[PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S PC, Stadia, Nintendo Switch]
Disc or digital?
Level:Dubai, Dartmoor, etc
Description : Tell us about the problem in a few lines
(e.g “I cannot equip the Silverballer in Dubai”)
Steps to reproduce:
Start the game
Load the Dubai mission
Open the in-game inventory
Try to equip the Silverballer
Frequency : (Did it happen once, or lots of times, and does it ALWAYS happen?)
Also pinging @Travis_IOI to report the bug to him as well (“I find this Amoosing” challenge in Dartmoor is broken and has been for a while - it requires to kill Alexa with a Moose chandellier, but it’s not granted no matter what you do). Thanks in advance.
FSP is equal to the game ontology. Can demo be the same as the game ontology?It may be vanity to get the game itself, but this is an essential difference. In addition, we still don’t know whether the data in demo is interconnected with H3. After all, it’s two different “games”. If you play demo first and make some achievements, and then you have to play again in H3, this is not a good thing.
And I don’t understand why they only do this on steam.
not fixed for me. Game is constantly flickering some menu elements and saving every 4 or 5 seconds. I don’t know if it has anything to do with it, but it’s weird.
So far it doesn’t seem that it’s possible. Even if they manage to make the game playable for starter pack folks, it being set as a demo still breaks one of the functionalities of the starter pack, which is being able to purchase whichever part of the trilogy you want first, or upgrade what you own, because you cannot buy DLC for a demo.
