Is there a way to see how many people have bought the Sapienza edition? I’m interested to see how it fared against the other editions in the same amount of time.
Only if we’re IOI. Going off reviews: at least 3 people.
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Hmm. Well, sounds like a success to me! :p
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It’s those three people they were doing this edition for
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It’s hilarious how in my region price difference between Part One and Episode: Sapienza is 70 cents. All other Hitman 1 missions are worth only 70 cents.
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(you should totally self promote your Hitman edition creator here! https://hitman.detta.dev/ / Hitman Edition Creator: Make your own Hitman editions to show IOI how it's done)
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I’ve messaged Samir and asked if he could say anything about Episode: Sapienza and he said this: “I can not say much at the moment, but I am communicating internally what the community is feeling.”
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The description portion of “Episode: Sapienza” on the HITMANWoA sales page on Steam is still in English and not translated into the system language (which is Japanese, since I am Japanese).
Is it the same for other languages?
In this time sale, I see many Japanese who have mistakenly bought “Episode: Sapienza” when they were going to buy “WoA Standard”.
This may be due to this lack of translation.
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In this time sale, I see many Japanese who have mistakenly bought “Episode: Sapienza” when they were going to buy “WoA Standard”.
While I am not ruling out the possibility of any translation mishaps here, I, unfortunately, also think it’s reasonable to say by now that this was a deliberate choice on part of IO (also so that they can use it as a shtick to get the “OMG we’re selling for upto 90% off” effect).
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That the Sapienza Pack has the highest discount is for me evidence that criticism regarding it was either not yet considered or discarded. 
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Yeah. They even made a Twitter post claiming up to 90% discount on the franchise in the Spring Steam Sale, even though it is only true for a small technicality and grossly misleading otherwise for prospective players thinking they’ll be able to bag the whole game’s worth of story content for 90% off.
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I wonder what are the comments of that post if they haven’t disabled them.
At this point they’ve clearly shown that they don’t care and will double down on this. Let’s wait for “episode: Dartmoor” to be released later this year. Maybe that will be the 25th anniversary surprise.
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Oof. I hate those “up to” posts for franchises. Always manages to get me when it comes to recent, newer entries in a series.
Now that I’ve got a Steam Deck and I still really love Hitman, I’m hoping one day the Deluxe Editon goes on sale for more than 60% off, so I get as much bang for my buck as possible in re-completing content.
Also hopefully (I think?) mods work on SD.
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I’m not sure they do but I’d love to be proven wrong
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They should just rename it:
Hitman: Sapienza of Assassination.
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Welcome to the wonderful world of Dark Patterns!
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I happened to see a live stream of an “Episode: Sapienza” purchaser the other day who was confused when, after completing the final exam, he was sent to the campaign’s HITMAN1 Paris and redirected to the purchase screen for the “Episode Upgrade Pack” that appears immediately after.
For players who have purchased “Episode: Sapienza”, I think it would be better to jump directly to the Sapienza stage after completing the final exam, rather than flying to Paris, so that they can play immediately.
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I know the exact problem that will happen if they do that: either theyll break something regarding the menus when it comes to Sapienza or theyll end up outright removing the ability to go to Showstopper after Final Test. I just hope they dont touch it and just stick Sapienza on the front menu for Episode Sapienza players, dont downgrade the game for their sake pls io
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Certainly, I would not like to see the specs broken for players who bought existing or other packages.
A menu that only appears to “Episode: Sapienza” purchasers might be a good idea.
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Consider this video the last Hitman-related thing I’ll be making/ posting for a while. I hope to see you all soon.
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