My voice joins the chorus. IOI’s consistently confusing pricing structure is skeevy, predatory, and off-putting. Any other game company doing this, dropping overpriced DLC, and the always online thing, would lose me as a player. IOI is fortunate that they made one of the best games of the 2000s, because in any other scenario I’d be preaching to vote with your wallet and not buy a single one of their products.
Don’t become Ubisoft. Sheesh.
As per my previous post (which was probably too long winded for most people to bother reading), I don’t think this Sapienza pack is intended as an effective foot in the door.
IOI doesn’t really want people to buy the Sapienza pack. It’s there mainly as a marketing ploy to make the full game (or even just Part One) seem like super value.
IOI, stop making separate bundles for your game confusing people.
What an pathetic practice. If the game is good, players come.
I don’t understand IO’s insistence on wringing out every last drop of profit Hitman has to offer them. It loses goodwill among current players and frustrates potential new players. Almost every single new review on Steam mentions the convoluted purchase structure. Nobody likes it.
At this point, I must ask- was there any point towards bringing the games under the WoA umbrella if we’re going back to doing this?
Instead of doing something like this, why not, say, make WoA an EGS freebie for a week as your marketing stunt? (It’s 4 years old by this point (approximately the same age Hitman 2016 was when they made it a freebie for a week). A lot of people will get it, at least some of them will get the DLC content, there’d a lot of nice positive optics to be made out of it.
My question is, why was this basically shadow dropped with no official announcement on twitter or any other platform? Like not only is it strange and scummy to release this as it is, but they also didn’t go all the way in advertising it, so they’re doing it wrong anyway. This is quite literally bad on all fronts. This seemed like a spur of the moment decision with so little thought put into it that it just seems like a mistake, but it clearly isn’t since they updated the comparison graphic. This is all so confusing and I quite frankly hate everything about it.
What a fantastic sight to behold, I’ve never seen such an exquisite display of ingnorance and “out of fashioness” from a once respectable company such as IO interactive. Truly a magnificent move that could only come from the most erudite of minds, only surpassed by brilliant individuals such as the three stooges, Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne, but even they can’t help being amazed at the absolute power move that IO just pulled off.
I hope that there are some aspiring psychiatrists/psychologists on this forum, because if you manage to figure out what in the name of god and everything divine is going on with the brains of whoever manages IO’s marketing team, it could be the perfect PhD thesis praised and quoted by scholars for years to come.
So let me get this straight. You went through the effort of rebranding the whole game to World of Assasination and include all but two maps in a single package for the sole purpose of making the game easier to buy. Then you release the Part one version that only includes the H1 stuff, which I don’t get why is being so succesfull because is a total scam, you can’t upgrade to the full game without paying for the H1 stuff again, I guess this is why that version is on sale so often. And now you’re selling a single map, what was even the point of the rebrand then? if you want to overcomplicate the process of buying your shit you might as well just kept the previous model with the access passes.
I’m a big James Bond fan and was exited that IO was working on a 007 game, but if this is going to be the course of action from now on, I have to say I’m not interested.
I’m in the exact same boat. If it had come out two years ago, I would have been pre-ordered so damn fast your head would spin. But now, I genuinely don’t know if I want to jump on that train and am leaning towards not getting involved now - especially since they’ve already said its likely to be a trilogy so will probably eventually head down this clusterfuck path as well.
The last year has made my opinion of IO shift quite a bit. I’m now torn between somewhat disliking them as a company while at the same time, loving their product.
Also, @combatglue: This new grid on Steam added with this Sapienza release is incorrect. It claims WoA Standard includes all Story Missions - but New York and Haven Island are in the Deluxe Bundle, so this is quite misleading and will further annoy people.
I bet you £3 this will be the only response the PR people will make on this thread that will actually be of any substance.
You could at least wager enough for me to able to afford to buy this stupid pack. 
How about this?
I will personally buy you the 7DS pack if IO responds to this thread in any meaningful manner.
Heck, if you already have that, I’ll personally buy you something else of equivalent value on Steam.
I wonder how different the trilogy would be if it was released today instead of 2016.
My only guess of why they’re doing such questonable decisions lately is because Hitman has become IO’s guinea pig to test different… um… iniciatives to implement in upcoming games and see the comunity’s reaction to them. Maybe we are going to see the final forms of these things in 007 and the RPG, hopefully better implemented.
I wonder if IO would even dare to make another episodic release considering the last time they tried that the studio almost died.
I agree with most of the statements written above.
I don’t know the reason of such pack, but it increases the complexity of something there is no need to! A new H3 edition?
If if doesn’t change the life of seasoned players, it would create confusion among the newcomers, who don’t get exactly what they purchase.
And if a new player buy the H3 Sapienza edition, do they get a discount for another edition?
It seems that IOI starts to milk the H3 cow to the very last drop of milk!
A very good guess! I do think that’s something possible. Try something and let’s see what happens.
Sometimes I’m glad NFT died before the Y3 pivot.
This is what the game should be sold like. No bullshit “Part One”, or “Sapienza Pack”. Just…three editions.
This is not complicated. You just have a complexity addiction IO.
You know, I wouldn’t be surprised if they actually go the NFT route considering Ubisoft did it twice on 2024.
And don’t forget how they took the Sarajevo Six from us, just to sell it to us again later on. 
