I’m taking some time away from Hitman for a while.
There are several reasons for me doing this, but the main one is that the game isn’t really giving me much joy right now, and it hasn’t done since August. It’s not just the fact we get less and less content each roadmap, it’s not just that IOI’s priorities have shifted to spamming Celebrity DLC’s every few months to attract new players. I’m just exhausted of all of it. IOI’s anti-consumer behaviour, and the wait for the company to do better – to be better. I would like the company to communicates properly with its users, that acknowledges its flaws and problems and apologizes for its mistakes. But we’re ten months in to 2025, and nothing has changed, not really.
I’ve thought about my role in the Hitman community for a while, a game mod/ fixer-upper/ informative person, and while I like doing all of those things, it was the modding that kept me playing, and that appeal is being chipped away when I have fewer reasons to boot the game up. I like to think I bought this game to have fun, and play the levels in new and interesting ways, not just to cover it on TVTropes and mod it occasionally. But as I said, there’s less content these days.
I don’t want to leave forever, I feel like I’d be doing everyone a disservice if I did that. But I’d rather focus my attention elsewhere and play games I know that make me more happy. Fall Guys, Monument Valley, I might even get Sonic Crossworlds soon. And I’d rather create videos on those games and on topics that I still find fun in the meantime. Right now, It’s like i’m pretending everything is okay between weeks-long content drops consisting of reused Elusive Targets, mediocre item reskins, and increasingly overly-complicated ET missions that should be permanent additions to the game, when I’m clearly not okay about this. It’s like going back to IOI in 2019. The fact that mods have kept me around for this long only makes the content drought worse, and again, makes me wonder what I’m still doing here.
I made this decision last night while I was going to sleep, and while I was editing my now-cancelled review of this patch. I’d just be repeating myself from the Banker, as well as what I’ve already said on here concerning the Infiltrators. Not only that, but I also had an almost 8-minute rant covering topics I’ve said on here that have been wilfully ignored by the PR team. There’s no point trying to reason with a company or its marketing team that won’t consider all possible feedback, and makes me feel like I’m talking to a brick wall.
And If there’s one underlying problem I have with the game, is that IOI’s own business practices this past year have had a significant effect on my own enjoyment. Entirely preventable confusion over editions that still remains a core complaint and is one of the most asked questions on discord and reddit. The travesty that was the Sapienza Edition, the crossovers with controversial companies and figures, the lack of communication when updates arrive, the recent 25th anniversary edition that celebrates nothing about the franchise.
And, more worryingly, a recent disregard for QA and testing the game properly, where the game gets more bugs and oversights each patch that won’t be fixed for 60 days at minimum.
It shows that the developers clearly have their minds elsewhere, and I’d rather not be subjected to those failings for a while.
Even my excitement for 007 First Light has been tainted by IOI’s marketing, and that’s not releasing until March 2026. So again, a break until that releases might be in my best interest.
I’ll still be making videos on Youtube, and I have other projects, such as my webcomic to keep me busy. I just won’t be posting around these parts for a while.
Thank you to everyone on here, I’m gonna miss many of you and the conversations we’ve had, and possibly could have.
I’ll see you all soon 
though you can still hang out with us in the off-topic forums!
