Hitman 3 Debuts to Mostly Negative Reviews on Steam

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Today marks the day that Steam users can finally enjoy IO Interactive’s complete Hitman trilogy with the release of its third installment, Hitman 3, but the majority of players don’t seem to be very happy with it.



As indicated on its Steam page, Hitman 3 has already prompted a handful of initial reviews that are mostly negative from early players who have aired their grievances regarding the last of the trilogy. The main complaint seems to relate to its cost; Hitman fans on Steam are not happy about how IO Interactive launched the game, the PC version of which has been available on the Epic Games Store for over a year, at a price point of $59.99. A deluxe edition of Hitman 3 is also being sold for $89.99.



“The pricing is super confusing, and beyond insulting to those who waited a year for it to release on steam,” one critic wrote...

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[MadMummy76]

Really? They want full price for a year old game? They can keep it.

You should not buy exclusives anyway, even after they put it on other stores. We should not reward their behavior.

 

[Denpepe]

Really? They want full price for a year old game? They can keep it.

You should not buy exclusives anyway, even after they put it on other stores. We should not reward their behavior.

Thing is that if I need to stop buying games whenever anyone finds a reason like this, I need a new hobby because there won't be any left.

 

[MadMummy76]

Thing is that if I need to stop buying games whenever anyone finds a reason like this, I need a new hobby because there won't be any left.

You reap what you sow. If you keep rewarding ****ty behavior, you get rewarded with more of the same.

I completely boycotted the epic store right after the metro exodus debacle, and look at me, I'm still here, I didn't have to look for a new hobby. So yours is not an argument, it's an excuse for not putting your money where your mouth is at.

If most gamers weren't so weak minded and gave the cold shoulder to publishers whenever they did something anti consumer, they'd have to backpedal. But you keep throwing money at them, which equals to throwing all of us who stood our ground under the bus.

 

[Denpepe]

You reap what you sow. If you keep rewarding ****ty behavior, you get rewarded with more of the same.

I completely boycotted the epic store right after the metro exodus debacle, and look at me, I'm still here, I didn't have to look for a new hobby. So yours is not an argument, it's an excuse for not putting your money where your mouth is at.

If most gamers weren't so weak minded and gave the cold shoulder to publishers whenever they did something anti consumer, they'd have to backpedal. But you keep throwing money at them, which equals to throwing all of us who stood our ground under the bus.

So far I have not bought a single game on the epic game store, but buying a game on steam after exclusivity expires also sends a message to developpers, one that says you could have sold a ton more games if you did not do that crap to start with, but that is not my point.

If I go by what I read on the internet, I should avoid activision-blizzard and ubisoft due to the lawsuits around the sexual harrassement, CDPRED due to launching incommplete games, EA because they are evil, Epic due to the launcher and having Cinese money in them, TEncent for beeing Chinese, Bioware becaus they can't match the quality of their old games anymore, other studios are too woke, others not woke enough etc..

You just can't win or justify buying any games at all anymore as there is always something to stop you from doing so is what I mean.

 

[hubaduba]

I should avoid activision-blizzard and ubisoft due to the lawsuits around the sexual harrassement, CDPRED due to launching incommplete games, EA because they are evil, Epic due to the launcher and having Cinese money in them, TEncent for beeing Chinese, Bioware becaus they can't match the quality of their old games anymore

Pretty much, except ActiBliz and Ubi were trash long before the allegations, and CDPR has only screwed up one game (which I fully intend to buy, once all the DLC is released). I haven't even installed Epic for the freebies. I did take the free copy of FC6 from AMD, but prior to that my last Ubi game was The Stick of Truth, preceded I think by the original FC.

I think VTM: Bloodlines was the last Activision- published game I bought. Haven't played a Blizzard game since I quit WoW around 2005. DA: Origins was the last EA game, and the last Bioware game I played.

I still have a backlog of games I will never get through.

Buying a game for full price after a year of exclusivity tells the publisher that there is no downside - take all that sweet Epic money at first, then get full price money from Steam (and other stores) in a year. There should be consequences for exclusivity deals. At least have the restraint to wait for sales.