chandra: Dear GOG community!
Thank you for bringing this topic to our attention. We’re looking into it and will be updating you in the coming weeks. In case you have purchased HITMAN and are not satisfied with the released version, you can use your right to refund the game. At the same time, while we’re open for meritful discussion and feedback, we will not tolerate review bombing and will be removing posts that do not follow our review guidelines.
SgtHobbes: Dear GOG,
All reviews made by people bought the game on gog and then left a negative review should be valid. You advertise as a DRM free store. Elusive targets, user created missions and escalation missions being locked is understandable as they are triggered remotely. IO interactive blocking basic features like weapon, outfits and starting location unlocks behind an online requirement is a form DRM and should not be tolerated. I would rather see hitman 2016 and subsiquent games be removed for from gog than let ioi get away with it's blocking of basic features.
I'd rather IOI fix all of this, so we finally have an offline version of Hitman 1: GOTY.
This should've came DRM-FREE w/ all of the Single-Player content worked offline and all the extra content was all unlocked, all ready to go on its original GOG launch. GOG and IOI should've agreed on that, before dropping the game here.
Well, it didn't...and now they're getting slammed for it, by their fans of DRM-FREE games on GOG.
Why do we deserve an offline Hitman 1: GOTY? B/c we got enough games now leaning too much into online-services, proprietary online servers, content locked behind online servers, games with only central severs, games w/ nasty DRM, games stuck behind client-app requirements, and whatnot.
GOG fans deserves games and versions of games coming here with offline support, especially for games that are single-player games - which Hitman 1: GOTY pretty much is.
Games like these - especially really good ones like the Hitman games - deserve to preserved.
And many are likely ready to drop some $$$ and coin, just to get some offline games w/ No DRM.