No answers have been given about that. I have the game and I kinda hope they shut down the servers. It'd be pretty fucking hilarious to watch as the people that defended Denuvo and this shit always-online crap have a meltdown trying to defend IO after they've been butt-fucked out of the game they paid for.
Powertormenz has been vehementl defending it as a brave cool hip move and how thats how the business is done now as shown by their internal research hahaHow does all of this rage pertain to IO and not their then overlords, Square-Enix? I'm sure IO protested against the always online/DRM/episodic bullshit.
Did the new Hitman sell really poorly? Why is Square trying to offload them?
Hm, would make sense. Googling implies they only sold around 180k units. At least a few weeks after launch, it's probably a few thousand higher now, but nothing too too high. If they had a high budget it could have led to a big deficit. I wonder if the Episodic nature of the game contributed to the cost of development and total amount of sales.Did the new Hitman sell really poorly? Why is Square trying to offload them?
I heard a rumor that it was the outrages pølse budget that did them in.
Steamspy puts it at 600k but that's without the episodes.Hm, would make sense. Googling implies they only sold around 180k units. At least a few weeks after launch, it's probably a few thousand higher now, but nothing too too high. If they had a high budget it could have led to a big deficit. I wonder if the Episodic nature of the game contributed to the cost of development and total amount of sales.Did the new Hitman sell really poorly? Why is Square trying to offload them?
I heard a rumor that it was the outrages pølse budget that did them in.
I think Io would already be dead at this point if Hitman had "tanked hard in sales".
Nobody from SE made any comments about sales being disappointing or sub-par in any way.
And the saddest thing is, that steamspy figure for Hitman shows 650K, but it counts even people who only bought first episode. So it is not even 650K in full price, it could be 550K in 5 dollar purchases for all we know.
Hitman tanked. Completely. Hence Squeenix getting rid of it. And yes, it is Squeenix's fault for forcing episodic and online bullshit on it.