Hitman is officially DEAD

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Fuck. Season 1 was so good.

Life is Strange was a better game than, like what 3-4, last Hitmans.

>>377804674
A couple years ago I thought Square was in a decent place but recently they've become REALLY garbage.

>>377804889
nice attempt

>>377804889
Life Is Strange is barely a game, and any Hitman past Silent Assassin is a dozen times better than that shit visual novel, including Absolution.

>>377804889
I too like to talk about games I haven't played.

>>377804674
Good, that's what they deserve for creating Absolution.
>>377804913
Square's been shit for at least six years.

>>377804674
Tragic, the new Hitman wasn't even bad. At least they ended the series on a high note I guess, better than ending it with Hitman: AbsoluteShit

>>377804995
They fully redeemed themselves with Hitman 2016

The most recent Hitman was fantastic, but they fucked everything up with their retarded Episodic format and the ridiculous amount of always online garbage they forced into it. How hard is it to just make a game and leave well enough alone? How many times do they have to force that stupid meme shit onto games before they realize it never works?

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There will still be a season 2, r-r-right?

>>377805102
Episodic was perfect for Hitman.

>>377805102
I agree that the always online stuff was shit, including the elusive targets, but it being episodic actually worked in the game's favor.

Aw, no more Kane & Lynch.

>>377805108
There will, under a new company who doesn't care about the Hitman franchise.

Look forward to Hitwoman: Black Obese Sniper Woman Edition.

>>377804942
>>377805041
>>377805102
>>377805153
>>377805169
So this is another one full on shilling thread. Alright, I'll excuse myself then.

>>377805153
>>377805169
If Episodic worked, it would have sold a decent amount of copies. Instead, the first episode sold reasonably well and the rest were dead on arrival.

>>377805251
I don't give a shit, as long as the game is good desu. They can make it about a gay tranny.

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her smile must be protected

>>377805280
Sales are not my problem, as a player it made the game better for me.

>>377805280
It worked in the game's favor when it comes to quality. I dunno about sales.

good riddance
episodes ruined hitman

>>377804889
>game
Just go watch fucking porn and stop encouraging these cancerous """games""".

>>377805313
Diana's looking a bit.. botox'd up.

>>377805279
Go say that in the e-celeb threads you retardo

Just get Eidos Montreal to make a sequel. They already hit gold with Thi4f.

>>377805356
>>377805368
>retards enjoying early access

>>377804674
Reminder that Hitman and other games died because of FFXV

>>377805041
You mean the game that is still missing features from Blood Money?

>>377804674

Thats not what 'officially' means anon.

Oh fuck off with
>muh episodes
bullshit already. I paid the standard fucking AAA game price for every episode and played them as they came out. I got my full hitman game and it was good.
How fucking retarded do you have to be to keep parroting MUH EPISODES MUH EPISODES. Just fucking die already fuck.

>>377805102
They will never stop.
Games companies want nothing more than to make games a service rather than a product, it's their ultimate wet dream.
>>377805153
If by "perfect" you mean "not a massive hinderance like it is for everything else", sure. It's still not an upside.

And it's still awful for the consumer.

>>377804674
It's not SE's fault nobody bought the game. Just another dead series that ran it's course.

I hope they make Kane & Lynch 3

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>>377805251
>E3 comes
>IO takes the stage
>As some of you may already know, unfortunately IO was forced to downsize our studio recently, this has put some of our future plans on indefinite hold
>I'm sure all you Hitman fans out there aren't very happy right now
>but all is not lost, season 2 is coming!
"WOOOOOOO" *GASP* "WHAAA??"
>We at IO interactive are extremely proud to present our latest project
>INTRODUCING...........
>HITMAN: GO!

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>€50
>6 levels

Deus Ex, Hitman...what's next?

okay is it ACTUALLY dead?
Are the servers offline? I want to play this, but I've been waiting, hoping they would renege on that whole "these people show up once then never again!" shit to punish people not interested in throwing money at an incomplete game. Seems like now's the time to rent it though, since it definitely won't be up by the end of the year.

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They deserve it for the faggot shit they pulled with Shitman 2016

And Hitman fans deserve this for defending Shitman 2016

>>377805621
>it's shiiiit reeee
Try providing an argument. Hitman missions are meant to be replayed a ton of times and episodic allows for better focus on each mission.

It's their own fault for trying that episodic shit

hitman tm was a good game in spite of the shit devs who couldn't program elevators and dual wielding. if those are the people who got fired, then all the better.

>>377805786
No, the game itself isn't going anywhere, but the Franchise has been officially (and publicly) shelved. It's a dead series now.

>>377805776
The levels are pretty huge and there are dozens of ways to take out your targets. Hitman was more about replayability, experimenting and just having fun and not some "hardcore linear story that is so cinematic and epic"

>>377804674

Thats what they get for turning the game into a fucking TV-series wannabe sack of shit, this kind of crap shouldn't be supported and I'm happy all of you cocksuckers who paid for this now have a dead series on your hand because apparently people aren't all stupid enough yet to support this kind of jewery.

Had this been a stellar financial success you'd be paying for singleplayer games for every mission separately in a few years, and between that and early access shit we'd never see a complete game released at once again.

>>377804674
lol

>>377805786
servers are still up.

elusive targets are a great idea, get over it nerd. they don't "punish" you, thats such a retarded way of looking at it.

Fuck does that mean the story isn't going to be concluded?

>>377805939
>No more sniper rifle briefcase
>No first person
>No more human shields
>No more weapon customization
>Can’t bring back weapons from missions like in Blood Money
>NPC banter is very annoying and repetitive
>NPCs ignoring pools of blood
>Terrible NPC triggers
>Episode based
>Online required
>Denuvo on top of always online DRM
An amazing performance from IO.

>>377805962
>muh slippery slope

>>377804674
If you wanted to avoid this fate, all people needed to do was buy the game. LiS is profitable, Hitman was a LARGE loss.

>>377806049

>said the person paying for online and having paid cosmetic DLC in full priced games

>>377805760
This wouldn't be that bad. The first Hitman Go waas pretty great.

>>377806067
>If you wanted to avoid this fate, all people needed to do was buy the game.

No, they'd have had to sell the game.
The whole thing, not its episodes.

>>377806008
>content that's no longer available and is gone forever because you didn't pay $60 for one hour of gameplay and praying the rest was good
>not punishing
it's pretty fucking punishing, m8. I don't mind the episodic format, especially when you can buy it piecemeal, but when you do things like remove content from a game because you want to spite people who didn't buy in pre-emptively, that's shady practice.

>>377805932
good to hear, i'll rent it from a redbox soon then.

>>377806032
Always online and Denuvo are on Square. Episodic was because IO were in a really tight spot and had to do something to both gauge interest and get some money early on so they can continue.

>>377806032
Holy nitpicking Batman!

>>377805721

I don't. The first game was fun up until the banana republic, when it turned to shit. The sequel was just shit all the way from the beginning.

Freedom Fighters, now there's a game that needs a good sequel.

>>377805804
Your post is completely fucking worthless.

>>377805776
It's actually eleven levels, though.

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Watch them drop Final Fantasy VII Remake halfway through

>>377806190
stay mad Hitcuck

Are elusive targets still a thing? I haven't got my suit, yet.

>>377805819
>I like to play this game in one autistic way therefore it's how it's always meant to be in any format
Back when the games weren't episodic shitheaps you certainly weren't MEANT to play the same shit over and over again. You could, and they added a lot of freedom and replayability because that makes the game more interesting as a quasi-puzzle game as a whole, but that doesn't mean you were expected to try out every single way of beating a mission.

And it IS shit, as it pushes the game closer to a service rather than an object that is purchased individually, making it far harder for the consumers to judge and evaluate the product, makes it harder for proper word of mouth to spread, and increases the overall cost while giving people less.
>>377806049
That's not a slippery slope, that's literally where we are right now with Hitman.

FUCK YOU SQUARE FUCK YOU SEASON 1 WAS SO GOOD REEEEEEE

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>>377806230

I wish, that would put an end to this whole "episodic" nonsense for a good decade.

Sadly it'll be a phenomenal success and from then on SE will never sell a whole game at once again.

>>377805041
no one bought it

>>377806230
The difference is that people will actually buy VII.

I honestly do not know a single person who expressed interest in even playing the last Hitman.

>>377806189
>>377806346
I enjoyed 1 and 2. I'd enjoy 3.

>>377805976
*ioi

>>377806032
>>NPC banter is very annoying and repetitive

They had like two guys doing all the NPC banter. Neither did they bother even giving an accent to the hotel staff in the Thailand level.

>>377806282
>Back when the games weren't episodic shitheaps you certainly weren't MEANT to play the same shit over and over again.
When the levels are well made, built around replayability and worth replaying, one map of Hitman has more worthwhile content to it than an average shooter. Sorry it's not the 60s anymore, grandpa. The change was for the better.

>>377806375
>no one

>>377806239
Not mad, I'd like a discussion but you wont even specify what you think is wrong with it. Are you just too stupid to describe what you don't like about it?

>>377806230
That is only going to happen if SE accepts its own death, after FFXV they NEED a game that will be an actual success and FF7 Remake was always the panic buttom, hell, they even said they may want to do more remakes because they don't know what the fuck to even do anymore with FF

So what happens to the game when servers get abandoned? Is the base thing at least playable offline?

God, how I hate that I even need to ask such a question.

>>377806352
You mean like what's happening now?
https://pastebin.com/Aicn8QjK
It's Kotaku, but yeah

Good. It was shit. Shitty boring levels, nothing close to meat fetish or hell and heaven party. No sniper case either. To hell with this game.

>>377806585
it's playable offline on consoles. But you don't get upgrades and can't track tons of stuff/no unlocks, so you're stuck doing native Procure On Site suit 47. No clue about PC but I would assume it's forcibly always online.

>>377806032
>>NPCs ignoring pools of blood
this. a game from 2006 actually had this.

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Less diverse team now :)

>>377806763
Why would they even fucking state this?

>>377806496
It wasn't more content, it was better made content.
Not everyone is an austist who replays the same shit over and over again.

>>377806763
They do this to cover their asses so people don't complain about stereotypes etc.

>>377806861
Then Hitman was never for you. Stick with CoD.

>>377806857
So baguettes and other foreign sissies can't get offended at misrepresentation.

that's their punishment for going always-online.

>>377806857
So you can kill black warlords, mossad operatives.
Australians raised in marxist communes, Russian spies turned fashion moguls and others.

>>377806857
>>377806926

because there are people who think that you're a racist and try to ruin your career when you portrait a certain group of people in a negative way.

in the game it's the Moroccans

>>377806993
This. There is no excuse for always online single player. Not a single one. Every such game must burn until they learn.

>>377804995
>least six years.
Try sixteen.

>>377806857
because after ignition entertainment (the creators of el shaddai) got fucking shit on so hard by lawsuits of people claiming their game was anti-semitic that disney pulled out after publishing a limited run of the game and refusing digital distribution runs, every single publisher out there saw the potential for backlash and started to put that in. Even el shaddai did, day 1 patch included a splash saying the same shit.

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>lesbian "how do you do fellow kids" visual novel gets sequel over actual game with actual gameplay

>>377807158
I guess you could say life is strange.

>>377807145
fucking jews.

>>377807158
>but but waifus
life is strange cuck faggots who shilled here did this. rip hitman.

>>377806346
2 was straight up trash garbo and 1 was clunky as well, but what the series lacks in gameplay it makes up in kino.

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>>377807209
It was a shitty time, but you can't keep people with a message and a story to tell away from the public eye.

The Lost Child, basically an RPG reboot of el shaddai is being released in a few months. the way it's being shown off is basically "what if SMT didn't tiptoe around the god and devil stuff, and you literally played as lucifer fighting god".

which is about 10 years late cause SMT already went all out and did it, but i'm still excited cause I love the aesthetic of heaven presented in el shaddai.

>>377805041
you mean the game that has online drm on top of online drm? drm for a game that is essentially a single player experience?

yeah, nah

I just talked to a friend who works there and it sounds like they haven't told the employees yet. I may have been the first person to tell them that most of them will lose their jobs in like an hour. He stopped responding after saying everyone started getting worrying and becoming vocal.

Woops

>>377805590
I hope ff7 fails because of this model

in b4 that one fucking webm that's ALWAYS posted in Hitman threads

>>377807386

Can I pirate it yet?

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>>377807158
>>377807314
>They still got general on /vg/ running

>>377807441
they announced the shuttering like two weeks ago, fagguette.

>>377806049
>it's just horse armor what could possibly go wrong?

>>377807441
>My uncle works at Nintendo and says the next Zelda is in space

>>377804674
So, did Square-Enix keep Hitman after sacking IO, or did they take it with them?

>Caring about Hitman
They aren't bad games, but they are nothing really special either, and they have made a million of them already.

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>>377805102
they will never understand

>>377807503
/vg/ was a mistake.

>>377807559
Every game is in space if you think about it.

i THOUGHT IT USING DENUVO WOULD GENERATE MORE GAME SELLS?

>>377807582
Remains to be seen but I guarantee we'll hear word of it at e3. Everyone's expecting them to mention it in some capacity. More than likely a proper announcement of no season 2/server shutdowns/ending elusive targets/etc/etc.

>>377807642
DELETE THIS. PC PLAYERS ACTUALLY PIRATED 3 TRILLION COPIES

>>377807603
Name one game similar to Hitman that isn't Death to Spies.

>>377804995
Yet it wasn't absolution that got them shit canned, keep your shitty bias outta here, it was the shitty 2016 that you all love so much. So I would say, they got what they deserved for making 2016 as it was shit and I am not talking about the business practices surrounding the game either.

>>377806857
SJW brownie points.

>>377804674

Has anyone ever read the book Ready Player One?

Isn't IOI the name of the evil soulless corporation bent on ruining video games forever in their quest for profit?

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so, did shitposters start coming out of the woodwork because they heard the news?
hitman threads have been fairly decent besides that AI autist.

>>377807512
They sure as hell didn't tell anyone who actually works there.

You would be surprised at how often this happens and how little the employees actually pay attention to this shit. The same thing happened to popcap a few weeks ago. I saw an article about EA letting go of a shitton of people, called my buddy who works there, his only response was 'wait what' and after he got back from lunch his entire office was called one by one into a meeting room to get their pink slips.

>>377807797
Messages like that predate SJWs.

See AC1.

>>377804674
Good, I don't care how good a franchise is, it could be objectively one of the best games ever designed. I'd still talk mad shit
>episodes
>seasons

I hope this franchise never comes back and IO shuts its doors permanently.

>>377807884
Obviously not.

>>377807898
>>377807907
welp, thread derailed

>>377807951
>I hope this franchise never comes back
this. better dead than squared. rip thief, hitman, deus ex and soon tomb raider.

>>377808064
>rip thief
>he's still blissfully unaware

>>377806563
SE is no where near dying, as long as FFXIV exists they are gonna make money from it. Hell one of the items from the cash shop in that game made them half a million dollars by itself.

>>377807741
What for? That's not what I'm saying.

>>377808195
>they are nothing really special either
Then it should be easy to name a few similar games.

Squeenix keeps sabotaging games so they can peddle more bullshit movies. Fuck Japanese EA.

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/grand-theft-auto-v-has-shipped-80-million-units-mafia-iii-5-million-units-civilization-vi-nearly-2-million-units/

>Mafia III has sold 5m units

Squeer Enix really pulled an xbox one on this, Mafia 3 is still borderline unplayable, yet the shills sold 5 million of them to normies, fucking japs ruin everything

it's funny i would've bought and recommended H:S1 to more people if they didn't do the always on DRM and content forever locked behind a time wall. instead i pirated it, played one level then uninstalled.

>>377807741
The Saboteur with the Nazi costumes.
That is about it.

>>377808313
Mafia 3 is 2k not SE

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>>377804674
>ff15 doesnt make enough to break even
>blame all loses on another studio because muh honor
not the first time this shit has happened fuck you Square

>>377808180
Yeah but can you be dead certain that dropping FF7 Remake would be actual suicide though, the game that people always kept creaming themselves over, they also kept getting saying they wanted the consoles to be far better for it to be made and yet when FFXV started getting delayed they came out of nowhere talking about how it was time to remake FF7 and now how they absolutely refuse to tell how much FFXV sold and just keep saying how much it shipped.

They won't die but they sure as hell aren't in the clear, they are also letting go of a bunch of western studios less than a year after FFXV got released because the games didn't sell some insane amount

>>377808124
>he's still blissfully unaware
https://mobile.twitter.com/DavidAnfossi/status/864102129040072706

>>377808376
Nothing else about The Saboteur resembles Hitman at all and the disguise system has maybe 1% of the depth.

>>377808313
Learn to read. It shipped five million, not sold.

>>377808231
Incorrect.
Unique =/= special.
Sonic Boom is "unique", doesn't mean you'd want them to keep making those.
Where does hitman need to still go that you think more games are needed?

>>377805621
the powers that be are fully aware cable TV is in it's death throes. gotta turn gaming into a subscription where they can, and throw add into everything else

>>377808313
Shipped. Not sold. Blunderborn shipped a lot in retail and they are rotting there.

>>377808594
Hitman doesn't fit any normal genre definition, making it both special and unique no matter how you define the terms. Should shooters have gone extinct after Wolfenstein 3D?

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>mfw they shelved Hitman for Tumblr is Strange 2, which will be the same fucking game if they want to sell anything

>>377808681
>Blunderborn
anyone else always think of bloodborne when they first read this and get confused? happens to me almost every time.

Did they close the servers yet? You niggers deserve everything for supporting this crap.

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can't wait for more quality writing and story.

>>377808997
Maintaining servers is pretty cheap.

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>>377808406
>inb4 some weeb faggot defends SE's fuckery

>>377809061
then why companies ask for paid online sub?

>>377809147
to maximize profits you underage fuck.

>>377809147
Because they get away with it. They would ask 10 times more for no reason if the market allowed it.

>>377809196
so jews

>>377804913
Square has been shit since the merger.

>>377809061
Implying IOI has any money left after squeenix dumped them. They'll close down in months, drop the servers even earlier.

>>377804674
what the fuck man, season 1 of Hitman was fucking great and they were like less than a year away from releasing season 2

the fuck is wrong with square enix

>>377804674
not even denuvo saved Hitman

>>377808736
Games in general don't fit regular genre definitions.
Go to steam, filter by a genre, you'll see you get a bunch of dumb shit that makes no sense.
We can have an hour long pointless discussion about what really is an "action game".

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>>377804889
>game

>>377809318
And still for almost all of the games that aren't indieshit can easily be compared to something similar. Hitman doesn't have that.

>>377808406
>not the first time this shit has happened fuck you Square
What was the other time?

Fucking nips, stop killing every western franchise you've got.

>>377807145
Source?

>>377809512
All 3 FFXIII games

It's also another reason why they stopped rushing FFXV, which was going to be a side-story to the XIII games at the time, and why Type-0 had the name change

>>377804674
Good. Anybody that supported spoon feeding content over time deserves this.

>>377809241
yes. when businesses grow it becomes all about the bottom dollar. this is true for almost every industry.

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>>377808406
I wouldn't even be surprised if this is exactly what happened.
The new Hitman seemed to be doing quite alright, but then again, the retards at Square also considers five million sales a failure and then proceeds to either kill or put most of the popular franchises they've got on ice, so who fucking knows.

>>377809643
But what did they blame their losses on that time?

Can't wait for the crash

>>377809147
Because managing large low tick servers for a million players that have to track every single action from combat to item management is a lot more expensive than managing servers that just check if you're online.


Unfortunately most fucking MMOs are fucking jew and don't even get decent servers and have one for every region. FFXIV has no right being 12.99 a month with 1Hz and 3Hz tick servers. Not even Blizzard is this cheap.

This is actually probably a good sign. It means they're still thinking they've got any kind of future.

Fuck Square, fuck the entire 'pantheon' of antique gook gaming companies generally. this is all the fault of their ridiculous pride

>>377809909
>The crash already happened
>You were too busy complaining to notice.

If you hadn't noticed, games suck more then they don't.

>>377810191
not as much as last gen at least

>>377810253
I haven't noticed the improvement.

>Killed Thief
>Killed Deus Ex
>Killed Tomb Raider
>Killed Hitman
>Muh Final Fantasy

Squeenix are worse than EA and Capcom at this point.

>>377806857
Assassins creed has had these messages since like day 1.

>>377810374
>(((assassins creed)))

>>377804674
>killing more games with white dude protagonists
Good, video games are changing for better.

>>377809847
Legacy of Kain and its devs

>>377810349
Are they worse than konami?

>>377810349
>Killed Tomb Raider
Only in terms of design, Womb Raider: Chains of Patriarchy will be around for a long time.

>>377810478
Over this past year they've certainly been worse.

>>377810478
Funnily enough, Konami are the ones that are pushing for more strict laws dealing with pachinko and any gambling in japan but no one ever talks about it because it ruins the narrative that Kojima was a saint and only Konami fucked up

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>hitman is being shelved to fund life is strange 2
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>377810475
There wasn't even a Legacy of Kain game out at any point of the FFXIII games, how the fuck does that work?

>>377809847
>>377810475
Didn't they try to blame the Tomb Raider reboot and Deus Ex too?

>>377810630
They are bad in the first place for leaving gaming for pachinko

>pushing for more strict gambling laws

And now they are ruining the market they abandoned gaming for

>>377810630
>pushing for more strict laws dealing with pachinko and any gambling in japan

And what laws are these, because I can only imagine them trying for laws they benefit from, such as increasing the gambling minimum, or something equally retarded.

>Square killed IOI before they could bring back the suitcase rifle
Fuck YOU.

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>>377804674
What was the budget for hitman? it sold 620k copies on pc according to steamspy http://steamspy.com/app/236870 surely thats enough to cover the production cost and give profit.

I mean nier reached 1m sales and it obviously has lower budget than hitman and it was good enough for the ceo of square enix to appear on the celebration stream.

>>377811148
Taro is buttbuddies with someone in SE
Nier is a Japanese game and not a baka gaijin murder sim.

>>377811148
many of those are episode 1 demos and noped the fuck out of the always online crap, meanwhile Mafia 3 sold 500k on Steam despite ayy lmao tier bugs everywhere exposed before launch, bugs can be fixed by a competent developer, but hitman's problem is SE, they tried to push that online leaderboard crap since Just Cause 3, makes ubisoft look like good guys at this point

>>377810692
We warned you not to let waifufags be pandered to but you didn't listen to us.

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>>377811661
>having anyone from Life is Strange as a waifu

Microsoft will buy them.

>>377811148
>it sold 620k copies on pc
>surely thats enough to cover the production cost and give profit.
This is SE we're talking about, anon.

They were disappointed with Tomb Raider 2013 when it only sold 3M copies.

>>377811943
No you fool nintendo will and episode 2 will be switch only

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>>377811943
>Microsoft buys IO
>Hitman becomes Xbone only
>doesn't sell well because it's not a game that matches up with your average xbox only player
>they try again but reboot it and/or turn it into another generic shooter
>suddenly sales out the ass

>>377812053
That's because 3M wouldn't cover the losses from XIII and XIII-2

>>377806239
fuck off life is a fucking faggotry faggot

>>377804913
>Final Fantasy XV not received as well as they wanted.
>KH3 still a ways away.

They're probably in "Shit, we need to focus" mode. Probably dont wanna risk anything selling less than favorably, so they'd rather drop it.

That being said, Squeenix in recent years totally fucking sucks.

>>377804942
I actually have to agree here.
But, Life is Strange is dragging in shittons of money from normies and animu loving girls. Literally every girl I know between the ages of 18 and 28 has played the fucking game. And two of them cosplay characters for "photo shoots". Which, holy fuck the autism, but whatever.

>>377805621
>It's still not an upside.

It totally was an upside though. It kept people talking about Hitman throughout the entire year. Sites like Giant Bomb kept going back to it and making new video content for each new mission release.

>>377806170
he is right, you can't deby that.

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>inb4 bought by EA
>inb4 sequel/remake to this

>>377811581
>>377811148
And Nier still got fucked, the Director wanted budget to make DLC like the ones for Drakengard 3 with story, instead they gave him just enough to put costumes and lift assets from FFXV and told him to fuck off

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>>377813084
>inb4 bought by EA

>>377813265
it's the most likely thing to happen

>>377812637
Not an upside for the player.

>>377804674
its amazing they managed to fuck up so bad, and the game is fucking good. It has to be a first somehow. Greedy fuckshits at squeenix deserve a bullet.

>>377806032
>DENUVO IS ANTI CONSUMER
*tips fedora*

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>>377813297
n-no you're lying

>>377813614
Who else would buy them? Ubisoft? They're busy getting taken over

Only other realistic option is Activision.

Unless Sony or Microsoft picks them up as a first party dev, which I doubt

>>377813598
>No you see I WANT my vidya to have 10% of the budget diverted to something other than the game itself

>>377813713
Strangely Ubi was looking into buying SE earlier this year because Wildlands sold incredibly fucking well

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>>377813713
>Only other realistic option is Activision

>>377804913
They were for a while.
Sleepy Dogs PC port not shit
Womb Raider 2013
Agreeing to backpeddle after the shit with Absolution
DE:HR
Cheap bundles

Then they turned to shit.
Hitman split into seasons
Womb raider 2016 shitty performance and grafix errywhere along with NO WOMBS
DE:MD half a game

I know what happened too - Nomura fucking happened.

>>377813884
Uni can't buy SE, it'd never be allowed.
However, SE /could/ sell off what's left of Eidos including the Eidos brand.

>EA buys IOI
>Merges them with DICE
>Change their name to EA Nordic
watch

Bethesda buy them, please. Thanks

>>377813441
But it is. I enjoyed going back to it every now and then for the new stuff. Most games I blow through in a couple of days and never play or think about again, usually regretting paying for it afterwards. I don't regret paying for Hitman.

>>377814193
>Zenimax
pls no they'll just pull the plug

>>377814171
>Hitman 5 is an FPS on Frostbite

>>377814378
Didn't IO not get the IP

>>377805181
I can't be the only one who agrees with you

>>377804674
First absolution, then this cancerous, always-online, episodic, DLC-laden garbage.

Good riddance.

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>>377809030

Even if hitman survives who can get the license and not turn it into shit
>bethesda
will canibalize IOI the instant they have an opportunity, like with obsidian or prey 2
>EA
self explanatory,
>Ubishit
see above
>CDPR
extremely unlikely
>Devolver
not enough money
>valve
too busy printing money with digital hats

>>377816961
Sony maybe? They don't seem to particularly care if a game takes 10 fucking years to come out even when they're the ones funding it.

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>>377804674
Wait, enough people actually bought the first game to guarantee a fucking sequel to that garbage?

>>377804674
hitman season 1 was good
but it cost more then most AAA games
it was their own fault for not being efficient

>>377817783
I guess, since they already had a deal with sony for the Ps4 exclusive "sarajevo six" contracts.

>>377817783
>Having to play Hitman on a controller at 720p30fps
Just give the series a graceful death if you must.

>>377818084
What does that have to do with how good the game is in the end? I played hitman 2 at 800x640 and I had a blast because the game was superb.

>>377818217
That was fine back then, but technology moves forward.

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>>377817807
Holy shit I didn't know it was shit bad.

>>377817807
Wait, is she telling her to rewind time or something?

Does she realize that she wouldn't actually know if she rewound or not?

Does she realize she could've shot herself like 400 times now?

>>377817807
It's more popular than you think, even on here threads about it are mostly positive. It's a horribly game, not because it's SJW or whatever many people accuse of it being, but because it's terribly written tripe that doesn't do a single interesting thing with its time travel mechanic, which was the only interesting thing about it.

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>>377817807
>rewind time
>repeatedly watch her shot herself

>>377805279
>shills a piece of shit garbage "game"
>calls people shills when they actually talk about decent games

>>377818318
If that's your stance on it then why can't you just not play it in that scenario? Why wouldn't it even be allowed to exist even if other people would still enjoy it?

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>>377818474

Who said hitman is dead? They're letting people go to save cost possibly to save the studio till another publisher comes forth. I say hitman season 2 is more alive than ever

>>377804674
Good, that's what you get for shilling that turd so obnoxiously.
Get fucked.

>>377804995
>Good, that's what they deserve for creating Absolution.

yes, i have waited for this day.
Better companies were dumped even before the game was released. Those fucks were allowed to live after this turd. The only good thing about it was the nice looking hitman statue included with the LE. I got that one for a few bucks.

This is a good day.

has squeenix surpassed EA?
this is fucking disgusting

>>377804674
>LiS
>a game

Call it what it is, a VN

>>377804674
F

>>377818826
Absolution wasn't even IO's fault. Square pressured them into doing it.

They were actually allowed to make a good game with 2016.

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>>377807208

goddamnit

>>377819123
kek
yeah sure

hey whatever square enix did, they surely didn't ask for some shit game. They may have asked for casualized, but they could have implemented proper difficulties and not shit mechanics like the blend in crap. And proper levels. And proper AI. And could have written a proper story.

But nope, shit game it is. Entirely their fault.

>>377809030
You know those people who are saying "Video games will soon have their Citizen Kane"? I used to hope for that too, before the dark times. Before the Tumblr empire came.

>>377819938
outdated.

>>377819938
I thought flying fire extinguishers were patched.

>>377811785
>>377811785
Good lord, people are actually attracted to Chloe?!? But she's such a cunt. I was actually happy to kill her. I mean, Max is okay, but Chloe?!? She's the embodiment of everything "edgy" teen girl!

>>377818714
Aw, the little guy doesn't know how things work these days. Bless his innocent soul.

>>377818650
I just had a wonderful idea. I'm gonna call my girl to borrow that shit game again. Might not be as worthless as I thought.

>>377819938
lethal syringe

>>377811581
Lol, then why buy Eidos at all? Is SE stupid?

>>377804913
Square's been fucked since the fucking merger, my dude.

>>377819853
>they surely didn't ask for some shit game
Thief 4 speaks otherwise

>>377822573
>>377822573
It was fucked when they released the spirits within.

>>377804674
Who is going to buy them?

>>377825508
17 year olds

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>>377819853
>they surely didn't ask for some shit game.
>They may have asked for casualized,

>>377826517
What

>>377804913

square died when they fused with enix, any talent they had left fled to monolith soft

>>377804995
Sixteen years. FFX was an ok games.

>>377805781
Tomb Raider has already been given to another developer. I don't expect any more after Shadow of the Tomb Raider, I really don't expect the new developer to care about the series or bother doing a good job.

They sent out an e-mail conducting market research on Hitman less than a month ago. Companies don't eat that expense for getting feedback and parsing the data just to can the project, usually.

>>377804674
Where does it say it's dead?

>>377805313
>>377805420
can I get a quick rundown

>>377805181
I know that feel bro

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>>377831904
>lets see the results
>well, no one was that particularly interested

>>377831993
iunno, might have to do with IO interactive literally being dropped by their publisher, but retaining the rights to the series. dropping literally everyone who worked on it might be seen as you know, bad for the series