Posted September 29, 2021
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nightcraw1er.488: Gog have pointed out, and it’s always the excuse for any online gated content, that the single player experience can be played through fully on hitman as well. All that’s different is the bits from cyberpunk don’t bother you, whereas in hitman it does affect you. It is exactly the same issue.
Gudadantza: The peculiar design of the Hitman title where the online/offline content is so tied, makes that this time the differentiation between multiplayer or pure single campaign is not valid and the classic solution is not enough. To have a proper offline content game, and a proper single campaign further measures should need to be made. It is not the same issue at all. Not comparable.
And yes. I already know you do not agree. You will never be.
"This game isn't built in a traditional manner", they said. "The transition from singleplayer to multiplayer is seamless, so all that online content blah blah blah..." They kept justifying that it wasn't DRM in this one case. Bear in mind that NMS is through and through a singleplayer game, even when you play online in a server with other people. Oh look, the same is true of Hitman! What a coincidence!
Just like today, someone was defending the acceptance of DRM under the premise of "unconventional architecture". And just like today, they were wrong. It took a while and some outcry from the Gog community (and possibly, tho I am finding that unlikely, someone from Gog itself) , but a few weeks later Hello Games released a patch that unshackled the content that was was hostage to an internet connection. Thus proving that all that justification of the DRM was a bunch of bollocks.