Breja: It's something that could be fixed in two minutes.
andreasmaureder: They did something that took only two minutes... they deleted nearly all negative reviews from the game site!
my review got removed for sure. and this time i wasn't even calling for RIOTS at night!!!
PxxR99: Dear GOG, I've been a happy customer since 2009 according to my account, although my memory tells me that it's been even longer than that. And I'm also a huge fan on the Hitman series. Having said that, this situation is completely unacceptable and if IO is unwilling to patch this game then it does not belong in this store.
I have a spotty Internet connection and playing this game on Steam, it would repeatedly take me out of the game to tell me that my connection has been lost and my progress would not be saved, so I would have to play levels sometimes repeatedly and just hope the connection would last until the end of the level just to get the mastery ranks. And those ranks are a huge part of the game. Sure, you could play each level once and see the story to its completion, but the whole point of the Hitman series is to play around the sandbox they have created for you and to try different methods, and for those the unlocks are vital on getting it done. How are you going to do the sniper challenges for example when you can't unlock the sniper rifle?
And that is to say nothing about what happens when those servers go offline permanently. Most people seem to assume that IO will patch offline mode into the game then, but if they haven't bothered to patch it in 5+ years they probably won't do it later either...
MOST STEAM USERS ASSUMED that Valve would make all their games DRM free if they ever closed down...