The 70% discount also can't stop the player's anger.
Last week, the first "Killer: Annual Edition" of IO Interactive's "Assassination World Trilogy" landed on the GOG Mall, which attracted the attention of many players, and this time the official login to the GOG platform officially gave a 70% discount, and the discount is very sincere.
But this time players don't seem to be planning to buy it, but instead give the game a lot of bad reviews on GOG. As of now, the game has only a rating of 1.4 out of 5 on the GOG platform.
The reason why players don't buy it is not the quality of the game itself, but the play restrictions - the signature selling point of the GOG platform is that the games sold on the platform are DRM-free, which means that the player buys the game itself, not just the right to use the game, and does not need to play the game content through the Internet.
But this time, this is not the case with the GOG version of Killer: Annual Edition, according to the player's reaction, they not only need to network to create assassination contracts, use leaderboards and complete limited-time missions, but also after the player repeatedly performs "mastery" upgrades on the map, if there is no network, you will not be able to get new starting locations and new equipment that can be unlocked after the "mastery" upgrade.
The mandatory networking problem of the "Killer" game is not surprising to fans who have experienced this game before, which is also an anti-piracy measure taken by the game company, but the problems of incompatibility with online and offline saves and server disconnection brought about by the mandatory online game have been criticized by players. When the news of the "Assassination World Trilogy" landing on GOG came, many players once thought that IO Interactive was "transformed" and intended to give players a better gaming experience here.
However, the truth is not as the player thinks, although on the DRM-free GOG platform, the game page is also specially marked "DRM Free", the result is that people still have to hit a wall in the game everywhere because of the Internet after paying, which makes many players deeply dissatisfied.
Players also give bad reviews for good reasons, "from any point of view this is not a DRM-free game".
Many players complained in the comments section, some people believe that IO has not made any improvements to the networking problems criticized by players since the release of the game in 2016, "how lazy is IO", and some players accuse the GOG platform of deceiving player consumers.
Because the evaluation is too low, coupled with some players even breaking their mouths in the comment area, GOG officials have to respond. 3 days ago, Gabriela Siemienkowicz, head of community management at GOG, posted in the comments section that they had taken note of the player's feedback, that they would investigate the questions raised by the players, and that they would make some improvements in the next time. However, they said they would also deal with some posts that did not comply with platform review guidelines.
It is worth mentioning that the game is currently particularly well received on Steam, while GOG has received the lowest rating of all the "killer" series games on the platform, and it is also necessary to go online to experience all the game content, and the same game has a completely different situation on the two platforms.