Hitman 3 Site Crashes, Preventing Progress Transfers

The site dedicated to allowing players to transfer their progress from earlier games into Hitman 3 has crashed, preventing the feature from working as it should.

IO Interactive set up the website in order to let users carry over items, unlocks, and rewards from Hitman and Hitman 2 into the latest release. However, with the website down, players have no way to get access to the content.

Speaking on Twitter, a spokesperson for the studio confirmed it was working on getting the site working again and would update everyone when the progress transfer was functioning.

We're hard at work on getting IOI Account back online to enable progression carryover.

We'll tell you when it's fully operational again. Please press F5 on Twitter instead of our site. We want it back up and running just as much as you do. Thanks! pic.twitter.com/4St0a2hYtQ
— IO Interactive (@IOInteractive) January 20, 2021

Another update came on the Twitter account hours later, with some progress achieved.

Update on progression carryover:

We're processing thousands of players and getting more of you playing.

If you complete the process and see that your request has 'failed', it will be placed in a queue on our end and processed. You can do no more.

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— IO Interactive (@IOInteractive) January 20, 2021

– We're escalating an issue where you're not receiving emails for new accounts or resetting a password.

– We're doing everything we can and reading all your comments while we work.

– Thanks for sticking with us and we get everything running smooth.

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— IO Interactive (@IOInteractive) January 20, 2021

Although it is possible to play Hitman 3 without transferring progress, it might pose problems if players later decide to carry over their saves. The process erases all current Hitman 3 data, meaning that any progress made in the new title will be erased when carrying out the transfer.

This is not the first controversy that has affected Hitman 3 over the last few days. Earlier this week, IO Interactive drew criticism when it emerged that players who own Hitman 2 on PC would be forced to buy the game again on the Epic Games Store to get access to its content.

The developer later changed its stance and offered an Access Pass that is discounted by 80% to players so that they can get access to all previously released content.