I only own Hitman 2 (gifted) not 3, so I don't have a full grasp of what the content was, but apparently he was a limited time Elusive Target at some point in the past. Which surely means they could have just kept their mouths shut and never featured him again and it would amount to exactly the same thing, unless it also means deleting the content for those people who still have it. Maybe a Hitman 3 owner could clarify.
So the only content you can get in the actual game are a unlockable suit, but with the help of good modding you can play all the elusive offline, there is even a server emulator so you can play hitman 3 without the official servers with progression.
So yes it were mostly their own hype of having this fellow in the game as a target, rather than anything more. Will see if the mods will lose it or not.
EDIT: Other than that Hitman 3 is not really in dev any longer, and only reskins in order to get extra sales are being done.
So the only content you can get in the actual game are a unlockable suit, but with the help of good modding you can play all the elusive offline, there is even a server emulator so you can play hitman 3 without the official servers with progression.
So yes it were mostly their own hype of having this fellow in the game as a target, rather than anything more. Will see if the mods will lose it or not.
EDIT: Other than that Hitman 3 is not really in dev any longer, and only reskins in order to get extra sales are being done.