Capcom to implement "one save file per game"

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Buying used video games is great for gamers who don't want to pay full price for the latest hits. You know who doesn't like used video games? Game publishers. In a very sad twist, Capcom's fighting back against the second-hand game market with a game that can only support one save file — for life.

It's been confirmed that Resident Evil: Mercenaries 3D for the Nintendo 3DS is a game that once finished, cannot be reset for complete replay. According to both the U.S. and U.K. game's instruction manual "saved data on this software cannot be reset."

Basically what Capcom has done is make Mercenaries 3D a one-time play affair. Once you've unlocked all the goodies and played the entire game, you will not be able to erase the game's save data and start fresh as if it were a new copy. Consider this: lending Mercenaries 3D to a friend, a little brother or sister will be worthless because they'll only be able to continue playing the game with your saved settings and create their own.

We get that game publishers don't make any money off sales from used video games, but killing off the ability to hit the reset button is just taking things too far. It's like saying Upperdeck is entitled to a cut in my autographed Michael Jordan basketball card I sold at a garage sale for $10,000 some 25 years after I bought it.

While it can be argued that used video game sales are actually more damaging than piracy, it's still a lowball move for Capcom to make, especially with a franchise as large and significant as the Resident Evil series. Will other publishers follow in Capcom's footsteps to take a stand against the lucrative market of used video games? We really hope this isn't a sign of things to come.

I'm not sure what's worse - Duke Nukem Forever being totally mediocre or this new "feature" possibly making it to other games in the not-so-distant future. Discuss!

 

[Sabre]

Mediocrity > DRM castration.

Hell, this is probably the worst form of DRM ever, because it just destroys replay-ability.

 

[Jelly]

Man, it would really suck if the save-file got corrupted. O_>

 

[FER]

Meh who cares, its Resident Evil. It has been sucking balls for a long time.

Capcom has been going down since a long time ago too, whoring their games alot and modern gaming made them decide to kill megaman.
Only great game by capcom on this last few years is the monster hunter franchise and even then its kinda hampered by "online only" features.

 

[Sabre]

FER, it's still bad for all games because it gives developers bad ideas.

 

[FER]

True but i get the feeling what really gives the developers ideas is the nerds who buy the games.

 

[Sabre]

Doubt that the gamers told developers to implement anti-piracy and anti-reselling implements

 

[FER]

No but some dorks will still buy this and some might even like it.

Just like Twilight Princess

If the consumer was the viocious force that we are told then we could make them know this is crap by not buying the game, however thats not gonna happen. Funny thing one of the few that can team up for a specific purpose is anon on 4chan...

 

[Thothie]

Hopefully the backlash from this will be as strong as the one Spore received, which seemed to stop EA from applying their installer limit anti-piracy method to any future release. Anon will get wind of it, and raid their Amazon ratings, etc...

I kinda figured this was the next step to on-line saves though - couldn't think of any other reason to implement it really. Hackers do tend to get around it. I read that, with Assassin's Creed 2, Razor (or maybe Skidrow - one of those piracy groups) simply setup a proggie where you could launch a file save server linked to your local IP - thus saving your games on your local system. Granted, such work arounds are out for non-PC gamers, I suppose, save maybe among the truly l337.

It is sad how ready they are to screw legitimate users in an effort to stop piracy. Seems there must be better ways to go about it.

 

[FER]

Making cheaper games,lol.