https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/handheld-gaming/capcoms-steam-deck-verified-games-are-being-made-unplayable-with-new-drm-that-only-punishes-paying-customers

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    10 months ago

    Capitalism continues to ruin everything it touches.

    How much money, time, resources and manpower is wasted on anti-piracy shit? Probably costs them more than the supposed "theft"

    • GinAndJuche
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      10 months ago

      The best DRM is releasing broken and updating frequently glares at owlcat it’s cheap as hell and prints money apparently too.

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    10 months ago

    I don't understand why the fuck they feel the need to patch in drm on old games. The big sales already happened at launch, the remaining trickle is hardly anything that needs "protecting".

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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      10 months ago

      Apparently Capcom sees PC as a big focus now, and as could be seen from that presentation they did last year they have a major bug up their ass about piracy and cheating that are endemic to the platform and are seeking ways to mitigate them as much as possible.

      I assume all this looks very decisive and proactive to some fossilised Capcom higher-up somewhere

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        10 months ago

        They're fucking dumbasses there is absolutely no point in upsetting the audience. The only possible benefits of drm arguable are in that first month sales.

        The best drm ever devised is making multiplayer features part of the actual game anyway. Just do that and you kill piracy. Even single player games like Elden Ring have managed to implement it in ways that are truly difficult to let go of, I genuinely enjoy the notes people leave everywhere in that.

        • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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          10 months ago

          They're a Japanese company that's used to closed console ecosystems. I think they just legitimately hate the idea of a bunch of unwashed randos getting their grubby hands all over their code, especially when it has the potential of eating into their DLC profits. Why would a PC gamer buy red orbs in DMC5 with real fucking money when they could just use CheatEngine, or pay to edit their character in one of the Monster Hunter games when they could just get a mod to do that? I believe things like the nude Chun Li tournament thing or modders making Patreon bank from porn mods for the new RE games also get on their nerves, but it's mostly about protecting their bottom line

          • Awoo [she/her]
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            10 months ago

            nude Chun Li tournament thing

            This 100% upset them.

  • ksynwa_from_lemmygrad [he/him, des/pair]
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    10 months ago

    Apparently they released a hotfix to fix the Deck issue: https://nitter.net/monsterhunter/status/1749739083738267987

    No idea why they decided to slap shit DRM to it. It has already been cracked so it's only the people paying for the game getting shafted by it.

    • citrussy_capybara [ze/hir]
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      10 months ago

      not to stop pirates, an unofficial street fighter 6 tourney on twitch had one freeze-gamer use a naked Chun-Li mod & capcom did this to stop modders embarrassing them

      • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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        10 months ago

        That’s stupid. There have been coomer mods for Resident Evil for the past few years and no one gives a shit lol. People still praise their games. Why would you waste your reputation on something that essentially has no negative effect on you as a business? If they were a prudish company I’d understand. But you don’t get to make a giantess monster who throws around your puny body and cry when people goon

        • LeZero [he/him]
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          10 months ago

          The Chun Li incident was pretty public, coomer mods for the RE games are still pretty niche

          • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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            10 months ago

            Yeah but I can’t imagine it was BAD publicity. Overwatch is just porn that someone decided go tack gameplay onto

            • GhostSpider [she/her]
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              10 months ago

              Capcom has been trying to get SF to be seen as a serious eSports for a while, it even broadcasted tournaments at ESPN in the past, and they even made a player switch a risque costume he was using in the finals once. So that Chun-Li thing? Yeah, wasn't a good look.

        • Sinistar
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          10 months ago

          It flashed up on screen very briefly before the tourney caught it and switched it off. Still embarrassing.

    • GinAndJuche
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      10 months ago

      It’s cyclical. We just need to hope somebody doohickeys the father so the son can inherit and start being PC friendly again.

  • Aria@lemmygrad.ml
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    10 months ago

    Isn't this a bad idea from a technical level because now we can just compare the previous patch to the new patch and get a really good narrow place to start for figuring out how the DRM works?

  • beef_curds [she/her]
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    10 months ago

    I primarily use linux, including for games. While I think proton is amazing, I think linuxheads paint too cheery a picture. They'll be like "all my games work and yours will too."

    Shit like this is exactly what happens. It's why I still keep a small windows partition for when games are being fucky.

    A game pushes an update with new drm or even just using a new library, and you end up with the rug pulled. This story is just a high profile example of something that happens on the reg.

    • Hexa_2
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      10 months ago

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  • sekibanki
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    10 months ago

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    • Comp4 [she/her]
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      10 months ago

      Honestly I assume its just the higher ups being completely out of touch boomers.