The recent patch for Resident Evil Revelations highlights Capcom's practice of incorporating new DRM into some of its games. This software seems to disrupt modding and could...
  • Norgur@kbin.social
    80·
    10 months ago

    It’s baffling how so much of the world is driven by the blind grasp for the feeling of being in control by executives and how nobody stops the nonsense when it’s just that: nonsense

      • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        10 months ago

        The anti-modding attitude of japanese tech companies is utterly ridiculous. People were literally arrested in Japan for modifying Zelda saves and generating pokémon. People’s lives ruined over some flipped bits of fictional stuff.

        I can only imagine this law was created to protect microtransactions, which if anything would make it worse. All this to defend companies fleecing addicted gacha whales.

  • EK13@lemmy.worldEnglish
    40·
    10 months ago

    I’m glad this is being brought up. As the article mentions, one of the affected games was the Ghost Trick remaster which received a 5.6GB update with no explanation. It was only through data mining that people realised Denuvo was removed in favour of Enigma.

    The worst part for me is that Enigma lives up to its name and people have been left guessing about where it’s coming from. Some people think it’s Capcom’s in-house DRM while others are linking it to some Russian company with the same name that Capcom may have partnered with.

    As I understand, this DRM has already been cracked so it’s not even stopping people who want to pirate the game. On the other hand, I love Ghost Trick and I wanted to buy gift copies for some friends over Christmas but this move really put me off.

    • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      7·
      10 months ago

      Even if they were switching to a theoretically uncrackable DRM, it’s such a silly waste of time and resources: the cracked version still exists, has still been cracked, and is still being shared.

      And also because there is no such thing as an uncrackable DRM, at most it’ll slow pirates down and at best it won’t cause headaches for the actually paying customers.

      But business has, oddly enough, never been known for making good business decisions, but somehow they keep getting away with it

    • Fat Tony@discuss.onlineEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      Well how can we turn a profit if we don’t control every single aspect of the product our consumers have “purchased”.

  • NaoPb@eviltoast.orgEnglish
    21·
    10 months ago

    I guess it’s easier to sit on properties and try to keep profiting off those than it is to make up something new that the kids will like.

    Still a dick move though. Gotta keep making new things.

    • Squizzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      232·
      10 months ago

      Copyright should have a 15 year limit.

      Publishing rights must be used or piracy is legitimate.

      • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        10 months ago

        Copyright in the US started as 14-year duration with an optional extension of more 14 years. Considering how fleeting digital media is, this seems far more reasonable than 120 years as works for hire.

        People may advocate for physical media however much they want, in 120 years most likely it will all have become trash. It’s not a reasonable duration for cultural preservation.

        • Squizzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          I mean a lot can happen in 120 years, like that’s an insane amount of time to reason against something for the good of consumers.

          Nintendo published a Mario collection last year and then stopped it’s sale. They failed to provide a medium for those games for a very long time and I think they should not have grounds to argue against people pirating their content given they didn’t make it readily available.

          I don’t even think they should be allowed lock it behind a new console like saying they offer the title on the switch Nintendo online service, it’s not good enough.

  • pastermil@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    12·
    10 months ago

    Is it me, or are all these Japanese companies that are known for making great products now making dick moves?

    • quirzle@kbin.social
      17·
      10 months ago

      The Sony rootkit thing happened nearly 20 years ago. They’re not just now making dick moves.

    • hagelslager@feddit.nlEnglish
      9·
      10 months ago

      In a way Japan is both innovative and conservative when it comes to technology and business. There are still business practices going on there which have been phased out in “the west”. If you look at the Japanese music industry for example it’s both 21st century and stuck in the 1990s for some reason.

      • danque@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        10 months ago

        I had to learn how to use a Fax when working in Japan. Yeah faxing is still a thing there.

          • dankm@lemmy.caEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            Fax, like POTS has a legitimate purpose. It’s a lot easier to intercept and/or edit an email in transit than a fax.

  • BudgieMania@kbin.social
    9·
    10 months ago

    well I think I see the problem sir
    you wanna benefit from an ever increasing customer base in an evergreen ecosystem, without being willing to deal with any of the potential difficulties (many of which you are electing to present as bigger than they are) that stem from the mechanisms that have made that ecosystem reach such a huge customer base and that have made the titles on it stay evergreen in the first place.

    The cure is to exercise the simple logical reasoning of considering:

    1. That that customer base is choosing a platform with a higher friction of entry for a reason.
    2. That your older titles keep selling on it, even while being significantly outdated in terms of support for newer systems and options by default, for a reason
    3. That if the problem was so severe so as to merit acting on it, a significant issue would have presented itself at some point in the decades that the ecosystem has been functioning in this manner.

    I also suggest remembering that you own the source material that you can refer to at any point to prove that any potential issue is not your doing.

    For prevention of this ailment in the future, I recommend staying away from meeting rooms in which decisions are made by powerpoint, especially if you hear buzzwords such as “brand-risk”. Risk of contagion increases in environments in which all individuals have never executed a PC game and/or in which the average age is over 50.

    Oh it’s no problem, you are welcome. My fee will be the PC VR mode for Resident Evil 7 that you never bothered to implement and only exists thanks to a modder. Maybe next time I’ll open some support tickets to ask about that since you seem to be concerned about those so much.

    Thinking about it, maybe I should also ask where your randomizer modes are since you are trying to brick them. And the removal of the piss filter for RE5 that makes that game tolerable to the eyes, surely nobody would release that without an option to remove it right? Oh dangit proper widescreen support for the older titles, that’s another couple support tickets, oh and while we are at it also…
    I’m gonna need a notepad.

  • blazeknave@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    10 months ago

    Remember abandonware?

    If you put out some scrap jetsam, maybe the high seas would be safer. And a fed crew might even spend loot on new booty. But you’re gonna charge me for 1995… (yes, simplified hyperbole)