But… why? The older versions are already out there on public trackers.
Capcom caught adding Enigma DRM to older titles, for no good reason
Submitted 10 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.techspot.com/news/101477-capcom-caught-adding-enigma-drm-older-titles-no.html
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CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 10 months ago
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 10 months ago
DRM isn’t about stopping piracy, it’s about controlling customers.
TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 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.
AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 10 months ago
Ding ding ding
XTornado@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
It’s an Enigma why they did it.
zedgeist@lemm.ee 10 months ago
*golf clap*
EK13@lemmy.world 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.zone 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
Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Yarrrr, mateys. Back to the Seas it is then!
banazir@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Idiots.
FatTony@discuss.online 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”.
jherazob@kbin.social 10 months ago
I hope this breaks the games on Deck so that people notice
NaoPb@eviltoast.org 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.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Copyright should have a 15 year limit.
Publishing rights must be used or piracy is legitimate.
TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 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.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 months ago
for no good reason
So, what you’re saying is… It’s an enigma?
blazeknave@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Hahahahahhaahha son of a gun
wololo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
just don’t play the rereleases and get an emulator then
pastermil@sh.itjust.works 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 10 months ago
The Sony rootkit thing happened nearly 20 years ago. They're not just now making dick moves.
hagelslager@feddit.nl 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.world 10 months ago
I had to learn how to use a Fax when working in Japan. Yeah faxing is still a thing there.
badaboomxx@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It is not you, Capcom is known for doing dick moves all the time.
Lightrider@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
#fuckingcapitalists
BudgieMania@kbin.social 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:
- That that customer base is choosing a platform with a higher friction of entry for a reason.
- 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
- That if the problem was so severe to merit acting on it, the issue would have presented itself at some point in the decades that the ecosystem has been functioning in this matter.
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 in the future, 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.world 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)
tabular@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Are there any open source 2D fighters?
popekingjoe@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Mugen isn’t open source, but it is freeware.
young_broccoli@kbin.social 10 months ago
Norgur@kbin.social 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