Capcom plans to make 3DS game unreplayable

What a ridiculous idea that is!

I smell a boycott...

 

Incredible...
German law forbids such practice btw. Resale is my holy right as a customer.

 

I'll file this one along with those plans Sony apparently had to limit the number of different PS3s a game could run on before some chip or writeable sector on the disc would clam up permanently. (edit: which is to say, BS until a lot more info is known. It's simply too harsh on the paying customer for it to actually come to fruit as suggested.)

 

This idea is so ridiculous, I hope the backlash alone is enough to kill it. Game companies have really got a thing for used games, but I can see the reason why: now that reviews are mostly unreliable or at least come out a day or so after release, they're hoping that if they drop a smelly turd on the market (for example, Duke Nukem Forever), they can hope to sucker as many people as possible to pay full price for it...

Reminds me of the original PC floppy version of Pinball Dreams (or Fantasies?) which you could only install 5 times before the floppy would be corrupted...

 

you could still resell the game

 

No problem, I'll wipe the save with a homebrew tool then.

 

it does sound like this is real, which blows my mind.

A one-way internal hardware function would prevent this (the 360's CPU does exactly this with efuses to prevent older dash revisions being used, as an example). The question would be of cost-efficiency. I imagine there's just a flash chip for saves which just gets zero'd at the end of the game and wouldn't be too hard for someone who knows what they're doing to re-flash and fix.

No word on how much of the game is replayable - there has to be some carrot to go with the stick for the paying consumer, surely? It'd completely spoil my experience of the earlier parts, knowing that each bit I was playing would be for the last time unless I bought another copy. Ugh, fuck that.

http://blog.esuteru.com/archives/3465059.html
Copies going second hand for 500 yen, is that?

 

If this doesn't get contested and removed somehow, buying games like Gyakuten Saiban second hand will be useless!

Also, I thought 3DS saves were saved to the SD card?

 

Source?

 

The older I get the more screwed up my "electronic hobbies" become. I guess as I said in another thread, I am being "fired as a customer". Good riddens to electronic entertainment in 10 years I guess. I won't pay for prodcucts designed this way, period. I suppose I can always do more mountain biking, martial arts, dog training, hunting, doing art by hand on actual paper, building models and heaven forbid reading books again!

But, I guess I could just play all retro until I die. There's plenty of old good stuff on the market. Likely more content then I'll have time to finish.

 

The more I read about the 3DS the less appealing it becomes. Nintendo fuck us over with region encoding, the hardware price here in the UK is greater than either the 250GB 360S or a 160GB PS3, the software is shoddy at best for the most part and again comparable on initial release with top tier Xbox and PS games and now this?

The sooner Nintendo go the way of SEGA the better, that way they'll finally be seen for the one trick pony they really are. Yes, they've bought a few great IP's to the table but then run them mercilessly into the ground, kicking and screaming. And before anyone else pipes up with 'but so have X,Y and Z company' you're right, but none do it with the gall that Nintendo do and with the distaste it shows its consumers.

Nintendo has always hated gamers, seems their software suppliers do too now.

 

This has absolutely nothing to do with Nintendo. Although I do agree with a lot of that.

 

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I thought all 3DS games saved to the SD card in the system.

 

Its real, Resident Evil Mercenaries for 3DS is about to launch with this "feature".

 

Yeah, I checked the GameFAQs forums (eww) and they confirm this. Now that I think about it, weren't there GBA games where you couldn't clear the save data? I know Street Fighter Alpha 3 was like that (how appropriate that it'd be a Capcom game).

 

Oh I 100% believe this nonsense. In order for this to work I'd say that ALL games companies would have to adhere to this as standard practice. My hope now is that Capcom and whoever else release the odd game like this and there's uproar, or some kind of vehement protest against this.

Surely a notion such as this cannot stand in the industry. Like Alchy said, shitty re-sale prevention methods like this have been announced by the one and only DRM crazy Sony before, surprise surprise! And the publisher/company chickened out at the last minute.

There will only be ONE outcome if this happens, ROM hacking will be far more prevalent making the prospect of pirating the game more appealing than actually buying it for most (save those who want the product box ect...).

Bad Idea Capcom, bad idea... :fresh:

Fight for your digital rights people!!! FIGHT THE POWER!!! :thumbsup:

 

We must remember that 99% of the gaming public out there who see and decide to buy this game while picking up their copy of Black Ops ULTIMATE EDITION!!111!1! and Fifa 2097 will not have a clue what this "feature" is or how it works and they'll still trade it in or sell it in exchange for Wii Fat.

It may only have a negligible impact if stores refuse to take it in trade.

 

So my understanding is if I want to replay the game, I need to buy another copy?

I understand that the developers and publishers don't gain anything from pre-owned sales (which is why I buy new as much as possible ), but this seems a bit excessive...

 

I think it'll be more like your profile is locked on there. So the next person will have to use whatever online profile is linked or username and scores etc.