"Capcom adds new DRM to old PC games, raising worries over mods"

[kane_magus]

"Resident Evil: Revelations update on Steam is part of a pushback on piracy and mods"

Hey, Capcom, I really appreciate your efforts to help me save money by giving me reasons to never buy your shit.

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[owsf2000]

I just placed Capcom itself on ignore over this on steam. I may buy some games on consoles, but then I typically only buy their classic collections anyway. Only game I seem to have of theirs on steam is Dragon's Dogma.

I only game on my consoles, so it's not as critical if they infest it with drm - however as I mentioned before, if they infest it with drm and it runs like shit as a result on a console, then I stop buying Capcom games on consoles "because the game itself is shit". (ie: I blame the DRM caused problems on the game itself.) And if it ever ends up being that extra DRM on consoles becomes common enough that MOST games start acting like shit on the console, I expand my blame to the console maker itself and stop buying it's consoles going forward.

[kane_magus]

Yeah, it's not like DRM somehow exists in a vacuum, without input from anyone else, or is some kind of literal disease that somehow sneakily infects games all on its own (despite how often I compare it to disease or poison or corruption or whatever).[1] It wouldn't be there if the game developers/publishers didn't allow/want it to be there, so yeah, the devs/pubs are the ones at fault. And if digital stores/console makers didn't allow DRM-infested games on their platforms, then the devs/pubs wouldn't be making DRM-infested games, so they're at fault for this shit, too. And, more importantly, if apathetic, dumbfuck gamers didn't just continue to blithely buy DRM-infested games on platforms/consoles that allow DRM-infested games (which is basically all such platforms, at this point, aside from maybe GOG or something), then none of that shit would be happening in the first place, so the gamers are at fault as well. The DRM creators are just taking advantage of all that (not that that removes their own blame for the situation existing, of course).

And yeah, when the game runs like shit or spies on you or requires you to be online or disables your mods or whatever, it's the game's fault for that and the game deserves the blame for that, even if the "real culprit" happens to be whatever third-party DRM implemented on top of the game. That shit's still part of the game, same as any other bug or glitch or design flaw. Until the flaw is corrected (bug fixed or DRM removed or whatever), then its the game itself that sucks and deserves to not be bought, simple as that.

[1] - It's "funny" in that its usually computer hackers who are infecting software with malware/viruses/whatever, but in the case of DRM horseshit in games and the like, it's usually the hackers who are the ones fixing that shit by removing the malware. (Though, granted, in some cases, the hackers turn around and insert malware of their own, along with the crack to remove whatever DRM.)