This is worse than a Suicide Battery!

That's just shameful.
And to think that I was wondering if that game provided anything cool and new... I loved RE4 and the engine provides a good strong basis for some other possible games, not another way to screw your customer. Way to go Capcom!!!
 
Wow... so is a parent supposed to buy 3 copies because they have 3 children? As an 'official representative' of this site, I should be polite and positive, but I definately have a reaction..

I typically have multiple save games and save points on games I play. Sometimes I just want to play a different section...

They could have provided a milddle ground... found some way to charge $1 for a game reset or an extra save session. Or just not allowed resets until the game had been out 6 or 12 months, which by then the sales would have dropped off anyway.

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In the annuals of customer service, it sort of reminds me (though isn't anywhere in the same class) of when Sony got caught intentioanlly putting spyware and rootkits on audio CDs. I've never bought a Sony audio product since (not a CD, not a download, not a audio hardware device, not a pair of headphones).

We should never forget:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal
 
Ditto, this kind of stuff sucks & I don't understand the mentality at all. You are purchasing the game, meaning it is yours & you can do whatever you'd like with it. That should also mean that "they" don't have the right to limit it's use, since you are the legal owner.
 
They want to train you to understand that you own nothing except your credit card bill, and that you are simply renting an experience, pay-per-view style.

Next step: pay-by-the-hour. A game will come with 30 hous of play and you will have to pay $1/hour after that. Then they will give you back the resets and the multiple saves since the 30/hours base will be per-game-purchase. If you use 25 hours on one pass, when you reset you will only have 5 left before you start paying up. All of this in the comfort of your own home.
 
They want to train you to understand that you own nothing except your credit card bill, and that you are simply renting an experience, pay-per-view style.

Next step: pay-by-the-hour. A game will come with 30 hous of play and you will have to pay $1/hour after that. Then they will give you back the resets and the multiple saves since the 30/hours base will be per-game-purchase. If you use 25 hours on one pass, when you reset you will only have 5 left before you start paying up. All of this in the comfort of your own home.

This is why I have stopped buying consoles and handhelds and completely switched my focus to arcade games.
 
Wow thanks flute the article after work I was going to buy res evil mercenaries for 3ds but not now.. F you capcom your money hungry assholes. 3 versions of street fighter 4 and another mvc3.1 coming out. Bunch of bull
 
They will start to build this into boardgames next. Sit the family down for a nice game of "Life" and the first person to make it to the end og the game, the spinner will disintegrate. On the game of "Monopoly" at the end of the game ink packs will burst on to the fake money.
 
Nothing but contempt for their most loyal customers.

Ask the music industry where that attitude gets you.

Honestly, I don't need to buy another video game for the rest of my life. There are enough great ones that I haven't played or haven't spend enough time with that I could probably go 10 years without even feeling the urge. (Goes back to playing Marvel vs. Capcom 2 for DC, where you can unlock characters by PLAYING instead of PAYING! What a concept!)
 
If they are going to do this then they should definitely drop the price of the game. I don't want to pay 50 or 60 dollars for a game I can only play through once.
 
I don't understand the reasoning behind this decision. Poor taste on Capcom's part. Capcom big wig: "What can we do to make our fans and customers really angry? Anyone?"

Seriously, this may do away with stores reselling their products, but it will also promote more piracy and less sales. Why purchase a game that you can only truly play once? You might as well rent it for a couple of bucks and be done with it.

Well done, Capcom. Way to take matters into your own hands and screw over your followers. If they start doing this with all of their games, I guess I won't be purchasing a Capcom game ever again.
 
If they start doing this with all of their games, I guess I won't be purchasing a Capcom game ever again.

Well, the silver lining is that this is only possible with cartridge-based games. They can't control what you do with your harddrive/memory card/whatnot.

EDITED to add: Also, the DS is probably the most commonly pirated system, with the R4 and similar units capable of holding tons of roms on one cart. I wouldn't be surprised if the 3DS ends up the same way, and that's probably in the back of Capcom's mind. Honestly, I think this is a terrible thing to do and I'll 100% not be purchasing this game as a result, but I can't blame them 100% for trying to fight piracy in a medium that is so super easily pirated (again, assuming the 3DS turns out like the DS)
 
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Oh man this just keeps getting worse with Capcom. I've loved this company since I was a kid, but now they are starting to screw the customers.

When they released Final Fight DI they decided to add that DRM bull to only allow the game to be played when hooked online. My internet went out the day after I bought that Final Fight game, and had to wait for the guy to come out and fix it. I go to play Final Fight to pass time until he came and it said that I needed to be online. WTF?! "Oh yeah the one time I need a game to be online." I read about how Capcom was trying to do this with future online DL releases.

This is the exact reason why I waited until today to buy Street Fighter 4 AE. They had the game for download for 2 weeks now for only $15. But I rather pay more and get a disc of the game because I don't trust Capcom or the PS3 system. Both have been trouble together and that would be a non surprise had I bought the SF4AE as a dl to have it not only be another DRM, but to currpt or some other problem. I can play the game off line, at a friends house, and if my PS3 takes a dump, my $15 isn't going with it.

I really don't like the idea of DL games because of those reasons...... and now.....This!
 
I stopped buying ANYTHING that requires online activation and/or continuous online connection (IE: That scam called STEAM).

Screw that. I will not do it. Period. I bought Half Life 2 and have never played it.
 
I already despise Capcom a great deal because of what they did with Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition in the US (a little background: Taito had worked out a deal to release the English verison of the game in the US this March just for arcades, they had a press release ready to go and then Capcom decided it was a great time to announce the console release of the game, which would kills Taito's efforts; I already had an order placed that I couldn't cancel and the game did great until Jun 7th, which since then it's been pretty lousy and it's not making anywhere near enough to pay itself off now); I refuse to give them any more business in the future as it is. But this shows where console gaming is going to go and why I really don't care for modern stuff. PC gaming sucks because there are times where it is a huge hassle to play the game you paid for (or when I bought Batman Arkum Asylum for PC, someone had already used my key). I also haven't bought any new or used games in a while after having purchased more than one game "new" that some employee had already taken home and humped. But I guess that's what we have to deal with for wonderful modern gaming experiences.
 
I already despise Capcom a great deal because of what they did with Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition in the US (a little background: Taito had worked out a deal to release the English verison of the game in the US this March just for arcades, they had a press release ready to go and then Capcom decided it was a great time to announce the console release of the game, which would kills Taito's efforts; I already had an order placed that I couldn't cancel and the game did great until Jun 7th, which since then it's been pretty lousy and it's not making anywhere near enough to pay itself off now); I refuse to give them any more business in the future as it is. But this shows where console gaming is going to go and why I really don't care for modern stuff. PC gaming sucks because there are times where it is a huge hassle to play the game you paid for (or when I bought Batman Arkum Asylum for PC, someone had already used my key). I also haven't bought any new or used games in a while after having purchased more than one game "new" that some employee had already taken home and humped. But I guess that's what we have to deal with for wonderful modern gaming experiences.

Good point, I didn't even think of that! Does Taito offer any conversions for that SFV? Can you put two together and run Darius Burst? That game is AWESOME! Also isn't there a Space Invaders for the Type X?

Edit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taito_Type_X#Games
 
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