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Title: Capcom ruins saved games
Post by: idolminds on Monday, June 27, 2011, 10:56:40 AM

WTF (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-06-27-capcom-resi-evil-3ds-will-retain-value)

Resident Evil: The Mercenaries on 3DS has a single save slot that can not be erased. You can not start a "new game". If you buy the game used or let a friend borrow it they can only continue from the save thats already there.

Title: Re: Capcom ruins saved games
Post by: Cobra951 on Monday, June 27, 2011, 01:24:27 PM

The solution is very simple.  Don't buy the fucking thing.  You wouldn't buy any other crippled product, would you?  (I wouldn't.)

Title: Re: Capcom ruins saved games
Post by: idolminds on Monday, June 27, 2011, 01:35:20 PM

Heh, no worries there. I wasn't interested in the first place. I just hope this doesnt become a common thing.

Title: Re: Capcom ruins saved games
Post by: Quemaqua on Monday, June 27, 2011, 02:29:33 PM

No game that ever does this will have my support.

Title: Re: Capcom ruins saved games
Post by: scottws on Monday, June 27, 2011, 03:14:41 PM

Did they do it on purpose or are they just idiots?

Title: Re: Capcom ruins saved games
Post by: idolminds on Monday, June 27, 2011, 10:03:20 PM

It's deliberate. (http://www.giantbomb.com/news/capcom-used-games-not-a-factor-in-resident-evil-the-mercenaries-3d-lacking-data-reset/3430/)

Quote

"In Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D, all mission progress is saved directly to the Nintendo 3DS cartridge, where it cannot be reset,"

This doesn't appear to be a 3DS limitation. The Zelda OoT remake saves to the cart and its saves can be reset and deleted (according to a comment on that article).

Title: Re: Capcom ruins saved games
Post by: gpw11 on Monday, June 27, 2011, 11:58:18 PM

Quote from: idolminds on Monday, June 27, 2011, 10:03:20 PM

It's deliberate. (http://www.giantbomb.com/news/capcom-used-games-not-a-factor-in-resident-evil-the-mercenaries-3d-lacking-data-reset/3430/) This doesn't appear to be a 3DS limitation. The Zelda OoT remake saves to the cart and its saves can be reset and deleted (according to a comment on that article).

I don't even imagine it COULD be a hardware limitation.  If the hardware/cart has the ability to write the save, it'd have the ability to delete...even if it was just a blank overwrite.   Talk about a joke.

Title: Re: Capcom ruins saved games
Post by: Xessive on Tuesday, June 28, 2011, 12:43:32 AM

That just seems like a dick move.

What if I wanted to restart my game? What If I passed it down to my little bro? Huh? What then?! HUH?!

Title: Re: Capcom ruins saved games
Post by: PyroMenace on Tuesday, June 28, 2011, 02:13:20 AM

This is the worst I've seen to inhibit used game sales. Not only the worst, but just plain fucking stupid.

Title: Re: Capcom ruins saved games
Post by: Xessive on Tuesday, June 28, 2011, 02:33:16 AM

In their effort to minimize second-hand sales it looks like Capcom are effectively minimizing first-hand sales.

Title: Re: Capcom ruins saved games
Post by: K-man on Tuesday, June 28, 2011, 06:31:00 AM

There's no way Capcom can really spin this.

The weird thing is that in the past they have generally been good to their consumers. 

Title: Re: Capcom ruins saved games
Post by: ren on Tuesday, June 28, 2011, 02:51:49 PM

I could get behind this with a $5 MSRP. If you want to make a video game experience like going to the theatre where everybody gets charged then you better make the game horribly discounted from regular market prices or this is going to bite you in the ass.

Title: Re: Capcom ruins saved games
Post by: nickclone on Tuesday, June 28, 2011, 07:15:40 PM

I'm surprised Nintendo allowed this.