Capcom tries to kill used video game sales with the one-save game

[Granite]

Saw this very eye opening story....what does everyone think? My take -

This is a really bad idea. You effectively cannot share this game with friends. You have to go out and buy a new copy EVERY time. I hope market dynamics quickly kills this idea through boycotts of Campcom produced video games.

From SCIFIwire

Capcom tries to kill used video game sales with the one-save game


Buying used video games is great for gamers who don't want to pay full price for the latest hits. You know who doesn't like used video games? Game publishers. In a very sad twist, Capcom's fighting back against the second-hand game market with a game that can only support one save file — for life.

It's been confirmed that Resident Evil: Mercenaries 3D for the Nintendo 3DS is a game that once finished, cannot be reset for complete replay. According to both the U.S. and U.K. game's instruction manual "saved data on this software cannot be reset."

Basically what Capcom has done is make Mercenaries 3D a one-time play affair. Once you've unlocked all the goodies and played the entire game, you will not be able to erase the game's save data and start fresh as if it were a new copy. Consider this: lending Mercenaries 3D to a friend, a little brother or sister will be worthless because they'll only be able to continue playing the game with your saved settings and create their own.

We get that game publishers don't make any money off sales from used video games, but killing off the ability to hit the reset button is just taking things too far. It's like saying Upperdeck is entitled to a cut in my autographed Michael Jordan basketball card I sold at a garage sale for $10,000 some 25 years after I bought it.

While can be argued that used video game sales are actually more damaging than piracy, its still a lowball move for Capcom to make, especially with a franchise as large and significant as the Resident Evil series. Will other publishers follow in Capcom's footsteps to take a stand against the lucrative market of used video games? We really hope this isn't a sign of things to come.

[ClaytonMG]

So you can't even start the game over?! That is beyond stupid!

[Grif]

Hopefully the games doing this will fail so hard that CAPCOM fires the people that came up / supported the idea

[odj_310388]

Capcom don't release games worth buying imo. Plus they are one of those companies that had DLC on the disk (only 20ish kb downloads to unlock them) so bugger them.

[j7wild]

yup, that's the direction of the world now - big corporations controlling everything - just like the 3 strikes Internet Rule and the IP Protect that's getting ready to pass

we are all screwed!!

http://www.zeropaid.com/news/93903/a...es-next-month/

[Grif]

Wont stuff like that just make ISP's lose customers ? The only people that will lose out on that type of stuff are the ISP's in the end as not all will do that

[bhansen]

Having only one savegame sounds like a great idea to those of us who have tried accidentally hitting a quicksave button mid-air after jumping off a ledge and 2 seconds before certain death.