The recent patch for Resident Evil Revelations highlights Capcom's practice of incorporating new DRM into some of its games. This software seems to disrupt modding and could...

Capcom is adding DRM to their old games, even singleplayer ones. This seems like an intentional move to prevent modding, but it also seems to decrease FPS and cause crashes. What the hell are they thinking?

  • OpenStars@startrek.websiteEnglish
    292·
    11 months ago

    The manager is thinking that they know better than programmers how things “should” be run, same as always.

    • Kushan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      11 months ago

      It sounds more like they’ve consolidated build pipeline and this obfuscation is part of it.

      • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        11 months ago

        Yeah what I was thinking, too. Someone stripped a bunch of long-deprecated old pipelines, but this is a nasty side-effect of it as the new pipelines all mandate that DRM being added.

      • OpenStars@startrek.websiteEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        Which is something that a manager decided to implement, and not allow the programmers proper time to do full testing before rolling it out?

        Face it, there’s no way for managers to weasel out of the blame for this, b/c the buck has to stop somewhere.:-) We simply hold leaders to a higher standard than mere workers, especially if they pay themselves more every hour than a programmer makes in a month (I have not looked into what the pay gap is specifically for Capcom though, this is just programming in general).

  • cottonmon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    211·
    11 months ago

    I’m guessing this is still related to that time where a guy running a tournament had his nude Chun-Li mod on.

  • kingthrillgoreEnglish
    7·
    11 months ago

    Probably some outstanding service level agreement they walked into.

  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    I’m sure this makes sense to the CEO-brain. It doesn’t make sense to virtually anyone else, and it really just serves to make Capcom look like dicks.

    • Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Yeah, they get talked into it by some salesman and insist they use it even though it’s almost always poorly received and never seems to have an impact on piracy.

  • switches@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    10 months ago

    This ended up being entirely false. This post should either be edited or removed.

    edit: while there have been users doing personal research into this matter that casts doubt on it, there is no proof backing up what i just said. going to leave it here with an edit. my apologies.