Quoting: BlackBloodRumMark my words, when Denuvo devs stop paying Denuvo for their older games, a lot of games will become simply unusable for the legitimate customer.

Sadly that has already been tested when Games For Windows Live was discontinued....... Many games stopped working and in general the gamers along with the gaming media were ok with it....... And so the cycle will continue.......

Quoting: Linux_RocksThe Disney Afternoon Collection is bafflingly absent on the Switch. So I just got it on Steam.

I never understood what on Earth they were thinking, there - it's literally a collection of Nintendo Entertainment System games.

Quoting: damarrinIt’s clear for some reason they (if this person represents the views of the company) are scared of negative media coverage and internet social media shitstorms.

I watched their whole 50-minute presentation before I posted about this just to be sure I fully understood before writing it down, and yes this does represent the views of the company - the presentation suggests that it's been rolled out as a company-wide policy.

One thing that I wonder about, is if the traditional view of PC-gaming in Japan is playing a part, here. In Japan, PC-gaming has only started growing in recent years, but had previously had a long-lived reputation (dating back to various Japan-exclusive home-computer platforms) for being niche and associated mainly with perverse content.

Quoting: BlackBloodRumI'd argue the DRM can cause more reputational damage than any given mod. Look at the backlash over Ubisoft removing the activation servers for their older games.

Absolutely this. Not to mention the well-known performance issues while certain DRM is still around.

Quoting: GroganWell, I don't happen to own a single Capcom game, so I'll thumb my nose as they ride the bologna pony off into the sunset.

I must admit, I'm annoyed at them, especially since this isn't the first time that they've had a good few years only to then suddenly decide to go off on a massive anti-consumer crusade. The last one (which combined various factors, including on-disc DLC, pushing excessive gritty hyper-realism when that wasn't what their customers wanted, and cancelling loads of projects in popular series in spite of their much-vaunted gritty hyper-realistic stuff bombing in sales) went on for years and did them a ton of damage - their abominably short memory is quite worrying!

I grew up with some of their games, and they're responsible for one of the other cutesy-robot franchises that I like outside of Bomberman. I'll miss that for sure, but I'm not buying into this nonsense that they're pushing.

Quoting: StoneColdSpiderR* and Take Two damaged their own reputations and brought on their own "negative media coverage" and any loss of sales because it was their own content already sitting on the discs....... Not the modders........

I remember that scandal initially calling into question the validity of the industry running its own ratings-boards. It only seemed to be after that scrutiny that the press began appending "mod" to "Hot Coffee", which I always thought made it sound like Rockstar didn't create the content.

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R* basically lives off controversy around their crime simulator games, so I’m not convinced any loss of reputation was a) had, b) perceived as such.

As for Capcom, they quite possibly took a good look at Nintendo and saw how being extremely anti-consumer is doing wonders for them, plus there’s the whole cultural difference between “the west”, whatever that is, and Japan that said west probably doesn’t understand too well.

If a company really believes this they should put their games on the cloud and only allow their consumers the ability to log in and play without any assets on their actual machine.

If the game is on my HD, it's mine do as I please.