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Apparently this has been going on over the last year, for some titles, and it's quite tricky to find a complete list; I did find one here, but I get the feeling that it's probably only a partial one, especially since apparently it's been reversed in some cases.
For me, luckily the affected games aren't native titles and are run through Proton*, and they're only on my Steam Deck and not on more important hardware, but I am a bit miffed to learn that malware has been added without warning like this.
*I assume that removing the games is the end of the problem, for a Linux user? I've honestly never encountered this before!
When they announced previously that they were doubling down on DRM I'd already decided not to purchase any more Capcom games until they rethink it. This makes my decision permanent, which sucks because they make a number of series that I like, but I'd rather go without because I'm not going to do business with a company that behaves like this.
Last edited by Pengling on 15 January 2024 at 7:35 pm UTC
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Take it with a pinch of salt of course, but I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it's true - where most companies would just be like "lol that guy's nothing to do with us" and quite likely bar them from hosting sponsored events in the future, older Japanese businesses can get quite weird about it (apparently the incident blew up over there, which is why they think we're all stupid and got confused to believe that Capcom did this officially), and it looks like this is one of those cases.
And yes I do think it's true that it was the chun-li thing that brought this on.
Thing is everyone knows these kind of mods exist for games in the PC space, even those of us that don't use them.. do they REALLY hurt a companies brand or reputation if said mods exist? Probably not
Qua market share.
Nah.
A thing is though some of these Japanese companies are full blown political entities in Japan.
As a political entity your image is very important.
Naked Chun-Li mods do affect your image.
steam client doesnt have a "dont update" feature.
It's hard to "stop" the updates on steam, but you can restore old versions. And as long as no new update comes (and you don't verify your files), it will leave the old version.
There has to be a way to take away write permissions from steam to be able to write to a readonly folder(specific folder of the game)
The reason being; while I don't care one way or the other about naked Chun-Li, the same DRM will also make sure Blanka keeps his shorts on.