Super Street Fighter 4 DRM

[Hateshinai]

http://kotaku.com/5806134/drm-means-sup ... ctionality

That's harsh. And pointless since somebody will crack/bypass the protection anyway. At most it will just postpone rampant pirating of the game by a week or two. All it will do is piss off the people who will actually pay for the game.
I'll still probably buy it though.

[Weekend_Warrior]

"Svensson said the DRM was necessary because "SFIV unfortunately was plagued by pirates and hackers that messed up leaderboards."

So that means everybody else has to suffer? I don't buy it. They're just being a bunch of asshats

[Erik_Twice]

What the hell is this? Only 15 characters, no saves, no acess to your DLC if offline?

What a bunch of bullshit. When will companies learn that they only screw costumers that way? Pirates will always have a work around.

[brunoafh]

That's pretty silly. I understand their concerns though, since the PC version of SFIV was hacked and pirated to oblivion. I think it makes more sense to just not release a PC version at all than to release a terrible PC version that will ultimately suffer the same fate anyway.

[Hateshinai]

That's pretty silly. I understand their concerns though, since the PC version of SFIV was hacked and pirated to oblivion.

That's true but this DRM will still be bypassed by pirates and so therefore there is hardly any point to it.

[Erik_Twice]

I think it makes more sense to just not release a PC version at all than to release a terrible PC version that will ultimately suffer the same fate anyway.

If you don't release it, you don't earn money. If you do, you will earn money, not as much as if there were no piracy but you will earn money.

[Niode]

They should take a leaf out of CD Projekt's book. They've just removed all DRM from every version of The Witcher 2 (except Steam which still has valve's minimal non-intrusive DRM on it). Stating that there is no point in having DRM on a game after launch. It should just be used to prevent early leaks. After that point the protection is hacked within hours anyway so having DRM just punishes legitimate consumers.

The reasoning behind it is sound as it effectively (for once) gives CD Projekt a better product than the pirates. I'm all for breaking the DRM on games when it conveniences me but I shouldn't have to do that. It just shouldn't even come close to that.

Besides, what's wrong with releasing it in Steam exclusively, having the GfW crap added on (a la Dirt 2, F1 2010, Dawn of War etc) and just relying on Steam's very minimal and non-intrusive DRM? It works for a lot of other companies, why are Capcom being utter retards about this?

If anything, them putting this ridiculous amount of restrictive DRM just pushes people to pirate and avoid paying for the game in the first place. Just look at Ubisoft. It clearly didn't work for them, so why do Capcom think they can get away with it. The gaming population will as always vote with their torrents... I mean wallets.

[J T]

I wanted to buy this game before. Now I want to pirate it.

[Inazuma]

I wanted to buy this game before. Now I want to pirate it.

I have the same way of thinking.

I wasn't actually planning on buying this game but if I were, hearing this news would force me not to buy it, and instead pirate it. If they are going to punish me with a limited offline mode for buying their game, then fuck them too. I refuse to support such a company.

Capcom used to be an excellent company. Now they are all about DLC and DRM. I haven't bought any new Capcom products for many years.

[wip3outguy7]

Read about this yesterday. Absolutely ridiculous. How much longer are people going to put up with Capcom's absurd DRM attempts?