This one’s slightly odd. Capcom have, for some reason, removed the ability to reset a player’s progress in this week’s 3DS version of Resident Evil: Mercenaries.
The lock out was spotted on the back of the game’s box (it’s out in the US) and means that, once you’re done with the game, anyone else wanting a shot will have to carry on from your current save – it can’t be deleted.
You’d think this would be to reduce the game’s appeal in the all-important second hand market, but the developer says otherwise.
“The game’s value at second-hand in the UK is not affected by whether or not the game can have its data reset,” Capcom said.
“Customers in the UK will not experience a reduced second-hand value should they wish to trade in their purchase.”
We’re of the opinion that this is a bit off – it’s always nice to start a game afresh and despite what Capcom are saying, this would put some of us off buying the game second hand.
The game’s published by Nintendo here in the UK, and we’ll have a full review as soon as possible.
bunimomike
Can I ask a potentially naive question? Do they say why they chose to do this? (instead of telling us why they didn’t)
The Lone Steven
Why? I can see many flaws with this. what if you lend it to a friend? Does that mean that your freind can’t start a new game and could ruin your progress? Also what happens if your 3DS breaks? This is one of the dumbest moves i have ever seen. I can see this being a failure as many gamers like to start a new game and if they don’t like the game then they usually trade it in.
hazelam
with regards to the question about your 3ds breaking, that wouldn’t be an issue for the save because the save will be store on the cartridge.
if the save was stored on the 3ds then this wouldn’t be an issue anyway, because then the preowned buyer would be playing on their own 3ds which wouldn’t have the original owners save.
Dlaf42
Seems to me like another stupid move by a game company not in touch with its fans, remember this is the company which put DRM on its psn games rending them unplayable when offline.No one in the right mind should buy this game now as what it boils down to is a rental really once you finish the game your done.
hazelam
i think i pointed out that sven guy from capcom was totally unapologetic about that issue, in fact he was downright dismissive.
he was bleating on about how the psn downtime was costing capcom money, when not making as much would have been a more appropriate claim for capcom, and he totally ignored any question about players not being able to play the games they paid for.
that was when i knew for certain that the customer was no longer a concern for capcom.
Foxhound
Bad move…..
BrainDiver
Capcom haven’t managed to make a game I actually enjoyed since PS2 days, so as long as this stays a Capcom-only idea I don’t really care. It does sound very stupid though, no way I would buy a game with this.