Announcement: Gonna just boost through the grind.

[Xddc]

As an straight up middle finger to capcom, I'm going to max out all the currencies in one go via modifiers of editing the .TXT file data of the game.
And I'm also increasing several other modifiers...
After I unlock what I want I'll just validate the files to return the .TXT to normalcy.
"But grindings the fun part"
Yeah so is modding but capcom had a baby-fit over modding. So I'm just gonna boost this as a middle finger than reset it.
Boosting ain't illegal, and it ain't a mod, so capcom? You can't do anything against this.

I know some executive is gonna clack angrily on their fingers that they'll be mad I boosted through everything and to that executive I say:
I never cared the day you went to war with the modding community.
Never did.
And I'll never care about anyone related to your company again.
You backstabbed a major part of your community, so all I can really say to you is "Have a good day". Oh, and "umadbro?"

[CrowRising]

Nobody cares, least of all anyone at Capcom. The game doesn't have any microtransactions, they already got all the money they could have from you when you bought the game. There's also already next to no grinding to just complete the main story in this version of the game anyway, so you're not really skipping much, and literally nobody has any reason to care what you're skipping in your single player experience regardless.

[mdesaleah]

Like it was said above. If you wanted to actually make a point, you wouldn’t have bought X Dive Offline in the first place. So it’s initial appeal still worked

Instead of getting one of the many alternatives.

[zero254]

You sure showed capcom big man

[Pabbles]

Capcom won't care but if you see no value in the grind and do enjoy blowing stuff up with maxed out everything, it's your game, man.
Once you've locked in your favorite character, it is pretty mindless, empty "numbers only" progression. Good for me to zone out with a second monitor podcast, but it's not like you're doing yourself a huge disservice by skipping it like you would by, say, buying a Final Fantasy you've never played and immediately grabbing a last boss savefile off the internet.

[GeminiEclipse]

Nothing like paying a corporation money to show them what for.

[Oaks]

Somewhere in Japan, an executive has just woken up from his sleep, a tear in his eye. "Someone out there... Isn't grinding"

Buy the game a couple more times to really stick it to Capcom.

[Auffie]

Agree with CrowRising, worst part is OP isn't even right because when OP bought and downloaded this game, they either signed/clicked "I accept" on Steam's Terms of Service/an EULA (or used a workaround to skip the EULA, the payment, or both and became a pirate, the thing literally justifying things like DRM and mod lockouts for a lot of companies right now). Most of said EULA's have a clause that lets them revoke your license (ability to play the game) "at their discretion, at any time, for any reason" usually without even being required to actually notify you they've done it, and most if not literally all EULA's are in fact legally binding. If they were that terribly mad/upset, your downloaded copy of the game would literally stop letting you do anything past viewing the title screen, if it even still launched at all.

OP's angry post is about as effective as a grade-schooler getting mad the playground supervisor told them recess is over and screaming "Well you can't MAKE me go back in!!" at which point they just call the kid's parents and send them home cuz' they're at best half-right, the staff can't forcibly drag them to class (just like a publisher can't forcibly make you buy their content), but they can absolutely tell the kid they're not welcome on the premises anymore (or in this case say your money isn't welcome/wanted as they refuse to sell to you), at which point the kid can either knock it off and behave or their parents can go look for another school to send them to (or in this case you can go look elsewhere for a game to play).

Like mate I'm all for making one's opinion known and trying to (strictly legally of course) fight back against all the anti-piracy measures that aren't actually there to stop cheating/piracy and just rip legit players off by tanking performance or gathering data on them on the sly, but this thread? It isn't the way. If anything the thread just shows them that even though you don't like what they did, you still bought the cyber-weed (videogame) and still intend to smoke (play) it, like most addicts. So like most dealers (game publishing companies), they still have you by your wallet unless you go buy from someone else, and then you're someone else's problem. They still have their product, and other people will buy it if you don't.

That said, since OP has the energy and smarts to make this post describing how they'll bypass the game's grind, might I recommend using them in a more positive way and instead doing some light reading on what EULA's are, how they work, etc. and coming up with a solution to address their shortcomings? I'm sure if enough folks do, we'll find SOMETHING better than crappy performance-tanking software and locking out mod use completely,

Shouldn't be impossible, since most of the people looking into it right now are only thinking "how much money can we get/rip people off for, how do we enforce it, and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ SOMEONE PIRATED THAT ONE THERE GOES MY BONUS!" and happen to work in said publisher's marketing departments lol. I'm sure the real, honest gamers from around the world can come up with something that will work.