DRM?

[what?]

Where can I find information on Resident Evil 2 (Remake) having DRM, I can only see it being added for Resident Evil Revelations?

For context I see a lot of reviews and some mentions of DRM for this game specifically, but cannot find any information on it other than their other game.

[Seamus]

It's more to stop people from using mods to avoid their microtransactions.

[GenSec39]

Originally posted by Seamus:

It's more to stop people from using mods to avoid their microtransactions.

You mean those ugly cosmetics? Maybe they indeed think so. Maybe. But honestly, they are so mediocre, that I would never buy any of them even if mods didn't exist at all.

[Narrowmind]

Capcom was one of the first companies I heard of to have dlc content actually locked on a disc they already had sold to you.

[Seamus]

Originally posted by GenSec39:

Originally posted by Seamus:

It's more to stop people from using mods to avoid their microtransactions.

You mean those ugly cosmetics? Maybe they indeed think so. Maybe. But honestly, they are so mediocre, that I would never buy any of them even if mods didn't exist at all.

The cosmetics and things like the upgrade tickets in RE4, the tickets that let you redesign the look of your character in the monster hunter games, etc.

[GenSec39]

Originally posted by Seamus:

The cosmetics and things like the upgrade tickets in RE4, the tickets that let you redesign the look of your character in the monster hunter games, etc.

Yeah I see. I just came across this info on You Tube absolutely accidentally. Had to perform mass purge and uninstalled all Capcom games, just to make sure that no malware will be installed. Got 150+ GB of free space. Sad that I can't refund them anymore.

I also cleaned my wishlist from Capcom games - that could potentially be some serious sum of money. Good saving should I say.

And honestly - no regrets. If Capcom wants to shoot self in the leg - I won't stop them. They are not the first and not the last. I love RE francise, invested tons of time into it, but the world does not spin around it. It's not late 90th - early 00th anymore. There are hundreds of good games around.

[Seamus]

I just made backup copies of the games that don't have the drm implemented yet in a folder steam can't touch.

Easy enough to run them from there instead of the steam library.

Won't be buying any new capcom games until this ♥♥♥♥ blows over, though.

[RED-Life]

Make your capcom games read only. Prevents Steam from updating them.

[Seamus]

That is a terrible idea.

It also prevents you from modding. Which is the same effect as what capcom is trying.

[Doktor Mandrake]

Read only would kinda stop you saving as well, no?

Anyway yeah best bet might be to move the folders, but even then if you try to run the executable it's gonna try and do it through steam so people will have to find a "modified" executable which is ironic

[Seamus]

Originally posted by Doktor Mandrake:

Read only would kinda stop you saving as well, no?

Anyway yeah best bet might be to move the folders, but even then if you try to run the executable it's gonna try and do it through steam so people will have to find a "modified" executable which is ironic

No, your saves are in a different location.

And, you can run it from a different folder just fine without a modified exe. All you have to do is make a text file called steam_appid.txt with the game id number in it in the same folder as the game exe.

Finding the number is easy. Right click on the forums, go to copy page url.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/883710/discussions/0/7119694643862515309/

So this'd be the url for this discussion. The appid to put in the text file would be the 883710 between app and discussions.

No extra executables or anything questionable needed.

[Sifer2]

Originally posted by Seamus:

It's more to stop people from using mods to avoid their microtransactions.

Yeah everyone thinking it's about the Nude Chun-Li incident but even before that Capcom Exec's said they didn't like mods/cheats. And when you notice Capcom is one of the few big companies out there that actively sells cheats or content unlockers for their games it makes sense. PC players being able to give themselves infinite ammo instead of pay Capcom for the privilege is what they are trying to crack down on.

To me it's kind of nuts they are trying to add this malware to their entire back catalog though that's insane. They must of got some kind of deal to cover everything for one price. But when you update games that old your highly likely to just break them like they did with revelations. Stuff like this shows it's high past time for digital consumers protection laws to address these forced updates.

[Narrowmind]

Seems like there are no digital consumer protection laws. As soon as we sign the agreement, they always seem to be given full reign to do whatever they want.

[Seamus]

I mean, there are in the EU. Just, no one in america gives a ♥♥♥♥.

[dias_flac_0g]

Originally posted by Walter Kovacs:

Originally posted by Walter Kovacs:

An update to my original post:


Tested the RE5 exe with https://github.com/horsicq/Detect-It-Easy

It does not have Enigma or any other DRM, but RE Resistance does have Enigma. I would use this to see what DRM is present. This will help spread more accurate information.

Well I hate to have to add this post, but I just got done talking to FluffyQuack, the creator of the mod manager a lot of people use to mod RE games. They were adamant about Enigma in the newest version of RE5's exe. They told me to search with a Hex editor, and not just Detect-It-Easy.

Here are the results of RE5's current exe: https://staticdelivery.nexusmods.com/images/2997/6550185-1705119125.png

Here are the results of my backedup previous exe: https://staticdelivery.nexusmods.com/images/2997/6550185-1705119468.png

I am going to make posts in capcom game threads of the games I can test and update my findings for all exe's. I will test with both Detect-It-Easy, and a Hex editor, and try to post my findings.

I don't think RE5 has enigma as of now. Nothing has been changed in RE5 as far as I can tell. I literally just took the game for a spin.

Same FPS as before, same settings etc etc. Mods still work, game isn't crashing etc etc.

As far as I know the only RE game to have this garbage DRM(Spyware) was Revelations. They have rolled it back now though. So technically as of now no RE game has it.

I also tested RE Rev2 same thing. Mods work, no slowdowns, no crashes etc etc. Game is the same as before.

Tested RE4 again same thing mods working perfectly, no crashing, no weird things going on.

I have a feeling that Capcom used RE revelations 1 as a "test" bed obviously it broke the game but there isn't a huge uproar. Hardly anyone plays RE rev1 anymore so I assume this is why they dropped the Enigma spyware on it first.

Weird because the mods are what basically keep that old game "alive". No mods no one will play it anymore.

Its things like these that just make me not care about PC gaming that much anymore. We don't own our games here. The publishers can remove/change things whenever they want and we can't do anything about it.

This is why I cherish my retro games. No one can mess with them no one can take them away from me. I own them and have full control over my retro consoles and games.

The only way they can take them away from me is if they do it physically...but for that there's a nice Rock Island 10mm protecting them :3

[RED-Life]

Originally posted by Seamus:

That is a terrible idea.

It also prevents you from modding. Which is the same effect as what capcom is trying.

? Disable read mode when you're done modding, then renable it when you modded what you wanted. How is this difficult to understand?