Capcom's War Against Modding - Games older than ten years shall not be spared from Capcom's DRM against modding because some coomer couldn't keep his nude mods from spilling out of his pants at a tourney.

[Brigadoom]

For those out of the loop on this (I was) supposedly at some big fighting tournament last year, one of players was using a Chun Li nude mod and that pissed off Capcom. There are (censored) videos of this incident on YouTube and I can believe it being the cause. I wouldn't have known that happened at all if it wasn't for this DRM fiasco. The Streisand effect strikes again.

That was a pretty idiotic thing to do when you were about to compete in a competition. It was all the justification capcom needed to say "Look at these dirty, virgin gamers! This is why women don't play, toxic masculinity..." etc. It would have happened anyway this spastic simply moved the time table up.

I might be tin-foiling here, but I remember Square-Enix calling out modders either this year or last in regards to FFXIV (though that was just a segment of a Live Letter where the director specifically asked people not to show modded screenshots because it could "create a dishonest view of the game". The coomers cared for about a day before going right back to showing off titty mods on Twitter). Armored Core also had an addendum basically saying "don't mod" to it's TOS the in same patch adding ranked matches. I wonder if other companies are looking at what Capcom is doing and will take similar steps in the future.

Nah you're johnny on the spot mate. Just about every game company wants mods and shit banned because it gives us too much control over the games which is something they just cannot abide. "You'll own nothing and be happy." Lucky for us there is always someone working on breaking DRM and all this is is the newest edition of the cat & mouse game that's been around since the don't copy that floppy days. The example I love using for when people shit the bed about modding is the Simcity game that came out quite a while ago that they insisted had to be always online because EA servers were helping to offload some of your cities data for a smoother experience. There was articles from all the usual wankers calling us all fuckwits because we obviously didn't know better than EA themselves. Launch day comes and some madlad drops a (tiny) patch that lets you play offline with no changes to performance. Either way it makes EA wankers because they either didn't know a thing about their own fucking game or they lied because they wanted you to be connected to their servers all the time. Or it's both as they are a shower of watch slappers.

Nah. This is almost definitely about doing things like preventing easy access to DLC unlockables, plus the Chun Li thing.

Why spend $ on DLC (especially easy mode-type DLC) when you can mod it in?

Also bang on. They also don't want 3rd party character skins and shit because 9 times out of 10 they are a huge leap up compared to what the devs themselves actually make.

 

[Level99Manchild]

Street Fighter generally isn't very good. SF1 was super stiff, SF2 had piles of shitty ports and one or two good versions mixed in (who didn't love the PS1 Port at Evo), SF3 was the most creative they've ever been but a lot it feels like accident and people forgive a lot of the horseshit in SF3 : Part 1 and SF3 - Double Impact because Third Strike is so beloved. The SF Movie -> Game is unbelievably bad, Alpha is hit or miss, EX was complete dogshit that desprately wanted to be Tekken, vs Marvel had one decent game (MVC2) and 4 other shit ones, SF x Tekken was arguably the worst game ever released.

SF4 was not very good and was bloated to shit with DLC, SF5 was barely a complete game at the end of it's lifecycle ($60 for a MP game with only 3 offline modes - practice, local VS, and vs CPU).

SF6 being "one of the best" isn't high praise - the fact that it released in a somewhat finished state puts it fully above 80% of Capcom's entire library.

SF1 was stiff like you said, but it was never meant to be a competitive game. Ex was really an Arika game with Street Fighter characters as guest stars if you think about it. CvS is very overrated as a series because the first one was dogshit awful with one of the worst soundtracks out there , and 2 was a bloated, imbalanced mess despite its status in the fgc. Alpha 1 was okay at best, but 2 and 3 were awful in their own way (the console version of 3 made it more playable, but god damn the arcade version sucked balls).

 

[Judge Dredd]

If there's mountains of evidence from leaks and their own word of mouth that Capcom is seeped into woke blackrock-like garbage, why would them adding "sexy" (because let's be real, that RE Engine does anything BUT make anything sexy) women in their games automatically be the thing that makes people go "OH SHIT, CAPCOM IS BACK, BASED BASED SUPER BASED GIVES THEM YOUR MONEYZZZ!!!"???

Because sexy women pisses off wokescolds, and is far from the typical ugly tumblrina "punk" and butch girlboss types that infest every other AAA game. I have/had hope for Capcom simply because for every Resident Evil 3 Remake that was made by ESG committee, there's a based Monster Hunter.

I wonder if other companies are looking at what Capcom is doing and will take similar steps in the future.

I don't think it's Capcom that started that. AAA has been gunning for mods since the Spiderman LGBT flag drama, if not sooner.

As others have said, it's all about control. They can't stand the idea of people not eating their ESG slop. Sony has been trying desperately to cut weebs off from their anime games for almost a decade now for that reason.

Wonder if this has anything to do with the Monster Hunter Rise shit that happened a while ago or if it was a convenient excuse to push this shit?

What happened with Monster Hunter Rise?

 

[Coldgrip]

What happened with Monster Hunter Rise?

Some people were doing hacked anomaly hunts which could corrupt their game as well as other people who joined said hunt. Some of these hacked hunts would also wind up in other people's games as well. So even if you weren't engaging with said people, accepting a hacked hunt might fuck up your game.

 

[Hammr2]

What happened with Monster Hunter Rise?

Not just Rise, in World multiplayer.
Biggest offense, you can encounter people mod/cheat their defense and damage value. Basically trivialize the hunt, why even playing.

Lesser offense, MonHun itself is still an rpg, so it has rng grind for specific items, decoration in World or charm in Rise. Aka, min-max perfect stat roll for your character build. Mostly post game grind and future free content upgrade. This can have some secret drama in speedrunning scene. Since Japanese players are mostly play on Playstation or Switch, they don't access to mod. While international players and English speaking content creators play on PC. They can cheat perfect stat roll first, skip long rng grind and go straight for speedrunning content.

In Rise, few years ago, one content creator, Peppo (Chinese website with ENG), from Team Darkside admitted using mod, and also implying other people playing PC also cheat.
Technically, in speed running scene drama, "it's good thing for JP players" if mod banning is applied for future MonHun.

 

[X Prime]

Since Japanese players are mostly play on Playstation or Switch, they don't access to mod. While international players and English speaking content creators play on PC.

Technically, in speed running scene drama, "it's good thing for JP players" if mod banning is applied for future MonHun.

For those watching at home, this sort of thing is why Dark Souls had easy game-breaking hacks available for months on PC that involved permanently ruining characters.

Then, suddenly, within about a week of someone figuring out how to do it to a console Japanese player somehow, a lot of that stuff was patched out.

So I could see this as a fuck you to the gaijin. Japanese players just do not contribute much to mod scenes and such most of the time, and Japanese companies usually do not give a shit about anything but Japanese players. That's why doing something like this is probably nothing to Capcom, it mainly bothers Westerners.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

Not just Rise, in World multiplayer.
Biggest offense, you can encounter people mod/cheat their defense and damage value. Basically trivialize the hunt, why even playing.

Lesser offense, MonHun itself is still an rpg, so it has rng grind for specific items, decoration in World or charm in Rise. Aka, min-max perfect stat roll for your character build. Mostly post game grind and future free content upgrade. This can have some secret drama in speedrunning scene. Since Japanese players are mostly play on Playstation or Switch, they don't access to mod. While international players and English speaking content creators play on PC. They can cheat perfect stat roll first, skip long rng grind and go straight for speedrunning content.

In Rise, few years ago, one content creator, Peppo (Chinese website with ENG), from Team Darkside admitted using mod, and also implying other people playing PC also cheat.
Technically, in speed running scene drama, "it's good thing for JP players" if mod banning is applied for future MonHun.
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can confirm. met a guy who killed monsters in one hit. i was not mad about it. was farming for monster parts anyway and he offered to help me.

my hunting record will forever be fucked though.

 

[Doctor Neo Cortex]

Good. Can we finally knock this stupid shit off about Capcom being in a golden age or a renaissance or epicly based now? They've always been like this and always will be.

AAA gaming companies are not based, even "good ones" will eventually through their customers under the bus and then sit on the bus drivers lap as the bus goes over them.

 

[BananaSplit²]

>Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection gets the new DRM
>$60 collection of Game Boy Advance games from 20 years ago somehow needs rootkit-tier protection
>people who paid for roms continue to be rubes
>emulator chads continue to enjoy their games they've had for decades

Although I dunno how far the changes in Megaman/Rockman extend to, the name of one country was still altered in the JP version of the collection (2022).


Capcom Arcade Stadium (2021) also made changes in the retro game Street Fighter II by removing the Hong Kong flag and the Japanese rising sun



People should be wary of recent retro collections from Capcom as such.

 

[Geddy Lee's Fee and See]

Capcom has been shit for at least 15 years now, especially after that gay stunt with MM Legends 3, where they wanted to sell a $50 demo and when people rightfully said no, they cancelled the game because there was "no interest in the IP". Nigger, you tried to sell a demo of an unfonished product at an exorbitant price rather than making it free. That legit pissed me off and assured I will never buy a game from them again.

At least when SNK does stupid shit, it doesn't inconvenience the customer which Crapcom always seems keen on doing.

CvS is very overrated as a series because the first one was dogshit awful with one of the worst soundtracks out there , and 2 was a bloated, imbalanced mess despite its status in the fgc. Alpha 1 was okay at best, but 2 and 3 were awful in their own way (the console version of 3 made it more playable, but god damn the arcade version sucked balls).

CvS2 was perfectly fine, especially compared to SNK's take on the concept, which is borderline jank due to to them going through bankruptcy at the time. I haven't played any of the Alpha games so I can't tell you how good or bad they are but CvS2 is not even remotely bad.

 

[TVB]

People should be wary of recent retro collections from Capcom as such.

Especially when challenging DSP in his Street Fighter livestream

 

[Celebrate Nite]

I haven't played any of the Alpha games so I can't tell you how good or bad they are

There's this "Great Debate" in the FGC regarding whether Alpha 2 or Alpha 3 is the "superior" alpha game, and it basically boils down to the custom combo mechanics, which are vastly different between the two. Alpha 2 has your character hyped up on crack cocaine as you constantly move forward while you button mash the fuck out of your controller to do sometimes insane damage to your opponent that you normally wouldn't be able to do even with a Level 3 Super. Alpha 3 removes the crack cocaine but depending on which button strength you use to activate it, you either get a close shadow or a far-away shadow that also hits the opponent at the tail-end of the shadow trail. This is easily abuseable since you can pretty much make pseudo-marvel infinite combos by keeping the opponent in the air and just spamming jump LP/LK the resat of the match while your opponent takes a piss break or something in the middle of the match.

personally i like Alpha 3 more because it gives you more choices to customize your character however you want to thanks to the different ISMs, and I usually wind up going for X-ISM since it's basically the super turbo ISM. A-ISM gives you air-blocking, which is fantastic for brawlers that have issues getting in against fireball spammers V-ISM is the Custom Combo-only mode.

the PSP version of Alpha 3 is the definitive superior version. Alpha Anthology would have been #1 because it gives you 3 extra ISMs including a darkstalkers one, and a 3rd strike one where you can parry the fuck out of moves, but unfortunately THAT version is a 2p only mode.

 

[Brigadoom]

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Although I dunno how far the changes in Megaman/Rockman extend to, the name of one country was still altered in the JP version of the collection (2022).
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Capcom Arcade Stadium (2021) also made changes in the retro game Street Fighter II by removing the Hong Kong flag and the Japanese rising sun
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People should be wary of recent retro collections from Capcom as such.

This kind of bullshit is exactly why I have a huge collection of emulators and roms because at least then you are getting an authentic product. It might seem stupid to worry about it especially when in this case it's only be a few cosmetic changes but it's the principle of the matter. I've also yet to see a re-release that is actually a better experience than the original games. In typical hebe fashion they also gouge you when it comes to price of these compilations/desecrations.

 

[Level99Manchild]

At least when SNK does stupid shit, it doesn't inconvenience the customer which Crapcom always seems keen on doing.

CvS2 was perfectly fine, especially compared to SNK's take on the concept, which is borderline jank due to to them going through bankruptcy at the time. I haven't played any of the Alpha games so I can't tell you how good or bad they are but CvS2 is not even remotely bad.

SNK made people pay for characters that were immediately available in KOF14 with little or no real changes like Kim, and SamSho's dlc wasn't much better. I'll give you that CvS2 was much better to play than CvS1, but 2 was no where near balanced from the grooves and rations. Some characters really abused the shit out of the best grooves while other characters still sucked even with the best groove.

Especially when challenging DSP in his Street Fighter livestream

Such a shame Phil's "viewers" are mostly detractor fags that are too dumb to do this because all they do is spam the same fucking memes and jokes with faggots like Soma (No offense, Peace).

 

[TVB]

Such a shame Phil's "viewers" are mostly detractor fags that are too dumb to do this because all they do is spam the same fucking memes and jokes with faggots like Soma (No offense, Peace).

And most of them are just massive a-loggers/weens that are chasing clout in hopes that they wish they're "better" than Phil, when they aren't

 

[BananaSplit²]

This kind of bullshit is exactly why I have a huge collection of emulators and roms because at least then you are getting an authentic product. It might seem stupid to worry about it especially when in this case it's only be a few cosmetic changes but it's the principle of the matter. I've also yet to see a re-release that is actually a better experience than the original games. In typical hebe fashion they also gouge you when it comes to price of these compilations/desecrations.

Modern global re-releases of Japanese games tend to be monkey's paw at work, as they often inevitably tone down something in order to play safe with certain country cultures (mainly China, USA and sometimes South Korea) except it even affects the JP home audience too. Unlike in the past where releases of console games used to be generally region-specific (NTSC-J, PAL, etc), and everyone minded their own business.

And I forgot to mention the Darkstalkers games, in the Capcom Fighting Collection (2022), which have all the secret endings removed thus nullifying any effort out of the player to complete the game with a specific EX finisher + no round lost. No more sexy succubi art either.

 

[Level99Manchild]

And I forgot to mention the Darkstalkers games, in the Capcom Fighting Collection (2022), which have all the secret endings removed thus nullifying any effort out of the player to complete the game with a specific EX finisher + no round lost. No more sexy succubi art either.
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So what's the fucking point of even playing these shitty turds if they removed the one thing to justify playing them (the endings)?! Who is going to play VS2 or HS2 when Savior is more or less the go to Vampire game (although there are Japanese Hunter players that do streams now and then)? How do you make shitty games even wo- oh yea, Crapcom.

 

[Brigadoom]

Modern global re-releases of Japanese games tend to be monkey's paw at work, as they often inevitably tone down something in order to play safe with certain country cultures (mainly China, USA and sometimes South Korea) except it even affects the JP home audience too. Unlike in the past where releases of console games used to be generally region-specific (NTSC-J, PAL, etc), and everyone minded their own business.

And I forgot to mention the Darkstalkers games, in the Capcom Fighting Collection (2022), which have all the secret endings removed thus nullifying any effort out of the player to complete the game with a specific EX finisher + no round lost. No more sexy succubi art either.
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I've learned this the hard way and decided I'm just not doing it anymore. If I really want to experience them I'll pirate the shit out them because I'm not supporting a company that's going to sell a gimped product. These are adult games and all they're doing is making us all look like spastics who can't handle mature subject matter.

What is it with current companies and this immense lack of fucking spine? None of the gay niggers who would be bothered by this shit are going to care enough to go for those secret endings. Hell even if they did they're STILL going to bitch about the female characters tits being too big or something so why even bother catering to them? I'm assuming they actually buy the game in the first place as the wokescolds usually have no intention of buying the media they bitch about being "offensive". Capcom et al. are only alienating the people who would actually give them money. Peak clown world.

 

[Pissmaster]

MM Legends 3, where they wanted to sell a $50 demo and when people rightfully said no, they cancelled the game because there was "no interest in the IP". Nigger, you tried to sell a demo of an unfonished product at an exorbitant price rather than making it free. That legit pissed me off and assured I will never buy a game from them again.

I heard about the cancellation due to "lack of interest", but never about them wanting to charge $50 for a demo. Wtf?

 

[Level99Manchild]

What is it with current companies and this immense lack of fucking spine? None of the gay niggers who would be bothered by this shit are going to care enough to go for those secret endings. Hell even if they did they're STILL going to bitch about the female characters tits being too big or something so why even bother catering to them? I'm assuming they actually buy the game in the first place as the wokescolds usually have no intention of buying the media they bitch about being "offensive". Capcom et al. are only alienating the people who would actually give them money. Peak clown world.

They want to be the company that makes Antifafags and wokescolds open their wallets. These types of people don't fork over $500 for plastic soldiers or bother to get $2000+ gaming pcs to get games because they're broke af with their useless degrees. Hell, these fucks don't even support the shitty lofi music they claim to love, and they hardly give tattoo artists money. Their money usually goes on Soy products or soy/chais lattes with chemicals "natural ingredients." If the companies can't get the money from the blm and antifags, these companies hope Overlord Larry Fink will bail them out, but eventually Larry is gonna swing his financial scythe to collect the dues and souls they owe him. That's why companies like Disney, Squeenix, Soyny and Games Wokeshop keep pushing for far left woke shit hoping it will pay off in the long run.