Topic: Capcom ruins saved games

[idolminds]

WTF

Resident Evil: The Mercenaries on 3DS has a single save slot that can not be erased. You can not start a "new game". If you buy the game used or let a friend borrow it they can only continue from the save thats already there.

[Cobra951]

The solution is very simple.  Don't buy the fucking thing.  You wouldn't buy any other crippled product, would you?  (I wouldn't.)

[idolminds]

Heh, no worries there. I wasn't interested in the first place. I just hope this doesnt become a common thing.

[Quemaqua]

No game that ever does this will have my support.

[scottws]

Did they do it on purpose or are they just idiots?

[idolminds]

It's deliberate.

"In Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D, all mission progress is saved directly to the Nintendo 3DS cartridge, where it cannot be reset,"

This doesn't appear to be a 3DS limitation. The Zelda OoT remake saves to the cart and its saves can be reset and deleted (according to a comment on that article).

[gpw11]

It's deliberate. This doesn't appear to be a 3DS limitation. The Zelda OoT remake saves to the cart and its saves can be reset and deleted (according to a comment on that article).

I don't even imagine it COULD be a hardware limitation.  If the hardware/cart has the ability to write the save, it'd have the ability to delete...even if it was just a blank overwrite.   Talk about a joke.

[Xessive]

That just seems like a dick move.

What if I wanted to restart my game? What If I passed it down to my little bro? Huh? What then?! HUH?!

[PyroMenace]

This is the worst I've seen to inhibit used game sales. Not only the worst, but just plain fucking stupid.

[Xessive]

In their effort to minimize second-hand sales it looks like Capcom are effectively minimizing first-hand sales.

[K-man]

There's no way Capcom can really spin this.

The weird thing is that in the past they have generally been good to their consumers. 

[ren]

I could get behind this with a $5 MSRP. If you want to make a video game experience like going to the theatre where everybody gets charged then you better make the game horribly discounted from regular market prices or this is going to bite you in the ass.

[nickclone]

I'm surprised Nintendo allowed this.