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Capcom caught adding Enigma DRM to older titles, for no good reason (www.techspot.com)

submitted 10 months ago by simple@lemm.ee to c/games@lemmy.world

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Capcom is adding DRM to their old games, even singleplayer ones. This seems like an intentional move to prevent modding, but it also seems to decrease FPS and cause crashes. What the hell are they thinking?

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[-] OpenStars@startrek.website 27 points 10 months ago

The manager is thinking that they know better than programmers how things "should" be run, same as always.

[-] Kushan@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

It sounds more like they've consolidated build pipeline and this obfuscation is part of it.

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Yeah what I was thinking, too. Someone stripped a bunch of long-deprecated old pipelines, but this is a nasty side-effect of it as the new pipelines all mandate that DRM being added.

[-] OpenStars@startrek.website 2 points 10 months ago

Which is something that a manager decided to implement, and not allow the programmers proper time to do full testing before rolling it out?

Face it, there's no way for managers to weasel out of the blame for this, b/c the buck has to stop somewhere.:-) We simply hold leaders to a higher standard than mere workers, especially if they pay themselves more every hour than a programmer makes in a month (I have not looked into what the pay gap is specifically for Capcom though, this is just programming in general).