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Capcom makes the majority of its sales on PC, and it expects the 'ratio to continue increasing' (finance.yahoo.com)

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[-] ZeroPoke@fedia.io 48 points 1 month ago

The fact they went back and added Denuvo to old games. Makes them a No Buy for me. Clearly cant be trusted.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago

Added them to old games that didn't have them before? What would be the point in that? Once it's cracked, the toothpaste can't be put back in the tube.

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

Use a pipette

[-] rogsson@piefed.social 13 points 1 month ago

Should be illegal to do post launch or be refunded no questions asked.

[-] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 month ago

I think steam support does offer refunds in those instances where the terms of sale were changed on you when mentioned in a ticket (see Helldivers and newer COD games)

[-] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

I got a refund when it was added to Ghostwire Tokyo. Fuck Denuvo and the scum companies that use it.

[-] wirelesswire@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 month ago

I remember hearing this about the Monster Hunter games a few years ago, so it isn't surprising to hear it holds true for their other franchises, as well. That said, it would be nice if they focused a bit more resources on optimizing the games for their new primary platform.

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/capcom-makes-the-majority-of-its-sales-on-pc-and-it-expects-the-ratio-to-continue-increasing/

Not sure why it had to be a link to Yahoo Finance (also: Rule 9)

[-] rozodru@piefed.world 5 points 1 month ago

cool, cool. now fix Street Fighter x Tekken on PC and maybe start optimizing your games for the PC?

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago

Best they can do is slap DRM on a 10 year old game

[+] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca -27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I was curious about street fighter games again, then I saw the price tag.. and the 90% discounts whenever they apply them..

I'd never ever buy a game that offers 50-90% discounts. I assume it's a nothing more then a cashgrab

bye Capcom.. you were fun in the past, and that's where you shall stay.

[-] Daxelman@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 month ago

My steak is too juicy, my lobster too buttery, wow is me and woe be upon the chef.

[-] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What's the age of the game? 75-90% discounts on steam aren't uncommon for games more than 5-10 years old.

[-] GammaGames@beehaw.org 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah it’s veeeery flawed logic for steam. Most people don’t buy games unless they’re on sale, and the only way to make the sales attractive over a long time is to keep raising the discount

[-] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Lol ok. That's some dumb reasoning not to play a good game. I guess you never play anything old, and prefer to get ripped off? And when you finally can get the games at a good value, you snub your nose, assuming something has to be wrong with it to be that cheap? You're doing a ton of mental gymnastics for no reason.

Publishers often give steep discounts on the older games in a property to generate hype and sales before a new entry is released.

I never played dead rising when it originally came out. I picked up the first one for 95% off when the remake came out. It ended up being one of my favorite games. If I used your logic, I'd overspend on everything, and I'd never find games I missed like that.

[-] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca -4 points 1 month ago

I play old games because I already own them... I don't buy remade remakes of the remastered edition at 90% off.

[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago

What an odd take.

[-] Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Says you

[-] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago

I've never seen an Indy dev have 90% off, and 80 DLCs... only aaaaa slop does this.

hence my discount comment. high discount = red flag on game is either dead, abandoned, or about to be replaced with the copypaste+1 title of the game.

I'm not knocking sales, just aaaaaaa crap sales since they almost always use 50-90% whereas indy devs seem to be 10-30%.

[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Ooh I see. I thought you were against sales in general.

[-] Euphoma@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Isn't the point of modern fighting games to get you to buy the dlc which never has as good sales as the regular game. Like they need you to have the game so that you can spend more than you paid for the game for the meta characters

[-] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Im from. the times when you just playedthe game to unlock things, not paid more to unlock access to it.

I'm just fed up and done with these studios and I refuse to give them any leeway or breaks anymore

they purposely cripple their products to attempt to extract more from the end user, so I purposely voice my opinion on why they are horrible games from horrible companies.

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