Capcom Responds to Complaints about RE: The Mercenaries 'One Save'

Let me get this straight:

I buy a copy of RE: The Mercernaries, I play through it, I unlock everything, get bored, sell/give the game to my friend, and the only way for him to experience the game the exact way I did is to buy a brand new copy instead?

"Not targeting the second-hand market." Like fucking hell you aren't.

As has been pointed out, even with arcade games, resetting is an option. Hell, you get an old enough machine, resets will happen when you least expect/want it. And besides that, RE: The Mercernaries doesn't play on a coin-operated machine larger than most human beings, it plays on a device small enough to easily carry around. Different rules therefore apply. When people go to the arcade (or used to go to the arcade rather), they generally accept whatever special stuff has been unlocked by previous players on any given machine they use. That's just the name of the game. You can't take the damn thing home with you.

But a handheld console and the games played on it are for use just about anywhere. It becomes your property the day you hand over the money. You're free to save and delete to your heart's content. Different rules.

In this case, Capcom has effectively eliminated a great deal of incentive for anyone to play a used copy of RE: The Mercernaries. Not ALL incentive, of course, but reducing the player to being at the mercy of whatever progress was made by another on any given game is a powerful tactic for removing a considerable amount of a gamer's desire to play a used copy of it.

There's no way in hell Capcom doesn't know this. No way. They've been at the game of making games for waaaaaaaaay too long not to know what they're doing. I might buy it that they didn't foresee such a thing if they were only a 2-3 year-old company. But most of us have been playing Capcom games since we started playing games PERIOD. I don't how many devs have gone belly-up in that amount of time, but I imagine picture of Dante standing atop a thirty foot tall pile of said devs' dead and forgotten gaming characters would be fairly accurate.

Either it was intentional, or they just don't give a shit. Either way, they can count on me not buying a NEW copy of RE: The Mercernaries, let alone a used one. I don't appreciate such underhanded tactics/attitudes.

Same logic that thinks regertaitieing Mega man games with no effort in thier design will somehow make you money. "Capcom fail" should replace epic fail!

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