Capcom defends Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D perma-save feature
“There was no i𒉰ntention of lessening the experience of the game,” says community staffer
When word first broke that Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D would include a permanent save system (i.e. unlocked content stays unlocked) the general assumption was Capcom was planning to take DRM to new extremes, or lining up a debilitating headshot against secondary sales. In response to these conspiracy theories, Capcom recently took to its for🦄ums to convince fansthe perma-save feature is not a middle finger to consumers and used game outlets, but rather a way of enhancing the arcade feel of its game.
“There was no intention of lessening the experience of the game,” explains Shawn 'Snow' Baxter, Capcom's community specialist, in a. "Essentially, RE Mercs was treated like an arcade fighting game. You unlock characters, levels, etc and they just stay unlocked as they would in a꧅n arcade machine. There was no hidden motive to prevent buying used copies. It's not some secret form of DRM. It's simply the way we designed the save system to work with the arcade type of gameplay.”
Baxter further emphasized RE: Mercenaries 3D 🐎is a non-linear gamein whichthe focus is not on progressing from level to level, butreplaying missions to achieve a greater score. As such, all of the game's content is available all the time, so it makes no difference when and where someone decides to save their progress. And, as an added benefit to second-hand users, Baxter explained: “Anyone purchasing a copy of the game secondhand would have access to all the missions a🉐nd skills that the original owner unlocked, in addition to the content that was available to the original user.”
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