117 points

I’m going to put Capcom on the same list EA and Ubisoft already are on. If the pirate has the better experience than the customer I see no reason to buy their games.

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11 points

The issue is monster hunter is a very community based game. I still do most missions alone but sometimes you want the squad to beat up on a Kulu ya ku. Now the drm is bullshit. I have rise on switch and was thinking of getting the expansion but now I’m not going to.

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70 points

Thankfully this scenario is covered by Steam’s refund policy. If Capcom wants to fuck around, let them find out.

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15 points

How does that work if you’re already over the 2 hours of playtime?

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47 points

If the product you purchased no longer works on a promised platform due to a developer update you were sold a product that was not as advertised. Steam will refund you in this case, and it comes out of the developer’s (publisher’s) pocket.

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14 points

My two refund rejections from steam disagree with you.

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4 points

Does that work for games run on proton. I don’t think Capcom is making promises the games will run on Linux, so I wouldn’t think this would count. The game does still run correctly.

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38 points

Below two hours is the “no questions asked” interval. I believe what the above comment or was saying is that this is a valid refund beyond the 2 hour window.

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54 points

I am so glad shit like this is covered by refund policies and consumer protection laws. Gotta check my library for any Capcom games because fuck them for pulling shady shit like this.

It seems the only big developer (well not really anymore) who got the message about Piracy is Steam itself. Everyone else just kinda missed the point entirely.

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32 points

Right. Steam figured out piracy ages ago. There’s only 3 main contingent of software pirates:

  1. People who can’t afford a game.
  2. People who won’t pay for a game they can afford.
  3. People who can’t easily access a game to purchase.

Steam mitigates #1 by having and promoting publishers to list regional pricing and encouraging/enabling sales. Steam can’t really do anything concrete about #2, but they try by offering services like the Workshop and Remote Play/Together. And they solved #3 by having a store that actually works and doesn’t add in invasive DRM (steam DRM is publisher-enabled).

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10 points

My refund requests got denied by steam because I have more than 2 hours in the game.

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15 points

Then message support that the situation of the game changed and you are now unable to play it after an update. Unless you are in a lawless country that eill essentially force their hand in giving you a refund

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10 points

Yeah I’m not sure where you’re getting this from. Digital “ownership” has always been a hot mess, because you purchase the right to play the game on the publishers terms.

Ethically Steam should provide a refund, legally I can’t find any evidence that they are compelled to.

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25 points

It’s rare for crap like this to hit a game I’m currently playing, but here we are. It is astounding to me that this company managed to absolutely bomb its reputation so quickly after building it back up over the last 10 or so years. I’m not even sure what any of this is supposed to accomplish, as people are reporting that mods still work if you have an OS that can even start the game.

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5 points

@GreenAlex @Fubarberry That is hilarious… I mean that Enigma is failing at it’s one job… HILARIOUS.

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22 points

Posted half an hour after this: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/12830175

As always pirates get the better product.

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3 points

I can do these all day in windows, but im not familiar enough with proton to make it work on steam deck. There any useful guides that could show how to do it on SD? I half just want to out of spite, rather than for wanting to play the game.

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3 points

I usually run the installers in bottles if it is a repack, then you can add the installed program to steam and make it look nice with steamgriddb. bottles lets you run just exe as well. if you name the game in steam to the steam id #, you can even get the official and community controller layouts

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It looks like the cracked version takes more steps to get it to work, though. Downloading extra files and adding the exe to firewall and such to keep it from phoning home.

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