Monster Hunter Rise broken on Steam Deck with Capcom’s new DRM update

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[–]LordoftheFlies 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Capcom is just going nuts with their attempts to shut down game modding. I can't tell if it's because they don't want to risk losing an avenue of monetization (ala Bethesda's oft-derided Creation Club) or something else.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of consumers won't care about stuff like this, which is exactly how things like MTX and live service games became normalized, and which is probably how we'll end up paying endless subscription fees to long-term rent every game we want to play.

[–]Myocarditis-Man[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Before enshitification and late-stage capitalism, games like Duke Nukem 3D came with programs to extract the game files and create custom maps and mods, right on the official CD! When you would quit the game, it would even inform you of this.

EDIT: Also, consolidation and acquisitions in the games industry will hasten the arrival of mandatory subscriptions for games... once the big players like Microsoft can make it into a "take it or leave it" affair, as is the case with so much in the tech sector today.