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Capcom Faces Backlash for Adding Enigma Protector to Resident Evil Revelations

Resident Evil Revelations, which has been around for more than ten years, has recently been updated to include the encryption protection tool “Enigma Protector”. However, this measure has caused the game to receive reviews tremendous negativity from the player community on the Steam platform focused on .

Capcom added the DRM anti-theft update “Enigma Protector” to “Revelation of the Evil Dead” in early January this year. However, the update caused players to report black screens, dropped frames, missing Chinese characters, and unusable mods. sparking discussion, followed by a large number of negative comments from the player community.

Faced with the negative reviews from a large number of players, Capcom withdrew the update on January 9 and issued an announcement stating that the update had caused many problems and inconvenienced players, and apologized to players, stressing that it would r update second. -released after the issues were resolved.

In fact, this is not the first old game that Capcom has added the Enigma defense tool.

At the end of last year, players reported that the Enigma DRM anti-theft update was also introduced in the Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection; and the puzzle game Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective also appeared to have been moved. Instead of Denuvo, use Enigma.

Capcom’s gradual rollout of the Enigma defense tool ties in with Capcom’s anti-cheat and anti-piracy strategy last year. For reasons of intellectual property rights and computer security, Capcom’s official position reiterates that they do not encourage players to use third-party modules. and received widespread attention.

However, it is well known that many Capcom games ported to the PC platform in recent years have been welcomed by a large number of players, which is mainly related to the activity of the modding community. So, if Capcom wants to implement DRM technology in every game, it still has to find a way that won’t trigger a backlash from players.


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