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Capcom keeps breaking its games by throwing DRM at them

Someone used the monkey’s paw to wish for Denuvo’s removal

Marco Wutz

Capcom keeps breaking its games by throwing DRM at them
Capcom keeps breaking its games by throwing DRM at them /

Update (January 23, 2024): Capcom stated that the Monster Hunter Rise issues on Steam Deck had been fixed, so you should be able to play the game on the device once again.

Original (January 22, 2024): Here’s the good news: Capcom has removed the terrible Denuvo DRM from Monster Hunter Rise.

However, there is some bad news as well: Two even more awful DRM programs have replaced it in the form of Enigma and Obsidium, one of which seems to have stopped the popular title from working on Steam Deck – so to whoever used the monkey’s paw to wish for the removal of Denuvo: Congratulations, your wish came true.

Monster Hunter Rise’s user rating on Steam is quickly sinking due to the DRM experiments, as players have been submitting negative reviews due to the game breaking on Steam Deck.

Monster Hunter Rise reptilian monster with purple glow coming from it.
Fans are enraged by Capcom's new and aggressive DRM policy on released titles / Capcom

Capcom stated that it’s aware of the issue. “A hotfix for this issue is planned for release in the very near future. Please stay tuned, and thank you for your patience and understanding,” the Monster Hunter social media account wrote.

Fans have been running out of patience and understanding over the last couple of weeks: While Capcom hasn’t officially stated that it was experimenting with DRM programs to stop its games from being played with mods, that is essentially what is happening. Apparently, someone at the company thinks that modding equals cheating, steering it towards this destructive course that’s burning a lot of the good will Capcom built up for itself with the community thanks to a streak of great game releases.

Earlier this month, Capcom tried adding Enigma to Resident Evil Revelations – with a similarly bad result: Players complained about ensuing performance issues and the developer reverted the update relatively quickly.

With the release of Dragon’s Dogma 2 coming up soon, players are keenly observing Capcom’s action – if this heavy-handed approach continues, some may decide to skip the upcoming RPG.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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