Capcom claims RE: The Mercenaries 3D save controversy won't happen again

@rhododragon No kidding. We don't even take part in online petition half the time (The ultimate in things that don't work).

@rhododragon

curious if some that signed the petition were more than just gamers.

@rhododragon

Of course it won´t, if people complains it won´t, but if we stay quiet then the next move would be........FUM!!! cart bricked for playing it on another 3ds......

@Aguiluz

That annoys me though. 'Unless we can get money on your game twice, we won't sell it at all.'

@Aguiluz Yes it works much better when we and the retailers have a common goal because they at least are proactive even if greedy arsholes at times.

@AltairArcanum

...and selling multiple copies of this title if people want to have their own achievements/highscores in the game.

@AltairArcanum

I didn't realize the game was an arcade fighter. :P

@captplut9465 Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the Capcom Cycle.

@aea0a095

News flash, Sony is losing millions of dollar on PSN... hack not withstanding. When the next gen console come around, PSN won't be free.

@SirUrza
Sony lost money on every PS1 they sold, they sold the PS2 at a loss, the PS3 is sold at a loss.
Sony didn't try and make a profit on their new consoles, because Sony makes all their money from game sales.
So long as PSN adds valve to their games (improving sales), they are unlikely to significantly change their model for it.

@SirUrza Yeah I'm sure Sony would just throw away one of its biggest selling points like that.... >_>

@aea0a095

Good point but I think $59.99 games are actually an instance of developers and publishers not so much trying to screw us, but instead just trying to stay on top of ballooning development costs. In fact, if you look at development costs for the previous gen (with games at 49.99) and the current gen (59.99), you'll see that they actually lost profit margin. Games this generation are just so damned expensive to make.

On the other hand, at least everyone is on optical discs now. You clearly must not remember $75 Nintendo 64 games.

@Bighouse

That's a very one sided way of looking at it. True, development costs are much higher than they once were for "some" titles, however games are selling tenfold what they used to. They don't "need" to sell games at $60, they could sell them for $10 each and assuming it sold 6 times the volume as $60, they would make the same profit.

It's not about recouping losses, it's not about inflation, it's about how much people are willing to pay. Games are $59.99 because millions of people are fully willing to pay that price, and that is the only true reason. If the next COD title were priced at $99.99, and close to the same number of people buy it, guess what all activion games will be priced at from there on out?

@byaboy Yes, but by the same kind of logic, I could say that you're a terrible person for spending your time on a gaming blog when there's people being raped and murdered around the world.

@RasmusRasmus654321 well I could say erm well your rapping them

@RasmusRasmus654321 well I could say erm well your rapping them

Worst comeback of the year so far folks.

@Bubbameister33 It was a joke well that last comment was just don't take everything so seriously.OK

@Trilancer
Can We get some new, good MegaMan games?
MML3? MMX9? MZX3?
You know, while we're at it

@Rocket Raccoon
It's more of a problem if you try to pick up a copy after they stop producing it, you're forced to pick up a used copy that is already partially completed and it detracts from the experience of playing it.

I would have been quite pissed off if I bought Sonic Advance and it was already 100% complete with all emeralds collected and I couldn't erase the save data and restart the game.

@PANdaRUS
Here is the thing about DLC. And please soak it all in.
Levels and features are often removed from games during development. That's just how it goes. A company can only spend so much time on a game before the bank is broke, so you have to release at some point, which usually means part of a game are dropped. This is how it is and always will be. Same goes for movies, TV, books, you name it.

In the days before DLC, you got your game and that was it. Let's go way back to the old Genesis and SNES days. You paid $60 (yes games were $60 back then, more sometimes) and if stuff was removed you really didn't know and didn't care. The experience was on the cartridge.

Fast forward to today, and you see that games still have the same time constraints and also cost $60 BUT now all the bits that would normally be gone and forgotten are offered to you for a price. What's wrong with that?

Might I add that the cost of making a game has jumped dramatically since the 16 bit days. Now they have motion capture, voice over talent, amazing soundtracks, and not to mention fantastic graphics. All of this, for the same price as it was in the 90s.

So what do you care about paying for EXTRAS. Just because you don't think DLC is extra, that's too bad for you. All you have to do is just imagine you're in the 90s and ignore the fact that DLC exists, and you'll be fine.

ASIDE - this save bs capcom pulled is a whole other beast.

@ DreadArrow, So was the XBX and the 360 when they came out... I think only nintendo has mastered the art of releasing last gen hardware at next-gen prices...

@nerdydesi1

Also because, well, it's a DS game. They're not often patched.

@(Unverified) And cool, my name doesn't even show up.

@(Unverified)

Honestly dude the whole comment system is just whack. Even in the event that you do change your picture or name, it likely won't matter, heck click on my name and notice my profile will say SLaYeR on the top and yet in the message boards here it says some random numbers and letters for some odd reason. Now how do I go about fixing that? No one probably knows...

@Dick Socrates Yeah, because America is definitely the only place with corrupt companies.

@Dick Socrates
Hear hear.

@Dick Socrates
Methinks you have a rather loose understanding of the word "corrupt". Stingy business practices =/= corruption.

@HaVoK308
That's what everyone was thinking.