Capcom caps their own game to a one-game save

Everyone gets tire of their favorite games at some point and really you can only reset them only so often to try the game with some new angle before you finally bite the bullet and sell your game to some second shop. Well if Capcom has their way there might not be any reason to sell those games because no-one else will be able to play them.

According to Raymond Wong at DVICE, Capcom is making it so that Resident Evil: Mercenaries 3D won’t let you reset the game for a complete replay.

It’s been confirmed that Resident Evil: Mercenaries 3D for the Nintendo 3DS is a game that once finished, cannot be reset for complete replay. According to both the U.S. and U.K. game’s instruction manual “saved data on this software cannot be reset.”

Basically what Capcom has done is make Mercenaries 3D a one-time play affair. Once you’ve unlocked all the goodies and played the entire game, you will not be able to erase the game’s save data and start fresh as if it were a new copy. Consider this: lendingMercenaries 3D to a friend, a little brother or sister will be worthless because they’ll only be able to continue playing the game with your saved settings and create their own.

I sense a backlash just waiting to happen once word of this spreads through gaming circles.