Capcom has rolled back a recent update to 11-year-old game Resident Evil Revelations which added a DRM called Enigma Protector.
The DRM was noticed after Steam players began reporting errors when launching Revelations last week, including a reduced and unstable framerate, as well as broken mods.
Steam users review bombed Revelations with complaints about Enigma, which prompted Capcom to roll back the game on 9th January (which can be seen on its history via SteamDB).
“Due to an issue observed with the latest update released,” Capcom stated on Steam, “we have reverted the corresponding update.” The company said once the issue is “resolved”, it plans to re-release the update. It did not specify whether Enigma is the culprit for the newly introduced problems players have been facing with Revelations, nor whether Enigma will be added back in a future update.
Eurogamer has contacted Capcom for comment.
This is not the first instance of Capcom adding Enigma Protector to its older games. After removing Denuvo from Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection last year, the company then added Enigma to the game. The remaster of Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective also received the same treatment.
Wake up babe, new Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection update just dropped.
This one adds, uh… (checks notes) ah, new DRM.
The same DRM was recently added to Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection: https://t.co/erjhZZPP02 pic.twitter.com/EH8bsFu0jb
— Prof. 9 (@Prof9) October 30, 2023
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Capcom’s recent moves to include Enigma Protector in its games is likely linked to its recent presentation which equated all mods to cheats, and warned of “reputational damage” by “mods that are offensive to public order and morals”.
I’d hate to paint mods in a broad stroke, but I do believe there’s a difference between people using mods in a 10-year-old single-player game, and using mods which give players an advantage in a competitive game. (Accidentally showing modded-in nudity during a broadcasted Street Fighter 6 tournament probably falls somewhere in the middle of those two…)