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Capcom Announces Unreplayable Game
Hatta writes "Resident Evil: Mercenaries 3D for the Nintendo 3DS will be an experience that can be completed once per customer. Using a single, unwipable save slot Capcom ensures that a second hand customer gets a second rate experience. If you buy this game used, you will be stuck with the previous owner's progress, unable to start the game fresh."
That would be William Gibson's _Agrippa_ a memoir of his father:
http://www.dissemination.dk/research/books/postcard-from-a-dead-future/
It contained aquatint etchings which would degrade when exposed to light and a _floppy disk_ w/ the text which would encrypt itself as it was displayed (naturally this has since been broken).
William
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
The game has already been out for a month. It was not published clearly on the outside of the box, just in the manual (and who RTFM around here?).
They're treating it as a success at capcom because Gamestop is paying 6$ for it used in the UK and in Japan.
Source.
One important thing missing from the summary:
This is an arcade game were the save file only keeps high scores and unlocked content, similar to unlocking characters in a Street Fighter game.
Although some may prefer to unlock everything themselves, I can also see many would love to buy a used and fully u locked copy of the game over a new one.
This instance of the feature does not deserve any real doom crying.