So, they lobbied for a law? It's hard to see this as a fix for those issues really, and it seems like a weird bit of wishful thinking?
It feels like a lot of companies would rather not deal with the fact that people cheat, people can view files, etc. Capcom's explanation for this wasn't the best. It was easily discovered by perusing the game disc of Dragon's Dogma that almost all the DLC (pre-Dark Arisen) was already on the disc, so your DLC was just unlocking content that had always been there. There's an extra content aspect too I guess. Darks Souls has ranged from literally no cheat protection, devs suggesting players should act honorably, and so on. Obviously, many people on the sub are familiar with the Nintendo issues (and the person that cheated to get the literal message of "add anti-cheat to the game" across). basically zero or poor-functioning anti-cheat solutions. This reminds me of how many JP-developed games have had. Just goes to show Japan legislation will kiss the boot of big business even when it makes no damn sense
Save game editors software#
Some comments on the original thread bring up a good point Hex Editors or simple word software technically a means of "Editing game data" which this law explicitly bans.
In general America seems to side with the idea of doing what you want with something once you've purchased it, including modding and editing, and I can't see that stance changing without a push from a much larger industryĮDIT: After properly reading the post I see now that it does include Action Replay. I know the Japanese government is much more buddy-buddy with the big businesses, but I'm fairly sure anywhere else this type of law won't go anywhere. I doubt this move will go far outside of Japan. Action Replay nearly tripled my use of the original DS, and it's not like it affected Nintendo anyway, since you still needed to buy the game. Not that it matters since I think Action Replay is pretty irrelevant nowadays, but still a bit of a bummer to hear stuff like that might be illegal in Japan.