I guess it was only a matter of time before we started reading about review bombing. I hoped we’d at least make it to February, but the community has decided otherwise.
This time, the target is not just a singular game but rather anything Capcom has touched.
The reason behind it all is because of a new piece of software Capcom has silently started to add to their older games on Steam, called Enigma.
Enigma was created to prevent gamers from accessing the games’ .exe files so that the games can’t be modded.
It’s pretty clear that Capcom is very anti-modding. Last year, they had already said, “All mods are defined as cheats, except when they are officially supported”, during a presentation shared on their R&D YouTube channel, and they’ve now backed that up with this Enigma software.
While it did upset the modding community, this anti-modding stance didn’t necessarily invoke the review bomb. That kicked off because this new Enigma software can be used as DRM software, which could impact game performance.
Even though there has been no evidence that the software is actually causing performance issues, it’s the possibility that it could that’s upsetting the community.
Games as old as Lost Planet 3 have received new negative reviews, all somehow referring to DRM software as the problem.