Unknown Soldier
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Game installers and patchers need elevated rights though.
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Capcom puts anti-cracking rootkit in Street Fighter 5 PC version update
- Thread starter Jimmyfenix
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Game installers and patchers need elevated rights though.
Son Of Sparda
Member
Okay that's it. I'm done with this game for now. I'll delete it form my PS4 and come back to it in a year or two IF they've handled this shit show by then.
I know this doesn't even affect PS4 players but Capcom being THIS shitty towards their fanbase is something that I can't simply accept out of principle.
I know this doesn't even affect PS4 players but Capcom being THIS shitty towards their fanbase is something that I can't simply accept out of principle.
You sure showed them as a PS4 player!
Son Of Sparda
Member
Good. Maybe we can get a thread title update
MarcoZombieCannon
Member
Yup, gave me a 33mb update half an hour ago. Can confirm booting the game doesn't result in any elevation request or anything anymore.
As far as the scummy shit Capcom pulled. They walked back that decision with some pretty decent quickness. So I mean I won't uninstall or anything, but... jesus that was ill-advised as hell.
DryEyeRelief
Member
You don't need to defend yourself. The people who will continue to support this shitshow can only be sarcastic because thats their only option. There's no real defense force for what happened.
That's great, it was a quick fix. Don't pull this shit off again Capcom because you need all the good will as you can get with this game and then some.
Son Of Sparda
Member
I honestly can't believe how anyone could get behind shit like this. I love a lot of Capcom games myself so I get that, but that doesn't mean that I have to be okay with or deny Capcom's shitty attitude towards their fans/customers.
I'm not defending this practise but people like you will always continue to moan, whine and nitpick about this "shit show" because it suits your agenda. Capcom made a massive mistake and have addressed it promptly so there's two things players can do. 1. Continue to cry about it or 2. Move on and play a game they enjoy with more content and a highly anticipated character in the latest update. So yeah, no sarcastic tone here.
They already removed it: http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1283645
LukasTaves
Member
If I'm not mistaken, steam has a certificate itself which allows it to install any games the way it does.
King Gilga
Member
It's like they go out of their way to mess aspects of this game.
deadscreensky
Member
You're forgetting the obvious #3: recognize Capcom made an enormous, possibly criminal mistake and deserve both widespread condemnation and plenty of future caution.
God, pretending we should ignore this now just because they fixed their incredibly stupid and selfish mistake relatively quickly? No, on a scale of Boycott to Ignore, these jerks are sitting much, much closer to the former. I haven't decided myself, but I'm certainly not going to ignore this insulting shit they pulled.
You crying about poor old Capcom getting slagged on is infinitely more annoying than a million whiners crying about no arcade mode or whatever. They deserve all the bullshit in the world for literally putting an unnecessary and risky attack vector on people's computers because they decided to take shortcuts over fucking costume mods and Capcom funny money. This isn't some shit you just shrug off. This ain't "lol oh Capcom you goofs no hard feelings"
I've been very patient with them for months now through the thick and thin of the kind of resources this game clearly doesn't have, but this is new levels of incompetence, even for them.
Edit: And I'd like to point out even after their rollback patch or whatever came out this morning, I still had to rummage through my own damn folders to delete that .sys file.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
A decade after Sony's rootkit debacle, how could any company think this was okay?
kingofthedead45
Member
So if I'm understanding correctly, its basically a potential backdoor to potential Malware, most likely due to incompetence?
So you basically swallow anything Capcom throws at you with a big smile?
Probably Cappcom did this because they think most consumers are like you. And probably they are near bankrupcy because we are not.
BumblebeeCody
Member
I'm still not surprised people stick up for crap like this, at no benefit to them either.
EricTheCleric
Member
I will never ever again buy another Capcom game on PC
Fuz
Banned
Yeah, no. If they have money to spare for this shit, they have money to spare to pay an intern to program a simple key rebind interface.
I forgot how much Gaf love to gets the pitchforks out. You'd think Capcom or other game companies came to your house and shat on your doorstep going by some of the OTT reactions. Like I said, Capcom made a huge mistake which they quickly (much to some people's demise) rectified so it's either people stop moaning or continue to play a game they enjoy. I'm not going to punish the entire development team (those who actually work on content) who have worked so hard on the game over stupid decisions from thier awful management. That sort of mob mentality is very nasty and ignorant.
yeah was really crazy back then with securom rootkit and the mess around starforce
although what worries me is that the same people that created that securom rootkit are now glorified when all they did was to buyout from Sony and rebrand the company,and after that rework and rebrand the DRM and do maketing push that they are awesome and saviours of gaming....
...makes me kinda sick
It wasn't "shortcuts" they did hack the game and use characters and tools that weren't actually theirs. I think it's more annoying how people put the blame on every single person working on SFV when this awful decision was made by only a handful of people at the upper end of management. I enjoy SFV because it is a fundamentally great game with it's polished and balanced gameplay so I won't let some imbeciles actions ruin the amount of enjoyment I've had from this title.
EricTheCleric
Member
No its more like Capcom came to your house and unlocked and opened all your doors and windows.
The shortcut I'm talking about is Capcom dumping a malicious driver on everyone who patched and ran their game to curb the cheating, not the actual cheating.
And frankly, who actually gives a shit about about the cheating in the grand scheme of things when we see what Capcom's initial solution to it was in the first place? Boohoo, the cheating, thanks for the backdoor in your lust to trip over yourself and stop it Capcom, I feel so bad for you.
And frankly, who actually gives a shit about about the cheating in the grand scheme of things when we see what Capcom's initial solution to it was in the first place? Boohoo, the cheating, thanks for the backdoor in your lust to trip over yourself and stop it Capcom, I feel so bad for you.
SeeNoWeevil
Member
If it doesn't actually remove the driver, they haven't reversed the security risk, which is the whole reasoning for the uproar. The fact people can now play the game is not the main concern.
LincolnTunnel
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deadscreensky
Member
Stop moaning? Stop moaning?!
And I forgot that certain minority elements of GAF are such disgusting, unreasoning corporate apologists that it's effectively impossible to try to discuss anything with them.
Capcom deliberately broke the computers of everybody who owns the PC version of Street Fighter 5, all so they could protect the purity of their dumb Fight Money system. Hundreds of thousands of paying customers with their PCs broken wide open to every unsavory element out there on the internet -- this is what Capcom planned, implemented, and released, all without any warning.
The fact that any of us are even considering giving Capcom any future support isn't "pitchforks", it's extreme generosity after they deliberately risked every important thing we might use our PCs for, for example our finances, our jobs, our important photos and emails, etc. Capcom working quickly to cease their extremely illegal actions is the fucking obvious course of action to save their asses, it's not something that somehow makes them look like good guys.
If you want to still hold these arrogant criminals dear to your heart that's your own business, but right now instead of whining about "mob mentality" you should probably just shut up.
So you're back to defending rootkits? That didn't last long.
You have to manually delete capcom.sys. Apart from that, yes.
Jawmuncher
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UcchedavÄda
Member
Yeah, you won't have it if you haven't run the bad version of SFV. You have to give the game permissions first, before it can actually install the driver.
