Capcom has rolled back a recent update to the 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, prompting Capcom to roll back the game on 9th January. ‘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.
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.
Capcom’s recent moves to include Enigma Protector in its games are 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’.
Some users took to Enigma’s forum to mention the impact Enigma Protector is believed to have had on Resident Evil Revelation’s performance, to which an admin replied.