Resident Evil, Street Fighter, and Monster Hunter publishers Capcom have revealed that a data breach has seen a third-party gain access to information associated with more than 11 million Capcom ID accounts. “Suspicious activity” around the service, required to play online in the likes of Street Fighter 6, was initially noticed on October 19th according to Capcom, who have spent the past couple of days taking measures to contain and combat the problem.
Was it required? IIRC they used it for telemetry purposes or whatever. Was there content or any kind of gameplay item that was gatekept behind the user having a Capcom ID? I may be misremembering, but I think I just declined when the game prompted me to create an ID.
I haven’t played the most recent ones though, so maybe the made it mandatory?
It doesn’t make it any less stupid, I’m just curious. I don’t think a single player game should be tied to an external account.
My direct experience is with Ubisoft and Bethesda, which require signing in with an account specific to them if the device you’re playing on has internet access during game start up.
I don’t play much myself anymore, in large part because of this excessive entitlement publishers assume.