Capcom Removes Local Co-Op from RE5: Gold - Claims Code Does Not Work on PC, Modders Prove It Wrong

DSOGaming writes: "Well, you gotta admit that Capcom is making some really idiotic decisions. After the complete nonsense with the removal of local co-op from Resident Evil Revelations 2, Capcom decided to yet again give the middle finger to PC gamers by completely removing the local co-op code that was present in Resident Evil 5."

[DarkOcelet]

Either they are ****ing lazy or they are trying to do something we are not seeing.

I think i will go with them being lazy.

[RedDeadLB]

A third party split-screen coop mod for RE5 is available for years now. Capcom are just lazy as fuck.

RE6 had a perfectly functional split-screen coop mode though, so it's blatantly obvious that they are just lazy and didn't want to spend the time to implement it.

[bmf7364]

Not even. If it's shown that the code was simply removed and it's that simple to replicate, then it's Capcom money-grabbing off of PC gamers

[NovusTerminus]

Removing pages of coding is not lazy. These are not little check boxes of features.

This took time to pull the feature out.

As to why they did it... Stupidity is a better answer.

[ThunderPulse]

I think they just wanna sell console copies with local so PC people will buy it twice.

[Pl4sm4]

true .... lying companies .... lying companies everywhere

[Servbot41]

It's things like this that make me wonder why some publishers think they have any right to cry about poor sales and piracy on PC. Stop literally ****ing on your customers and lying about it over and over. All you are doing is burning bridges and pushing people who are more than willing to pay away from your brand altogether.

I thought when they saw the absurd sale numbers that a lot of Steam games pull in they'd actually try to win back PC gamer's hearts, but instead they keep shoveling out broken titles, missing features, and lie after lie.

[xander70769]

Could you please stop literally using the word "literally" wrong?

[Dudebro90]

Way to rip a story from neogaf and pass it off as your own.

[SilentNegotiator]

Neogaf isn't a news site. It's irrelevant if something that was discussed on Neogaf is reported on by an actual news site and Neogaf isn't a proper source for N4G.

[stragomccloud]

At least the game runs at a beautiful 60fps and has great graphical options unlike Square-Enix's lazy port of FFXIII.

[Gamesgbkiller]

Every F***ing time!

And now we wait for the "apology"

[Articuno76]

The PC version never had local co-op... I got the DLC the day it came out and the option simply wasn't there... nor was it there in the original release that I've had for months.

The headline is a little misleading to be honest, suggesting a feature that was present has been patched out. That simply isn't the case.

[Evil_Ghosty]

I bought the GFW boxed version ages ago and its always had local coop. I was playing with local coop the other night. Unless the gold version specifically doesn't have it.

Either I'm pretty pissed of at capcom right now.

[Articuno76]

It never had it, which was why the mod (mentioned in the article) was created in the first place. What Capcom have done is removed the dormant code that allowed the feature to be activated via mod, but it was never an out-of-the-box feature.

Hmm. I wonder. Did Capcom officially patch local co-op support in to the GFWL version after the modders introduced it?

[RedDeadLB]

I believe there is a misunderstanding on your part.

RE5 PC always had LAN coop.
It never had an official split-screen coop mode. Thus, a third party mod enabling split-screen coop was made which simply re-enabled the leftover code. It wasn't completely cut out, it was just disabled.

[RJ92009]

Lol this all thing is funny split screen on pc wow pc gamers sure are grasping at straws who cares. That's what xbox playstation and nintendo are for split screen on pc is a joke.I've never ever in my life had a friend say hey wanna come over and do split screen on my pc? Like really who does that?

[obmas]

theyve been making idiotic decisions and giving BS excuses for years

[Blank]

Capcom has been on the low and developing games due to financial woes. Now I feel that they are recovering and thought to themselves "we are doing better now, so back to trolling our clients" its insane they think they can lie to the whole internet especially when we have talented modders claiming others wise about Capcoms statement about the code.

[pwnsause_returns]

Capcom should stop pretending as if the pc community are stupid enough to fall for their tricks.

I mean they should realize its the pc, your code will be checked by modders and hackers. And they dont Take Trash from no one

[Shineon]

Time to reinstall this game and play it with my boo!

[loganbdh]

Such a great game but local coop was not the reason I got it on pc

[j1mf34r]

Capcom saying bullshit again?
I dont believe you!