Recreation developer Capcom launched a brand new patch on August 27 for a number of Resident Evil video games for Apple gadgets, requiring all of them to be related to the web with a purpose to be performed.
The patch doesn’t clarify why this requirement has been added. Capcom’s web site solely states the next: “Resulting from modifications to the startup course of, an web connection is now required when beginning this app.“ While you subsequent begin up Resident Evil 4, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, and Resident Evil Village on the finest iPhones, iPads, and Macs, it’s essential to guarantee your machine has an energetic web connection.
It’s a baffling transfer, as these single-player video games don’t want to be on-line — they by no means wanted to be once they have been all initially launched on gaming consoles, beginning with Resident Evil 7 in 2016. Certainly, customers on social media website X are expressing many frustrations concerning the patch. One instance is AppleGamingCat, making the nice level that this may restrict customers from taking part in the video games in locations that don’t enable an web connection, equivalent to airplanes.
iMore has reached out to Capcom for additional remark as to why this requirement has been rolled out.
Let’s not neglect that Capcom is planning on bringing one other entry within the Resident Evil sequence to Apple gadgets quickly. Initially launched in 2019, the Resident Evil 2 Remake is coming to suitable iPhones, iPads, and Macs later this yr. It’s a unbelievable recreation that honors the unique sequel from 1998 in a contemporary manner. However with this remake more likely to have this web requirement with a purpose to play, it might spoil the expertise earlier than customers attain the title display.
With Capcom blaming ‘modifications to the startup course of’ for this patch, maybe it’s one thing involving Apple’s upcoming software program updates of iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, all rumored to reach subsequent month. If so, then it’s one thing that Apple ought to look into. It’s patches like these that go in opposition to latest efforts to deliver video games like Resident Evil to its merchandise. Hopefully, we will quickly see a reversal of this patch to let customers play these video games wherever they need, with out an web connection.
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