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GameStop Still Accepting Resident Evil Trade-Ins

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GameStop Still Accepting Resident Evil Trade-Ins

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Even if Capcom’s “one save file per game” policy for Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D wasn’t made to hose the used game market, it sure managed to do so. Once news of the save system became public, many retailers like GameStop stopped accepting trade-ins of the game. The GameStop top brass was evaluating the game’s trade-in value to determine if there was any point in selling the game used.

The verdict?

Well, after speaking with Capcom, GameStop has apparently decided that Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D has some sort of trade-in value after all. Maybe they’ve discovered a way to wipe the save data, or maybe they simply think people will pay to play a game with everything unlocked. Either way, you can sell your copy if you truly wish to do so.



Capcom community manager Shawn Baxter posted about this policy on the Capcom Unity boards, saying that it isn’t a policy at all, but rather just a function of gameplay. “There was no intention of lessening the experience of the game,” he said. “Essentially, RE Mercs was treated like an arcade fighting game. You unlock characters, levels, etc and they just stay unlocked as they would in an arcade machine. There was no hidden motive to prevent buying used copies. It’s not some secret form of DRM. It’s simply the way we designed the save system to work with the arcade type of gameplay.”

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