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Buying used video games is great for gamers who don't want to pay full price for the latest hits. You know who doesn't like used video games? Game publishers. In a very sad twist, Capcom's fighting back against the second-hand game market with a game that can only support one save file — for life.

It's been confirmed that Resident Evil: Mercenaries 3D for the Nintendo 3DS is a game that once finished, cannot be reset for complete replay. According to both the U.S. and U.K. game's instruction manual "saved data on this software cannot be reset."

Basically what Capcom has done is make Mercenaries 3D a one-time play affair. Once you've unlocked all the goodies and played the entire game, you will not be able to erase the game's save data and start fresh as if it were a new copy. Consider this: lending Mercenaries 3D to a friend, a little brother or sister will be worthless because they'll only be able to continue playing the game with your saved settings and create their own.

Will other publishers follow in Capcom's footsteps to take a stand against the lucrative market of used video games?

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"Too Soon from the Cave, Too Far from the Stars"

Surely it's not just the used game market that they're hindering, but their paying customers as well. If I was only allowed to complete a game once, it would either have to cost absolute peanuts (and I mean less than the cost of a budget game, which in the UK is £10, probably $16 USD) or I wouldn't play it at all.

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I agree. I'm not a big gamer, but even I will play a game so long and after awhile just want to start over. Not being able to is big turnoff.

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"Too Soon from the Cave, Too Far from the Stars"

I found it kind of irritating that I couldn't just re-load an old save game in Batman Arkham Asylum, but at least that doesn't stop you from starting the game again.

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