People in the fighting game community (FGC) have been suggesting that Capcom's recent DRM anti-mod changes to some games have been some sort of response to the "incident" where some streamer forgot to remove his 100% Naked Chun-Li Street Fighter 6 skin before he started streaming a tournament. Other people in the FGC say it's not the case, but it's an interesting point to mention.
Capcom have a history of doing dumb stuff with DRM. They also changed the DRM system with the Iceborne expansion for Monster Hunter World, which created all sorts of issues, partly due to lazy CRC implementation. It lead to a whole cat and mouse situation of fixing their crap: https://old.reddit.com/r/MonsterHunterWorld/comments/ezpc49/....
And then there was Resident Evil 8 (Village), which performed checks every time you killed a monster, leading to horrible stutter that ended up being worse than the pirated version that ran better and forced the devs to get their stuff together: https://www.ign.com/articles/resident-evil-8-drm-issues-unof....
They also issued free upgrades to Resident Evil 2, 3, and 7, but some of those upgrades had some performance regressions iirc, but the intentions were benign in this case.
All this to say that Capcom have done dumb DRM stuff for a while, but this particular case has had Capcom retroactively add DRM to older games across franchises, which, while new, also looks like the same old antics but applied more broadly. Or, in HN speak: incompetence at scale.
This idea has spread outside of the FGC at this point. I see other places mentioning it as well. I also think you were able to mod SFV to be able to use the paid costumes (or whatever you want as evidenced by the Chun-Li scandal in 6) without actually buying them. Different engines, but I'm sure Capcom didn't like it.
Another point people bring up is that Capcom has been adding micro-transactions post-launch to some of the new Resident Evil remake titles, that effectively power you up to some degree... In the same way that a mod (or cheat engine or whatever you want to call it) could do for free.
