Bioshock

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Rootkit finders find this as a rootkit. I put the demo on my system to find a freaking DEMO NEEDS invasive DRM? It's a DEMO!!!

I was thinking of buying an upgraded video card for this, mine is SM2.0 and it takes 3.0 even though it does not say that in the requirements, but this is BS. No way will I give these people my money now, if I ever feel like playing it I'll grab a cracked version off a torrent site. This crap just encourages me to be a pirate to get around their BS schemes.

 

[drothgery]

Rootkit finders find this as a rootkit. I put the demo on my system to find a freaking DEMO NEEDS invasive DRM? It's a DEMO!!!

I was thinking of buying an upgraded video card for this, mine is SM2.0 and it takes 3.0 even though it does not say that in the requirements, but this is BS. No way will I give these people my money now, if I ever feel like playing it I'll grab a cracked version off a torrent site. This crap just encourages me to be a pirate to get around their BS schemes.

Dude, if the DRM is sufficiently bad that you won't buy the game, then get the 360 version or don't play it. A company doing something ethically dubious does not justify stealing from them.

 

[Vargo]

It is NOT a rootkit. This keeps getting brought up over and over, but as much as Securom is trash and those who created it should be taken out back and shot, it isn't a rootkit.

What triggered the whole "OMGHAXORZ" debate was that a Microsoft tool indicated that one part of the Securom install indicated a POTENTIAL rootkit due to the way that Securom installed itself.

I'll admit, I bought the game before I found out about the controversy. As much as the copy protection debacle makes me sad, I do think that the game itself is pure 100% awesomeness - in fact, one of the best games ever made.

And I've been playing since the day of the Commedore 64.

 

[takyris]

And I've been playing since the day of the Commedore 64.

LOAD "AWESOME" ,8,1

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

All I know it better be easy to uninstall from my system considering I didn't know a demo was going in infect my system with its crappy DRM. 2k really looks like they have their heads up their butts. Of course their reps on the company forums deny this. Lie lie lie!

 

[John Crichton]

http://www.corpnews.com/node/177

Apparently, not a rootkit.

 

[Lockridge]

Sad really. I was planning on getting this game but I don't approve of deceptive DRM tactics like installing SecurROM without my consent. They could increase the install limit to 20 and I would still have a problem.

On a lark I recently started replaying some old games from the 80s and early 90s. Those games are no longer supported. Imagine if this nonsense was happening then. I install my original copy of Spellcasting 101 only to find that the program tries to connect to the internet and can't find its activation website - maybe the way in which is connects has changed over the years too. Therefore I can't play the game even though I own it.

The industry is really getting more toward "renting" games for $60 a pop.

They'll get away with it ONLY as long as we let them - and boy do we let them. I'm sure the sales of Bioshock will go through the roof and of course the effect of these "protection measures" will not be truly measurable anyway. The hackers still get in while the actual consumer - that is you and me - have to pay the cost of not only the game development and distribution but also the inflated copy protection. If copy protection really worked the price of the game should come down through increased sales. Don't hold your breath though.

The really sad part will come when someone asks "why don't you want SecureROM on your computer - what do you have to hide?"

 

[Kvantum]

Well, I'd like to play it, but I can't even get the demo to run right on my computer. My WinXP install is a bit long in the tooth, it is probably time to reinstall, but still, all the graphics crashes are just ridiculous. (GTS 8800 640 MB, Pentium D 3.0 GHz, 3 GB of DDR2-667 RAM, so it's not a hardware issue)

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Ok so it isn't a rootkit as i appeared to be when I first read about it, though Microsoft's rootkit scanner lists it as one for some reason. Point is still the same, they should at least let me know when they are installing DRM into my system. Didn't seem to do much good since there are already cracked versions online. Still amazed they felt it necessary to DRM a demo that is meant to be freely sent around.

 

[Banshee16]

I love the game, but I am happy to bought it for the 360, because I would have not accepted the need for the limited Activation (seems more and more games do this)!

What is this "Root Kit" and "Limited Activation" stuff? The most recent PC game I purchased was Medieval: Total War 2, and I just basically installed it, typed in the license code, and was done.

Is some new paradigm appearing?

Banshee