Bioshock PC Upsets Gamers Worldwide
It’s been revealed that not only does Bioshock for PC ship with SecuROM copy protection which causes severe conflicts with Anti-Virus Programs due to it’s suspicious runtime routines, but also that the game contains a home-dialing trojan activation procedure, which sends configuration information back to the developer when the game is installed. In turn, the game can only be installed twice, ever, due to the phone-home ninny-gagging during the install sequence. “Paying $50 for a game to fuck up my AVG install and I can only ever install it twice in a lifetime is pure bullshit!” said Angry_Bioman via IRC. “I typically format my hard drive 3-4 times a year to clean shit up but now I won’t be able to do this anymore, or risk losing my Bioshock license. I’m so fed up with this crap and am going to try returning the game tomorrow.”
According to retailers, there is no information on the game’s box regarding the SecuROM protection causing conflicts with anti-virus programs nor the limitations of only being able to activate the game twice.
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This type of copy protection just makes the cracks and piracy come out faster, while making the people who might pay for the game think about just getting the cracked version. Some games don’t have a good crack because they implement only 1 novel trick to check for your cd and it’s transparent to your operating system. I can blame this horror with bioshock on aggressive marketing from the people who make securerom and similar copy protection companies. The bigger they get the FASTER they fall, cracks come out immediately when they do crap like this.