2K on Bioshock: "Why should your brother play for free?

    Lol, this is a good one:

    On the 2K boards, one community member found that when his brother attempted to play Bioshock on another account (on the same PC), the software prompted him for a serial number. He asked (ok, whined a bit) as to whether or not this serial would count toward another of his 5 activations. This was 2K's response:

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    2k Tech JT writes: The other way to view this, is one USER has purchased the game. Not the whole family. So why should your brother play for free?

    Copied from: http://kotaku.com/gaming/2k/2k-on-biosh ... 296622.php

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    2K is the new EA, I will NEVER buy a 2K game again

    +1 ... I almost hate myself for buying the CE. Nevar again. Worse than Steam could ever be!

    TBH, asking if that would count as an activation was a rather retarded question. It's a new account, so it's treated as a separate activation -- makes perfect sense to me. I might have snapped at this guy too for asking something incredibly stupid, but then again, the tech guy should have exhibited professionalism in the face of idiocy.

    I'm never buying another 2K game again unless its DRM free. I've had enough trouble with my damn Bioshock. You know something is wrong when you have an easier time with the pirated version then you do the legitimate version.

    (Note: I don't condone software piracy, but come on. This is fuckin' ridiculous)

    lol 2k get worse by the day.

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    Please note that the forum moderator has been incorrectly quoted as a 2K employee. The individual, "JT Tech 2K" works for an outside tech support group and is not an employee of 2K. Additionally, 2K is investigating the validity of the post.

    lol

    Seems relevant to industry discussion.

    I think, while obviously bad things have occurred, overall most of the 2K hate has been blown a bit out of proportion with the angry internet mobs of ascii torches and pitchfork - valid complaints risen to epic "omfg boycott!!!" proportions that'll all simmer and cool off one way or another within the next few months (and certainly before 2k's next major title).

    It's certainly good they're working these kinks out on one of their titles and not, say... ours.

    Id love to play the game, but this kind of crap really withholds me from buying it...

    It might be true that the whole problem gets hyped up a bit but I dont think you can say that thats a bad thing. You need to bring the message across to publishers like 2k that people dont want crap like this, you cant do that by being all nice and friendly.

    I'm always wary of any "OMFG Boycott" reactions. They get blown out of proportion every time, and it's just not part of my culture. The "I'm never buying anything from them in my life" attitude is just too simple for my own taste.

    I happen to have bought the CE this week end, so I could have that very nice miniature big daddy, and I'm just loving the game in and out. Haven't had a single problem activating it, playing it, never crashed, etc.

    As games developers ourselves (some of us), we need to put ourselves in their shoes. Yes you're buying a DRM filled game, but you're also supporting a whole team of developers and not just the publisher, who is solely responsible for this commercial strategy.

    Had anyone on Mapcore worked on this game, I can promise we wouldn't even have that discussion and we'd be supporting the dev team who just outdid every single industry standards I can think of.

    I don't buy games very often, and I often say I'd rather play 2 95%+ games a year than 10 80% games. Bioshock is worth every cent of its price tag. And seen as I install my games on a separate partition, and don't plan on formatting it, it'll be a long time before I run out of activation trials.

    Indeed, people need to cool down. And to be honest then this kind of reply and action from 2K doesn't surprise me at all. They're really begging for a kick in the face with this kind of attitude but I'm surprised that you're surprised by this kind of thing. I'm sure all publishers would love to have each user buy their own copy even if they all live under the same roof, some just don't have the balls to pull that kinda thing yet it seems. After all, no matter what anybody says then they're here for the money, not to please you

    Oh and btw, consoles ftw, fuck the PC

    They put Securom on your computer without asking you, which isn't legal really. Software qualifies as a good and they have no right to tell you what you can do with it after you purchase it.

    They ignored countless messages from customers on their forums, and email. Several Tech support moderators joined the forums, but never posted a thing.

    They told their community of paying customers that everyone was on vacation.

    I say it's still well within proportion. These sellouts are an insult to the gaming industry and a black eye on any image it had left, especially the action genre. I'm just afraid of the same crap being pulled with Mafia 2.

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