-HP- Posted September 5, 2007 Report Posted September 5, 2007 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: 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 Quote
leileilol Posted September 5, 2007 Report Posted September 5, 2007 Wow, and that just simply screams selfish greed. They don't care about family values. Quote
FrieChamp Posted September 5, 2007 Report Posted September 5, 2007 2K is the new EA, I will NEVER buy a 2K game again Quote
⌐■_■ Posted September 5, 2007 Report Posted September 5, 2007 That's cold. Imagine someone from Jumbo International would sell you this crap. Quote
Zyn Posted September 5, 2007 Report Posted September 5, 2007 Yet another excuse for people to hoist Jolly Roger and pillage. Quote
Taylor Posted September 5, 2007 Report Posted September 5, 2007 Or buy it on 360. Christ, everything about their anti-piracy system just encourages people to pirate it to dodge their stupid bullshit. Quote
Psy Posted September 5, 2007 Report Posted September 5, 2007 Piracy will always happen and this just pisses off the people who got Bioshock legitimately. Quote
aevirex Posted September 5, 2007 Report Posted September 5, 2007 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! Quote
ChopperDave Posted September 5, 2007 Report Posted September 5, 2007 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. Quote
clayman Posted September 5, 2007 Report Posted September 5, 2007 fucking idiots, thats why i illegaly download games! Quote
Section_Ei8ht Posted September 6, 2007 Report Posted September 6, 2007 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) Quote
dux Posted September 6, 2007 Report Posted September 6, 2007 lol 2k get worse by the day. 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 Quote
KungFuSquirrel Posted September 6, 2007 Report Posted September 6, 2007 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. Quote
Hourences Posted September 6, 2007 Report Posted September 6, 2007 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. Quote
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