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Post by keitaro on Aug 25, 2007 18:07:19 GMT -5
Really. It's the best game on the market, but don't buy it.
It turns out the publisher, 2K, sold themselves out to Sony for copy protection. For those of you who don't realize the implications of that statement, Sony has been indicted and convicted on charges of installing rootkits on people's systems some years back. (Again, for those of you who don't know what a rootkit is, it's a program that installs itself for the purpose of masking a running process/processes. It also modifies the kernel to make it extremely difficult to remove. Alongside this, most rootkits are either designed to or have vulnerabilities that allow code to be run remotely. That is a very, very bad thing.)
2K insists that their copy protection software (Dubbed SecuROM) is not a rootkit... But if it barks like a dog, acts like a dog, and looks like a dog... So don't buy this game. At least until 2K pulls their collective head out of their collective ass.
*sighs in disappointment*
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Post by momaru on Aug 25, 2007 18:13:39 GMT -5
Yup I heard about this on Kotaku. That is really stupid of them to make it hard to even play their game. They made it basically impossible to uninstall the game or its components right? Go pirate it, I am sure somebody has cracked or is trying to the game by now. Revenge can sometimes be satisfying.
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Post by eirra on Aug 28, 2007 16:43:56 GMT -5
Holy shit, good job, Soni *rolled eyes* Yeah, as much as I am not encoauraging illeagal activities (<--- HEY, KIDS!! THIS IS HOW YOU AVOID LAWSUITS!!! YAY!!!! Kind like sayin', "Well, now, I can't condone robbing a bank, but the Grand West Bank as poor secruity at the hours of X and X, and their camera system is broken"), pirating might get rid of some of that stuff.
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Post by kaito on Aug 30, 2007 20:07:49 GMT -5
I heard that you should NOT pirate it... something about it will disable your DVD/CD drive forever D: I saw BioShock today in babbages and was going to buy it when Tusami was all like "OMG DON DO IT CUZ KEITARO SAY NO!!!" So, I didn't. *whipes forehead* That was a close one.... even though K2 rocks... sony sucks.
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Post by shyria on Aug 31, 2007 16:49:35 GMT -5
Found another little tidbit concering BioShock from a blogger named Shamus; i watch his site for a REALLY funny Lord of the Rings/ DnD style comic but he recently posted some rants concerning the software www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1284www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1287Apparently, the software not only requires online activation in order to play, you can only activate it on a single computer at a time AND you only get two activations. So god help you if your hard drive gets wiped. Sounds like even the demo version installs the rootkit program as well Shame. From what I heard from Keitaro was that this was going to be the best game ever. Leave it up to corporate greed and paranoia to ruin it for every sane person out there though
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Post by keitaro on Aug 31, 2007 21:46:36 GMT -5
Hmm. Well, Shryia, you blogger is a bit behind the times. While most of his information is incorrect, 2K conceded a tiny, tiny bit shortly after realease: now you can have installs on up to FIVE systems. Also, you can indeed have installs on more than one computer; however, each install takes up an install slot. Of which there are still far too few. That, coupled with the unreliable (at best) registration removal application, (and hardware fingerprinting (if you switch out too many parts, BioShock stops working) and hard drive failures (2K says that if this happens, you're out of luck)) makes for a gaming hell.
Well, Kaito, I'm glad I helped. However, I've not heard about BioShock killing hardware. You're probably thinking of StarForce, another DRM that notoriously disabled anything on a SCSI interface (a high-bandwidth peripheral bus - common peripherals that use it are CD drives and hard drives. You can see why this is a problem.)
But yeah. It still really, really sucks. I've been lurking around, and sadly no cracks have been released as of yet. From what I hear, the copy protection is fairly easy to bypass, but the client-server authentication is incredibly difficult to duplicate, as nobody knows what's stored on the 2K registration servers.
I'm sad about this. It was supposed to be a great game, too. (It is, reviewers consistently gave it incredibly high scores), but the forking copy protection software killed it for me. I'm not buying until they remove it (if I like the game, and it's still in production, I try to throw the game devs a bone). Heh. Like that'll happen. Still, I can hope.
*sigh*
EDIT: By the way, Kaito... 2K consists of brain-dead businessmen and scum-sucking bottom-feeder PR people who will lie to you to make sure you buy their awesome product that they took a crap on. Irrational Games, however, rocks.
The difference? 2K = Publisher. They don't make the game, they make idiotic decisions and try to take your money. Irrational = Developer. They make the game and put all of that awesome content we all love in there.
Make sense? Good. Can't have you giving your love to the wrong people, eh?
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Post by momaru on Sept 4, 2007 21:39:53 GMT -5
It looks like somebody is in need of a 360. Or is Bioshock a PS3 game? I can't remember, but I think it's for the 360.
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Post by kaito on Sept 12, 2007 17:27:06 GMT -5
It looks like somebody is in need of a 360. Or is Bioshock a PS3 game? I can't remember, but I think it's for the 360. Um... where have you been? BioShock is for the almighty PC.
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Post by kaito on Sept 12, 2007 17:28:29 GMT -5
Thanks Keitaro for setting me strait! *shoots a K2 official walking by* Rockstar Games pwns too.
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Post by keitaro on Sept 12, 2007 23:18:46 GMT -5
Actually Bioshock is indeed for both the PC and 360. And yeh, Bryce, I would totally go buy Bioshock for the 360 if I actually had a 360. X-D To be honest, I would never buy one on my own, though... I never liked Microsoft or Sony consoles much... And the Wii was pretty cool for a while, but the magic wore off pretty fast because none of the really good games were out (SM:Galaxy and SSBB). So eh. I don't even know why I wrote this, but eh.
Now I click the Post Reply button!
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Post by drakkensheild on Jun 7, 2008 2:48:51 GMT -5
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