i'm curious about purchasing this game.. i really want to play it, on the other hand i'm confused. my confusion has nothing to do with whether or not it's worth the $50.. but rather it seems more like a rental than a purchase to me. from what ive been told, when installing the game you must register online.. and that you can only register the same key 5 times. so, does this mean that, if i reformat a couple of times or upgrade my hard drive, or even upgrade to a better computer that after only 5 reinstallations i'd have to buy a new copy? can anyone confirm this? if it's true i'll go with the XBOX360 version, or none, but that'd be a shame :<
so what? that just means you need to back up the program files of bioshock when you do any of the listed things.
if that's true, what's to stop people from creating CDs/dvds with their already installed/activated folders and passing it out to their friends? anyways, i ended up buying the game, simply because i couldn't resist.
@2sweet4u To keep the game from being mass pirated the games creators 2K game studios implemented a DRM system that requires each install to register on there servers and you can install the game 5 times. Now this is good and bad. The good is you can legally install this onto any 5 PC's, you could of course install a game like this before onto many PC's but they couldn't play online without using hacks/cracks no more with this 5 user license. The not so bad is that lets say you are going to reformat, well uninstalling the game will deactivate that registration essentially giving you 1 more registration back. Ah, but what if my hard drive becomes corrupted and I can't unisntall the game, you ask. Well a call to 2K Games tech support can fix that. They will access your "account" which is really nothing more than a list of PC names tied to your serial number and they will remove any invalid/unneeded activations giving you back the one you lost from your harddrive crash. Yes it is a pain, but piracy costs game developers money and until there is a solution for this systems like this will continue to be implemented in todays games.
that alone puts me at ease, i dont know how i could have missed that anywhere else.. if uninstalling the game gives me back a credit, than i have no worries, thanks a lot.
No problem. Yeah I don't know what everyone here is flying off the handle about its not a big deal this registration thing, its no different that windows xp activation.
