5 by 5 my ass

[uljarad]

**** you 2K Games. If I'm going to spend $50 on a game I damn well should be able to do what I want with it. Thanks a lot for the SecuRom infection I received from playing the demo. Just for that I'm going to be putting my 3mbit upload connection to good use and seed the cleansed version of Bioshock for a month.

Good job ****ing yourself twice: You paid SecuRom for their ****ty DRM and are going to lose even more to lost potential sales. Oh, and the bad reputation you now have. Was it worth it?

[gooface]

alot of people feel the same way, never would of expected this with a AAA title, guess we were all wrong. if oblivion had this issue, they would of had alot less sales.

[Club Heaven]

Oblivion will sell well for a very long time. Customers know they'll get a clean, hassle-free experience and they appreciate that.
Copy-protected games will just alienate more and more those who'd buy them and the Starforce-induced paranoia will become even stronger now with Bioshock's scandal. This will obviously lead to less buying / more pirating. It's unbelievable how gaming companies refuse to understand this.

Pirating, stealing and cheating are everywhere on this Earth. It's just the way of the world. Some of us are trying to be fair while the rest will always go the easy way. And these nazi copy-protection systems have done nothing but harm PC gaming and it looks like they have every intention to completely bury it.

[greylantern]

Well said - 'Clean and hassle free' is all we want. The politics of piracy and anti piracy are for the publisher to worry about not the end user. Typical non intrusive security (such as a CD key) I have no problem with. Whether this makes it easier for those who WISH to spread copies or not should not be the concern of people who are WILLING to pay you money.

This was a bridge too far, the pirates are laughing at us (paying customers) for bending over and taking one on their behalf while they don't care about what protection you use at all...

And a little warning in advance would have been nice (BEFORE YOU BUY THE GAME) so that informed PC owners could make a decision based on their principles and POV.

[uljarad]

You know what works better than DRM? Anti-DRM. Google "halo 2 tray and play." It's almost as if Microsoft wanted to make money AND please gamers. A win/win situation.

[uljarad]

Or even Jedi Knights: Dark Forces 2. Does anyone remember that game? It included a no-cd executable right on the disc, let alone a serial key.

Whatever happened to protection like the one used in Quake 4? You install with a serial that is authenticated on a database, and it didn't even require you to be online. It would just keep checking until it had a connection and when it found a blacklisted serial it blocked the game. It pretty much blocked all illegitimate versions from playing online and a large portion of singleplayer-only downloaders.