Completely Absurd, activation?

[anexsia]

I've had Bioshock Limited Edition for PC on reserve for awhile now and picked it up tonight thinking I would be able to play immediately...instead I experienced the complete frustration of trying to active my LEGAL purchase. I spent hours clicking activate (and this is around 8P.M. to 11PM EST) all the while double checking my serial key making sure I had no typos and still getting no activation. I realize that games are going to have problems, especially on their first day of release but this is pathetic. I apologize for taking up a thread solely about my activation experience but I'm seriously pissed that it took three hours to activate Bioshock as doubt slowly crept into my mind that I might have to return the game or may not be able to play it any time soon. Thankfully, after hitting activate I don't know how many times, it accepted. This doesn't neglect the fact that activation procedures such as this shouldn't EVER be in game software. When things like this start to cause a product not to function for a legal purchase, it's time company's rethink their policies on fighting pirates.

[Marksman247]

You're just activating a broken game, might as well leave it deactivated until the crashing is fixed

[Greymouse]

Running into the same issue here. Going to give 2k 48 hours to remedy the situation (phone call to the security company, to up activation amounts?) - after that I will be returning this product.

[Captain Buffalo]

You're dead on, anexsia. I had the same probelm, only with Steam. I was lucky enough to get into the game after a few tries though. Instead of being happy about the game, I'm dreading having to jump though hoops to get it to start again. I hope they get this sorted, and quickly