eagerly awaited game + thousands of ppl trying to activate it the first day + authentication servers that will crap out after person #5 activates the game = fun :D
By three installs, they mean three installation processes with a given key before it locks you out and requires manual reactivation. Because we all know that Bioshock used it to so much success...
[QUOTE=croxis;172778]Farcry and Crisis were very demanding games and only few could run them.[/QUOTE]Actually FarCry wasn't really that demanding game, even mediocre CPU was enough. It just required non-crippled DX9 (=R300) graphic card instead of Nvidia's shitty FX flop.
With Crysis situation is definitely entirely different, even now it can make high end PCs struggle badly.
Number of PC games has been dropping in last years so no wonder that sales decrease, even more when so many games starts to be burger games ported from consoles.
Also this idiocy toward multiple graphic cards is even worse poison for PC game markets. Homo Sapiens Urbanus is definitely point where this specie tumbles down the wall of mountain of evolution if those god damn fucking braindead shitheaded idiots can't realize that making games requiring multiple graphic cards for running well practically nukes any potential markets, even without additional parroting of multi-GPU holiness by PC hardware sites and some fuck ups claiming to be PC enthusiasts.
securom is still in (and that usually causes more headaches than the install limits):
[QUOTE]Our other methods of copy protection remain. You will still have to activate your copy, and you will still need to keep the disc in the drive. SecuROM has not been removed -- just the activation limits on number of installs and number of computers you can install BioShock on simultaneously.
As I promised that the activation limits would go away, I can promise that if we ever stop supporting BioShock in the ways you speak of, we will release a patch so that the game is still playable. I believe, as you seem to, that BioShock will be the kind of game we will want to revisit 5, 10, 15 or more years from now. I want my copy to be playable, just as you do, and so does 2K.[/QUOTE]
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Did Mass Effect for PC ship with those draconian measures in place then?
I'm pretty much fed up with PC Gaming at the moment, basically because of the high spec. demands. Oh, and also the fact that Vista is something of a mandatory install in order to get everything out of the latest games, not to mention the games that are around the corner. The whole copy "protection" scheme with DRM's, rootkits and whatnot also pretty much take the fun out of it for me. I can run a variety of old games on my current rig and if I want to play something more recent, I'm probably going to buy an X360 for less than 200€ instead of shelling out 900€ for a gaming-grade PC.
I miss Wow every now and then, but I still don't regret switching my old 'puter to a secondhand IBM ThinkPad T42. Refa had his opinions, but I ignored the mate. :p ;)
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because after the third time I reinstall XP, I will be locked out :P
With Crysis situation is definitely entirely different, even now it can make high end PCs struggle badly.
Number of PC games has been dropping in last years so no wonder that sales decrease, even more when so many games starts to be burger games ported from consoles.
Also this idiocy toward multiple graphic cards is even worse poison for PC game markets. Homo Sapiens Urbanus is definitely point where this specie tumbles down the wall of mountain of evolution if those god damn fucking braindead shitheaded idiots can't realize that making games requiring multiple graphic cards for running well practically nukes any potential markets, even without additional parroting of multi-GPU holiness by PC hardware sites and some fuck ups claiming to be PC enthusiasts.
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[QUOTE]Our other methods of copy protection remain. You will still have to activate your copy, and you will still need to keep the disc in the drive. SecuROM has not been removed -- just the activation limits on number of installs and number of computers you can install BioShock on simultaneously.
As I promised that the activation limits would go away, I can promise that if we ever stop supporting BioShock in the ways you speak of, we will release a patch so that the game is still playable. I believe, as you seem to, that BioShock will be the kind of game we will want to revisit 5, 10, 15 or more years from now. I want my copy to be playable, just as you do, and so does 2K.[/QUOTE]
I miss Wow every now and then, but I still don't regret switching my old 'puter to a secondhand IBM ThinkPad T42. Refa had his opinions, but I ignored the mate. :p ;)
Happy with it so far. :) *knocking on wood*