Right this is the best scam ever!

[tec0]

My apologies, the problem is similar to Steams problems but I am pointing to 2K’s “Bioshock Super Hits” Addition. Let me explain the problem in more detail.

I got the 2K’s “Bioshock Super Hits” yesterday and tried to install it. Needless to say it wanted internet connection and download about 20MB worth of patches while it installed. This is mandatory to get the game to work.

Now there is no booklet or even an activation key in the box. Now After installation it is demanding to be activated with a Key that I simply don’t have and it will not function without it. So A the game like steam’s game is incomplete thus they are selling us software that cannot function at all.

Secondly once you go to the registration link on the 2K website. IT asks you for ALL your personal details and upon entering them and “registering” You don’t even get confirmation. Thus the game cannot be registered at all.

In my opinion this is theft.

[tec0]

http://www.bioshockunlock.com/index.php#step1

Still not working at all.

[AndyD]

Bioshock came with SecuROM PA protection. As well as the usual angle based protection it will also only work with online activation. SecuROM is a highly invasive protection system that doesn't uninstall properly and you need to dig out of your registry manually. The jury's still out on whether there's a rootkit element to certain versions of it as well.

You say there's no literature with the game, did you buy it second hand? If you don't have a keycode with the game then I don't fancy your chances of getting it to work legally.

[QuintonIR]

This is the reason why people start looking for alternatives to buying original games, and cracking them so the online activation is not necessary. Thats where you get fraud etc.

[AndyD]

But is it fraud if you have bought an original copy?

[desA]

Are their any serious people in this thread - everyone's playing games way too much...

[tec0]

Finally got a solution to my problem. I broke both the disks and discarded it in the trash. I am taking up golf

[twinscythe12332]

hahaha. I'll have to check my copy of bioshock tonight. if I remember correctly, the activation is done without the need for a serial key to be entered. I just clicked activate and it went about it there have been a few cases where I've gotten a game and it has an embedded activation key different to the box (so I get two activation keys).

[tec0]

Well I did phone the game shop just for interest. With this particular version of the game you need a CD key and it will activate automatically. However some of the die games were shipped without the CD key.

A few hours later they send me an SMS with the key in question but the CD is done for as in not even superman with superglue will ever fix that disk again.

“just for the record CD key = DVD activation key” I am just so use to say and write CD key”

[twinscythe12332]

hahaha, so all it would have taken was a quick call and you wouldn't feel like a chop now =P

With piracy being so high, I honestly think companies need to review WHY the piracy is occuring, before they decide on the next great security system. You're always going to have the bad apples who want everything for free and no effort on their part, but there are a number of people out there who would be more willing to buy, if a certain criteria was met. this ranges from free additional content that can only be used with an original copy, to slashing the prices. 99 times out of 100 a price cut will get more units sold, because by cutting the price you are ensuring the game is more available to lower income groups. It's all about giving a better balance rather than trying to take the gamer for a ride.