BioShock 2 DRM Explained

[Shycte]

What happend to "PC-Games are the future"?

I can't help but to laugh.

 

[Poopie McGhee]

Was going to get for 360 anyway, but I really wish they'd knock this all DRM crap off all together, it's annoyed me in the past and it's still lingering around.

Same here...

 

[Cargando]

Just get it on a console instead if you're really that worried about it.

You know that gaming is in a sad state when you feel obligated to buy an FPS title on the console instead of the PC version because it's just less hassle that way.

*Note: Yes, I am aware that some people actually prefer FPS games on the console. I am not one of those people.

Mmm, it is awful, all this bother. Anyway, I've never actually played much PC gaming, I was raised on the PS2, never did any gaming on the PC. Maybe I should start.

Just get it on a console instead if you're really that worried about it.

except its over twice the price for a console game over a PC game now

id rather buy the game cheaper and get the DRM and that awful games for windows live

I tend to stick to the console, It's thoroughly engraved into my mind now, like I said above, I should start PC gaming.

 

[Weaver]

On-topic: It might make you happy that a game story in my neighbor hood still sells second-hand PC games, generally for under $10 and titles from the Doom 3/Far Cry 1 era.

That's pretty cool.

 

[Asehujiko]

...2K Games Community Manager "2K Elizabeth" wrote...

2k elizabeth spewed out some blatant lies about the last game's DRM so why should we trust her word on this one?

 

[ThrobbingEgo]

I only have two questions for you:

1. Who do you work for?

2. How much are they paying you to promote their SecuROM? product?

Being employed at the "Pizza Pizza" on campus, I find these questions really amusing. You, sir, made my day.

I did some digging through SecuROM's webpage, to get their side of the story, in addition to the actual research I've been doing in my Communications Studies program. I find that, reading only enthusiast gaming sites, you don't exactly get a balanced view of DRM, or exactly what it is, or why it's used. Hell, from the comments I've read, half the people posting here didn't read the article.

I'm not saying that DRM's a good thing, but misinformation? That's always a bad thing. As is engaging in Ad Hominem fallacies.

I'm just setting the record straight, heuristically.

 

[nought_0]

Bugger all that. If they (2k) are going to piss about like that again with DRM, I'm just going to wait a week or two and find the enevitable cracked version with all that useless crap stripped right out of it.
If it turns out to be a good game, I'll then go buy the PC/DVD to keep as a backup.

 

[Georgeman]

"Oh, it's not horrible. It's JUST horrible!"

Duh I must say. What matters whether it is 15 or 100? What matters whether it is SecureCRAP or CrapforWindows? Why should they exist in the first place? Oh yeah, so that we can never own their game. The clarification is just laughable and laughably pointless.

 

[TsunamiWombat]

Eh, I still want the greater graphic fidelity from the PC version, so ima buy it for PC.

 

[Xanthious]

Well if 2K games REALLY wants me to pirate the game I suppose it would just be rude not to at this point.