How anti-piracy screws over people who buy PC games

[TraumaRN]

Originally posted by: lxskllr

Originally posted by: n7
10/10

My latest example.

I bought Bioshock at launch.

I installed it once.

I now cannot install it again as it brings up some cryptic error.
Searching leads to some insanely complicated process & sending the results to Bioshock just so i can possibly get a fix to play the game.

Take a wild guess how much money 2k will see from me in the future :roll:

That exact same thing happened to me. I got pissed, and downloaded a crack. Unfortunately I had a cranial/rectal inversion at the time and installed a virus on my system :^/ I got that cleared up, and ended up contacting Securom. 2 days later I got to play the game. I highly doubt I'll be buying the sequel, even though I thoroughly enjoyed the game when it worked properly. I don't appreciate paying $60(limited edition set) for a game, only to be treated like a criminal, and having unreasonable restrictions on how I install the game.

Yeah, ever since I installed Vista I have no been able to get Bioshock to run. Its not Vista, it's SecurRom. Why?

Because I had previously installed Bioshock on my old computer and recycled my HDD into my new computer...and I didn't delete the old copy of Bioshock....well SecuROM didn't like that much and despite my best efforts I couldn't get Bioshock to work...so I gave up, rebought Bioshock on STEAM and haven't had a problem with it yet.


Like others have said, Steam works the best for me, I've pretty much given up on buying retail copies of games and just almost exclusively use Steam.

 

[skace]

Tag, I need to watch this when I can.

 

[yepp]

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Glad i didn't cave in for Mass Effect.

 

[Chosonman]

Originally posted by: YEPP
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Glad i didn't cave in for Mass Effect.

Please tell me EA is the only company doing this. If that's not the case I'm swearing off buying any retail games ever again.