Bioshock DRM Limits Removed

Published on June 20, 2008 By kryo In PC Gaming

Last night, 2K Games announced that effective immediately, all limitations (install count limits, in particular) have been removed from Bioshock's activation system. A 2K representative further commented that the SecuROM activation system does remain, but it won't stop users from installing the game as frequently as needed.

Building on this fulfilled promise, she also vowed to users that should support for the game be ended in the future, 2K will ensure that users are still able to install and play it.

This seems to me to bode well not only for Bioshock owners, but for PC gamers in general. Might other companies using similar systems see this and join 2K in lightening, rather than tightening the restrictions on their DRM?

I for one hope that this news buoys Bioshock's sales at the very least, and sends a clear message to 2K and anyone watching that (as we've demonstrated with our own games) overly restrictive DRM is not necessary for a game to sell well. What do you think?

Comments (Page 3)

UncleDrood

on Jun 23, 2008

Bioshock is massively overrated. After all the hype I tried the demo and found the hype absurd. It's just another FPS. It neither stood out, nor offered anything interesting that hadn't been seen before. STALKER was better. And that pales in comparison to Half-Life 2 anyway.

Just don't get why Bioshock is adored so much.

Hope this Securom crap is sorted for Spore as right now, I'm seriously tempted to not buy it, simple because of this asinine treating customers like thieves. And the downloadable version uses EA's manager and gives you no files to burn to disk, so that's out for me as well.

Sure I can find something else worth of my $60 in September if EA fail to get a clue.

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