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Bioshock debate: Should each family member purchase it to play?
Posted Sep 5, 2007 at 3:34PM EST by QJ Staff

 Listed in: News, Opinions & Analysis, Titles, Genre Tags: 2K Games, Microsoft
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A deleted thread in the 2K Games forums reveals that the PC version of BioShock requires a separate activation for each user account in the same PC. Nemesisdesignz was the one who brought it up in the forums and asked whether it was a bug and whether each user account to play the game would cost one of his five activations.

A moderator in the 2K Games forums, 2k Tech JT, replied that "The other way to view this, is one USER has purchased the game. Not the whole family. So why should your brother play for free?" [emphasis in original]

So will each user account in Windows require a serial activation? While it seems the short answer is "Yes," the subject warrants some further discussion. The topic might have been explored more but the thread about this concern about BioShock (also for the Xbox 360) was deleted for some reason.

The posts on the deleted thread though were re-posted in a new thread by another forum member, Jakester. Jakester expressed his views quite firmly on the matter, saying: "Why should my brother play for free? Because it's FAIR USE of a product I have purchased." [emphasis in original]

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# . — neok182 2007-09-05 16:52
very simple way around this. in XP or Vista just set the game to run for all users. bingo works. (if all are on one computer obviously)

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# 2k... — Guest 2007-09-05 17:38
Is being completely ANAL about the security on this game. They've taken it too far.

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# ! — Guest 2007-09-05 17:48
one less game i need to purchase

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# . — neok182 2007-09-05 19:01
bioshock is a great and amazing game. they just put WAY to much security on it thats all.

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# I know how to get past the cdkey — Guest 2007-09-05 20:28
If you install the game, and when it gets to the end and does the automatic patch... Copy you bioshock folder andpaste it into a new folder.... cancel the instalation, then install the bioshock demo... Then after that you pastethe bio shock folder you copied over the demo...

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# actually.. — Guest 2007-09-05 20:31
there was a crack out for it quite swiftly and it in fact works. just buy the game and use the crack if your family wants to play. think of it as sticking it to 2k for doing that in the first place.

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# What BS — Guest 2007-09-06 02:19
2K is just trying to milk the customer for more money... Can you imagine a mother of 5 buying 5 copies of the same game for $300 instead of 1 copy for $60? That is totally absurd.



Whats next, a retina scanner on books to make sure only the registered user reads it?

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# Agreed! — Guest 2007-09-06 06:35
Come on, lets remove the stick already.

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# lol — Guest 2007-09-06 08:39
This is whay people pirate software and films and such. If the game companies were charging reasonable prices for games and not pulling sh*t like this I might buy games.

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# security — Guest 2007-09-06 09:26
Bioshock installs a rootkit on your pc.

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# that works but — Guest 2007-09-06 09:37
making copyright software on games is a waste of the developers money. oblivion didnt have copy protection and is pirated often but also sold very well. the people who want to pirate games know the ways around copy protection. the only people ANY copy protection affect is regular end-users with no interest or knowledge of how to pirate.

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