2K: FOV and DRM fixes on their way for Bioshock

I blame the Republicans, Christian Conservatives, and the pro-life movement. Oh and Xbox 360 poops all over the PS3. Ford rules, Chevy drools. Etc.

Honestly, I haven't seen anything this contentious around here in a while.

Yeah. I'm sorry I started this thread. I just thought it was cool that 2K was taking action to address complaints, even if their DRM scheme (understandably) still poses problems for some people.

shihonage wrote:
TheGameguru wrote:

My question to all the complainers.. do you approach everything in life this way? every facet of what you deal with in life? If not.. and your simply taking advantage of the ease and anonymity of the internet.. then your probably just complaining to complain.

One also can take advantage of the "ease and anonimity of the Internet" to insult whole groups of people to their heart's content.

Meditate on that one a while ;)

oh.. I do that in real life also..

ColdForged wrote:

I blame the Republicans, Christian Conservatives, and the pro-life movement. Oh and Xbox 360 poops all over the PS3. Ford rules, Chevy drools. Etc.

Honestly, I haven't seen anything this contentious around here in a while.

It's the French! Can we just f*cking nuke 'em already?

Be ready for the next thing, the SDK and map editor.

Also PC Gamer is having a hell of a time getting the game to work. http://www.pcgamer.com/

ColdForged wrote:

I blame the Republicans, Christian Conservatives, and the pro-life movement. Oh and Xbox 360 poops all over the PS3. Ford rules, Chevy drools. Etc.

Honestly, I haven't seen anything this contentious around here in a while.

[color=white]This post is DRM protected. If you do not have an explicit license from me to read it, and have taken measures to defeat the text-hiding protections implemented in this post, you are in violation of the DMCA and I shall sue your ass shortly.

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CF, it's not your fault, DRM is quite a touchy subject, and IMO some people are downright unreasonable at the mere mention of DRM and copy protection. But you shouldn't be reading this post anyway, as I don't have your name on my license list.

(sadly, I can not protect the smiley!)[/color]

I read it. So what's the settlement amount?

Parallax Abstraction wrote:

I read it. So what's the settlement amount? :)

25000 Microsoft Points.

Podunk wrote:

You also can't play your Windows PC games in Ubuntu or OSX. Comparing PC games to DVD movies is every bit as much of an apples-and-oranges analogy.

Yeah, you're right about that... but there are myriad configurations of PC in comparison to a *locked* config like a console.

Yeah, i haven't been able to get the game to work yet.... need to install that nvidia patch. It's now the day after release and i've still not played it. Stupid steam :/

[edit] This issue is getting more and more stupid:

PCGamer wrote:

I was up late last night playing BioShock (and it really is a great game, once you can actually play it), when finally 2K support got back to me to let me know that, after the deluge of complaints and massive internet backlash, they'd upped the number of installs allowed to five, and they apologized for the delay in getting back to me (which would have been small comfort had I not already been playing, given their original pledge of responding within 24 hours). The full list of changes being made appears on the BioShock site.
They did not, however, return my initial two activations to the account (it seems they never actually had the ability to do that, contrary to what they'd initially told us), which left me with three.

So again, what we were told was incorrect? Does not one person at 2k know what the DRM conditions are?

Podunk wrote:

You also can't play your Windows PC games in Ubuntu or OSX. Comparing PC games to DVD movies is every bit as much of an apples-and-oranges analogy.

I can play quite a few of my windows games under ubuntu with wine/cedega ;p

My question to all the complainers.. do you approach everything in life this way? every facet of what you deal with in life? If not.. and your simply taking advantage of the ease and anonymity of the internet.. then your probably just complaining to complain.

I dont b*tch, I just dont buy the games. If the experience is as worth it as you guys say it is I will buy it a year or two down the road. But all this DRM crap is not worth supporting; they seem more to punish the legit user than to putting up major obstacles to the thief.

And I am from the era of reading codes from manuals, you want idiotic DRM thats the best example of it.

I remember when I used to have to find ways to ask my parents to answer the trivia questions to verify age in Leisure Suit Larry without giving away what I wanted the answers for. The only thing worse than the codes from the manuals.

Parallax Abstraction wrote:

I remember when I used to have to find ways to ask my parents to answer the trivia questions to verify age in Leisure Suit Larry without giving away what I wanted the answers for. The only thing worse than the codes from the manuals. :)

I got some of those wrong a few weeks ago. They'll ask you about pop trivia from the 70's - horribly unfair.