Bioshock PC DRM removed

Posted Jun 19th 2008 10:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: FPS

There is much rejoicing in the Bioshock PC community this evening. Why? Because the 2K Boston/Australia first person shooter now has the freedom to be played without having to worry anymore about those pesky activation restrictions or install limits. A note on the game's official message board has the word:

Good news! As promised, all activation restrictions, including install limits, have been removed from BioShock PC as of today. You don't have to patch or install anything for this to go into effect for your copy of BioShock – it's already done!

Enjoy your time in Rapture, and thank you for supporting BioShock and the 2K teams.

Huzzah! Now if we can only get BioWare and EA to do something similar for Mass Effect.

[Via Blue's News]

Tags: 2K-Boston, 2k-games, bioshock

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

While it would probably be next to impossible to convince EA to do the same thing for Mass Effect, it'd be twice as hard to get them to budge with Spore. I think they're expecting the sales of that game to have a really long tail, and they are unlikely to lift activation limits on that game ever.Posted at 1:46AM on Jun 20th 2008 by paralipsis

The title is very misleading. All they did was replace a server-side db check to always return true. All the clientside DRM and activation are still there. SecureROM crapware and all.Posted at 1:57AM on Jun 20th 2008 by GrizzlyAdams

^ Yup, that is a good point Grizzly. We're still going to have the same problem as before if you want to play the game 10 years from now; long after the SecureROM servers are dead. The embedded DRM on the disc will still try and reach those servers for instructions and the game won't play because they don't exist. I would rather see them issue a patch that bypasses the DRM on the .exe. I know there are cracks that do that I but I hate feeling like a criminal just because I want to enjoy my legitimate purchases without DRM headaches.

...bysmittyPosted at 7:53AM on Jun 20th 2008 by bysmitty

I might get this game now.Posted at 6:20AM on Jun 21st 2008 by web design company

I was on the edge about getting this, playing through a few games first that had a higher priority. Might have to go out and get this now :).Posted at 12:51PM on Jun 22nd 2008 by Gripen40k

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