blatantninja
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Fair enough, I guess I'm just thinking more short-term. 3 installs in more than enough for me in the short-term, but I suppose if I wanted to play again in 10 years or so, it could be a problem.
Who knows, but I´m not willing to give up that option without compensation (i.e. a much lower price).Are you really going to play it on more than 3 machines?
I´m not sure about the current status. A thread on SlashDot has screenshots of an error window basically saying: "Your 3 activations are through. Buy a new copy if you want to play it again. Greetings, EA."
If that´s true - and I´m not saying it is - it´s completely unacceptable. Period.
So my position is: EA has to prove the player can activate it as often as he wants. Otherwise no sale. If EA doesn´t trust the players the players have no reason to trust EA.
Are you really going to play it on more than 3 machines?
Not trying to defend the system but an OS reinstall does *not* use up an activation for Mass Effect.
Any change of hardware uses up an activation, as well as a reinstall of the OS.
Here's an example:
http://masseffect.bioware.com/forums/viewtopic.html?topic=635214&forum=104
Not trying to defend the system but an OS reinstall does *not* use up an activation for Mass Effect.
Isn't this also the case with winxp ?
Oh, I forgot, their actuvations are not limited - but they are there ...
One could argure therefore that "the industry" is nothing but following MS's example ... Kind of erecting sort of an "industry standard" ...
A "standard" erected by sheer size & power ...
The problem is that the number of allowed activations is exactly 3. And it´s not confirmed you'll get more if you ask.
So it´s a no buy for me until this issue is solved.
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Our other methods of copy protection remain. You will still have to activate your copy, and you will still need to keep the disc in the drive. SecuROM has not been removed -- just the activation limits on number of installs and number of computers you can install BioShock on simultaneously.
As I promised that the activation limits would go away, I can promise that if we ever stop supporting BioShock in the ways you speak of, we will release a patch so that the game is still playable. I believe, as you seem to, that BioShock will be the kind of game we will want to revisit 5, 10, 15 or more years from now. I want my copy to be playable, just as you do, and so does 2K.
We were talking about Mass Effect.about four posts down says the disc protection stays but the activation limit is removed.