{"id":1309,"date":"2007-09-05T17:54:31","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T22:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2008-09-17T09:27:23","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T14:27:23","slug":"bioshock-sharing-is-piracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1309","title":{"rendered":"Bioshock: Sharing is Piracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Enough with the comics and laughing already. Let’s have some doom and gloom! Make it a double! <\/em><\/p>\n

I don’t know the name of the guy at 2kGames who is in charge of stirring up bad publicity, but whoever he is, he’s underpaid. I really can’t keep up with him anymore. Today’s BioShock outrage of the day is the 2k technical support gremlin who suggested that if you want to install the game into two different user accounts on the same machine, you need to buy multiple copies of the game. More info at Kotaku<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I guess 2kGames looked at the hundreds of people in the forums who have refused to buy the game, and figured they could make up for it by selling it to existing customers twice. Good luck with that.<\/p>\n

Actually, I’m just kidding. We all know they don’t read the forums.<\/p>\n

Additional trivia: I mentioned before that talking about SecuROM is verboten outside of a single thread<\/a>. A thread which never seems to be read by anyone at 2kGames. That thread is now 2,454 posts long. 246 total pages. (Most other threads are well under 50 posts.) Yeah, I’m sure there isn’t any way to break that conversation down into any sub-topics. <\/p>\n

Once in a while I see musings from people who profess hope that 2kGames is about to capitulate under the firestorm of controversy and remove SecuROM \/ online activation. I wish these good-hearted souls well, but they are doomed to disappoinment. 2kGames hasn’t even gone through the initial steps of recognizing that there is<\/i> a problem, much less that the problem is of their own making and that they have the power to fix it. <\/p>\n

Once in a while backlash does move publishers to act, but I don’t see it happening in this instance. The big problem is that blogs and forum traffic are beneath the notice of people who make these kinds of decisions. If the gaming press<\/a> took up this story it might catch the attention of the shot-callers in the comfy chairs at 2kGames. But BioShock is quickly becoming last month’s game, and no self-respecting videogame journalist wants to write about that<\/em>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Enough with the comics and laughing already. Let’s have some doom and gloom! Make it a double! I don’t know the name of the guy at 2kGames who is in charge of stirring up bad publicity, but whoever he is, he’s underpaid. I really can’t keep up with him anymore. Today’s BioShock outrage of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[29,30],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videogames","tag-bioshock","tag-drm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}