{"id":1785,"date":"2008-07-26T11:00:31","date_gmt":"2008-07-26T16:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1785"},"modified":"2008-07-26T05:22:45","modified_gmt":"2008-07-26T10:22:45","slug":"a-counter-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1785","title":{"rendered":"A Counter-Offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m (sigh) installing Steam, when I see a special offer pop up:<\/p>\n<p><table   class=\"\" cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/bioshock_wankers.jpg' class='insetimage'   alt='bioshock_wankers.jpg' title='bioshock_wankers.jpg'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a counter-offer, you clueless marketroids: You give me a version of the game without any of that SecuROM \/ Online Activation nonsense, and I&#8217;ll pay you <strong>full price<\/strong>.  (And for those who keep forwarding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bit-tech.net\/news\/2008\/06\/20\/bioshock-drm-removed\/1\">news stories<\/a> saying 2KGames has removed the BioShock DRM: <a href=\"?p=1723\">This is not true<\/a> and it breaks my heart to see 2KGames getting away with making such claims. Stop it.  You&#8217;re killing me.)  The game is long since cracked.  You guys have nothing to gain by continuing to cling to this DRM.  This is doubly true of the Steam version of the game, since you have your online activation running on <em>top<\/em> of theirs. This means that if <em>either<\/em> Steam or the BioShock servers go down, legit customers (and <em>only<\/em> legit customers) get locked out of their game.  <\/p>\n<p>All the pirates who want it, have it.  The only people who <strong>don&#8217;t<\/strong> have it are potential customers like me who won&#8217;t stand for this septic nonsense.  <\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re having a sale on SecuROM? How nice. Go piss up a rope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m (sigh) installing Steam, when I see a special offer pop up: Here&#8217;s a counter-offer, you clueless marketroids: You give me a version of the game without any of that SecuROM \/ Online Activation nonsense, and I&#8217;ll pay you full price. (And for those who keep forwarding news stories saying 2KGames has removed the BioShock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[29,30],"class_list":["post-1785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","tag-bioshock","tag-drm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785","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=1785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}