![]() ![]() Where you have it installed is irrelevant. You need to read again what SecuROM does. As far as I'm concerned, 2K Games has destroyed its credibility, and they can go to hell for it.īut, then, I have a separate Windows partition used for ONLY GAMES, and I'm not worried about much that might be required to facilitate this. Will the game be cool? Maybe, but nothing is cool enough to install this crap on my computer for. This is totally inexcusable, and I won't have anything to do with this company. If SecuROM doesn't fingerprint my hardware, what is the "machine ID" that a hash is taken of and sent to their servers? And how the hell is it possible that changing several pieces of hardware might result in a required reactivation? The simple answer is, of course, that SecuROM does fingerprint your hardware, and 2K Games lied to our faces in the hopes that computer users who aren't as savvy as us won't get bogged down with the technical details and just read the part where they say that it doesn't fingerprint the hardware. You won't have to reactivate unless you change several pieces of hardware and this will count as one of your 5 allowed computers, if reactivation is required. The only data collected is the serial being used for activation, the IP address used for activation, an identifier for the software being activated, and the hash of the machine ID. This is a massive breach of trust for a software company to a user.ĢK Games has A FAQ about SecuROM that is, at best, contradictory in several places. The aforementioned software hides itself from detection and cannot be removed via normal means. ![]() When Sony's rootkit distributed on CDs got out into the wild, it didn't take long for other more dangerous software to take advantage of the security hole it created. Just because 2K doesn't use their installed software for evil purposes doesn't mean that another hacker's software can't use it to take over a system using privileges that it shouldn't have. Maybe, but we all know what the road to hell is paved with. They claim that it's a benefit and they have only good intentions. Bioshock installs software that allows the administrative privilege system of your computer to be subverted.Whether people thing of this as FUD or not, the simple matter of the fact is that: I, like I hope many other people will do, refuse to buy it now. Second of all, I, like many other people, was looking forward to Bioshock's release. This thread is much more relevant it's about the rootkit. Then calling support when it doesn't work and won't let me reinstall.įirst of all, your link to the forums goes to a thread about achievement points on the Xbox version of the game. And I can't wait for the day all games do this, and I have to run round manually deregistering all of them prior to a reinstall with different tools. Just hope windows doesn't go belly up before you get to unregister. Oh, and they'll release a utility at some point in the future that when run, will supposedly uninstall the game and 'deregister' your install with the online securom database, thus giving you the privilege of reinstalling your own game on your own computer one more time. They want to carry on playing in a couple of years, they can go buy a new copy. Problem solved, right? I mean, who ever installs software they buy more than 5 times, right? Must be pirates. The outrage over this on the 2K forums made them raise the limit to 5 installs on a given copy of windows, and up to 5 installs on different machines. ![]() ![]() It didn't, and according to SecuROM never could. They then proceeded to flat out lie and say uninstalling the game from windows before formatting would give you an activation 'credit' back. Wipe windows, and try to install a third time? Activation denied. Using another user account or install of windows requires another activation. It's that when the game shipped, you only got 2 activations. The frustrating thing is, this rootkit worry isn't the biggest problem (it's a bit of a stretch). ![]()
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