Quote Originally Posted by TinCow
I will never buy a Irrational Games title ever again
Noooo! Don't say that - the publisher make the decisions about copy protection, not the developers! Irrational are behind some great games - games which usually don't sell without their being blamed for a decision which wasn't in their hands to begin with.

Throw stones at 2K. They made the decision.

Er, also, you do know that if you uninstall the game you get that activation back? So if you uninstall it from your wife's computer you will then have 4 installs again. The problem arrises if you do not uninstall the game correctly, e.g. hard drive failure, windows registry crash.

Quote Originally Posted by assorted
:hate for online activation:
I agree. I loathe it. I detest it. I like to know my games will work when I install them and continue to work for years; online activation introduces many potential reasons that they will not do so.


Playing devil's advocate a moment, it's interesting to see that Bioshock has rocketed to number 1 in the UK charts and, according to people who've looked, the PC version hasn't yet been cracked. Nasty as the copy protection is for legitimate users, it does appear to be working. It's the first few weeks where most of the sales are made.