Quote Originally Posted by frogbeastegg
Quote Originally Posted by me
So you have to uninstall BioShock before reinstalling Windows on your machine, that's not bad, right?
No, it's bad. Like I said.
Sorry, I was being a little sarcastic with that line. Should have put a smilie in there. Actually, looking back at that whole paragraph, I could have done better. That could possibly be the longest post I've ever made here, and it shows.
Imagine having to uninstall 20 games before reformatting a drive or reinstalling XP. Completely unacceptable. If this is the future, I may as well run Ubuntu and buy a Wii.

One thing I didn't put in you mentioned.
Quote Originally Posted by frogbeastegg
I didn't get much choice about whether to buy into limited activations, online activation and SecuROM. My copy was opened and installing when this news appeared on a site I read; by that point I couldn't take the game back if I wanted to. I would not describe myself as thrilled.
They didn't put anything about limited activations on the box or in the press. I don't even think it's in the EULA. "Online activation required" was about it.

I'm in the software business. I pay for my games, I hate software pirates, and I understand the corporate thinking behind decisions like this. But there is a point of diminishing returns. How much does 2K have to pay to maintain the activation servers? How much do they have to pay SecuRom to use their software? How much money do they have to pay their tech support to handle the deluge of calls from a launch fiasco? Does that make up for the potential losses to pirates (remembering that each pirated copy != a lost sale), bad press, and outraged geeks? I'd love to see the actuarial analysis on that.