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Midnight wrote:Haha, good

Submitted by D15AV0W3D on Thu, 10/25/2007 - 7:21am.

Midnight wrote:
Haha, good point. If it makes you feel better I'm not buying either (because I don't have the computing power to run GoW), although I do plan to buy Orange Box sometime next year either on sale, used, or similar.

Beware of used PC games. I bought a "previously owned" copy of Bioshock PC. Come to find out, 2K Games uses an "anti-piracy" method called SecuROM. This requires you to register online with a license # attached to the game. My game will not load, not even from the original disc, since my online registration failed. And it's not as though I'm completely without a registration #. It is contained in the box. The online database that it talks to somehow thinks it's already registered. Which leads me to believe that someone who previously owned it is playing with an illegitimate DVD paired with a legitimate registration. While I am left with a legitimate copy of the game, but a duplicate registration #. 2K Games didn't help, SecuROM (apparently a separate entity) didn't help. A little online research would have told me that even people who bought brand-new copies of Bioshock PC were having SecuROM issues. But, it was an impulse buy. I saw it for $10. I jumped on it. My mistake.

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