Re: [H] The Disaster that is BioShock
You didn't create a stream account when you 1st installed? You shouldn't need anything more than that to install w/o the CD over the internet. zaske wrote: I bought HalfLife2 from Walmart for $40 and my 4 month old WD hardrive died. I tried to reinstall HL2 and Steam cried like an ass raped beotch telling me that my cd key was already in use. No Duh! In the end they wanted me to cut my barcode from the box and send it with $10 to get my game reactivated. Screw Valve, I bought the game and I will never buy another of their DRM crap product! Long live Warez! j maccraw wrote: Something specific Stan? I know I was not happy with it at HL2 release and there have been troubles with availability All I can say is after a year of my game box being dead, I simply signed on to my steam account had a full patched version of HL2 downloaded installed without the need for my discs. This is DRM done right in my book though I don't care for it's regular calls home to validate. In fact the call home method is one aspect of Alcohol 120% I really hate when I launch it from the wrong machine and have to go online to swap the active copy back to the right machine. zaske wrote: Speak of the devil and he will appear. Steam is another DRM disaster! snip Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. http://travel.yahoo.com/
Re: [H] The Disaster that is BioShock
If I recall correctly you can't play the game without a Steam account to validate and activate it. When my hardrive died and I replaced it when I reinstalled the game with my legitimate CD key Steam complained saying my key was already in use. This is with the same Steam account. My best guess is that Steam had something on my former hardrive that was missing @ that point and that I was trying to rip them off. Oh course, all of this may have changed in the last couple years. I ended up giving it away to a young man @ work who wanted to play Counterstrike with some friends. j maccraw wrote: You didn't create a stream account when you 1st installed? You shouldn't need anything more than that to install w/o the CD over the internet. zaske wrote: I bought HalfLife2 from Walmart for $40 and my 4 month old WD hardrive died. I tried to reinstall HL2 and Steam cried like an ass raped beotch telling me that my cd key was already in use. No Duh! In the end they wanted me to cut my barcode from the box and send it with $10 to get my game reactivated. Screw Valve, I bought the game and I will never buy another of their DRM crap product! Long live Warez! j maccraw wrote: Something specific Stan? I know I was not happy with it at HL2 release and there have been troubles with availability All I can say is after a year of my game box being dead, I simply signed on to my steam account had a full patched version of HL2 downloaded installed without the need for my discs. This is DRM done right in my book though I don't care for it's regular calls home to validate. In fact the call home method is one aspect of Alcohol 120% I really hate when I launch it from the wrong machine and have to go online to swap the active copy back to the right machine. zaske wrote: Speak of the devil and he will appear. Steam is another DRM disaster! snip Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. http://travel.yahoo.com/
Re: [H] The Disaster that is BioShock
wow, I installed Bioshock without a hiccup on the XP system you built for me Chris. It runs beautifully with almost all the settings maxed out. I have AVG, AdAware and Spybot, and have not had a single issue yet. That's not to say it won't happen but at this point Bioshock is a visually beautiful and extremely immersive gaming experience and one that hasn't created a single problem for me so far other than getting toasted by the bad guys because I'm too busy gawking at the pretty stuff. - Original Message - From: CW [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 2:21 PM Subject: [H] The Disaster that is BioShock Thank goodness someone else had these thoughts and put them to pen: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=41921 Let me add what is not in the above: Running Vista 64 bit? Prepare for wild, uncontrollable crashes at random. Have K-Lite or other CODEC packs installed? Good luck avoiding blue screens. Run AVG Antispyware or Ad-Aware 2007? Prepare for the software to not run. What garbage
Re: [H] The Disaster that is BioShock
I bought HalfLife2 from Walmart for $40 and my 4 month old WD hardrive died. I tried to reinstall HL2 and Steam cried like an ass raped beotch telling me that my cd key was already in use. No Duh! In the end they wanted me to cut my barcode from the box and send it with $10 to get my game reactivated. Screw Valve, I bought the game and I will never buy another of their DRM crap product! Long live Warez! j maccraw wrote: Something specific Stan? I know I was not happy with it at HL2 release and there have been troubles with availability All I can say is after a year of my game box being dead, I simply signed on to my steam account had a full patched version of HL2 downloaded installed without the need for my discs. This is DRM done right in my book though I don't care for it's regular calls home to validate. In fact the call home method is one aspect of Alcohol 120% I really hate when I launch it from the wrong machine and have to go online to swap the active copy back to the right machine. zaske wrote: Speak of the devil and he will appear. Steam is another DRM disaster! j maccraw wrote: Funny how most non-game software vendors do just fine with license keys internet validation. At least HalfLife 2 switched to only needing a valid serial number steam account to install play without the media checks. CW wrote: Thank goodness someone else had these thoughts and put them to pen: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=41921 Let me add what is not in the above: Running Vista 64 bit? Prepare for wild, uncontrollable crashes at random. Have K-Lite or other CODEC packs installed? Good luck avoiding blue screens. Run AVG Antispyware or Ad-Aware 2007? Prepare for the software to not run. What garbage Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games. http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc?gamekey=monopolyherenow Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. http://travel.yahoo.com/
Re: [H] The Disaster that is BioShock
The DRM stuff is a pain, but the game itself is absolutely spectacular, one of the best ever. On 8/25/07, CW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank goodness someone else had these thoughts and put them to pen: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=41921 Let me add what is not in the above: Running Vista 64 bit? Prepare for wild, uncontrollable crashes at random. Have K-Lite or other CODEC packs installed? Good luck avoiding blue screens. Run AVG Antispyware or Ad-Aware 2007? Prepare for the software to not run. What garbage
[H] The Disaster that is BioShock
Thank goodness someone else had these thoughts and put them to pen: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=41921 Let me add what is not in the above: Running Vista 64 bit? Prepare for wild, uncontrollable crashes at random. Have K-Lite or other CODEC packs installed? Good luck avoiding blue screens. Run AVG Antispyware or Ad-Aware 2007? Prepare for the software to not run. What garbage
Re: [H] The Disaster that is BioShock
Funny how most non-game software vendors do just fine with license keys internet validation. At least HalfLife 2 switched to only needing a valid serial number steam account to install play without the media checks. CW wrote: Thank goodness someone else had these thoughts and put them to pen: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=41921 Let me add what is not in the above: Running Vista 64 bit? Prepare for wild, uncontrollable crashes at random. Have K-Lite or other CODEC packs installed? Good luck avoiding blue screens. Run AVG Antispyware or Ad-Aware 2007? Prepare for the software to not run. What garbage Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games. http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc?gamekey=monopolyherenow
Re: [H] The Disaster that is BioShock
Speak of the devil and he will appear. Steam is another DRM disaster! j maccraw wrote: Funny how most non-game software vendors do just fine with license keys internet validation. At least HalfLife 2 switched to only needing a valid serial number steam account to install play without the media checks. CW wrote: Thank goodness someone else had these thoughts and put them to pen: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=41921 Let me add what is not in the above: Running Vista 64 bit? Prepare for wild, uncontrollable crashes at random. Have K-Lite or other CODEC packs installed? Good luck avoiding blue screens. Run AVG Antispyware or Ad-Aware 2007? Prepare for the software to not run. What garbage Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games. http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc?gamekey=monopolyherenow
Re: [H] The Disaster that is BioShock
Something specific Stan? I know I was not happy with it at HL2 release and there have been troubles with availability All I can say is after a year of my game box being dead, I simply signed on to my steam account had a full patched version of HL2 downloaded installed without the need for my discs. This is DRM done right in my book though I don't care for it's regular calls home to validate. In fact the call home method is one aspect of Alcohol 120% I really hate when I launch it from the wrong machine and have to go online to swap the active copy back to the right machine. zaske wrote: Speak of the devil and he will appear. Steam is another DRM disaster! j maccraw wrote: Funny how most non-game software vendors do just fine with license keys internet validation. At least HalfLife 2 switched to only needing a valid serial number steam account to install play without the media checks. CW wrote: Thank goodness someone else had these thoughts and put them to pen: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=41921 Let me add what is not in the above: Running Vista 64 bit? Prepare for wild, uncontrollable crashes at random. Have K-Lite or other CODEC packs installed? Good luck avoiding blue screens. Run AVG Antispyware or Ad-Aware 2007? Prepare for the software to not run. What garbage Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games. http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc?gamekey=monopolyherenow Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. http://travel.yahoo.com/
