Top Gaming Moment # 52: August, 2007

Source: SarcasticGamer & GameSpot

The “Big Daddy” of FPS titles this year suffered in only one regard; how it attempted to slow down PC piracy and failed miserably. Whereas consoles are for the most part safe from widespread piracy and massive Peer-To-Peer game sharing; PC games are consistently undercut by it.

This year 2K came up with a “brilliant” plan to try and prevent this phenomenon from hurting their pride and joy. The plan entailed having every PC customer connect to their servers for an auto-patch since the core DVD itself did not included a needed .EXE file needed to play. Too bad they must have not expected their game to do so well because their servers crashed off and on during the initial release. 2K’s forum and others were aflame with angry BioShockers screaming for this damn .EXE file.

Find out why it made the list, after the jump

Not only did this setup piss gamers off *cough* but it also totally failed to prevent the game from being hacked and spread online. They say they were hack free for 13 days but I’ve “heard” otherwise. 2K said that they would not repeat this exact setup again, but that they would do something similar for future releases. Why? Who the hell knows? They said their main goal was to maintain first week sales. While stopping pirates for your first week does give you a temporary boost to sales, in the end it is the quality of the game itself that makes it a financial success or not (as BioShock itself has proven rather plainly).

Like I said before “Stop putting bubble gum on my front door and calling it a better type of door lock, when it still only takes one swift kick to knock the thing down!”

For pissing off loyal paying gamers and making PC pirates everywhere laugh, BioShocks ill conceived copyright protection checks in at number 52 on Sarcastic Gamer’s top 100 Gaming moments of 2007!

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