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Buyer Beware PC BioShock

lemonadesoda

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Aweful SONY. Limited reinstalls is unacceptable. I often upgrade the PC, administer partitions, uninstall games to save space... reinstall them later, etc. A software purchase "bound" to one hardware setup is truely aweful. Didn't SONY learn already from its rootkit mistakes?

Go here for a poll on this issue. http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=38316
 
Easy Rhino

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well i wont be buying the game now. sorry 2k you lost my 60 bucks.
 
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driver66 said:
Bogus thread :shadedshu

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/48621
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Read the link in the quote guys. The protection sucks, but it's not that bad. You can have it on up to 5 computers at once, and can reinstall it up to 5 times on each.

BUT, if you use their deauthorization app, you can deauthorize a computer, and install it to a different one, without using one of your 5 activations. If you use the app before an uninstall and reinstall, you also DO NOT use any of your activations.
 
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Wile E said:
Read the link in the quote guys. The protection sucks, but it's not that bad. You can have it on up to 5 computers at once, and can reinstall it up to 5 times on each.

BUT, if you use their deauthorization app, you can deauthorize a computer, and install it to a different one, without using one of your 5 activations. If you use the app before an uninstall and reinstall, you also DO NOT use any of your activations.
Click to expand...

Wow thank you wile E !! Some people do read the post's lol :toast:
 
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