Great responsibility? I always thought it was, "With great power comes great opportunity to abuse that power to get what you want." Can I get a do-over?

Zero_Beat

@WordMan: He's saying that he owned up to the decision, but implying that some of the reaction was absurdly excessive. You can own up to a bad decision without deserving all the backlash. If a kid owned up to spending his lunch money on toys, that wouldn't mean he deserved it if his mom killed him and buried him in the back yard, yanno?

Toasticus

Wait, is he saying he deserved the threats? Or that the people who made the threats need to be held accountable?

WordMan

@Thassodar: It was only on Windows and 360 at the time.

Spartan1308™

@Toasticus:

Don't bring your logic and reasoning into this!

CCCombobreaker

internet:1
kotaku link:0

penetraitor

@nick.soapdish:
And it's annoying.

Rohit_N

@Thassodar: They decided a PS3 port would be a financially sound move due to a number of factors (such as critical success, vastly improved PS3 support for UE3, and improved PS3 adoption rates) and bought their way out of any exclusivity contract they might have signed.

Or were you looking for a less boring and practical answer?

Toasticus

@Thassodar:

1. What does this have to do with anything?

2. It was an Xbox 360 and Windows exclusive for over a year.

CCCombobreaker

@Thassodar: Money, money, money makes the world go round. It's still a good thing, though, because it gives more people an opportunity to play the game.

You have to give Levine a bit of respect for not laying blame somewhere else, or taking a jab at piracy and deflecting the question. Still, every time he talks about BioShock I get the impression that he made it in his basement or something. He takes a lot of credit for all the failures and successes, and it's weird how he's emerged out of this game that way. The cult of celebrity extends to developers more and more these days.

nick.soapdish

Hey didn't the box for Bioshock say PC and Xbox 360 Exclusive? What ever happened to that, hmmm?

Thassodar

this man seems to love the word fuck....i approve *thumbs up*

and boo securerom, so far the worst case of "lets fuck over the paying consumer and do nothing to the pirates" yet -_-. so spore will be clean by sept 09?

demonknightinuyasha

@Toasticus: Really, I guess I'm gonna be a really bad dad. Damn.

smartboydan hates college

@demonknightinuyasha: Well, I fucking love this man, so he can say fuck or any derivation of it as much as he fucking wants.

Anarchist_Gamer

what's k-dog doing in chi-tizzy?

ac2334

@Zero_Beat: I think that's how most people see even if only on a subconscious level.

Spartan1308™

Not to justify the threats, but the industry needs to think of another way to secure their property. Because none of this is stopping people from stealing the game, well unless they're targeting computer illiterate grannies.
I decided not to pick up two games this year just because of the evil DRM.

Crowbot

I fucking love you Ken

CSanjuro

@Thassodar: It said "ONLY ON XBOX 360 AND WINDOWS". It got ported to PS3 with better graphics, more content, & trophies.

DNAgent

And now PC gamers have to boycott EA games. No damn DRM! No treating us like thieves! They wanna fuck us! LEGAL users. I say NO! Spore and Red Alert 3 is just a good start.

Check Amazon's Spore site. 1960 one-star reviews! I already wrote my opinion there - you should do it too. Maybe if they lost some cash, they'll learn to respect (a little more) their clients?

Vojtas

DRM forever! PC gaming pwns all!!!11

mysonsnameisnova

In other words, "I lack the imagination, integrity and ethics to implement a consumer- and computer-friendly protection scheme that's as effective and well-received as both Blizzard and Valve has demonstrated is possible."
Thanks, Ken!

Trai_Dep

Just a note:
"Almost a year later, all BioShock PC DRM was finally gone"
Wrong. SecuROM is still in place and needed, the DVD still has to be in the drive and you still have to activate upon installation, only the limitation on the amount of activations has been lifted.

hurda7

Wow if you guys only knew how it really went down. This dude should work for the McCain campaign the way he twists history.

kemicon

Like it's been said (but hey, more visibility for this is needed) it's not "finally gone."
It still needs the disc in the drive, and it still needs to activate online to a server that it counts on being operational.

I bought Bioshock too! If I want future PC games from 2k... it's torrent-only! If they truly removed it tomorrow, it would STILL be torrent only, for at least as long as it took for them to remove it from Bioshock. No guilt or remorse... but if the game was spectacular I'd try to find a way to pay key dev team members without 2k getting a cut...

fuchikoma

The comment about Bioshock losing its DRM is not correct. The activation limit was removed but the DRM software itself still persists.

"Actiation limits removed on BioShock" [forums.2kgames.com]

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