Bioshock and Securom

Everyone is blaming Sony for the DRM fiasco involving Bioshock but what people seem to be forgetting is that 2K Games actually paid for Securom to be put on Bioshock. Securom has been known for a long time to cause problems.

Upon recieving my copy of Bioshock, I installed which all went fine, then the installer tried to download a patch, so I allowed it. The patch failed to download properly, so I retried....and retried.

At this point I clicked cancel, which resulted in the whole installation being cancelled.

I restarted the computer and tried again, same thing happened again except this time, rather than closing the installer down, I went to the start menu and tried to run Bioshock.

STOP!!

AVG has spotted a virus.

Obfustat.JXR to be exact.

Turns out AVG is throwing up all Securom games as virii.

I had then disabled AVG and let the installation continue. This time it went through fine and the game was installed.

Upon the successful installation of Bioshock I re-enabled my virus protection and run Bioshock.

STOP!!

Bioshock.exe is a virus.

Not again. Right so now I can't play a game and have my anti-virus running.

In the end I resulted to adding the 2K games folder to my AVG whitelist so it wouldn't scan files in there.

Perfect.

So who is to blame for the problems?

So who really is to blame for problems.

Is it Sony for making a shitty piece of DRM software that is seen as a virus and detected by Microsoft's own root kit detection program?

Is it 2K Games for fault for paying for this shitty DRM software to put in to their game?

Is it AVGs fault for detecting a problem that could cause serious problems to your security?

I think the 2 former options are the 2 most likely. AVG is a brilliant piece of software and correctly see's the threat to the consumers PC. Sony on the other hand have made a devious piece of DRM software. They should of learnt their lesson from their music DRM problem a while back. I would of thought 2K Games would of researched about the different possible DRM solutions.

ID Software and Epic both release their games with just a serial number and requiring the DVD to be in the drive. A couple of patches later and the need for the DVD is gone. That is what I like to see. Oblivion has no DRM and sold like hot cakes because it was a brilliant game.

Bioshock is a brilliant game but it has had too much negative publicity caused by some bad foresight in to the future.

The only thing that will kill PC gaming is companies insisting on putting DRM in to their games. They will be cracked so it doesn't matter how much money you spend on trying to make them so they can't be cracked. People that buy the games legit are the ones that get fucked because of it. Is it the pirates fault? Well slightly, if there were no pirates there would be no need for DRM....yarrr.