BIOSHOCK Activation solution here

Darkwave · 24 Aug 2007 at 14:32

And people said "stop whining, activation will be painless."

Don't you love being treated like a pirate when you actually bought it?

Dob1eman · 24 Aug 2007 at 14:33

This whole thing is really unnecessary and quite stupid. Surely this is only upsetting one person and that is us the customers.

I understand the need for security but this is OTT and clearly is not working.

I have had to email them has my code will just not work and I tried all the methods mentioned. Spent most of the day trying to register the game, instead I could have been playing it.

I really hope developers take note and look at better ways than this. :mad:

Also tried the phone number, it never seems to get answered I was waiting for ages.

keogh · 24 Aug 2007 at 14:34

NVIDIA_x64 said:
STILL WAITING ON THE **************************************** phone 40 mins in i am going to end up with a phone bill that is the same as what i paid for the game **** JOKE

I can prob guess what they will tell you once you get thru... "Oh the server is down, try again later"

But please let us know what they say!

Mint_Sauce · 24 Aug 2007 at 14:46

the activation code requires the dashes and the Os are not numeric if they are perfectly spherical!

Rincewind · 24 Aug 2007 at 14:58

Mint_Sauce said:
the activation code requires the dashes and the Os are not numeric if they are perfectly spherical!

i haven't got this game yet until tomorrow so haven't seen them it's just something i think should eb made as standard across the board, most of the time that i spend installing games is around midnight in the dark except for my monitor... nice and good for my eyes! :rolleyes:

Mint_Sauce · 24 Aug 2007 at 15:02

Rincewind said:
i haven't got this game yet until tomorrow so haven't seen them it's just something i think should eb made as standard across the board, most of the time that i spend installing games is around midnight in the dark except for my monitor... nice and good for my eyes!

I agree, its not obvious. It's not hard to just put a line through 0. I also think the activation process should be intelligent enough just to put the dashes in automatically. That's something I could easily program and i'm hardly a coder!! Seriously, it's just shoddy.
The game is a work of art but actually getting there is a real struggle..

ramdor · 24 Aug 2007 at 15:02

Yeh just rang them again, to find out when the servers are likely to be up....

'sorry cant transfer you at the moment, telephone system is having problems, call back in about an hour'

translation

'servers still dead, will hopefully be back before you ring back in an hour'

Richie.

keogh · 24 Aug 2007 at 15:04

ramdor said:
Yeh just rang them again, to find out when the servers are likely to be up....

'sorry cant transfer you at the moment, telephone system is having problems, call back in about an hour'

translation

'servers still dead, will hopefully be back before you ring back in an hour'

Richie.

Thier servers are down, their phones are down.... are they on the electric yet?

turbo · 24 Aug 2007 at 15:06

keogh said:
Thier servers are down, their phones are down.... are they on the electric yet?

I say we tool up and storm them :rolleyes:

keogh · 24 Aug 2007 at 15:07

turbo said:
I say we tool up and storm them

I like your thinking!

Heatsinked · 24 Aug 2007 at 15:08

Purchased from GAME today, activated a few minutes ago, all is well now? Had no problems myself.

NVIDIA_x64 · 24 Aug 2007 at 15:08

Right well i have just got through and the guy said it is a world wide problem and it could be fixed in a few hours or it could take a few days and if you send them a email that could take a few days too because everyone is doing that and i said this is a good service and hang up :mad:

turbo · 24 Aug 2007 at 15:09

what annoys me more is that they probebly havent had any problems in america with this sort of thing happening?

Here it has to be different though. How hard is it to just restart a server or plug the phone lead back into the computer???

BloodAngel · 24 Aug 2007 at 15:10

this ****** annoyin me to!!
i assume i have the key in correct as it tries to connect to servers and gives server error at mo

BloodAngel · 24 Aug 2007 at 15:11

how come some get activated instantly and others liek me have no luck

BloodAngel · 24 Aug 2007 at 15:13

weird how some get through and others cant liek me... and yet they say its world wide problem and need to fix it.

if needs to be fixed...how can some still get through to activate tho

turbo · 24 Aug 2007 at 15:16

BloodAngel said:
weird how some get through and others cant liek me... and yet they say its world wide problem and need to fix it.

if needs to be fixed...how can some still get through to activate tho

Its called 'sods law' and bioshock is giving it me in bucket loads :mad:

ramdor · 24 Aug 2007 at 15:16

What would make me laugh, is if they cant fix the problem before 5pm, when steam activates. SecuRom needs nuking from orbit.

sid · 24 Aug 2007 at 15:18

ramdor said:
What would make me laugh, is if they cant fix the problem before 5pm, when steam activates. SecuRom needs nuking from orbit.

I thought steam activates at 9pm doesn't it?

sid

keogh · 24 Aug 2007 at 15:19

NVIDIA_x64 said:
Right well i have just got through and the guy said it is a world wide problem and it could be fixed in a few hours or it could take a few days and if you send them a email that could take a few days too because everyone is doing that and i said this is a good service and hang up

That unacceptable, you get a game on release and it could take a few days to get the servers fixed, or get this email back! Surely we can get some compensation for that, thats disgusting!

And I agree with the above, why can some people activate and others cant? This is getting weirder/worrying by the minute!

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