You're not improving the situation by "helping" the hackers. If you want to stick it to 2K, the only correct action is to simply not buy the game and leave it like that. Piracy only sends the message that more protection is necessary. A boycott sends the message that you don't want the game given the current state of everything.

I will say congrats on one thing 2k did right compared to some other game devs.

They included a full, nicely info packed manual with the retail version of the game (Unlike HL2 which gave us a stupid quick ref sheet). At least we still retained that retail benefit.

.... that's about all I can think of now though


Ken, can you, hand on heart, deny that the dual development of an Xbox360 version and a PC version hasn't affected the PC release for the worse?

Here i'm talking about the many minor issues that you are now having to write off to 'as intended' like the mouse control and the lack of pacing control (Walk key in this case). I mean it's not like you DON'T know how it should work cos you were the guys behind one of the best PC games ever (SS2) so the only difference I can see is that this time development was primarily led on the Xbox360. And that also applies to a general lack of focus on PC gamers issues which have all been mentioned enough times in this thread.

The point is many of us have 360's and top PCs and we chose to buy the PC version because a lot of us long term players also believe the PC brings benefits to the FPS genre (brilliant mouse/kb control, flexibility of display, modding possibilities) yet these all seem to have gone out of the window on Bioschock. The only other games that also have done that have co-incendetally also been ports from Consoles.

Had we been told that the PC version was taking a 'back seat' then a lot of us would have put up with the dual sticks and grabbed it for the Xbox instead (of course only those that had that choice).

Basically has this been the typical Console to PC port from the likes of Capcom (an otherwise amazing game company on console) then it would be understandable, but coming from 'irrational' (forget '2k' your previous name carried a weight of confidence amongst PC gamers) we never thought for one minute that all the basics of PC gaming would be so blatantly ignored.

It's good that you are looking into helping out the PC gamers and that you show your face in here (which is a rarity in other developers forums) and face the flak, but the main reason i'm pissed about all of this is that we were given ample reasons to complain when the majority of us never wanted to, we wanted to lover your game no questions and we didn't want to give publishers and developers yet another reason to avoid making PC games in the future and by releasing the game with these 'annoying quirks' and the customers having to highlight them (so it looks like we are a buch of 'whining geeks') just serves to hurt future game releases on PC.

Another month of polishing/testing and this game could have been ergonomically perfect on PC and we would all be talking about the game/gameplay instead of banging on about small issues that we took for granted woudn't be in there in a PC game in 2007.