For those that were ripped at 2K for putting in those awful, awful installation limits into BioShock, relief is finally here. Temporarily, at least. Caving in to enormous pressure from the PC community, 2K Games has released a revoke tool that promises to free up one of your activation credits for reuse, provided your hardware hasn’t changed in a major way since the install.

In an FAQ at the Cult of Rapture community website, 2K promises users that they can uninstall and reinstall the game as many times on their systems as they want without using up any more activation credits as long as the hardware hasn’t changed. But the real catch here is that this only works as long as the old license information is still on your PC. If you’ve had to reformat your hard drive or reinstall Windows for any reason, you’re still boned and have to reactivate the game all over again. Worse, it still doesn’t remove the SecuROM dependency that’s built into the game, so people who were looking for a way to get past all of this have to wait all that much longer.

Definitely not the solution we were looking for, but at least it’s a step in the right direction to make sure people still don’t run around pirating the game just because of this. A reminder: this works only on the retail versions of the game, not on the Steam and Direct2Drive versions.

Download the BioShock Activation Revoke Tool
Download the BioShock Revoke Tool Guide
Visit the Revoke Tool page at 2K Games

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