Not too hard, isn’t it? Good for 2K for honouring past customers who bought the games already on PC and treating them a free copy of the remasters.

Here’s the full instructions over on Steam. If you bought the game nine years ago, some copies may not include CD keys, so it takes a bit of work to claim it.įor Bioshock 2 and its DLC Minerva’s Den, all the copies include a Games For Windows Live key, so just activate that key on Steam (in Activate A Product on Steam) and you should be good to go. For Bioshock 1, you need to send a ticket to 2K Support-plus all the details required and also the proof of purchase.

If you own physical copies of the game instead, fret not, as there are methods to claim the free download of the remaster. If you own them on Steam, you will receive the remasters added automatically into your library. Publishers 2K agree, so whoever already bought Bioshock 1 or 2 on PC, you are entitled to download remastered versions of the game, part of Bioshock: The Collection which also includes 2013’s Bioshock Infinite. But what about on PC? Since remasters sometimes make many background changes as well as the improved textures for higher resolutions, should someone who bought the game have to double dip and buy another copy? Since most folks on PC have already embraced digital distribution, this doesn’t make much sense. Remasters make sense for the new generation of consoles since early on both consoles lack backwards compability- though the Xbox One has been making strides to make more 360 games playable.

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