t's misleading because I bet if you asked most owners of ATI X700, X800, and X850 series video cards, they would say that there cards are "better" than an X1300 (or at least they would have before they found out that Bioshock won't run on them).
Again, you can't bring subjectiveness into this. I might think that my computer is the roxxor, doesn't make it true. If you are looking at the requirements and you see the words 'better than', I would think its a pretty safe assumption to make that it means later model. Not better because it's over clocked with some water cooling. At least thats what the publisher thought people would take the requirement to mean.
Sure the format is standard. That doesn't make it sufficiently explicit since not suppporting still popular cards like the X700/X800/X850 series is a pretty big omission that could have been sufficiently listed in a few words.
But where does the listing stop though?
CPU: Pentium 4 2.4GHz Single Core processor
Would you look at that and think "Well when my cpu is over clocked i can manage 2.4Ghz". I'm sure there are some popular CPU's out there too that didn't rate a listing.
If people want to hope that their PC will run it even though their card isn't listed, that's their problem. If they are unsure, thats what demo's and those crazy online requirement site's are for.
It is simply part of my overall point that Take 2 mislead buyers on this game. Agree with me or don't, but I can certainly empathize with those customers with affected video cards.
How were they misled? Requirements specified, requires internet activation.
Unless people genuinely thought the game would be released without any copy protection. I seriously doubt anyone would. As to securerom being retarded, ill agree with that. It didn't screw up for me, but i guess i was lucky.
But I don't think you can just claim they are lying to everyone. That's a bit unfair