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Game Forum / Action Games / Half Life 2 / February 2005Happy Christmas to me...
Got Half-Life 2 for Christmas Installed setup Steam attempted to Register number "Steam has detected that your copy of Half-Life 2 Retail Standard has already been registered to another Steam user" I presume Santa is using my number to play Half-Life 2. Happy Christmas you fat red bastard. Guess I wasn't good enough this year. Five new coasters for me. Ya ..... I got a bad disk#3 and can't install mine, Merry Christmas to me too Great quality assurance!!! > Got Half-Life 2 for Christmas > Installed setup Steam attempted to Register number [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Five new coasters for me. >Ya ..... I got a bad disk#3 and can't install mine, Merry Christmas to me >too > >Great quality assurance!!! Wow. May be a fun game and all, but they really screwed the pooch with HL2. This Steam bullshit, bad disks, now messes like this with the keys...  SignatureDark Tyger Sympathy for the retailer: http://www.actsofgord.com/index.html "Door's to your left" -Gord (I have no association with this site. Just thought it was funny as hell) Protect free speech: http://stopfcc.com/ You don't need the disks if you have broadband you can download the game after keying in your cd key. The other guy needs to go back to the store and exchange the bad one. DaveL > Ya ..... I got a bad disk#3 and can't install mine, Merry Christmas to me > too [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > > > Five new coasters for me. > You don't need the disks if you have broadband you can > download the game after keying in your cd key. The other > guy needs to go back to the store and exchange the bad one. But... but... but... then they won't have anything to whine and complain about. SignaturePaw > But... but... but... then they won't have anything to whine and complain > about. With "Steam", if "you don't have anything to complain about", well, you're just not paying attention, that's all I can say. Check out alt.games.half-life. This problem is due to a.sholes who use programs that generate keys until they find one that works. Valve has disabled a *TON* of accounts that were pirated. Best advice seems to be to contact Valve and get them copies (digital or hard) of your invoice/receipt, CD key label from the jewel case and they will issue you a new CD Key (and disable the pirated one). SignatureRegards, Hank Arnold > Got Half-Life 2 for Christmas > Installed setup Steam attempted to Register number [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Five new coasters for me. Trouble is, like a lot of software support these days, it is set up to serve the USA. Valve mandates that you must send the CD case, key and copy of invoice to their address in the US. If you live elsewhere (I suspect the original poster is from Australia) then the cost of posting the DVD case using a method that can be tracked and is insured (so it doesn't get lost in the post) will be a fair proportion of the cost of the game. Customer support should be handled by the in-country distributer but in many cases they just don't want to know and I suspect this is one of them. Cheers, Nigel > Check out alt.games.half-life. This problem is due to a.sholes who use > programs that generate keys until they find one that works. Valve has [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > > > Five new coasters for me. I had my Battlefield 1642 key swiped after several months of use. I suspect it was done with a keygen. EA was very good about it. As requested, I emailed a scanned image of the old serial on the box. They promptly emailed a new code. Hopefully Valve can help you out in a similar manner. Good Luck! Marc >I had my Battlefield 1642 LOL Where in the hell did you get BF 1642? Is that the game with spears and hot oil? :) >Check out alt.games.half-life. This problem is due to a.sholes who use >programs that generate keys until they find one that works. That's bullshit. The alpha-numeric key is so varied that if you plugged in a random key every second if would take more than a 10 trillion years to score a valid key. Do the math. You have better odds winning a $100 million lottery, getting struck by lightening 10 times and Jesus coming back... >Valve has >disabled a *TON* of accounts that were pirated. > >Best advice seems to be to contact Valve and get them copies (digital or >hard) of your invoice/receipt, CD key label from the jewel case and they >will issue you a new CD Key (and disable the pirated one). >That's bullshit. The alpha-numeric key is so varied that if you >plugged in a random key every second if would take more than a 10 >trillion years to score a valid key. ...do you just not grasp the speed of computers or are you intentionally being dense? 1 per second? Maybe if you were using a TRS-80... SignatureDark Tyger Sympathy for the retailer: http://www.actsofgord.com/index.html "Door's to your left" -Gord (I have no association with this site. Just thought it was funny as hell) Protect free speech: http://stopfcc.com/ >Got Half-Life 2 for Christmas >Installed setup Steam attempted to Register number [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > >Five new coasters for me. You are most likely full of sh.t. It is of course possible that someone opened your copy and stole the key. But the fact is there is no way to remove the seal without tearing the surface on the box. The seal is a transparent circle your have to cut to play the game. So it can't be cut and replaced. If it was cut before you bought it you would notice it. Are you sure you're not talking about the retail version you downloaded off of alt.binaries.cd-image?? >>Got Half-Life 2 for Christmas >>Installed setup Steam attempted to Register number [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > You are most likely full of sh.t. Well. I am full of sh.t, but it was a store bought, legit copy. They finally sent me a new key and killed the old one. So f.ck you Santa! >>>Got Half-Life 2 for Christmas >>>Installed setup Steam attempted to Register number [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > So f.ck you Santa! Ho Ho Ho! Sounds like someone was a bad child... |
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