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Happy Christmas to me...
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Baz
2004-12-27 23:09:20 UTC
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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.
Mike Shortliffe
2004-12-27 23:30:33 UTC
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Ya ..... I got a bad disk#3 and can't install mine, Merry Christmas to me
too

Great quality assurance!!!
Post by Baz
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.
Dark Tyger
2004-12-28 00:01:39 UTC
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On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 23:30:33 GMT, "Mike Shortliffe"
Post by Mike Shortliffe
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...
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Dark Tyger

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DaveL
2004-12-28 01:08:41 UTC
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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
Post by Mike Shortliffe
Ya ..... I got a bad disk#3 and can't install mine, Merry Christmas to me
too
Great quality assurance!!!
Post by Baz
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.
rinse cycle
2004-12-28 07:32:27 UTC
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Post by DaveL
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.
--
Paw
CriticalMass
2004-12-28 13:32:36 UTC
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Post by rinse cycle
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.
Hank Arnold
2004-12-28 10:46:42 UTC
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Check out alt.games.half-life. This problem is due to assholes 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).
--
Regards,
Hank Arnold
Post by Baz
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.
Nigel Heather
2004-12-29 09:09:32 UTC
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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
Post by Hank Arnold
Check out alt.games.half-life. This problem is due to assholes 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).
--
Regards,
Hank Arnold
Post by Baz
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.
Marc
2005-01-02 13:41:08 UTC
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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
W????n
2005-01-09 18:43:29 UTC
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Post by 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?

:)
count zero
2005-01-15 10:37:53 UTC
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Post by Hank Arnold
Check out alt.games.half-life. This problem is due to assholes 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...
Post by Hank Arnold
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).
Dark Tyger
2005-01-17 05:10:15 UTC
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Post by count zero
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...
--
Dark 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/
count zero
2005-01-15 10:46:31 UTC
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Post by Baz
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.
You are most likely full of shit.

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??
Baz
2005-02-13 23:23:16 UTC
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Post by count zero
Post by Baz
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.
You are most likely full of shit.
Well. I am full of shit, but it was a store bought, legit copy.

They finally sent me a new key and killed the old one.

So fuck you Santa!
Newsworthy
2005-02-20 22:54:27 UTC
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Post by Baz
Post by count zero
Post by Baz
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.
You are most likely full of shit.
Well. I am full of shit, but it was a store bought, legit copy.
They finally sent me a new key and killed the old one.
So fuck you Santa!
Ho Ho Ho! Sounds like someone was a bad child...

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