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Haha thats funny, but its just a single character, nothing to really complain about. Itll take you all of what? 3 minutes, haha its definately a waste of my playing time :P
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Or ask your friendly neighbourhood pirate. You've paid for the game, you may as well get to enjoy it free of DRM.
Or ask your friendly neighbourhood pirate. You've paid for the game, you may as well get to enjoy it free of DRM.
Now I might actually get it, only to boast at my friesnds, that I cracked a 20 Digit code with the brute force Method.
Seriously?!? Is EA fucking kidding me?
Is this what gaming has seriously come to? Are Red Alert fans really going to put up with this? Are they willing to let themselves be jerked around this badly?
DRM? EA says deal with it. Incomplete serial? EA says deal with it. Shitty customer service? EA says deal with it.
I can't believe a company would be so cavalier, so dismissive, so damn cocky as to tell customers to do this.
Its a sad, sad day when gamers are willing to put up with shit like this.
If this is indicative as to how publishers are willing to treat customers, it may be time for me to find a new hobby.
EA can deal with that.
Is this what gaming has seriously come to? Are Red Alert fans really going to put up with this? Are they willing to let themselves be jerked around this badly?
DRM? EA says deal with it. Incomplete serial? EA says deal with it. Shitty customer service? EA says deal with it.
I can't believe a company would be so cavalier, so dismissive, so damn cocky as to tell customers to do this.
Its a sad, sad day when gamers are willing to put up with shit like this.
If this is indicative as to how publishers are willing to treat customers, it may be time for me to find a new hobby.
EA can deal with that.
"This plus DRM. It is so much easier to just pirate the damn thing...."
I wonder how close they would be to banning your game account for saying that on EA's forums...
I wonder how close they would be to banning your game account for saying that on EA's forums...
luckily my copy had all 20 parts of the key, BUT i had problems running the game (would crash on splash screen) for the first 3 patches... figured that out, (with no help from support, hah) and now i can play single player... however, if i try to play online... i'll just leave it at that. i have yet to play a game online, and i bought the damn thing for coop.
It's not the guessing bit that is a problem...it's that this is their actual solution. Couldn't they set up some sort of online support where you enter in the digits you have and they provide you with the final one? I mean, sure, someone could exploit that, but it's better than "guess the last one".
Well shit happens, they are offering 2 soliutions so I don't see the problem here...stop bitching ang start guessing:P
The professional solution would be to have an online server, you'd give them your code, the server would 'guess' it for you.
You really HAVE to leve EAs responses to consumer issues...I guess this will teach the lot of us that giving their titles bad reviews on Amazon because they want to fuck the consumer over...EA sucks...
Dammit! Are you kidding me? SERIOUSLY!? WTF!? But the girls in Red Alert 3 are super fine so i guess that makes up for it... if you can ever get the game going.
Also, cocks.
Also, cocks.
The did lay off 6% of their employees so maybe the guy that prints the last digit was never replaced.....
FAIL
FAIL
I got a better IDea wait for some hacker to crack it and there lame DRM that is stotaly worthless and then down load his no CD patch.
I guess it could be called unprofessional, but it seems to me that it's the fastest solution to the problem and that's all I really care about.
I'd go so far as to say that I respect EA more for biting the bullet and saying it's not pretty, but here's the quickest way to get what you want if you don't want to wait for us to figure this out.
I'd go so far as to say that I respect EA more for biting the bullet and saying it's not pretty, but here's the quickest way to get what you want if you don't want to wait for us to figure this out.
I read on Ars that the other option was to send in a physical picture of the code to EA. How slow is snail mail?
Sure, guessing 1 out of 36 isn't bad (imagine if 2 digits were missing) but still, a stupid solution.
Sure, guessing 1 out of 36 isn't bad (imagine if 2 digits were missing) but still, a stupid solution.
There's a difference between guessing and process of elimination. This will work, it's just annoying and unprofessional.
have EA realised that the majority of gamers do actually hate them? And if so this is the small, first step of them showing us how evil they actually are.
" morkuma at 11/04/2008 08:37
luckily my copy had all 20 parts of the key, BUT i had problems running the game (would crash on splash screen) for the first 3 patches... figured that out, (with no help from support, hah) and now i can play single player... however, if i try to play online... i'll just leave it at that. i have yet to play a game online, and i bought the damn thing for coop."
Hey morkuma wondering how you fixed the splash screen problem. I have the same problem just so frustrating.
EA should've made a server to authenticate/provide the complete serial, this was a bad move, also there have been many problems with the game on release, RA3 forums shows lot of posts about problems.
luckily my copy had all 20 parts of the key, BUT i had problems running the game (would crash on splash screen) for the first 3 patches... figured that out, (with no help from support, hah) and now i can play single player... however, if i try to play online... i'll just leave it at that. i have yet to play a game online, and i bought the damn thing for coop."
Hey morkuma wondering how you fixed the splash screen problem. I have the same problem just so frustrating.
EA should've made a server to authenticate/provide the complete serial, this was a bad move, also there have been many problems with the game on release, RA3 forums shows lot of posts about problems.
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