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PC News by Robert Purchese
EA has accidentally misprinted CD keys on the manuals for Red Alert 3, leaving many 19 characters instead of 20 characters long.
But worry ye not, because EA has come up with a solution.
"There is currently a work-around that may allow you to bypass this issue. Since you have the first 19 characters of the code already, you can basically try guessing the last character," explains the EA customer support site, helpfully.
"To do this, simply enter your existing code, and then for the last character, try the letters A-Z, and then the numbers 0-9. You should eventually get the right combination, and be able to play the game."
If not, there's always the support number to phone. This can be found on page 28 of your manual. Oh it's not there? Well there are only 11 digits, but better try the numbers first this time.
Red Alert 3 was released on PC last Friday, and entered the UK all-formats chart at 15 this week.
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hiddenranbir
04/11/08 @ 10:12
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EA, put your games on IMPULSE.
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JohnnyWashnGo
04/11/08 @ 10:31
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God DAMN DRM rubbish.
I hope each and every person who purchases the game contacts them to waste their time getting the last character so that they can share the pain we feel wasting out time PROVING that we have purchased the game in order to play it. Muppets |
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'what's with all the bitching? can you think of a better solution to an unfortunate accident?'
It's just the sheer incompetance of the situation. They make sure the DRM and copy protection is all in place and then do a half arsed job of allowing the paying public access to the software they bought. It illustrates EA's priorities perfectly. |
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actionfitz
04/11/08 @ 16:39
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so after swallowing the bitter SecuRom Rootkit pill and forking out for the glorified game rental that is an EA PC game purchase these days...
you get this? lol. just wish they would offer usb mouse and keyboard support for the inevitable console version. faced with a choice between Piracy and the 'EA consumer experiance', i vote for the 3rd way of sticking to console games, or smearing lambs blood on my front doo rand letting the cash rest in my bank and wait till the angel of DRM passes over. |
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FUCK.
ME. /slaps forehead. EA you suck. Seriously. This is how you tell your legit customers to fix your fuck ups? Bloody hell. Following the whole Spore DRM debacle, then having a jumped up moderator tell your community that a forum ban equals a EA-catalogue wide game ban, then this? Jesus H on a fucking stick. Here's a thought EA: Just charge people for an email containing a link to a pirate copy of the game. It'd be quicker than gradually driving all your legit customers to warez, which is what the past few "hilarious" months have amounted to.
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Shakey_Jake33
04/11/08 @ 22:20
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Oh god guys. Complaining about the DRM is fair enough (such such critisism is deserved for such a hideous system). It's also fair enough to poke fun at the various forum moderator threats, and their suspicious retractions afterwards. But this was clearly a simple misprint, and they've pointed out a rather sensible way people get get around it.
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It was a simple misprint, but EA's support should mail those keys to people who have the misprinted versions. It's not nice putting your customers to guess what key they have. I call that just not caring about your customer. And don't forget that the EA's support phone number is paid and it's not cheap at all. God forbids to phone at EA's support, you'll pay your game again trying to convince them that you have an original game and the problem is at hrie end.
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