E-mail from Valve(STEAMing pile of crap)

[oldi1knoby]

I got this E-mail from them a bit ago:

Dear Steam user,

This is an automated message generated by Steam account administration.

Your Half-Life Platinum Pack CD-Key (the number printed on the CD case which you were asked to type in after installing the game) has been found to be invalid.

The CD-Key you entered is:

You will not be able to play Half-Life Platinum Pack unless you provide a valid CD-Key.

To provide a valid CD-Key, double-click on the name of the game in Steam's "Games" window and then follow the given instructions.

For further help or product support, please visit http://www.steampowered.com


Signed,

The Steam Support Team
To contact us, email [email protected]


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Now, my family owns 4 copies of HL/CS, but I was NEVER asked to input my CD-key. I was able to play 1 game of CS after a long day of updating, and then it froze when the map changed. Now I can't connect to any games. It freezes when it says it is authenticating resources or some crap. Anyone else have this problem.

 

[TechnoHippyChic]

Steam'll get the key from the registry if it's already installed...

Maybe someone made one up and got yours?!

 

[Fuzzy]

I think what happened was all those isntances of CS/HL were using the same key, the same thing happened to me. So when you installed it was trying to use an account that already had a cdkey to it. Did you create mroe tahn 1 STEAMID?

 

[oldi1knoby]

No, only 1 Steam ID, and only one copy of CS is installed on this computer. The other 3 are installed on other computers.

I will try again tomorrow to play, and hopefully they will have the bugs kinked out over the weekend....