please please do not shoot me down, Im new and maybe stupid so if Im in the wrong place I apologise beforehand!
OK?
thanks
heres my dilemma, I bought a copy of Half-Life2 from ebay!
when I say copy I dont mean its a copy, its genuine with a genuine code etc, or at least I believe it is. No Im sure it is!
anyway the thing is the person I bought it from has already used the code to register and play the game. Neither of us realised that the registration appears to be a one-off thing (allegedly to prevent piracy??) when I attempted to register steam kindly told me the code had already been used so tough you cant play the game!
I should say the chap I bought the game off has refunded me the cost (hardly likely from someone selling dodgy copies methinks!)
so is my Half-Life2 disc destined to end up strung over my grandads gooseberries to scare the birds away on his allotment? or is their something I can do?
I have searched everywhere I can think of and found some reference to getting a re-placement code, but it appears they require not only the old code (which I have,) but also a receipt for the game which I dont have (and it seems they dont accept receipts for sales from on-line auction sites anyway!)
I am moderately pissed that a game has such a ridiculous stipulation attached to it, surely to promote any future add-ons to a game creating as a big a fan base as possible would work better?
Hell I dont even want to play the bloody thing on-line! I never play multi-player in any of the games I have (I am way to old and slow and in need of cheats!)
ok rant semi-over, if there is anyone who can help in anyway its surely going to be appreciated, I dont mean financially of course, and my body is barely useful to me these days let alone anyone else!
I am holding my breath in anticipation!
have fun
zig-zag x
OK?
thanks
heres my dilemma, I bought a copy of Half-Life2 from ebay!
when I say copy I dont mean its a copy, its genuine with a genuine code etc, or at least I believe it is. No Im sure it is!
anyway the thing is the person I bought it from has already used the code to register and play the game. Neither of us realised that the registration appears to be a one-off thing (allegedly to prevent piracy??) when I attempted to register steam kindly told me the code had already been used so tough you cant play the game!
I should say the chap I bought the game off has refunded me the cost (hardly likely from someone selling dodgy copies methinks!)
so is my Half-Life2 disc destined to end up strung over my grandads gooseberries to scare the birds away on his allotment? or is their something I can do?
I have searched everywhere I can think of and found some reference to getting a re-placement code, but it appears they require not only the old code (which I have,) but also a receipt for the game which I dont have (and it seems they dont accept receipts for sales from on-line auction sites anyway!)
I am moderately pissed that a game has such a ridiculous stipulation attached to it, surely to promote any future add-ons to a game creating as a big a fan base as possible would work better?
Hell I dont even want to play the bloody thing on-line! I never play multi-player in any of the games I have (I am way to old and slow and in need of cheats!)
ok rant semi-over, if there is anyone who can help in anyway its surely going to be appreciated, I dont mean financially of course, and my body is barely useful to me these days let alone anyone else!
I am holding my breath in anticipation!
have fun
zig-zag x
