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Hello. Yesterday I felt like dusting off GTA IV that I bought a few years ago. In this edition there are 4 DVDs, two with the game and two others with "Episodes from LC". I finished the game at the time but I didn't install that expansion.
When I tried to install the Episodes, everything went well until the activation where it wasn't able to contact the server after 20 attempts. I thought that updating the game to the latest version would solve the problem, but it didn't.
So I decided to venture with the manual activation and this is where the biggest aberration I've seen in my life in the world of playful software began.
The offline activation led me to this site. When I entered yesterday and saw the long text, I lost the desire to play. Then in the evening I decided to try again and started to read. Everything was going well until I saw a paragraph in red where they warned me that I needed a memory stick. I have several available, but when I read that, I lost the desire to play again.
Today I thought "come on, third time lucky". I followed all the steps and when I entered the serial number in the generator on the web, no activation key appeared no matter how much I checked that all the characters were correct and after clicking 700 times on the damn button to generate the key.
Anyway, tonight I will look for the crack for the game. I'm sure I can make it work in two easy steps.
PD: I know that since then the distribution of games has changed and I'm sure that this kind of thing doesn't happen anymore, but I wanted to vent a little.
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Is it possible that steam eats the key? In many games it allows you to activate them in steam to avoid this kind of problems with old anti-copy systems.
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Nothing, nothing. Go ahead and rant.
I've had something similar happen to me with BF2142 (and with the rest of the series before BF3) "let's see how it runs on this machine" I said to myself.
But EA no longer supports it, and for playing it in single player mode I have better games galore.
They tell me (not on the official site) that I can still play in multiplayer via GameSpy or something similar, so I just dropped the subject.Counting the times I played and dividing them by the 50 € it cost me… I'm left with my wooden leg.
Edit: That, or when you change your OS and the game won't install no matter how hard you hit it.Pirating is a crime.
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Is it possible that steam eats the key? In many games it allows you to activate them in steam to avoid this kind of problems with old anti-copy systems.
It does not allow it :wall:
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By the way, remember that since Vista, MS has disabled support for SafeDisc and SecuROM.
To activate it, check that the secdrv.sys file is present, and from the command console, type sc start secdrv to activate the service, and sc stop secdrv to stop it.
If you see a lot of trouble and don't want to complicate your life any more (and also because you have it original), remember the words of that wise Chinese man from the 5th century: "When the bearer of reason meets the river swollen by falsehood, use a mule to cross the torrent."
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…"When the bearer of reason meets the river swollen by falsehood, he uses a mule to cross the torrent."
:ugly:I'm dying
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Something similar happened to me in Mass Effect… in the end I activated it through other means.
I'm annoyed at having to pay for a DVD copy of the game and then finding it more difficult to play because of the anti-copy systems that fail
They complain about piracy but if they put so many problems for legitimate users of the product, things are going badly... -
For these reasons people prefer Steam or consoles, as you rightly say you can't annoy buyers to prevent piracy which you can't control with those methods anyway…
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