herooftime1000 Posted October 20, 2008 I have had my Battlefield 2 game for a year now and finally, my scatterbrained demeanor has finally come back to bite me...I lost the manual that had the cd key. THIS IS BULLCRAP! Why do they put important stuff like that in MANUALS?! It should be taped inside the back of the case where the manual is so you won't lose it! Anyways, is there a way to find out what my CD key is? I have the game installed in another computer and I think I can get my key from that. Problem is, I don't know how. Uh... Help? 0 Share this post Link to post
Bucket Posted October 20, 2008 EA will retrieve your CD key for a small fee. 0 Share this post Link to post
AirRaid Posted October 20, 2008 it'll be stored in the registry of the other computer. And, easier than that, most games like that have a way to view it from the menu somewhere. 0 Share this post Link to post
herooftime1000 Posted October 20, 2008 AirRaid said:it'll be stored in the registry of the other computer. And, easier than that, most games like that have a way to view it from the menu somewhere. Thanks, I'll try it out. Seriously, why do they put these important things in a manual? And then, if you lose them, they charge you to make another?! It's all one big scheme, I tell ya! I mean, come on. Hands up. Who has EVER lost a computer manual? Who has ever been punished for making a small mistake such as this? I hate EA even more now and many other companies are guilty of the same crime. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted October 20, 2008 Reminds me of how my friend's copy of Diablo 2 got its CD key rubbed off somehow. He just had it stored away and the ink just rubbed off. 0 Share this post Link to post
Ninja_of_DooM Posted October 20, 2008 While not quite a lost manual, I do remember when i bought a copy of SoF II and found half the CD key was missing. Unfortunately the shop had a 'no returns' policy on PC games. (because people were often too dumb to check the specs on the back of the box) So despite explaining to the staff that it wasn't a problem with the game, but rather the CD key, they handed it back to me. Even when I showed them the manual too. 0 Share this post Link to post
AirRaid Posted October 20, 2008 Most No returns policies on PC games are so you don't buy it, copy it and take it back. Still sucks, though. 0 Share this post Link to post
Ninja_of_DooM Posted October 20, 2008 Oh yeah, there's that too. I know I heard of it happening often enough anyway. Though now I think on it, I remember the staff at the shop always asking if you had checked to make sure it would run on your PC too. But yeah, still sucks either way. :/ 0 Share this post Link to post
herooftime1000 Posted October 20, 2008 Yeesh. You know, I understand it's for protection purposes but it's now quickly going into the lines of infuriating. I mean, look at Securom... 0 Share this post Link to post
chungy Posted October 20, 2008 What about it? It's only the natural evolution of these things. I mean, if you actually thought a mere CD Key stopped pirates, I pity you. 0 Share this post Link to post
hardcore_gamer Posted October 21, 2008 MikeRS said:What about it? It's only the natural evolution of these things. I mean, if you actually thought a mere CD Key stopped pirates, I pity you. So you are saying that secrom is ok? If that's the case, then I PITY YOU! 0 Share this post Link to post
chungy Posted October 21, 2008 No, I'm not. However, it's just a pipe dream to think CD-keys is as far as it'd ever go. 0 Share this post Link to post
caco_killer Posted October 21, 2008 Things like CD keys and Securom are useless since it doesn't stop pirates, it just ruins things for honest, paying customers. 0 Share this post Link to post
exp(x) Posted October 21, 2008 CD keys may be easy to crack in single player, but since a lot of multiplayer games have authentication at the master server level where binaries or source code are not available, reverse engineering is impossible. 0 Share this post Link to post
printz Posted October 21, 2008 I for a very long time thought I lost the Doom 3 CD Key... only until I found it right there in the box, hidden beneath a secondary CD I didn't need for playing. 0 Share this post Link to post