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General Jackson
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Posted: 16th Jan 2010 07:12
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I am going crazy.
My uncle gave me his COD4 modern warfare copy, but it wont let me play online.
It is a perfectly legit boxed copy, here is the stupid error i keep getting, PLEASE HELP!!! or i'll go insane!!!



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Benjamin
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Posted: 16th Jan 2010 07:14
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Read what it says on the screen?
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General Jackson
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Posted: 16th Jan 2010 07:15
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What does it mean?

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Gil Galvanti
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Posted: 16th Jan 2010 07:22 Edited at: 16th Jan 2010 07:22
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That the game's key code is in use.


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General Jackson
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Posted: 16th Jan 2010 07:23
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But i have no idea what that means :S

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DJ Almix
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Posted: 16th Jan 2010 07:28
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Quote: "But i have no idea what that means :S"


These days most games come with a serial that's connected to an online account if you play multiplayer. So, only YOU can use that serial so you can't be logged in twice, no pirated versions, ect. The reason for this is either you did not by a legit version, or someone got a hold of your key, contact support about this.

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General Jackson
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Posted: 16th Jan 2010 07:29
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I dont understand still.
I put my serial key in from the box.
Is it because my uncle had it on his computer?

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Gil Galvanti
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Posted: 16th Jan 2010 07:30
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It's because someone is playing online or logged in that is using the same serial key as you. It might be your uncle, although if you have his game disk, he'd have to be using someone else's.


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General Jackson
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Posted: 16th Jan 2010 07:33
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Well thats idiotic, because if 1000 dif people have the same key then thats 999 people who cant paly most of the time.

And i highly doubt my uncle is playing it at 12:33 at night

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Benjamin
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Posted: 16th Jan 2010 07:38
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Quote: "Well thats idiotic, because if 1000 dif people have the same key then thats 999 people who cant paly most of the time."


Why would everyone have the same key unless they all pirated the same version? Every key is guaranteed to be unique.
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General Jackson
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Posted: 16th Jan 2010 07:39
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Well either this one aint or else my uncle is playing, i have the box sittin right in front of me.

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Jeku
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Posted: 16th Jan 2010 07:49 Edited at: 16th Jan 2010 07:49
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Um... phone your uncle and ask him if he's playing? If he's not, contact support. If he is, then buy your own copy of the game.


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General Jackson
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Posted: 16th Jan 2010 07:52
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at 1 in the morning nah, but i will tomorrow sk if he was.

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Posted: 16th Jan 2010 08:54
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You've stopped playing MW2. Niiiice.

Ask your uncle if it's preowned, if so then some guy trying to be an idiot sold the game and is still playing it using the same key.

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Posted: 16th Jan 2010 09:02
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If its really new,then either your uncle made an account then gave it to you or someone else entered the key before anyone even bought the game.You might think how is that possible? Well all the keys are stored in the game's files,people hack them out and voila,keys.

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 16th Jan 2010 12:21
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Actually, I'd say some else has generated your key using a keygen by accident. It's something I've had happen before and the company involved just doesn't want to know. Happened with my Test Drive Unlimited. I phoned Atari and asked them why the bloody hell a game I paid £30 for had an invalid key and they called me a pirate and wouldn't help me. I took the game back and they let me have any other £30 game.

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I'm with Nex on this one, if you can confirm that its not your uncle, then someone has generated your key using a keygen.

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General Jackson
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Posted: 16th Jan 2010 17:16
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Quote: "I'm with Nex on this one, if you can confirm that its not your uncle, then someone has generated your key using a keygen."


So i just phoned him and he said he gave it to me because he got MW2. He also said he couldnt get MP to work for the last month and 1\2 that he had it, so I guess so
Darned pirates.

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 16th Jan 2010 17:18
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Perhaps you'll have more luck with support?

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General Jackson
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Posted: 16th Jan 2010 17:21
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Yeah Im finding their email right now

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General Jackson
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Posted: 16th Jan 2010 17:52
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They said to reinstall it so I did and now it wont show any servers at all

(sorry for double post)

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Posted: 16th Jan 2010 18:03
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Quote: "They said to reinstall it so I did and now it wont show any servers at all

(sorry for double post)"


That advice doesn't make any sense, because the serial key is the same whether you reinstall it or not.

If you're not getting servers, contact support again.


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General Jackson
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Posted: 16th Jan 2010 22:19
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I did and they said I must be a pirate
Its making me mad.
I guess I'll just have to buy ANOTHER copy

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Posted: 16th Jan 2010 23:16
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Quote: "I guess I'll just have to buy ANOTHER copy"


I wouldn't. They'd just make more money that way. I'd make a fuss about it, I mean why should you have to put up with this?
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General Jackson
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Posted: 16th Jan 2010 23:38
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Quote: "I wouldn't. They'd just make more money that way. I'd make a fuss about it, I mean why should you have to put up with this? "

Yeah maybe i'll make a video of me with my copy and say i'm mad

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Posted: 17th Jan 2010 01:05
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I find it so weird that support would call you a pirate (you and Nex). When I had a problem with a serial number they asked me to take a photo of the game, the receipt and the serial number.

Once I did that they sent me a new key and banned the original key which was tied to another account.
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I'm guessing because you don't have an adolescent voice? Also, the mood of the person who picks up the phone matters far more than company policy usually.

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General Jackson
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Posted: 17th Jan 2010 02:22
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Yay! I took a vid of me holding a copy of my game with the disk inside and they gave me a new serial and it WORKS!!!!!

WOOOT!!!
I am soo happy

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Posted: 17th Jan 2010 02:25
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Nice one.
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Quote: "Yay! I took a vid of me holding a copy of my game with the disk inside and they gave me a new serial and it WORKS!!!!!

WOOOT!!!
I am soo happy
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That was awfully quick...

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I dunno if he has the steam version of COD 4, but when I had to recover my hacked account on steam, they were pretty quick too. (Less than a day actually)
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General Jackson
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Posted: 17th Jan 2010 06:50
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Quote: "That was awfully quick... "

So?
Do you want them to take 3 days instead of three hours?

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I agree with Toasty Fresh.
This seems awfully suspicious on GJ's part.
Maybe I'm just paranoid

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General Jackson
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Posted: 17th Jan 2010 06:54
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Oh i get it he thinks im a pirate

Well, think what you like, but i'm not a pirate

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Posted: 17th Jan 2010 07:20 Edited at: 17th Jan 2010 07:22
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Quote: "Do you want them to take 3 days instead of three hours?"


It took three hours? It took three hours for you to send them a video of yourself holding a copy of CoD4? And then they sent you a new serial within three hours of you sending it?

It sounds to me that you simply got impatient and decided to torrent it instead of waiting for a reply here

I could be wrong but it sounds very fishy, because it's a sunday, school holidays, and it took them three hours, because most technical services take a whole lot longer than that.

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Quote: "because it's a sunday"
oops!
Then upload the video for every one to see

Upload a video or it didn't happen.....

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If it's a perfectly legit copy in the first place, how come the version number is 1.0.525? Surely it should just be 1.0 if it was installed straight from the CD?

Make sure you patch to v1.7 if the game is working perfectly for you now.

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General Jackson
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Posted: 17th Jan 2010 15:49 Edited at: 17th Jan 2010 15:52
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I deleted the vid but after church I will get a pic of me with it and upload it

Quote: "If it's a perfectly legit copy in the first place, how come the version number is 1.0.525? Surely it should just be 1.0 if it was installed straight from the CD?
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Maybe Because thats how it was when my uncle gave it to me

Quote: "Make sure you patch to v1.7 if the game is working perfectly for you now."

Been there, done that

And it wasnt sunday, it was saturday

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I'll throw in a little defense here, instead of automatically assuming the 'p' word.

Quick: It's not impossible for customer services to be quick, if you've caught them at the right time, it's quite possible they'll be quick - if they receive the video and watch it and they know it's you, the customer, then what reason do they have to stall? It's not like an investigation is needed. If videos suffice, then 3 hours isn't unbelievable for customer services to solve a problem. Customer services can sometimes be efficient.

Game versions: Do all game versions of CoD4 comes as 1.0? Because not all games do, later released version (GoTY, special editions, cheaper versions etc.) might have an updated version. I don't think all games I've installed have been version 1.0



And well, we know GJ isn't a Pastafarian, so he's definitely not a pirate, yearrgh! Ye sail the seven seas for pasta!

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That was easily the most suspicious FSM reference I have ever seen. Good job.

Yeah, I think calling pirate is probably a bit premature here.

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Quote: "I don't think all games I've installed have been version 1.0"


Some releases come at different versions. A version of Fallout II released in Germany with no blood or children is unique to that country.

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Attention all

If you are 12 years old, or look like you're 12 years old, I will delete your posts if you post a picture of yourself. If the person who posted that pic is actually above 16, then feel free to repost. But please, we don't want to see you if you're below that age. And no, I'm not going to name who it was


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General Jackson
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Posted: 17th Jan 2010 21:53 Edited at: 17th Jan 2010 21:58
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{edit} oops, just said my age. I meant to say i am just about old enough.

We have all sorts of guns here and besides how am i going to prove i aint a pirate?
What a pain


Its not like someones gonna travel all the way over here and kidnap me

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Jeku, I love you.

I saw the pic and I can vouch for GJ, he did have the game.

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General Jackson
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Posted: 17th Jan 2010 23:39
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Its happening again

Has anyone else had this problem? now i'm really mad.

Does anyone think it could be something with my computer, and not the game? and yes i have the latest patch.

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try another computer?

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General Jackson
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I dont have another computer

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You might need to contact support again, to see if they have solutions.

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Quote: "If you are 12 years old, or look like you're 12 years old, I will delete your posts if you post a picture of yourself."


There are 12 year olds on this forum?!

Anyway, like Sep said, give support another call. It's weird that a new serial that they gave you has already been generated by someone else within... 24 hours or so, but I guess you'll just have to keep getting a new one from support until you get one that works.

I can't see how it would be a problem with your PC.

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General Jackson
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Posted: 18th Jan 2010 02:25
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Quote: "There are 12 year olds on this forum?! "

I dont rightly see why i cant have my picture up
I aint far at ALL from 16


whatever, at least one person saw it and can tell you i aint a pirate

And yes, its very wierd that the new key no longer works...

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