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Hi,

I bought an ATI 9600 XT and got a Halfe Life 2 CD key with it. When I
try to register it with Steam, it says invalid key. I bought the card
in August 2004 last year.

Now I am trying to register the key with Steam, and Steam rejects it.

Has anyone else faced this problem?

Mridul.
 
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<mridulp@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1115476149.727874.85560@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
>
> I bought an ATI 9600 XT and got a Halfe Life 2 CD key with it. When I
> try to register it with Steam, it says invalid key. I bought the card
> in August 2004 last year.
>
> Now I am trying to register the key with Steam, and Steam rejects it.
>
> Has anyone else faced this problem?
>
> Mridul.
>

Found this at www.steampowered.com support pages:

Question
When I enter my retail CDKey for Half-Life 2 I an invalid key
message, what do I need to do?


Answer
We have had several reports of players trying to enter in retail
CDKeys for Half-Life 2 and receiving an invalid CDKey message. The packaging
that has the CDKeys on it has two separate rows of numbers, ONLY the top row
needs to be entered for the CDKey. If the bottom row is entered you will
receive the invalid CDKey error.



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Archived from groups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action (More info?)

> Hi,
>
> I bought an ATI 9600 XT and got a Halfe Life 2 CD key with it. When I
> try to register it with Steam, it says invalid key. I bought the card
> in August 2004 last year.
>
> Now I am trying to register the key with Steam, and Steam rejects it.
>
> Has anyone else faced this problem?
>

Was the card new when you bought it ?
If not, the previous owner has copied down the CD key and you're screwed 🙁
If it was new, how come it's taken you so long to try and play HL-2 ?
 
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I bought my copy of HL2 off ebay and it was already registered so my steam
rejects it also.

Is there a way to play it in offline mode so you dont have to connect to
steam? What about people without internet connecions? (well the very few
lol)

Thanks
Mike


<mridulp@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1115476149.727874.85560@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
>
> I bought an ATI 9600 XT and got a Halfe Life 2 CD key with it. When I
> try to register it with Steam, it says invalid key. I bought the card
> in August 2004 last year.
>
> Now I am trying to register the key with Steam, and Steam rejects it.
>
> Has anyone else faced this problem?
>
> Mridul.
>
 
Archived from groups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action (More info?)

Nope. You have to have a good key and an internet connection to "unlock" SP
game. Once you register,supposedly you don't need the connection anymore.
That's the theory anyway. I think Valve will sell you a new key.

"Mike Azzopardi" <mikeazzo22@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:OC8fe.14460$%K6.5811@newsfe5-gui.ntli.net...
> I bought my copy of HL2 off ebay and it was already registered so my steam
> rejects it also.
>
> Is there a way to play it in offline mode so you dont have to connect to
> steam? What about people without internet connecions? (well the very few
> lol)
>
> Thanks
> Mike
>
>
> <mridulp@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1115476149.727874.85560@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I bought an ATI 9600 XT and got a Halfe Life 2 CD key with it. When I
> > try to register it with Steam, it says invalid key. I bought the card
> > in August 2004 last year.
> >
> > Now I am trying to register the key with Steam, and Steam rejects it.
> >
> > Has anyone else faced this problem?
> >
> > Mridul.
> >
>
>
 
Archived from groups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action (More info?)

On Sat, 07 May 2005 19:25:34 GMT, "Mike Azzopardi" <mikeazzo22@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>I bought my copy of HL2 off ebay and it was already registered so my steam
>rejects it also.

Don't by the physical used copies - instead, buy the Steam account. That's
how sales of second-hand products work with steam.

Even so, youu should always be careful with second hand purcahses for
products that rely on CD-Keys. The more recent games have been known to
allow banning based on user-id - and in some cases, are global bans (on the
level of CAL or stuff).


>Is there a way to play it in offline mode so you dont have to connect to
>steam?

The thing you want is a crack, not "offline-mode". These are two different
things.

>What about people without internet connecions?

That's their problem - the box did say "Internet Connection Required", as
did the many news sites before the release of the game.

It's not much of a problem since such users can easly get a friend's
internet connection to log in once (remembering the password), and copying
the "clientregistry.blob" file.
 
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mridulp@gmail.com wrote:

<snip>

probably its hard for you to belive but its better this way
with hl2 and steam in your computer you would be a controled
brainwashed imprisoned and enslaved pc gamer consumer, this
way without it you stay free
now tell me isn't this much better? being steam free instead
of a infected pc gamer?
obviously!
be proud of joining us and stay steam free forever!
down to steam!
down to valve!
long live pc games!

--
post made in a steam-free computer
i said "NO" to valve and steam
 
Archived from groups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action (More info?)

Mike Azzopardi wrote:

> I bought my copy of HL2 off ebay and it was already registered so my
> steam rejects it also.
>
> Is there a way to play it in offline mode so you dont have to connect
> to steam? What about people without internet connecions? (well the
> very few lol)
>
> Thanks
> Mike
>
>
> <mridulp@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1115476149.727874.85560@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I bought an ATI 9600 XT and got a Halfe Life 2 CD key with it. When
> > I try to register it with Steam, it says invalid key. I bought the
> > card in August 2004 last year.
> >
> > Now I am trying to register the key with Steam, and Steam rejects
> > it.
> >
> > Has anyone else faced this problem?
> >
> > Mridul.
> >

You baught opened software off e-bay 0_o
only buy software from ebay if it is sold as "MISB"
(mint in sealed box)

--
DalienX
 
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