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Posted by Guessmyname on Wed May 11th at 5:14pm 2005

I've just bought Half-life 1 from a game shop called "Chips". Its new and it cost me ?10.

Because you can only play online through Steam now, I tried to register it. It went as follows:

Browse Games, Register a Product I already own.

I type in the CD key. It registers with Steam...

...Your CD is a duplicate. This product key has already been registered. Registration for Half-Life Platinum denied.

I'm hoping this stops me from getting Platinum (Whatever that is) and not from playing over the 'net.

It's a new game, I swear!

"PCR - Half-Life

NEW ?9.99"

What the bugger is going on?
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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Wed May 11th at 5:18pm 2005

Sorry man... that's a bummer. Apparently your CD-Key has already been registered to another account. Victim of a CDKey gen?

I guess you have 2 options now. Get in contact with Valve and tell them your problem and see if they can do anything about it. You'll probably have to send them your game and proof of purchase or something like that.

Or you could just return the game and buy HL via Steam.
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Posted by omegaslayer on Wed May 11th at 5:34pm 2005

That is anoying about steam sorry bud smiley, but what you do is you send in you CD case to valve with the CD key on front, and they will give you the game smiley. Just consider yourself lucky if you live in the US! [addsig]



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Posted by azelito on Wed May 11th at 5:36pm 2005

Just scan the cd-key or take a photo of it. That is enough evidence that you actually own the game.
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Posted by Guessmyname on Wed May 11th at 6:40pm 2005

? quote:
That is anoying about steam sorry bud , but what you do is you send in you CD case to valve with the CD key on front, and they will give you the game . Just consider yourself lucky if you live in the US!


I'm in the UK (as in - s**t, that won't work...)
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Posted by Leperous on Wed May 11th at 7:19pm 2005

So again, scan/photograph the CD-key and your proof of purchase, and either e-mail it to them or post this on the Steam forums. There's nowt we can do.



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Posted by Guessmyname on Wed May 11th at 8:13pm 2005

You told me what to do. That's something (thanks by the way. Snark time!)
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Posted by Crono on Wed May 11th at 9:47pm 2005

Actually, Valve requires you to send them the cdkey (jewel case and all) in the mail to give you a new key.

look here

There's a ten dollar fee for HL1 one though. [addsig]




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