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Article #719773Re: A GOG DRM-free release is announced on Steam :-) :-)
From: Peter Huebner
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 05:38
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 05:38
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In article <kir0gb$95d$1...@dont-email.me>, dal...@cs.queensu.ca says... > > It has been many moons since I used a CD-key game so I have forgotten > most details. If I recall correctly you'd install the game, but it > wouldn't work until you typed in the CD key; the installed game only > enabled itself for use if it decided the long string of characters was a > valid key. What was it that prevented someone from using the same key on > different machines? Online registration? CD key had to match something > in the data burned into the CD itself and CD had to be in the drive? > something else? If you required online registration of a CD key, then > surely that was authentication. If not -- what was it that prevented > somebody from using the same key on different machines? I used one yesterday. Installed SE5 on my laptop, typed in the long- winded cd key and that was it. NO online validatin' (how, the company's gone), no The CD Must Be In The Drive nuissance... Not all of them are like that of course. I also installed Fallout 1 at the same time. No shagging around with CD keys or anything else there. Interplay was always good like that. One reason I often bought games off them. -P.
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