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Originally Posted by DABhand
I have to admit you have been listening to people who think they know what they are talking about when they dont.
Your unique serial being made by a Key Generator is a very very very low chance of yours getting picked.
Seeing as most Key Generators will develop a key from either the last digits of the key or totally generated from scratch, the odds are very very high for yours getting matched. Even if it does by some coincedence you have the proof of purchase and serial which you can prove is yours.
And online checks are nothing like cd-checks. Cd-checks requires a cd/dvd-rom and media to be used while online checks are just a simple software check.
And yeah GCW has been around alot longer than most of the "other" sites.
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I don't see how you would respond to 3 activation limit. Furthermore, when I talked about the longevity of GCW, all I meant is that in this fast-moving world with exponential progress in IT, failure to recognize the trend that PC games are moving away from CDs to online delivery will ultimately spell doom to GCW, if it chooses to stick to catering to the owners of the increasingly obsolete tech. In other words, PC game developers will no longer use CD check at all (for example, there's no protection on ME DVD, I've checked myself - made a copy and installed the game off it w/o any issues), so online check becomes the ONLY source of validation, as CD-check was in the past - hence my parallel.
Since serial is the only source of authenticity, it may cause loads of grief if it's ever compromised due to craptastic online/phone support - if u ever used that, u'd know u want to stay away from that. Thus, as far as I am concerned, maybe the risk of duplicate serial is low, even very low, but it's still unacceptable - I don't want to waste my time proving my innocence, esp. if it does happen, tech support will stick to ur logic - that duplication impossible and blame me for the leak, and will NOT issue me another key. Read the forums at Bioware if you don't believe me - that's the policy they adopted. So the problem is not proving that that particular serial is mine but that I didn't post it somewhere for everyone to use. However minuscule is this chance, this sort of policy is unacceptable for a paying customer like me. I want access to a fix that will allow me, rightful owner of the software, to continue to use in the case when the developer fails to insure the same.
Finally, I suggest you to refrain from further patronizing me. You can't know what I do know and what I don't, and neither do I claim that I know better than you.