Battlefield 2142 Fixed Mini Image Request

[Joe Forster/STA]

@Bl1nd:

1. Many games can have their keys generated by software that usually comes with the warez release. Perfectly genuine and distinct (nowhere else to be found) keys may turn out to be illegal.

2. If you don't have the original physical media for the game, for a test, how would you install it and run it to see if it works at all with your PC? Or, horribile dictu, take it back to the shop where you bought it if the game turns out to be buggy and/or is incompatible with your PC? On the hand, if that was a "digital download" game, there's no pysical media to get broken so you don't need our help anyway.

So you made no point, after all.

[SlayerOfKings]

As the above posted has already said, 100% legal copies of games are sold at heavily discounted prices in markets that are saturated by pirated copies.

Shops based in those countries then resell the cd keys online to us westerners, who get a legitimate key at a bargain price.

For example 100% legit versions of Battlefield 2142 (the game this thread is all about!) can be purchased here: http://www.**********.com/product_in...roducts_id/293
For USD$26, about 1/3 of the retail price of the game here in New Zealand. It's basically just parallel importing which has gone on for years, but instead of exporting the physical game they are sending you a scan of the cd-key then destroying it.

And yes many games can have Keygens, but pretty much none of those games can be played online. Can you keygen Everquest? World of Warcraft etc for online play? No, you cannot. Same with 2142, because to play online you have to authenticate to EA if the CD-Key is dodgy they will reject it, or ban the account.

As for trying games before you buy a CD Key, there are many possible options.. Try at a friends, try at a cybercafe, or just plain pirate the game (obviously doesnt work for online games like 2142, you could only play single player vs bots.. very very boring lol)

It may be against your rules, and I can understand with the hordes of noobs I'm sure flood these forums, but the OP's point, and mine are very much that you can have a 100% legal version of a game without having the physical media.

Man that was a huge post for a first post lol.

Edit: Domain for that link is **********, I belive posting this is informative under section 12 of your rules, I dont own, work for, have anything to do with or have ever brought form that site, etc it was just a good example of what I was talking about.