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Valve Responds to Steam Territory Deactivations

Posted by Zonk on from the read-the-fine-print dept.

An anonymous reader passed us a link to Shack News, which is reporting on official commentary from Doug Lombardi of Valve about the international Orange Box code problem we talked about yesterday. According to Lombardi, the folks who bought copies of the game from a Thai gaming store are pretty much out of luck. They'll need to buy a local copy to have a working version. That said, they should be able to replace the old code with a new one. "'Some of these users have subsequently purchased a legal copy after realizing the issue and were having difficulty removing the illegitimate keys from their Steam accounts,' added Lombardi. 'Anyone having this problem should contact Steam Support to have the Thai key removed from their Steam account.'"

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  1. Shitty Company by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    But what do you expect when you have that fat, ugly, stupid slug Jabba(aka Gabe) working there.

    Half-Life 2 Plot Summary

    Wow, it's the 'famous' Gordon Freeman you have to run/drive/boat to someplace else
    Drive/boat/run to next place shooting stuff on the way through a series of staged ambushes
    Arrive a new place
    Wow, it's the 'famous' Gordon Freeman you have to run/drive/boat to someplace else
    Drive/boat/run to next place shooting stuff on the way through a series of staged ambushes
    Arrive a new place
    Wow, it's the 'famous' Gordon Freeman you have to run/drive/boat to someplace else
    Drive/boat/run to next place shooting stuff on the way through a series of staged ambushes
    Arrive a new place
    Wow, it's the 'famous' Gordon Freeman you have to run/drive/boat to someplace else
    Drive/boat/run to next place shooting stuff on the way through a series of staged ambushes
    Arrive a new place
    Wow, it's the 'famous' Gordon Freeman you have to run/drive/boat to someplace else
    Drive/boat/run to next place shooting stuff on the way through a series of staged ambushes
    Arrive a new place ...

    Your incompetent asses are going to survive in the big league console market. You're a relic of the dying pc gaming market.

    PS. And stop fucking crying about not being able to handle graphics system that don't involve 'x86/x86 video cards/directx' retards.

    1. Re:Shitty Company by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Like your beloved Halo series is any better?

  2. Doug can inhale the steam from my piping hot semen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    n/t

  3. Re:Consumer rights by Kratisto · · Score: 0, Troll

    In Soviet Russia, games play you. Damnit. And I promised the last time I made a Soviet Russia joke it would be the last...

    --
    Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
  4. Re:Consumer rights by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    In Soviet Russia, the jokes make you.