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EA Recommends Hilarious Work-Around For RA3 CD-Key

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the you-gotta-be-kidding-me dept.

sunderbear noted that EAs Command & Conquer 3 shipped missing the last digit of the CD Key. He writes "EA's brightest minds have put their synapses into overdrive in order to whip up a comical work-around. 'There is currently a work-around that may allow you to bypass this issue. Since you have the first 19 characters of the code already, you can basically try guessing the last character,' said a note on EA's customer support site. Yes, they're serious. 'To do this, simply enter your existing code, and then for the last character, try the letters A-Z, and then the numbers 0-9. You should eventually get the right combination, and be able to play the game.'" It appears that the helpful hint has been purged.

6 of 301 comments (clear)

  1. Apple iWork by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That's even worse than what Apple did with the iWork serial numbers. They printed all the digits, but you couldn't tell 0 and O apart.

  2. You Fai7 I7!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    that supports Cultu8e of abuse playing so it's

  3. Re:Circumvention? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    dbag, stop putting =Smidge= in the body of your post. we can all see your handle in the header of your post.

  4. Re:Or you can presumably download it from Pirateba by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    and then it comes to mind... wtf has windows wanting to open the nfo file for me? couldn't they use another F***** extension (windows OR pirates)? ya know, txt, as in text files?

  5. Re:No longer true by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In that case, who will want to play C&C anyway? Forget the damn game and focus on stuff that matters - Phonesex!

  6. DRM by Yeorwned · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Does CNC3 have DRM all over it for activations, health checks, etc.?