EA Recommends Hilarious Work-Around For RA3 CD-Key

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.

Comments

Why is this a big deal

[LordKronos]

I'm not sure why this is such a big deal. They offered to replace it for you if you contact them and send them photo or fax of the bad key. That's a perfectly legit solution. However, that's going to take a bit of time while you wait for your support request to be processed.

If you could instead get the game up and running in 10 minutes by just brute forcing it, I personally consider that a much better work around. I bet most people would honestly prefer that.

So what do you want them to do? Be psychic and send you the code before you even know you need it? Yes, it would be best if there was no problem, but mistakes happen.

Re:Another helpful hint

[superphreak]

That's why he said "need" to try. To me, that implies that you've tried all the rest and are left with the last one.