well... non-legit copies joining legit servers

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Pincus wrote:
Yeah, so in other words the real online agorithm is a stricter version, with less outcomes... Correct?
Close enough to think of it that way, yes. By a magnitude of like 1 million to one or something, I would guess.
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I played Quake3 using my friends CD key for about 6 months without a problem, we even used to play on the same server.
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Q3 let you use a CD-Key twice at once. They set that up a while after it was released tho.

I think it was to make moving between servers easier.
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Post by Lenard »

Are you guys kidding? I never buy games. That is a waste of money. I have the internet.
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Lenard wrote:Are you guys kidding? I never buy games. That is a waste of money. I have the internet.
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Bait-and-switch.
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Whilst playing online lastnight i seen a few people ask if anyone actually paid for the game....

Hope its fixed, ppl who dont care about their GUID (ppl who didnt buy the game) will prolly use cheats.
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Post by q4aholic »

what the hell? hahaa...thats the stupidest "stereotype" i've heard in ages.

maybe they downloaded the game to save 60. i doub tthey decided to download it jjust to cheat. christ.
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The problem i had with q3 was that i couldn't play online because my key was already in use... those keygenerators can generate leagal keys and than poeple(like me) cannot play although they bought the game.
I reported the problem to id but nevergot an answer
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who cares! don't worry about other ppl and just live ur lives...
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q4aholic wrote:what the hell? hahaa...thats the stupidest "stereotype" i've heard in ages.

maybe they downloaded the game to save 60. i doub tthey decided to download it jjust to cheat. christ.
I said probably.
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Don't worry, I can't even run it.
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As much as I hate to say it - I buy all my computer games from Best Buy. While they do have some rather interesting business practices (and their Geek Squad sucks), they have a nice big selection of games.

Unfortantaly, since I buy my games, I give away all my rights to produce backup copy of the game incase 1 of the the 4 CD-ROMs gets damaged.

I'm seriously thinking of switching over to an X-Box or some other console verry soon - all this copy protection crap, CD keys getting longer and longer each day - having to reherse 100 alphanumeric characters to read to Microsoft over the phone to re-install Windows XP for the Xth time, and all this Digital Restrictions Management, all this "You can't backup a CD that you bought" shit...

With an X-Box, you never have to enter a product keycode. Never have to worry bout paying $400 for a good video card, and don't have to worry about updates.
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