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Category:	SoFII General General game questions, comments and chat.
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Topic: Duplicate CD-Key Limitation on PB Servers

plexdude~rb

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Category: SoFII General Posted: Monday, Oct. 28, 2002 04:36 pm
I've got a small home network and sometimes some friends and myself want to join the same server. Well, any server that has PB enabled doesn't allow us to do this since the release of the 1.02 patch. Is joining on the same server seen as cheating somehow? If so, please explain. I really don't think I should have to buy multiple copies of the game just so I can play with friends on the same server!!!
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Andrax~rb

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Category: SoFII General Posted: Monday, Oct. 28, 2002 04:38 pm
Read your EULA. One copy of the game per machine. If you want to have 2 machines at your home playing SOFII at the same time, you need 2 unique CD Keys.
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plexdude~rb

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Category: SoFII General Posted: Monday, Oct. 28, 2002 04:48 pm
That's freakin' lame!!! So then, why does the game allow as many computers as you want to run the game with the same CD-Key when playing on a LAN? I hate it when games do this. Makes me feel like an idiot for buying it in the first place!!! I understand that when you connect to a server, the CD-Key is verified through the master server first, but I still think that as long as the game is being used in the same household, you should only have to have one valid key!!!
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Apoxol~rb

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Category: SoFII General Posted: Monday, Oct. 28, 2002 04:53 pm
I dont know of any software that you only have to buy one copy of but can use multiple times legally.
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plexdude~rb

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Category: SoFII General Posted: Monday, Oct. 28, 2002 05:14 pm
Then how come this was NEVER a problem until the 1.02 PB patch was released?
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A7ESF~rb

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Category: SoFII General Posted: Monday, Oct. 28, 2002 06:05 pm
Just get your friends to buy another game. I have multiple people that play on my LAN and YES, all the machines have a different CD. If you installed the game you agreed to the EULA which states one game per machine.
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MoNoXBooGie~rb

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Category: SoFII General Posted: Monday, Oct. 28, 2002 06:07 pm
If you have a playstation you also need 2 copies in order to play vs each other with a link cable.
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spike232~rb

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Category: SoFII General
Posted: Monday, Oct. 28, 2002 06:12 pm

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Then how come this was NEVER a problem until the 1.02 PB patch was released?

because the master server enforces the cd keys by ip, as it works on a global level

however punkbuster (added in 1.02) works on a server by server basis and compaires the guid's of the people on the server.

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So then, why does the game allow as many computers as you want to run the game with the same CD-Key when playing on a LAN?

becuase u have not enabled pb on the server.

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Swank~rb

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Category: SoFII General
Posted: Monday, Oct. 28, 2002 08:32 pm

Quote (plexdude @ Oct. 28 2002, 11:48 am)

I hate it when games do this. Makes me feel like an idiot for buying it in the first place!!!

I understand that when you connect to a server, the CD-Key is verified through the master server first, but I still think that as long as the game is being used in the same household, you should only have to have one valid key!!! :s14:

how are they to know when its actually being used for that or not? and the master server did enforce this before...check the post where people complain about their keys being banned or invalid.

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Andrax~rb

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Category: SoFII General Posted: Monday, Oct. 28, 2002 11:45 pm
Boy, yeah... I can't think of ANY software that you purchase "retail" that is legal to install on EVERY machine in your household. Not talking about "site licenses".
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