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From: Hoorn
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It came under my attention that from now on, all sold sof2 games will have the same cd-keys. We have an discussion going on at another forum because some members did recently ordered the game through several shops (online at amazon and shops out in town). Some of them ordered 2 copies and noted that both had the same cd-key.
Their has been some corresponding with raven and evenbalance. It seems that raven confirms this situation (not to me). Now, that will give us troubles with pb enabled servers? I mean, if you ban this GUID, many people who ordered the same cd-key are banned while they did not even considered to cheat .... Or are the guids still unique per game?
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QUOTE(Johnnie @ 25 Dec 2006, 02:55 PM)
We suspect the Master Server is off-line; I presume you meant they have the same GUID and not CD Key?
No, it seems that all new shipped games have now the same cd-key. That would not be an problem when it generates still an unique GUID key per install but I doubt it will be unique from now on.
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Response (Tommy Hooper) - 12/28/2006 06:12 AM Thank you for contacting Activision Customer Support. All old copies of Soldier of Fortune 2 do not use the same key. Some of the recent copies do. The cd key check has been turned off for the game but Punkbuster still searches for the cd key on punkbuster servers. If you have any further questions, please contact our website: http://activision.custhelp.com
I'll make sure your concerns are noted, but beyond that there is nothing else I can tell you about this issue at this time.
Customer - 12/29/2006 10:48 AM i understand that you have no control over the servers or pb settings on them. what you can do is issue a unique key to customers who prove they have this 1 key and proof of purchase. surley that is the only real solution here. along ensuring any new copies do not have the same key in future. sof2 is very much alive and well and is still in the top 12 on all game server listings (amount of players and servers) i know it is a old game and you guys have things more important to do than this but people are still playing this game alot. i hope you can see that it really is the image of your company that is suffering here. and hope you can set this right. i personally would love nothing better than to be able to say to people on the forums that yes you made a mistake but they will correct that mistake.
Response (Kirk McNesby) - 12/29/2006 10:30 AM Hi,
There is nothing further we can add to this conversation and I apologize I don't have something more definitive for you, but we've adjusted everything we can under our control to allow people to play without hinderance, the rest relies on parties outside of our direct control.
Customer - 12/29/2006 12:59 AM yes they are capable of joining non pb server but the point is 90% of server run pb. out of that 90% i would say 90% of them do not have the guidrelax set to 4. so they cannot join those servers. limiting there multiplayer side of the game. which i will add that they purchased the game for the mp side. hopefully you can understand why this is unacceptable to the whole of the sof2 comunity and threads are popping up in most forums. how can the effected people get this resolved so they have no limitiations like the rest of us.
Response (David Malka) - 12/28/2006 05:53 PM Hi,
Thank you for the update and your patience in this matter.
Are those six people capable of playing on non-Punkbuster servers?
I look forward to your response.
Customer - 12/28/2006 03:50 PM how is it possible for these people to join a normal pb server. as it is the server that checks the cd key/guid if 1 recieves a global ban then they all do. how can we as a server provider and mod maker assist them in connecting to any pb server if they have a genuine copy of the game and no cheats. what is stoping them from taking legal action if they are banned through no fault of there own because you do not provide a unique cd key/guid.
Customer - 12/28/2006 03:47 PM no the question was not answered.
Response (Jon An) - 12/28/2006 01:44 PM Hi,
Thanks for contating customer support.
All new copies of the game have come out with the same CD-KEY. Punkbuster does know this and the cd-key authentication has been turned off.
Thanks and contact us again.
Customer - 12/28/2006 06:56 AM i have six clients who insist they have the same cd key. they are friends and purchased new copies from diffrent outlets. ie dixons and free record shop. can you confirm that new copies of sof2 have the same cd key. and what can be done to allow them to play in the same pb enabled server. also does evenbalance know about this.
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Yes, and I don't understand why they would take such actions while they contracted with evenbalance.com to work with them. How can evenbalance support an game that no longer gives unique cd-key's?
Official Sof2 Cd's Now Have All The Same Cd-key?
24 Dec 2006, 05:37 PM
