Do you register your software?

[Yzzim]

Just purchased Warcraft 3 and decided to register it. Not really sure why. What are the benefits of registering? What's the purpose of it? The Blizzard site said I was registered in a drawing to win free software every month

Do you register your software? Why or why not?

 

[NewSc2]

for blizzard, if your cd key ever gets stolen or if you lose your CD case, you can e-mail them to deactivate your old CD key and they'll send you a new CD key

 

[gopunk]

yes, in case i ever need tech support, updates, etc.

 

[Imported]

Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't.

I registered Warcraft 3 though, for that cd-key reason stated above.

 

[NewSc2]

how come 5 people voted for not registering? if i didn't want to register, i wouldn't buy the legitimate version-i'd probably dl it and get the crack somehow (i guess not for War3 cuz of b.net, but for other programs)

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

No, I don't want junkmail. That's the only reason. I've never had a problem with getting support for stuff I haven't registered.

 

[HiTek21]

Depends on how much I spent on the software. If I spent 50 + I'll register it to see what kind of updates they send. Anything less waste of time.

 

[kduncan5]

No.

One reason: Freeware -kd5-

 

[GoingUp]

Originally posted by: BrunoPuntzJones
No, I don't want junkmail. That's the only reason. I've never had a problem with getting support for stuff I haven't registered.

I get enough spam as it is. I dont need to be in an extra database.

 

[spp]

yea as far as i can remember my spam started ever since registration.....

 

[aphex]

Nope.

 

[T2T III]

yea as far as i can remember my spam started ever since registration...

That is so, so true. I usually just hold onto the registration information in the event it's needed. As you can tell, no I don't send my registrations in.

 

[bmacd]

i don't need to register...i can do my own software troubleshooting and i see no other reason to register.

-=bmacd=-

 

[Geekbabe]

once in awhile, usually just for games

 

[jjones]

No

 

[Demon-Xanth]

The only thing I've ever gotten out of registering non-shareware is junk mail. I don't do it anymore.