I'm so happy I paid $50 for Starcraft

[DougoMan]

NOT

Two weeks ago I installed the game and played for a day.

Then my motherboard died and a reinstalled it, however I have not been able to activate it on the new machine.

I emailed support over a week ago and never heard back.

WTF.

 

[Aikouka]

Why would you have to activate it? Don't you just have to log in ever so often with your account?

 

[Dumac]

Why would you have to activate it? Don't you just have to log in ever so often with your account?

Yeah, I don't know with this means. You don't have to activate it...just log on with your account.....

 

[gorcorps]

Why would you have to activate it? Don't you just have to log in ever so often with your account?

They also check your hardware to ensure you're not sharing your account info with friends who could all log in on different machines and play. It's silly.

 

[RavenSEAL]

They seriously hogged down the game with all that, really turned away a lot of people. I'm building a 1k PC for a client and if starcraft II ***** up (As i know it will, because of offline restrictions), i'm gonna lose 50% of my pay, thankfully, i'm giving him my $10 USB wireless adapter, now let's just hope his neighbors have wifi.

 

[snewdle]

Lol another case of anti-piracy screwing the legitimate consumer. :/

 

[GoSharks]

They also check your hardware to ensure you're not sharing your account info with friends who could all log in on different machines and play. It's silly.

Link? My friends do this all the time...

 

[NikolaeVarius]

What? I play Sc2 on friends computers all the damn time.

Also, my laptop hard drive was just hotswapped with another laptop, and Starcraft 2 works 100% completely fine on a completely different machine.

 

[Nebor]

Not on Steam? Not on my computer.

 

[NYHoustonman]

I have my copy installed on two desktops in my apartment as well as my laptop. No issues whatsoever with any of the copy protection. I have internet access. Imagine that.

 

[Dumac]

Link? My friends do this all the time...

Huh? We have 4 people sharing one account.

 

[PuppettMaster001]

Yeah that is strange, I have it installed on my laptop and desktop (1 account) and it plays fine.

 

[Lonyo]

Install game (no CD key required), launch game, game patches, load game, game loads, log in with Battle.net account (which your CD key is registered to).

There is no activation.
OP is the problem, not the game.

 

[Cogman]

lol, fail. Starcraft 2 allows you to install it on multiple machines. You can only have one copy active at a time, but that is the only restriction they have.

In other words, you games is associated with your b.net account, not with your machine. You can have it installed on 10000 different machines and so long as you don't try to run the same b.net account at the same time, you'll never see an issue.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Not on Steam? Not on my computer.

Sc2 has digital downloads if you register your CD key online.

 

[Dumac]

Not on Steam? Not on my computer.

You can download the installer off battle.net

Then just add it to steam if you want the community stuff or something...

 

[Qbah]

PEBKAC IMO

CD Key activation is done only once ever, when tying it to your battle.net account. In your case just login in-game on your account after the new installation and that's it. Game will be good to go.

 

[Barfo]

NOT

Two weeks ago I installed the game and played for a day.

Then my motherboard died and a reinstalled it, however I have not been able to activate it on the new machine.

I emailed support over a week ago and never heard back.

WTF.

They also check your hardware to ensure you're not sharing your account info with friends who could all log in on different machines and play. It's silly.

 

[Nebor]

You can download the installer off battle.net

Then just add it to steam if you want the community stuff or something...

I only buy games from Steam.

 

[DougoMan]

Well I got it working. I was putting in my user name instead of my email address to log in.

 

[Barfo]

 

[Dumac]

I only buy games from Steam.

That is too bad. A lot of great titles aren't on Steam.

 

[Nebor]

That is too bad. A lot of great titles aren't on Steam.

Yeah, it sucks.

 

[digitaldurandal]

Link? My friends do this all the time...

Yes I have let someone else use my account before also. However I think it may be because they already have the game installed.

 

[BudAshes]

They seriously hogged down the game with all that, really turned away a lot of people. I'm building a 1k PC for a client and if starcraft II ***** up (As i know it will, because of offline restrictions), i'm gonna lose 50% of my pay, thankfully, i'm giving him my $10 USB wireless adapter, now let's just hope his neighbors have wifi.

What are you talking about? What hogged it down?