Red Alert 3 CD Key Issue

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Amidst all the panicked hubbub of the holiday season, EA slipped Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 into stores last week -- or at least, most of it. Not included in many unlucky game boxes was a mega-crucial 0.0001% of the game experience: the last digit of the Red Alert 3's CD Key. Uh-oh.

Fret not, however, if you're planning to commandeer and consume a copy of the game, because EA's brightest minds have put their synapses into overdrive in order to whip up a work-around.

"There is currently a work-around that may allow you to bypass this issue. Since you have the first 19 characters of the code already, you can basically try guessing the last character," said a note on EA's customer support site.

Yes, they're serious.

"To do this, simply enter your existing code, and then for the last character, try the letters A-Z, and then the numbers 0-9. You should eventually get the right combination, and be able to play the game."

EA: Its head isn't in the game. Seriously, there's no excuse for such shoddy work from one of gaming's biggest publishers. Get your act together, guys.
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And EA wonders why people pirate their games? If you can't even get the CD-keys right...yeesh.

~Gooda~
 
man i was just going to post that same story haha.

EA moded themselves hard
 
Hmm...well there really isn't another solution. EA kind of can't be blamed for a printing mistake like that one. I do agree that the solution is a tad bit on the "I really don't care about your problem" side, but it's the only real solution.
 
Thank god my copy had a working key. Now I can enjoy playing this great game! :)
Other than that, it really is pretty stupid that EA messed up that bad... EA fails.


-Calle
 
I think Ill wait a little bit now to get this.... they STILL havent fixed CnC3 and me having to open 3 thousand ports and shutdown the rest of my network to play... Ive lost faith in them and cnc series.




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Lol!! That's hilarious. I've always though EA seemed like a noob company. The battlefield games were always glitchy and the patches were a royal pain to install and now this. I really think they need to learn how to program or else they're going to become the Microsoft of computer games.
 
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