Case 1: Terminator War of the machines:
My brother buys this, but he never plays online so he lets me install it to try online, The game is basically Battlefield with terminator in it, btw... I log in and... "Your cd key is already in use"... after contacting the developers I got no results and have never once played this game online...
Case 2: Unreal Tournament 2k4:
I've been playing this game for atleast a year, the mods are even better. however i eventually need space to install something else and uninstall this game... a few months later i miss the game and reinstall "Your Serial key has been blocked from playing online". After contacting support they say that I hacked the game and they blocked me themselves... I magically logged on with a hack while it was uninstalled off my harddisk... from this point on I never bought another Atari game again, and i do not intend to after an insult like that.
Case 3: Star Wars Battlefront
I'm a huge star wars geek and after hearing that Battlefront 3 was cancelled i felt guilty for never playing the first 2.. so i bought 1. installed played some single player and logged online.... "your cd key is not authorized to play online"
oh god not again... After 5 days of explaining that I definetly put in the serial key correctly.. yes i know they are all lowercase.. yes i know that 1 might look like an l but is actually a 1.... yes i did purchase it new and not used.... they basically said " oh sorry theres nothing we can do"
If it wasnt for freeware gaming i'd have sworn off pc gaming for good by now...
Btw new ep is practically finished jsut a little more editing to do when im not feeling lazy
