Or perhaps the email address they have orecord for you isn't your current email address. In any event anyone who is holding their breath for the old site to be resuscitated in any way, shape, or form is I think being far too optimistic. I hope I am wrong. I suggest those of you who desperately want to play and no longer have your keys buy it again. It seems to be going for between $10 and $20 these days. No amount of griping here is going to make any difference at all.
Site hacked so where are my CD keys now?
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#28
Posté 09 juillet 2011 - 04:59
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If you have it installed, the keys are in the nwn2.ini file.TCAT-J2X wrote...
Give our keys back... somehow...
If you have the disks, the keys are with the disks/manual wherever they put them with the physical media.
If you bought it on Direct 2 Drive, log in and there are the keys.
#30
Posté 09 juillet 2011 - 07:56
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In Direct 2 Drive, under My Account, Games, look for "Please click the download button to retrieve your key."
#32
Posté 10 juillet 2011 - 04:48
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Screw you, lolzsec... those ****s are the ones to blame..
#33
Posté 16 juillet 2011 - 04:08
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Here's a case for the doubters. For all of you who say, oh you should have kept track of this, or I find it hard to believe that. I have an excellent memory of exactly what happened to my stuff:
First off, my NWN OC and NWN2 OC had the keys printed in the manuals. I have these, and am happy to at least have this. I considered getting rid of these, but I kept them for nostalgia's sake. The Expansion games came with cheap printed strips of paper for their keys. I did not keep these because Bioware said they would keep track of them. I still have the manuals, by the way. Yeah, I could have written them into the manuals. So what? They could have done that, too. Instead they gave us this nifty back-up in the form of online retrieval, which I've used when switching computers. I never worried about making a hard copy of the keys because Bioware said that they'd maintain this information. They didn't say, "Well if someone hacks this site, we'll cut access."
Secondly, so even despite this, I'm kind of paranoid about my information, so I had a text file on my computer that contained all the Bioware game keys. Here's the thing, that computer had a catastrophic failure due to a lightning strike when I was on vacation. The hard drive, processor (and fan), graphics card (and fan) and one of the memory chips (not sure why the other one was still functional, but I didn't trust it and tossed it with the other chip). This was a year and a half ago. Now, I had to start over. I built a new machine and loaded it with stuff I saw myself using.
Lastly, I loaded Dragon Age: Origins and saw they still had my NWN keys and thought: "I should play those again soon." Only problem with this is I decided to do that now. Then I run into this CD key problem. For those of you thinking I wouldn't have tried looking for this info if I hadn't gotten an e-mail about the hacking, you're wrong. Bioware sends me e-mail to my junk e-mail account, so I totally missed the announcement about the problems. This is irrelevant however, as they promised to maintain this information for their users.
To users that suggest purchasing them again: you're missing the point. I shouldn't HAVE to. Not when the company said our information would be maintained by them. If they'd announced that they were dropping certain information sets after a given amount of time, I would not be complaining. It just happened with no warning.
First off, my NWN OC and NWN2 OC had the keys printed in the manuals. I have these, and am happy to at least have this. I considered getting rid of these, but I kept them for nostalgia's sake. The Expansion games came with cheap printed strips of paper for their keys. I did not keep these because Bioware said they would keep track of them. I still have the manuals, by the way. Yeah, I could have written them into the manuals. So what? They could have done that, too. Instead they gave us this nifty back-up in the form of online retrieval, which I've used when switching computers. I never worried about making a hard copy of the keys because Bioware said that they'd maintain this information. They didn't say, "Well if someone hacks this site, we'll cut access."
Secondly, so even despite this, I'm kind of paranoid about my information, so I had a text file on my computer that contained all the Bioware game keys. Here's the thing, that computer had a catastrophic failure due to a lightning strike when I was on vacation. The hard drive, processor (and fan), graphics card (and fan) and one of the memory chips (not sure why the other one was still functional, but I didn't trust it and tossed it with the other chip). This was a year and a half ago. Now, I had to start over. I built a new machine and loaded it with stuff I saw myself using.
Lastly, I loaded Dragon Age: Origins and saw they still had my NWN keys and thought: "I should play those again soon." Only problem with this is I decided to do that now. Then I run into this CD key problem. For those of you thinking I wouldn't have tried looking for this info if I hadn't gotten an e-mail about the hacking, you're wrong. Bioware sends me e-mail to my junk e-mail account, so I totally missed the announcement about the problems. This is irrelevant however, as they promised to maintain this information for their users.
To users that suggest purchasing them again: you're missing the point. I shouldn't HAVE to. Not when the company said our information would be maintained by them. If they'd announced that they were dropping certain information sets after a given amount of time, I would not be complaining. It just happened with no warning.
#34
Posté 16 juillet 2011 - 04:22
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Companies can have catastrohpic failure too you know.Jiian wrote...
Here's a case for the doubters. For all of you who say, oh you should have kept track of this, or I find it hard to believe that. I have an excellent memory of exactly what happened to my stuff:
First off, my NWN OC and NWN2 OC had the keys printed in the manuals. I have these, and am happy to at least have this. I considered getting rid of these, but I kept them for nostalgia's sake. The Expansion games came with cheap printed strips of paper for their keys. I did not keep these because Bioware said they would keep track of them. I still have the manuals, by the way. Yeah, I could have written them into the manuals. So what? They could have done that, too. Instead they gave us this nifty back-up in the form of online retrieval, which I've used when switching computers. I never worried about making a hard copy of the keys because Bioware said that they'd maintain this information. They didn't say, "Well if someone hacks this site, we'll cut access."
Secondly, so even despite this, I'm kind of paranoid about my information, so I had a text file on my computer that contained all the Bioware game keys. Here's the thing, that computer had a catastrophic failure due to a lightning strike when I was on vacation. The hard drive, processor (and fan), graphics card (and fan) and one of the memory chips (not sure why the other one was still functional, but I didn't trust it and tossed it with the other chip). This was a year and a half ago. Now, I had to start over. I built a new machine and loaded it with stuff I saw myself using.
Lastly, I loaded Dragon Age: Origins and saw they still had my NWN keys and thought: "I should play those again soon." Only problem with this is I decided to do that now. Then I run into this CD key problem. For those of you thinking I wouldn't have tried looking for this info if I hadn't gotten an e-mail about the hacking, you're wrong. Bioware sends me e-mail to my junk e-mail account, so I totally missed the announcement about the problems. This is irrelevant however, as they promised to maintain this information for their users.
To users that suggest purchasing them again: you're missing the point. I shouldn't HAVE to. Not when the company said our information would be maintained by them. If they'd announced that they were dropping certain information sets after a given amount of time, I would not be complaining. It just happened with no warning.
Welcome to the joys of the cloud.
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Posté 19 juillet 2011 - 03:42
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Joys of the cloud? If they are storing this information "in the cloud" ... let's just say they didn't based on regulations. Cloud computing has nothing to do with this. If a company this size can have an unresolvable catastrophic failure of that magnitude, it is total fail. I worked at a small tax business as an server jockey. Even we weren't that bad. Even if their raid array were to fail, they still should have the information backed up. Even if they had to rebuild into a forest of that size, it wouldn't take this long. They also stated that they didn't lose any keys.
Taking this into account, I'd say they just don't feel like putting this up for loyal customers. This is why I keep posting. I'm trying to prod them in that direction.
Taking this into account, I'd say they just don't feel like putting this up for loyal customers. This is why I keep posting. I'm trying to prod them in that direction.
#36
Posté 20 juillet 2011 - 12:51
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The problem is still that they have to maybe update the servers? Which means money. The cost of labor of doing the work, checking, rechecking, and then the long run cost of running the new servers.
NWN is being bought by new users. So is NWN2. But are those new buyers enough enough income? My guess and purely a guess is that they are watching the level of new buyers. If enough people buy NWN & NWN2 then maybe they will get the ball rolling.
That could be reason why things are taking so long. It bites for us long term users but we have been very lucky to have had the old forums up as long as they were.
NWN is being bought by new users. So is NWN2. But are those new buyers enough enough income? My guess and purely a guess is that they are watching the level of new buyers. If enough people buy NWN & NWN2 then maybe they will get the ball rolling.
That could be reason why things are taking so long. It bites for us long term users but we have been very lucky to have had the old forums up as long as they were.
#37
Posté 20 juillet 2011 - 02:44
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No point missed at all. Just giving practical advice. If you lost your keys and you want to play buy a new copy on Steam. Less than $10. Or you can keep griping about the world being unfair. If you actually enjoy playing more than griping then dishing out the $10 is a better way to go. Griping will cost you nothing and gain you exactly the same.
#38
Posté 20 juillet 2011 - 03:23
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Also you can go over to GoG.com and buy it. Fot those who don't like steam GoG has it for under 10 bucks too.
NWN Diamond I should say. Not NWN2.
My bad.
Solo
NWN Diamond I should say. Not NWN2.
My bad.
Solo
Modifié par Ranger Solo, 20 juillet 2011 - 10:56 .
#39
Posté 20 juillet 2011 - 03:31
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A very well reasoned first post... congratulations.Wall82 wrote...
Screw you, lolzsec... those ****s are the ones to blame..
