Riale
06-27-2008, 04:37 AM
Hi.
A close friend of mine recently purchased D2 for the first time ever after my years of heckling got through to him.
However, his CD drivers have been slowly failing over the course of several years, and the install was a difficult process that he had to restart multiple times to finally complete.
Upon creating a brand new account, first time ever logging into B.net with absolutely no hacks or third party programs or ANYTHING running, he gets the message that his CD key is disabled from playing realm games. What the heck is up with that? This definitely isn't a case of 'oh he must have been cheating'. This is literally a fresh-out-of-the-box copy of D2 that I watched him install. There is no reason the CD key should be blocked like that.
My thoughts are only twofold. Besides getting a bunk key, could it be that his difficult installation has somehow caused this? Would a corrupted file somewhere make the CD key error?
The other thing, is that I installed D2 on his computer using my CD key several weeks ago to try and tempt him into playing. After I was finished, I uninstalled the game and removed all traces of it from the computer. My CD key still works fine and he has no access to it. In some weird way, could his new copy have detected something left over from my old one? I don't use any maps or hacks either as I'm an incredibly casual player so I don't see why this would be a cause for banning either way.
If anyone has an idea of what's going on that would be great. Really, the only step left is calling customer support, and I'm not even sure the D2 support # still works.
A close friend of mine recently purchased D2 for the first time ever after my years of heckling got through to him.
However, his CD drivers have been slowly failing over the course of several years, and the install was a difficult process that he had to restart multiple times to finally complete.
Upon creating a brand new account, first time ever logging into B.net with absolutely no hacks or third party programs or ANYTHING running, he gets the message that his CD key is disabled from playing realm games. What the heck is up with that? This definitely isn't a case of 'oh he must have been cheating'. This is literally a fresh-out-of-the-box copy of D2 that I watched him install. There is no reason the CD key should be blocked like that.
My thoughts are only twofold. Besides getting a bunk key, could it be that his difficult installation has somehow caused this? Would a corrupted file somewhere make the CD key error?
The other thing, is that I installed D2 on his computer using my CD key several weeks ago to try and tempt him into playing. After I was finished, I uninstalled the game and removed all traces of it from the computer. My CD key still works fine and he has no access to it. In some weird way, could his new copy have detected something left over from my old one? I don't use any maps or hacks either as I'm an incredibly casual player so I don't see why this would be a cause for banning either way.
If anyone has an idea of what's going on that would be great. Really, the only step left is calling customer support, and I'm not even sure the D2 support # still works.