Hep me; LOTR Battle for Middle Earth and EA games in general

Onkel Neal · 04-07-07, 11:27 PM

My daughter bought Lord of the Rings Middle Earth, installed it and somewhere in the EA account and registration process something went wrong. When she tries to play the game online, it says CD Key already in use. I search the web and EA support but cannot find any ideas on how to retrieve the CD key... any ideas?

thanks
Neal

Packerton · 04-07-07, 11:37 PM

Go to the store and bring the game back and tell them whats wrong, I had the EXACT same problem and I later found out that somebody probly stole my CD key when they pirated the game.

They SHOULD give you a new Copy.

Also wanted to add im new to this site and like it very much, Good work on it.

NeonSamurai · 04-08-07, 09:26 AM

If its one of EA's games then ya its quite likely the key got stolen by someone else, unfortunatly EA has had a leak for the last several years of their key generation systems for virtualy all their games.

But ya, do as Packerton suggests first (welcome to subsim Packerton btw

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Failing that you could try EA tech support

here are some support links for battle of middle earth

Problems Logging into my Account

Error: 'Serial key already in use'

Serial Number Replacement

04-07-07, 11:27 PM	#1
Onkel Neal Born to Run Silent Join Date: Jan 1997 Location: Cougar Trap, Texas Posts: 21,385 Downloads: 541 Uploads: 224	Hep me; LOTR Battle for Middle Earth and EA games in general My daughter bought Lord of the Rings Middle Earth, installed it and somewhere in the EA account and registration process something went wrong. When she tries to play the game online, it says CD Key already in use. I search the web and EA support but cannot find any ideas on how to retrieve the CD key... any ideas? thanks Neal

04-08-07, 09:26 AM	#3
NeonSamurai Ocean Warrior Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Socialist Republic of Kanadia Posts: 3,044 Downloads: 25 Uploads: 0	If its one of EA's games then ya its quite likely the key got stolen by someone else, unfortunatly EA has had a leak for the last several years of their key generation systems for virtualy all their games. But ya, do as Packerton suggests first (welcome to subsim Packerton btw ) Failing that you could try EA tech support here are some support links for battle of middle earth Problems Logging into my Account Error: 'Serial key already in use' Serial Number Replacement __________________ SH3 Newbie Guide Links and other helpfull stuff

04-07-07, 11:37 PM	#2
Packerton Sonar Guy Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Newfoundland,Canada Posts: 398 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	Go to the store and bring the game back and tell them whats wrong, I had the EXACT same problem and I later found out that somebody probly stole my CD key when they pirated the game. They SHOULD give you a new Copy. Also wanted to add im new to this site and like it very much, Good work on it.