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Old 05-23-2008, 12:18 PM   #1
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Default Age Of Conan Euro CE Keys Not Working

Another day, another piece of drama surrounding the Age of Conan launch. The official EU Age of Conan forums (still open only to subscribers of the game, even for reading) are currently erupting in a massive storm of good old "nerd rage".

It turns out that some (but not all) product keys found in the more expensive Collector's Edition (european version) are not working.

No definite pattern has emerged yet, but the problem appears widespread with 17 pages of complaints so far - and this is only from people who were in the Early Access - those with shiny CE boxes but no Early Access are still locked out of the forums if their product key turns out to be a dud.

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Old 05-23-2008, 12:30 PM   #2
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I think we can stop comparing AoC's launch troubles to WoW now.
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Old 05-23-2008, 12:38 PM   #3
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Well, "oops, we printed ton of boxes with non-working product keys" qualifies as "Epic Fail at Launching A MMO" in my books.

But I must say, to AoC:s credit: The servers are up, there is plenty of capacity it seems, and everything is mostly working.

Well, Mail system, Auction system and bank are offline as there was some exploit with the Trader npcs (they are now turned off), and there is one zone that crashes your system with a massive memory leak if you go there - but thankfully that's like level 25+ stuff anyway...

But other than that, yeah it's mostly working. Of course who knows how many thousand CE buyers are screaming outside as they can't register their accounts...
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Unfortunately I am one of the dickheads that bought CE just to realise that the ingame item-rewards aren't what was promised and now after finaly receiving my copy and taking monday off I can't play.

Bunch of idiots
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Supposedly if you now log in to the account creation site and try to create a brand new account with the non-working key (*not* upgrade early access), it gives you instructions how to get your key replaced.
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Old 05-23-2008, 09:35 PM   #6
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Got home with my CE just to realise key's not valid..

Funny thing is that they want you to send in your acitvation key to get it replaced... in the manual they state they will never ask for your key... of course as this one does not work I guess it's the only option but I still find it funny.

Let me also add that I am angry! *arghhh*

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For me is even funnier. The collector's edition doesn't content any game manual, so there's no key for me to create an account. Thinking about go back to WoW.
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"For me is even funnier. The collector's edition doesn't content any game manual, so there's no key for me to create an account. Thinking about go back to WoW."

As far as I know, the CD key should be in the holographic sticker on the back of the main box, although mine didn't and if there is one it may well be a dud.
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Utter bullshit, bought the retail game from finland (basic vanilla version) and it's not working. One thing to remind us to keep sucking those torrents even harder. If 50€ game bought straight from the store doesn't work...This game doesn't deserve players.
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"For me is even funnier. The collector's edition doesn't content any game manual, so there's no key for me to create an account. Thinking about go back to WoW."

As far as I know, the CD key should be in the holographic sticker on the back of the main box, although mine didn't and if there is one it may well be a dud.
No. The sticker has the "x of xxxxx" numbering. Key is at the back of the manual.
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