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This is an unusual question but I wanted to ask the community here.

I bought a game retail in box, is it possible for me to register it with Steam so that I would be able to download it later? It's a game that they offer to buy as a download.

I'm thinking not, but again I wanted to ask. Thanks.

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This is an unusual question but I wanted to ask the community here.

I bought a game retail in box, is it possible for me to register it with Steam so that I would be able to download it later? It's a game that they offer to buy as a download.

I'm thinking not, but again I wanted to ask. Thanks.

With my phsyical copy of Half Life 2, I never once used the disk, just entered the serial number from the packaging then downloaded it all through steam, so I think the answer is Yes if you include your serial number.

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if I am not mistaken, if you want to install the game from the dvd, it will be added automatically to steam. Now if you don't want to install the dvd, I guess you can download the game with your serial number.

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This is an unusual question but I wanted to ask the community here.

I bought a game retail in box, is it possible for me to register it with Steam so that I would be able to download it later? It's a game that they offer to buy as a download.

I'm thinking not, but again I wanted to ask. Thanks.

I was wondering the same thing. I had cod4 and tired using that serial number to add ti to steam. It didn't work. I'm assuming therefore that you cannot. But it would be cool if you could!

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I was feeling nostalgic and wanted to install KOTOR (box sitting in front of me), I was hoping that I could just install it from Steam with the key.

Are there anything wrong with the DVD that stop you from installing?

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Are there anything wrong with the DVD that stop you from installing?

It's actually on 4 CDs, so it's just a convenience factor, but I can't even find the serial number for it, or maybe it never came with one to begin with--it was so long ago that I installed this on my last computer. Weird.

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no, there's almost no game (outside of valve) that you can buy retail and then register on steam. there are a couple but I doubt it's what you're talking about.

Speedball 2 registers just fine (did that yesterday). And I think that Unreal Tournament 3 does too. :)

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I tried to install my retail copy of Call of Duty:World at War on steam but it would not let me. Told me I needed a steam key.

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