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^ Crysis Warhead has a 5 limit for activation. I don't really care about DRM anymore, I'm going legit, and this is the only computer I have that I'll game on, so :\

Also, if you want to play KF, add me on steam : snct5. :)

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Killing Floor purchased as well as the DLC, hell it was only another ?2, will wait till the morning to play though, 2am here ... Happy New Year peeps

Awww, ring in the new year by playing Killing Floor! You know you want to. :D

^ Crysis Warhead has a 5 limit for activation. I don't really care about DRM anymore, I'm going legit, and this is the only computer I have that I'll game on, so :\

Also, if you want to play KF, add me on steam : snct5. :)

Added ya, but you already know that :p

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Awww, ring in the new year by playing Killing Floor! You know you want to. :D

Added ya, but you already know that :p

Alright accepted your invitation. I'm going to be playing KF after I eat my dinner. I'm not that good, but I'm getting better. Also, I joined the neowin group on steam.

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Killing Floor purchased as well as the DLC, hell it was only another ?2, will wait till the morning to play though, 2am here ... Happy New Year peeps

Cheers John me you and Todd will definitely have to play one of these days really soon, and whomever else may have purchased it as well. Edit - Such as tsupersonic above. :yes:

My steam name is DirtyLarry531, it is wrong in my signature in the very small print, so feel free to send an Invite if you have Killing Floor and are interested in playing. Shattered Horizon as well.

Actually whomever may want to be friends and see if we ever share any other games in the future or currently, whatever the case may be, feel free to send an Invite as well. (Y)

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While i agree its not fair that it should be there, its not THAT bad.

You can activate the game as many times as you like on your PC, you just cant install/play/activate on any more than (i think) 5 PCs. so as long as you dont upgrade too often etc, you should be sound.

Problem is Steam by its very nature is designed to make moving between PC's easy. My friends often meet in internet cafes and to retain my profile/friends ect I always log into the games on my personal account. While I doubt I would do that for Crysis, had L4D had a 5 PC limit I'd have hit it long ago. Really I think its a completely inappropriate DRM model, especially for something such as steam.

While it ****es people off, I'd rather they just forced you to play online to authenticate each time and ensure only one license is currently being run. That or drop the DRM altogether since those that want it for free have it by now anyway for free or otherwise.

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^ Crysis Warhead has a 5 limit for activation. I don't really care about DRM anymore, I'm going legit, and this is the only computer I have that I'll game on, so :\

If it activates good for you. I bought Mirror's Edge retail and it won't activate AT ALL on Win7. No help from EA either. DRM fail.

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any worthwhile mods for the various versions of crysis? btw someone said mass effect had been a part of the offers, when? its not listed on the spreadsheet on the first page and i dont remember it being offered either

http://www.mechlivinglegends.net/ (but you'll have to wait until they get more bandwith, they got put on every major site and got destroyed)

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Problem is Steam by its very nature is designed to make moving between PC's easy. My friends often meet in internet cafes and to retain my profile/friends ect I always log into the games on my personal account. While I doubt I would do that for Crysis, had L4D had a 5 PC limit I'd have hit it long ago. Really I think its a completely inappropriate DRM model, especially for something such as steam.

While it ****es people off, I'd rather they just forced you to play online to authenticate each time and ensure only one license is currently being run. That or drop the DRM altogether since those that want it for free have it by now anyway for free or otherwise.

most games on steam will allow you to play offline.

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I cranked Crysis to High settings (It wont let me crank it to Very High), it turned into a slide show near unplayable. So I cranked it to medium and now the game plays extremely well. This game is 2 years old and it's the best looking game I've seen. Of course this is also the game that fried my PSU 1 1/2 years ago too.

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most games on steam will allow you to play offline.

Ohh I realise that, what I mean that instead of having a 5PC activation I'd rather they chose another model for the DRM if they must have it at all such as requirting a net connection to make sure the CD Key is only being used on one PC at any one time or whatever. Doesn't have to be that....I just think the 5PC restriction is perhaps the poorest method they can choose to implement and does nothing to really stop piracy other than to be a pain in the backside for legit customers who may need multiple PC's.

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^ Crysis Warhead has a 5 limit for activation. I don't really care about DRM anymore, I'm going legit, and this is the only computer I have that I'll game on, so :\

Also, if you want to play KF, add me on steam : snct5. :)

I think Crytek has done away with the 5 activation limit since earlier "last" year. :p

I hit the 5 activation limit once and way unable to activate it again, I waited a while and was able to activate it again all of the sudden. I have reformatted my PC quite a few times without running the revoke tool and was still able to activate my retail copy of Warhead.

I just bought Far Cry 2 and Street Fighter 4, however these will be the last two I will buy since I need to save money.

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I already have the retail boxed copy of Crysis Max edition (the boxart is of Nomad or Prophet in a red background). Crysis, Crysis Warheard and Crysis Wars came in the package. The steam only got Crysis and warhead.

I just bought it then and it has Crysis Wars listed under my games.

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