More Q3A Keys

Ack, I seem to have lost my cd key, can someone lend me theirs..?

Yah, just kiddin\'.. Uh..

Well, you can be sure that things will be quite different in Q4 as far as the cd-key crap goes, specifically being able to view it so easily..

As for people not being able to type it in properly, LMAO.. So what if it says it\'s in use, can you not type a fuckin\' simple thing into your computer..? Duh.. Maybe ID should put a warnin\' label on their products:

\"If you can\'t type in the cd key as it\'s written, go get a BFG and shoot yourself, moron..\"

#36 Yeah, I pirated it. Good job.

Anyway, I was referring to the plan update saying to make sure your key is in lowercase. Obviously id is doing something incorrectly if all of their support mail is incorrectly entered cd keys. Everyone who mis-typed a cdkey got \"Your CD Key is already in use\", not everyone who enters it in wrong reads his plan file. Whatever, I don\'t give a shit, I am playing the game. I am jsut saying Todd there should stop his crying if he\'s getting bombarded with tech support mail when they are giving people that error message.

#30 I agree thath the security is crap. Putting it in a readily accessible variable stored in the default cfg was silly. Now you can walk into a \"gaming cafe\" or a lan party, go to any console and type cl_cdkey, and get a free key. Great.

\"id also knows that there will be hackers out there that will crack this no matter what, even if that means hacking the authentication server itself.\"
There are only 2 ways I can see to beat it:

1) Somebody at id/Activision leaks the keygen.
2) Hackers run servers that don\'t check auth with id. Problem with that is, warez copies will only be able to play on a small percentage of total servers. Also, if id finds a way to stop people from doing this easily (by changing .hosts), then the hackers will have to rehack the server every time there\'s a new release.

\"So I expect this whole thing to disappear with a point release (it\'s definitely a way to get more people to buy the game, especially at this time of year.)\"

What does \"especially at this time of year\" supposed to mean? You think that if the key check is removed, hackers will suddenly go out and buy the game of good faith? Give me a break. The only people complaining are the cheap asses. For the rest of us, its as simple as one small extra step upon installation, then never worrying about it again. I can\'t see id EVER removing the key. 2 fake attempts per real key! What a riot. Pure justification.

\"I seem to remember Q2 having some kind of CD protection (and SiN?). Later there were removed in a patch. Maybe id is milking everyone for cash now and when the pressure builds and the money has all come in they\'ll just remove the CD protection and say \"we did it so that people would be able to listen to music CDs while they play\" or some other BS.\"

Wow you have no clue:

The Q2 cd check (which is not a cd key by any stretch of the imagination) was removed because they didnt want to rewrite it to handle the Quake2 addon packs from Xatrix and Rogue, but because they felt like they had served their purpose and it was time to remove them.

Also, Quake3 doesnt PLAY cd audio. It plays wav files that\'re IN the pak file. If you did full install, its not playing anything from the cd. If you did partial install, you\'ll need the cd in the drive no matter what id does.

What id could do is remove the physical cd check for single player. That\'s there to stop casual warezing amongst friends that don\'t have cd burners.

#30 you are SO right! saving the key in q3config.cfg is just plain stupid! same thing with the single player info... they should\'ve stored those kind of things in a binary file of some sort
I hope they\'ll change that in a future release

I will buy the game when it comes out in stores here.....

I\'m cracked the mOfO Myself.....MouyahahahHahahahahhehehehehheheh
Free q3

What will happen when 2 people with the same key (one legal and one generated) want to play online ?
Will the authorization server of id be able to see which one is legal and which is not ?
Or is this situation impossible ? I just thought if the cd key is a number (q3 isn\'t available yet here so i don\'t know) ... there will be a generator for it ...

selder

#23 Q2 had the cd check thing which was later removed, it did not have a key. id will never remove the CD key.

Thanks.

I\'m not questioning id\'s choice of a unique error message, I\'m quesitoning their choice of message. If login returned \"Account Already in Use\" everytime someone incorrectly typed their passwd, sysadmins would be getting alot more redundant mail.

Ack, \"your\" -> \"you\'re\". That bugs me :(

#21: That\'s the way most security related apps do this.

For instance, say your randomly generating keys. Say the id server gave two replies, \"key in use\" and \"invalid key\". It would be pretty easy to distinguish between a valid key and an invalid one, yes?

Now, just have one message \"invalid key\", or in id\'s case \"CD key in use\". The problem becomes much more difficult.

FYI, this is why all UNIXes always say \"Login incorrect\" instead of something like \"bad password\", to slow down brute force password crackers

Jesus, those About.com ads really annoy me. \"Who\'s Cooler? Creed or Korn?\" How about \"my ass makes better music than either of them\"

WTF kind of error message is that?

Seriously, \"Your CD Key is already in use\" being a generic error message?

CD Key is written on back in uppercase, yet you have to enter it in lowercase, and if you type it in wrong, it tells you the key is already in use. Go id! No wonder they get spammed with mail about problems.

Btw, I just shit my pants.

Goddammit.....Gimme a Key number...heheheh...Yeah I do have a warez version....It\'s not available anywhere here yet...When it is I will Buy it.....Any warez allowed server\'s running? An yeah it does work if you copy authorize quake3arena.com into a windows hosts file...You can then only join server\'s which allow it, so far there\'s only been one an it\'s not up anymore....hehehe......Having no cd key sucks....Warez version sux
Oh an for all you fella\'s tellin me to buy it an everything....yeah when they get it friggin stores here I will

#9 You need a config to switch to a mouse. Man that has to be the stupidest thing I ever heard. HAHAHAHA! Buy the damn game loser.

MY cd key doesn\'t work. REALLY. I\'ve tried everything, short of actually buying a copy of the game...
:)

Yeah, let\'s all submit our configs to vinni@visi.com. By the way, if people are having problems with their CD Key, send your CD Key to Activision at Quake3_QualityAssurance@hotmail.com. They will check to see if there really is something wrong with it, and if there is, they will send you a new one.

By the way people, I am collecting scans of the back of the Quake 3 Arena CD Cases... I just want a collection of pictures of the cases, preferably signed by the owner! Send them to me at dnleong@sfu.ca, and I will post them at http://members.xoom.com/sinnedsrealm.