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Villy Vonka wrote:
> Harris' wrote
>
>> The cd key can be used as many tines as you want in single player. Online
>> only one of the computers using the key can be running at a time.
>> There is a
>> free battlefield 1942 key changer at www.majorgeeks.com in the game
>> section
>> if you need to have two players play online with the same copy of the
>> game.
>
>
> Tut, tut. A keygen? What happens when that keygen generates a code
> that also happens to be somebody else's (legitimate and paid for) CD
> key? The poor ah heck can't play online! Do yourself and everyone else
> favour if you want to run two copies online, buy another copy of the game.
>
> OK, I appreciate that you didn't at any point say you *had* used this
> method yourself, but the point is some poor soul might have their CD key
> hijacked, its not fair.
>
Most keygens are not really generators of any sort, but just cycle
through a fixed list of known pirate cd keys or ones compiled by the
author. You'll notice a pattern after a while.
Other ones generate keys that cannot validate online. It's good enough
for the install, but a authentication server will reject it.
The probability that a keygen will generate not only a valid online cd
key, but also a key not in use by another person is astronomical. If it
were true that a keygen could easily generate a valid key, then we would
see a tremendously greater precedence of complaints about "key in use"
messages or widespread lockout of thousands of players (given the total
BF series population and the ability to generate large numbers of keys).