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Valve Deactivating Gamers Who Bought Orange Box

 

According to Consumerist, there are quite a few customers are finding their "Orange Box" games have been deactivated by Valve because they bought them from a seller that wasn't authorized to do business with US customers. Here's a thread of irritated Valve customers like Todd who are trying to get refunds from their international vendors (with varying levels of success.)
This complaint is about Valve, a PC video game company which makes games like Half-Life 2. This effects many thousands of customers. They recently released a product called the \"Orange Box\", which is a bunch of games. All their products are activated online via unique serial numbers through the Steam service. Many of us bought the product (and hence, the serial numbers) legitimately online via well known international game stores, as they sell them significantly cheaper than American stores.

 

We were able to activate the products without a problem. One week later, Valve, via the Steam program, inactivated all Orange Box games (after they had already been active for some time), stating that they are in the \"incorrect territory.\" There was no warning or anything, just completely inactivated. The thread that was started on www.valve.com has been removed by the operators there. I think this is absolutely reprehensible customer care. We paid for our products, and they just go and remove it without warning from our computers. Thanks -Todd
bummer!!



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Valve is an evil corporation now, after raking in so much with HL, even before it made a deal with the Devil that is EA. I do hope they turn around.

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Reply to STEMNIN

i sence the good in EA ........ not much tho :)
they will turn to the dark side ....no wait they are there already immmmmmmmmmmm
wait young grasshopper you are evil your posts are 666 :(


Message edited by sirkillalot on 10-26-2007 at 03:50:49 PM
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24" dell 1900x1200 2x74 wraptor hd's1 X-FI pro gamer sounds
2G ram log.Z5500 speakers 650w toughpower G15kb dvd....ITS A MEAN GREEN GAMING MACHINE
Reply to sirkillalot

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i sence the good in EA ........ not much tho :)
they will turn to the dark side ....no wait they are there already immmmmmmmmmmm



I almost didn't finish reading that, but then I saw you said they are on the dark side. I was about to start a rant about how bad they are :p. Rushing games out before they're ready for release (Hellgate: London anyone?) Putting snooping privilliages in their EULA so they can gather information about your computer with no limit to what they can and cannot search for both them and their "third parties". Pfft, lame.

Reply to rgeist554

i hear ya

ps all they have to do to make it kewl is have it as a option, not as a" I AGREE"....... OR YOU CAN NOT INSTALL THE GAME what the hell is that


Message edited by sirkillalot on 10-26-2007 at 03:57:52 PM
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24" dell 1900x1200 2x74 wraptor hd's1 X-FI pro gamer sounds
2G ram log.Z5500 speakers 650w toughpower G15kb dvd....ITS A MEAN GREEN GAMING MACHINE
Reply to sirkillalot

Exactly. There are usually ways around it though... Like using a packet sniffer to see what is snooping and your computer and where it is going to . Then we just make a quick trip to the host file and resolve that IP or web address to 127.0.0.1 and they're snooping as just been pwned.

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