Where has steam put my cd key for empire????

[jamesuk_2006]

Hi guys please someone help me before i pull out all my hair (and i aint got much lol)


This is really starting to annoy me.. Rite i was bought a retail copy of empire total war for chrimbo so rite away i installed it on steam...Now ive lost my game manual which the key was on...Ive emailed steam and no reply which is ffin rude to be honest secondly ive been in contact with sega and they are about as much help as an ashtray on a motor bike....They keep asking my questions that ive already given them the answer for...Mindblowing to say the least..I want my cd key which A:Should be on my computer somewhere or B:Steam has it cuz it asked for it when i installed game so it needed to verfiy it online...So where is it ive got company of heroes installed and hey its got my cd keys all there nice and neat ready for me to see but no not for empire its my blinking key where is it i want my key im not asking much other than i want my key back from steam or whoever..this is really starting to nark me please someone help!!

[mmstick]

Tough luck. Don't cry to Steam. Steam didn't put your serial key anywhere. You lost the key, you can't activate on your account.

If you already activated the game you don't need to activate it ever again. But if you lost the key before getting to installation then I'd suggest not losing the manual directly after buying the game.

[jamesuk_2006]

Fair play u talk c**p u must be some kinda ♥♥♥♥♥♥ cuz i mentioned that i already installed it via steam why u on about cant activate it on steam if ur not gonna say anything useful shut up ffs....
Point is that its my key end of not steams and not sega's i entered a contract as soon as that game was purchased and that fact there keeping it from me is not good form....For example company of heroes installtion tells you ur key anytime u wanna know it so why are sega & steam being such idiots.....

[jamesuk_2006]

So ur telling me that if i wanna mod it then tough to...Well u sound like someone who belongs on a console playing lil girls game jog on lil boy. i wanted answers from people who know what there talking about as it must be in the reg somewhere...anyone who knows about pc's please answer if u gonna be d**ks about it then just keep it to urself..thanks

[meenchawit]

no reply from steam? how long since you ask them?
It took them 3 weeks to answer my simple question.

[Washell]

You don't need your key anymore. All you need to do is to log in to the steam account you activated the game on if you want to install or play it.

[jamesuk_2006]

Yeah they can take ages to answer ,....what if i wanna mod it though or forget about steam and install in stand alone and not bother with steam in the instance of me not being online ever again...Fact is they have my key and im the only other party who should have accsess to it...Im gonna look up the data protect act cuz i think there in the wrong to be honest...My key my property,..

[meenchawit]

You don't need your key anymore. All you need to do is to log in to the steam account you activated the game on if you want to install or play it.

Yes, He is right, I have no guts to mention it.

ps. Perhaps he lost him steam password too?

[meenchawit]

Yeah they can take ages to answer ,....what if i wanna mod it though or forget about steam and install in stand alone and not bother with steam in the instance of me not being online ever again...Fact is they have my key and im the only other party who should have accsess to it...Im gonna look up the data protect act cuz i think there in the wrong to be honest...My key my property,..

The game still in your Comp right?

Try Offline mode, Disable internet connection and restart the steam again.

[jamesuk_2006]

Yes i understand all this guys but it doesnt change the fact now does it i have my steam account etc but ur telling me that ive given them the info now they wont give my accsess to my key well i find that hard to believe to be honest

[jamesuk_2006]

|Okay guys i shall say this only once...When ever you install a game on ur pc and it asks for a cd key 99 percent of the time it embeds it in the registry files so im pretty sure that my cd key is on my computer reguardless of steam etc...Does anyone know where it is in the registry files????

[meenchawit]

Yes i understand all this guys but it doesnt change the fact now does it i have my steam account etc but ur telling me that ive given them the info now they wont give my accsess to my key well i find that hard to believe to be honest

One of their security method, Sorry to say this, but nothing can be done because they didn't gave a D***. All you can do is hope and wait for steam to reply.

[Washell]

Yeah they can take ages to answer ,....what if i wanna mod it though or forget about steam and install in stand alone and not bother with steam in the instance of me not being online ever again...Fact is they have my key and im the only other party who should have accsess to it...Im gonna look up the data protect act cuz i think there in the wrong to be honest...My key my property,..

You don't need the key to mod the game.

You can not run Empire in stand alone or without Steam. It said so in small print on the box when you bought it, readable in store. If you don't agree with that, you should have decided that in the store before you bought it.

Your key has been used to activate the game and is now 100% useless. There is absolutely nothing you can do with it anymore. It's been used. It's more useless than used toilet paper.

[meenchawit]

You don't need the key to mod the game.

You can not run Empire in stand alone or without Steam. It said so in small print on the box when you bought it, readable in store. If you don't agree with that, you should have decided that in the store before you bought it.

Your key has been used to activate the game and is now 100% useless. There is absolutely nothing you can do with it anymore. It's been used. It's more useless than used toilet paper.

It could actually be use.............to ban your own account:p

[Washell]

It could actually be use.............to ban your own account:p

Was just about to edit in you'd need/can use it to prove account ownership in case you get hacked. But indeed, you also need it to close your account.

Edit: just knowing the key would be useless though. You'd need pictures of the manual with the key.

[jamesuk_2006]

Yawn @ washell like i said it was a gift what about that dont u understand?????read the box in store ummmmm gift means i didnt buy it and someone else did....God why are these forums full of kids with big mouths i said if u dont have anything positive to add dont bother....The key is my information what about that dont u understand??if i can prove who i am and that i have a retail copy of empire i dont see a problem they can even ring my house ffs....And what about people who dont have the internet???God why cant people add positive responses just like youtube full of kids...

[Washell]

Yawn @ washell like i said it was a gift what about that dont u understand?????

I didn't understand this:

Rite i was bought a retail copy of empire total war for chrimbo

But after some effort I managed to translate it to the following English sentence: 'I received a retail copy of Empire: Total War for Christmas.'

I only bothered to take this effort because you said it was a gift. Something I doubted, I ignored it on the first time reading it. If you don't take the effort to write, I won't take the effort to read. It still doesn't invalidate anything I said. Even if you got the key, there's nothing you can do with it.

Steam takes 3 to 5 days to respond to support tickets, there's a support option in the menu at the top. Send in a ticket, wait for the reply, enjoy your useless key.

If you're thinking of selling it, which is the only plausible reason I can think of for your perseverance, know this: If the person who buys it contacts Steam, you may get your entire account suspended for violating the TOS. The key is hooked to your account forever.

[glassypool]

Might I ask why you'd want your key back for?

[shireknight]

Yawn @ washell like i said it was a gift what about that dont u understand?????read the box in store ummmmm gift means i didnt buy it and someone else did....God why are these forums full of kids with big mouths i said if u dont have anything positive to add dont bother....The key is my information what about that dont u understand??if i can prove who i am and that i have a retail copy of empire i dont see a problem they can even ring my house ffs....And what about people who dont have the internet???God why cant people add positive responses just like youtube full of kids...

People are answering you and because they are not saying what you want to hear they are kids with big mouths? maybe it's you who should be looking at the way you are speaking to them.

Closed.