GFWL CD Key length

niggyg · 15 Oct 2012 at 09:20

I bought a Gears of War key from CDKeyHouse yesterday. The key won't activate and it also seems to be 1 character short. I've been given a 24 character key, are the keys normally 24 characters?

niggyg · 15 Oct 2012 at 09:34

I've never really played GOW, but a friend loves it so we are going to give co-op a whirl.

niggyg · 15 Oct 2012 at 10:38

Am I allowed to name the key selling place here? It's a well known one.

niggyg · 15 Oct 2012 at 10:46

Clav said:
Are you sure it's not just a typo on their part? Email their support and get it re-sent.

They sent an image of a typed out key and it does look like the image is truncated where you can see one line of pixels for the last (missing) character.

Their CS has been a bit slow and poor. I've explained the key is missing a digit and they have asked me for screenshots and then come back again asking where I obtained the game. All of which is irrelevant to the problem.

Just had a search around this forum and they are mentioned plenty of times so I amuse it's ok to mention them... CDKeyHouse.

niggyg · 15 Oct 2012 at 11:02

A friend has a retail copy I can use to install the game. Or I'd have no moral issues with using a torrent when I'd bought a key (I understand it's still 'illegal').

niggyg · 15 Oct 2012 at 15:20

AWPC said:
I bought the retail when it first came out then I got the digital copy gifted to me by a GFWL gamer from the US who got it for free as a pre-order bonus for Bulletstorm last year (US only based offer though but keys were useable globally).

Want to sell me your retail copy if you have a digital duplicate?

niggyg · 16 Oct 2012 at 09:03

CDKeyHouse sent me a new key that worked yesterday. £6.50 isn't bad for a game this old but I wouldn't pay £15.

I had a about an hour of co-op and I'm enjoying it so far.