Out of Licences for a steam game?

Reza86 · 28 Oct 2009 at 16:05

LOLZ, one badly formulated sentence and WW3 begins, gotta love the internet.

AWPC · 28 Oct 2009 at 16:35

Reza86 said:
I've just gone to play Crysis through my laptop through Steam and its told me that the game cannot start because i'm out of licences, I reguarly re-install both my PC and laptop and have never had this problem before. How can I reset my licences or get more or fix this issue?

All Steam games have a limit of 4 installs per month per Steam account if you ever exceed that then you have to contact Valve to justify why/if they should give you another install.

Its not a good idea to regularly reinstall an OS either as MS will also stop this from activating as they have limits as well.

BoozerDawg · 28 Oct 2009 at 16:37

What ? Steam doesnt have any limitations on installs, only games where the publisher decides there should be some extra DRM.

AWPC · 28 Oct 2009 at 16:46

BoozerDawg said:
What ? Steam doesnt have any limitations on installs, only games where the publisher decides there should be some extra DRM.

Yes it does apparently no more than 4 installs per game per PC per month. There are several other games with lower activation limits but Valve are not displaying this info in their T&C's. I read an article on it a while ago but cannot find it now.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?p=10994669

andshrew · 28 Oct 2009 at 16:47

AWPC said:
All Steam games have a limit of 4 installs per month per Steam account if you ever exceed that then you have to contact Valve to justify why/if they should give you another install.

Got a source to back that up?

AWPC said:
Its not a good idea to regularly reinstall an OS either as MS will also stop this from activating as they have limits as well.

There's also no limit on the number of times you can re-install. You may have to go through the telephone activation process if the automated one fails but they won't stop you activating if you only have the software installed on one machine.

orderoftheflame · 28 Oct 2009 at 16:56

AWPC said:
Yes it does apparently no more than 4 installs per game per PC per month. There are several other games with lower activation limits but Valve are not displaying this info in their T&C's. I read an article on it a while ago but cannot find it now.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?p=10994669

I'm pretty sure it doesn't.... An surely missing that out of their T&Cs would be stupid on their part?

uv · 28 Oct 2009 at 17:07

AWPC said:
All Steam games have a limit of 4 installs per month per Steam account if you ever exceed that then you have to contact Valve to justify why/if they should give you another install.

You're incredibly wrong.

Steam has no innate install limits. The limitations are set by the publisher, and often publishers like EA set a low number.

All the OP has to do is raise a ticket with EA, and they'll reset the limit count - I've had this issue numerous times, and each time the publisher has resolved it (tho not always very fast!).

Reza86 · 9 Nov 2009 at 22:27

issue resolved, contacted EA, took them about a week but got my limit reset.

HAz · 9 Nov 2009 at 22:36

Your one of theses ppl who has a cheep laptop and after a month of downloading apps and porn it runs a tad slower with the odd startup error message, and u cba to sort it out so u do a fresh install of windows.
Yup we've all been through that stage before.

Tefal · 9 Nov 2009 at 23:06

Reza86 said:
LOLZ, one badly formulated sentence and WW3 begins, gotta love the internet.

I know not what weapons WW3 will be fought with but ww4 will be fought with rolleyes!