Question about steam..

[hellmasterx]

I buyed yesterday a used copy Day of Defeat but the cdkey is registered to another account, i wanna know how much does take to reset the cd key to my steam account?

Steam Sucks....

[hooloovoo]

AFAIK you can't move keys between accounts. I could be wrong. You should have thought about that BEFORE you bought the game maybe?

[Sklasko]

Actually you can mail the boxed version WITH the CD Key to Valve and they can move the keys for you, may seem like a pain in the ass but that is in fact the only way to do it.

Edit: Also, in the future I recommend you buy your games through Steam. You could have bought Half-Life 2 Silver and gotten HL2, HL2DM, HL:S, and DOD:S. At least, that's what I did. Meh all this Steam talk makes me want to play through HL2...

[hushypushy]

buying used copies of valve games....not worth the hassle

[Sklasko]

Originally Posted by hushypushy

buying used copies of valve games....not worth the hassle

I still can't even see why Valve bothers with retail except to save people time from downloading the .GCF's and other files.

[hushypushy]

pretty much. i have a one word explanation: dialup.

[hellmasterx]

yeah i know but i wanna know how much time does take to reset the cd key to my steam account?

[industrian]

Haven't you checked Steam's actual FAQs yet.

To save you time:

Originally Posted by Steam: Retail CD Keys

Once it has been associated with a Steam account, your CDKey is permanently registered to it and cannot be transferred to another account.

Pretty stupid call buying a second hand online-only game. You wouldn't buy Guild Wars second hand, now would you.

[hellmasterx]

from the steam faqs:

CD Key Reset Process Guidelines

If you recently purchased a used copy of a game which requires activation on Steam and are encountering an error message which states that your CD Key is registered to another account, you will need to contact us to have the CD Key reset so you may use it.

Depending upon the CD Key and the associated subscriptions within Steam, this process may be completed by contacting Steam Support (see the link at the bottom of this FAQ for details) or it may require mailing the physical CD Key in for review.

Note: We cannot reset CD Keys which have been disabled for violations of the Steam Subscriber Agreement and/or End User License Agreement or banned by VAC for cheating infractions.

i hope that is not banned or something..

[industrian]

Then why didn't you just contact Steam in the first place? Wouldn't they be more educated in helping you with this problem?

[hellmasterx]

im gonna do that today, the thing is i dont have digital camara right now but i gonna go to a cyber cafe to take the pic, im just curios about the time it takes to reset it...

And yes i searched google..

[hushypushy]

i think everyone was confused because, well, your original post was very vague. it seems that you forgot a word or two...

I buyed yesterday a used copy Day of Defeat but the cdkey is registered to another account, i wanna know how much does take to reset the cd key to my steam account?

maybe if you had said "time" then it would be different...people are trying to give you advice on what to do when it's obvious that for that, you should've just asked Steam in the first place (they have forums too...although, theirs is pretty awful).

[Sklasko]

Wait did you buy DoD retail or DoD:S retail? Just curious, upsets me when people refer to the Source version as just DoD. Same with CS/CS:S

[hellmasterx]

I buyed DOD:S...

So atfer two days steam reseted the cd key, not bad, but steam still sucks but now less.