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[Meh]

Myself I only bought one copy of sc but, I got over 15 working cd keys. I just told kids I would kill them if they didnt give me there cd key.... Its amazing what  somone will do to avoid a loss.

Thats pathetically childish. I usually go to a differtent server and ask for a key to use on a different server to what they are. Works sometimes.
Though I bought:-
-1 SC/BW
-1 D2
-1 W2
-1 W3
-1 W3: TFT

[Arta]

I've bought over 10 copies of Warcraft 2, and at least 15 Starcraft

Why?

[Blaze]

I'm guessing cdkeys.

[MyndFyre]

Next time you have extra money sitting around, give it to me!

[TaGBaN]

It was for CD Keys, because I don't feel the need to steal from people. At least then if a key gets lost, I can claim it got stolen, send them the case, and have them send me a new key. I've done it TONS of times. Thats why I still have working keys for all of those.

I also hate people that use CD Key generators, because chances are, the key you're generating, could be owned by someone, thus hurting loyal Battle.net gamers.

[Warrior]

..or chances are it doesn't work.

(more of one than the other)

[Archangel]

Why would you buy mulitple copys of broodwar, its not like they give you a cdkey with it..

i play in a network, and like i dont like non original games

[Arta]

You should learn not to loose so many keys then

[Yegg]

Nowadays if you lend your key out to one person, the whole world has it in a week. Plus I found out that like 5 cdkeys out of 500 keys generated by a cdkey generator work. Of course all of these 5 are banned each time I try it.

[Off-topic] Why is 1234567890123 recognized as a valid starcraft key?

[Warrior]

..because it doesn't use Battle.net to verify its authenticity. You cannot connect to Battle.net with it though. I think it does basic sanity checks, no?

[iago]

There is a 1/10 chance of having a valid install key (http://forum.valhallalegends.com/phpbbs/index.php?topic=5778.0).  It just happens that 1234567890123 falls into that 10% (I use it as a test key all the time).

That also means that, statistically, one of 0000000000000, 11111111111, 2222222222222, ....., 9999999999999 will be a valid install key.  Has anybody tried those?

<edit> just for fun, I tried:
0000000000000 is invalid (exceptions.InvalidCDKey: CDKey is invalid.)
1111111111111 is invalid (exceptions.InvalidCDKey: CDKey is invalid.)
2222222222222 is invalid (exceptions.InvalidCDKey: CDKey is invalid.)
3333333333333 is valid!
4444444444444 is invalid (exceptions.InvalidCDKey: CDKey is invalid.)
5555555555555 is invalid (exceptions.InvalidCDKey: CDKey is invalid.)
6666666666666 is invalid (exceptions.InvalidCDKey: CDKey is invalid.)
7777777777777 is invalid (exceptions.InvalidCDKey: CDKey is invalid.)
8888888888888 is invalid (exceptions.InvalidCDKey: CDKey is invalid.)
9999999999999 is invalid (exceptions.InvalidCDKey: CDKey is invalid.)

Good game!

So if you ever need a valid test key, just hold down 3

[Stealth]

On many Microsoft products that use all-numeric CDKeys (Visual Studio, Office 97) you can put in all 1's and it will be valid.

[warz]

That's generally if they're cracked. I used to use all 1's when I would download the cracked visual c++, or vb. I went out and got my own copy at best buy a while back, finally, and tried all 1's and it did not work.

[Warrior]

They most likely bypassed some sort of internal checksum in the installer.

[MyndFyre]

That's generally if they're cracked. I used to use all 1's when I would download the cracked visual c++, or vb. I went out and got my own copy at best buy a while back, finally, and tried all 1's and it did not work.

No; it has nothing to do with whether or not they're cracked.  If you have an MSDN subscription, for example, it says right on your CD key list that non-activated products, if it's 11 digits and all numbers, that it's just 111-11111111.