Endless Paradigm

Quote:Amidst all the panicked hubbub of the holiday season, EA slipped Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 into stores last week -- or at least, most of it. Not included in many unlucky game boxes was a mega-crucial 0.0001% of the game experience: the last digit of the Red Alert 3's CD Key. Uh-oh.

Fret not, however, if you're planning to commandeer and consume a copy of the game, because EA's brightest minds have put their synapses into overdrive in order to whip up a work-around.

"There is currently a work-around that may allow you to bypass this issue. Since you have the first 19 characters of the code already, you can basically try guessing the last character," said a note on EA's customer support site.

Yes, they're serious.

"To do this, simply enter your existing code, and then for the last character, try the letters A-Z, and then the numbers 0-9. You should eventually get the right combination, and be able to play the game."

EA: Its head isn't in the game. Seriously, there's no excuse for such shoddy work from one of gaming's biggest publishers. Get your act together, guys.

- Source: [maximumpc]

haha,.. OMG this is hilarious!!

LOL!! The missing key was funny enough already. "Guess it" What a joke haha!!

This deserved 10 facepalms.

how about 10+26? XD

ffs....are they really that stupid....do they know how long it takes to enter a CD-key 36 times for the average user....

OMG LOL!!!!!

im lucky enough to have a decent problemless copy.

This is retarded. Trying to make it move along faster, and you forget one of the most crucial parts of the game... .. .and it does take quite a long time to enter a 36 character long code... .. .

roberth Wrote:ffs....are they really that stupid....do they know how long it takes to enter a CD-key 36 times for the average user....

It would be faster to find yourself a keygen.

But if you are going to use a keygen anyway, you might as well pirate the game.