EA Recommends Hilarious Work-Around For RA3 CD-Key 301
sunderbear noted that EAs Command & Conquer 3 shipped missing the last digit of the CD Key. He writes "EA's brightest minds have put their synapses into overdrive in order to whip up a comical 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.'" It appears that the helpful hint has been purged.
Electronic Asshats (Score:5, Funny)
This new sub-game called "CIA unlock" puts you in the shoes of a CIA agent attempting to gain access to a secure terrorist computer subsystem. The first 19 characters are given to you, but you need to randomly crack the last digit before the timer runs out and the game deletes your hard drive. If you win the game, you get to play again by pressing a reset button.
Rumors are circling from insiders at EA, that the next amazing title from EA will enable players to enter the shoes of Joe a shoe salesman from Kentucky. Joe has a problem. He can't find the right shoe for his fat smelly customer. Players will only be able to play if they purchase and install the F.O.U.L. hardware (FOUL stands for Fresh Olfactory Universal Layer.), and you get more points from actually smelling and withstanding more and more disgusting customers. The final boss of the game is a 700 pound woman that has never bathed, and who has developed nearly every possible degenerative skin condition. The game fills your house with something totally unbearable and if you can find her a pair of good shoes after she tries on about twenty or so different ones and tells you about her whole life history, then you get to have an achievement added to your online profile, aptly named the Bundy award, named after Married With Children's Al Bundy, a reputed shoe salesman with class and pinache. Pre-orders start tomorrow and EA expects massive sales on this amazing title, that is loaded with DRM that actually forces customers to perform lude acts with garden utensils for the purpose of cultivating data necessary for visual biometrics to prove the copy of the game is legit. EA denies that anyone who cracks the game will not be able to play, and a spokesperson from EA that shall remain nameless, went on record saying that customers would never play without FOUL hardware because they wouldn't have the benefit of the use of the FOUL hardware, which is revolutionary and next generation by design.
Another helpful hint (Score:5, Funny)
Statistically you should be able to guess the right letter/number in half the keyspace. But in practice, it will always be the very last character you need to try.
So take the character that you were going to start with, and take the very opposite character in order to improve your chances of getting the correct entry faster.
Bruteforce is... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:No longer true (Score:5, Funny)
What if the phone number in the manual is only 9 characters instead of 10?
Re:Another helpful hint (Score:3, Funny)
So take the character that you were going to start with, and take the very opposite character in order to improve your chances of getting the correct entry faster.
What's the "opposite" of seven?
they don't realize the danger... (Score:5, Funny)
i always try to guess at least one key character (Score:5, Funny)
Re:No longer true (Score:5, Funny)
What if the phone number in the manual is only 9 characters instead of 10?
Well, you guess. In this case guessing might be a lot more fun.
You: "Huh? Only 9 digits...let's try lucky 7 for the last number."
Phone: *ring*
Phone: "Helllloooo. You've reached the HOT line, where sexy women are waiting to hear from you. Please press 1 nowwww...."
Re:Another helpful hint (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Circumvention? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Another helpful hint (Score:5, Funny)
Think the joke went so far over your head it managed to achieve static orbit.
The point is, even though you mathematically should get the right one in half of the key space, in practice it will always be at the very end - thus if you considered starting at A, reverse and go with Z.
Of course as we know this wont work since that would mean the key would be at A anyways.
Re:Another helpful hint (Score:2, Funny)
Rotating the 7 character 180 degrees will give you an L.
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Another helpful hint (Score:2, Funny)
Re:No longer true (Score:3, Funny)
HOT sexy women (Score:5, Funny)
They would probably be more helpful...
Re:No longer true (Score:4, Funny)
warfail?
Re:No longer true (Score:5, Funny)
>>>EA will learn, someday
I'm sure they will eventually stop using DRM, but corporations are a lot like women. Reluctant.
At first.
Re:Electronic Asshats (Score:5, Funny)
"People who work putting shoes on fat women who wear dresses should not have 20/20 vision."
"Let me explain. It's just like an elevator. There's a 2 ton weight limit on those shoes..."
"Sure selling shoes is fun. But behind the glamour, it's like any other minimum wage slow death."
- Al Bundy
It's a Feature! (Score:3, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:4, Funny)
Re:HOT sexy women (Score:5, Funny)
Well, their job is all about service mind.
Re:Electronic Asshats (Score:0, Funny)
You, sir, do not belong on Slashdot.
Robo-DRM (Score:3, Funny)
ED-209: [menacingly] Please guess the last number of the CD Key.You have 20 seconds to comply.
ED-209: You now have 15 seconds to comply. ...
Re:No longer true (Score:3, Funny)
>>>Falco, is that you?
No.
Re:Eh, the game sucked (Score:3, Funny)
Red Alert: Winter War ?-)
Re:HOT sexy women (Score:5, Funny)
"Sorry sir, this is not not a domination and submissive line. We do not do Command & Conquer"
Re:No longer true (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Follow up Question (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Another helpful hint (Score:5, Funny)
Not sure how that helps. *shrugs* But okay.
Re:Bruteforce is... (Score:3, Funny)
...like violence; if a little doesn't solve the problem, use more.
Also like a certain tagging language that everyone here loves.
Re:Circumvention? (Score:4, Funny)
That was my thought as well...guessing one digit is OK, but guessing all nineteen is a brute force attack? How many digits can I guess before I am in violation of the DMCA?
Feel free to guess them all. Failure to circumvent copy protection is perfectly legal.
Re:Another helpful hint (Score:5, Funny)
Okay, your post was like lemon juice on a wound.
Re:Another helpful hint (Score:3, Funny)
Tuvok.
OTOH (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe they're into Redtube Alert?
Here's a neat idea (Score:4, Funny)
Here's an idea: have a steamy hot sexy female voice say, to those who aren't allowed X-rated content,
For X-rated content, dial back with your credit card
and continue the call as normally.
On the other hand, I must admit that I do like the idea of gnawing on melons while my new greasemonkey friend works on my gear shift while oiling up before taking a joyride. Nothing like fresh fruit when you're fixing cars with friends.
I must confess, though, that I've always wondered why women are so impressed with my ABS and the size of my drive shaft :-?
Re:Circumvention? (Score:5, Funny)
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