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[Help] Confused, Limited or not Limited Installs/Activations?

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Hi, first sorry for my english, is not my native language and for some things i need to use the google translator.

Im a little confused about the Securom DRM on ARMA2 because in some sites says "5 Activation Limits" but searching in this forum i found people who say that the DVD BOX Version dosnt have Activation Limits but i found on the Official Securom page a Revoke Tool and a Revoke Activation Tutorial for ARMA2 so now i dont know if the game have the limited installs or not, if someone can confirm what exacly the game have please.

Let me explain why im confused and asking this:

Until now I believed that the game have 5 activation limits and some days ago a friend was going to uninstall the game and i said "Wait let me see if you can revoke a activation before you unistall the game so you dont waste 1 of the 5 activations" and then i searched over the net to find how to revoke the activation before a unistall and i found this page "https://support.securom.com/pop_arma2.html" is the Official Securom Page for ARMA2 and in there you can download the "arma2 revoke tool - http://download.securom.com/support/arma2/revokearma2.zip and a tutorial of how manually revoke the license - https://support.securom.com/PAunlock/index.php?c=1400&exp_serial=1" so i give the revoke tool to my friend and he said that did not work so i give him the manual revoke page and another method i found in this forum, the "/revoke parameter" and did not work either, so i was like "huh so weird, let me try it" but noone of the methods worked for me either and then i started thinking that perhaps the game had no drm so i searched in this forum and i found some posts in which they said that the DVD version dont have any kind of install-activation limit, and now im like "but then if the game does not have activation limits why securom have a webpage with a revoke tool and tutorial of whow revoke the game license??" and now i have a big headache for all this, so please help me.

PD: my friend and I have the RETAIL/DVD/BOX (or whatever you want to call it) Version of the game.

Than you very much.

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If you own a DVD Box version of the game there are no activation limits. Those are only for downloaded copies like Direct2Drive etc.

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Patch 1.05 also removed the DVD check, so now you only need the disc for installing the game.

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So... you're worried about revoking an activation for a game you never activated...

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Thank you for the replies guys, very appreciated now I can be more calm but one thing more, if the game have no activation/installs limits then what is the purpose of the revokation tool and the tutorial of the securom webpage? for digital download versions maybe? but if im not wrong the digital version of the game have his own revokation methods like for expample the "/revoke" for the Metaboli or petergames.de version or contact to the online-shop where you bought the game to reset/increase the activations.. so why have securom a revokation tool for arma2?

@Reimann: Yeah now i look like a idiot but well the fault of the bad information xD

Thank you.

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