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BTW, if you buy your key from somewhere dodgy that sells the same key to multiple people, it's quite possible that one of the other people buying the same key is the one who cheated and got the key banned, that's not a flaw in Battleye, that's a flaw in the seller ripping people off and the buyer looking for a cheap "bargain", example all people buying from Plati.ru There's a reason we say don't buy from CD Key sellers and there's a reason we refuse to support anyone who does so. It's funny that the people complaining most about Battleye, about these supposed global bans for no reason are people who joined less than 3 months ago and have less than 5 posts usually... Just a slight correction here, you are not forced to use Battleye, it's a voluntary install and you can choose to play on non-Battleye protected servers.

Aha I see, well glad it's sorted now, just remember to patch 1.60 then 1.62 :)

"Failed to contact key server" = Steam selling the game despite not having CD Keys for the game. I understand Steam now have more CD Keys to distribute and the error has gone away.

Are you using any betas?

It sounds like a corrupt download you're saying you've tried both manually downloading the files as well as using Sprocket to download them? You can check your files by using Quickpar and this par file, should end up like so: Edit: Here's the OA par Which should end up like so:

This is resolved as I understand it. It's interesting that the venom is sent our way and not at a retailer who won't show "out of stock"...

Maybe for some people it's a waste of time and the answer is as you wrote, however as we're getting reports from some people that had Steam OA working perfectly fine for months and then yesterday they started to get the same error your answer does not make sense.

If an Intel GPU is all you have then you don't have the minimum requirements to run Arma2. https://store.bistudio.com/arma2#requirements

I searched the support system and see three such reports, in those instances advice handed out is as follows which I'd suggest you try: Please run the Steam application as Administrator: 1. Exit Steam. 2. Right-click on Steam icon. 3. Left-click on "Run As Administrator". 4. If the problem persists, reboot your computer and try the procedure again. If this doesn't work, please try verifying OA's game cache: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=2037-QEUH-3335 take a look on Steam's knowledge base concerning this problem: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=2204-OPGC-4862 (If the above doesn't work) Please try the procedures listed after "Using an Incompatible Operating System". (If that also doesn't work) take a look on Steam's knowledge base concerning this error, especially router and steam update sections: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=2204-OPGC-4862 If that doesn't get you anywhere, try Steam reinstallation: 1. Go to Steam's installation folder. 2. Delete everything there except "steam.exe" and "steamapps" folder. 3. Run "steam.exe" - Steam will reinstall itself automatically.

Exactly this. Best case you ran a trojan which stole your CD Key, worst case you ran cheats/hacks online and your CD Keys will be permanently banned from all Battleye protected multiplayer servers, either way we have a zero tolerance policy for anyone hacking/cheating so there will be no further support help provided. Well I would suggest you try the following: Disable antivirus Launch steam with Admin permanently ticked uninstall Arma2 and OA reboot Disable antivirus Launch steam ensuring it's as admin Install A2, let it auto update, run once, exit, close steam reboot disable antivirus Launch steam ensuring it's as admin Install OA, let it auto update, run once, exit, close steam reboot Now you should be able to launch Combined Operations If that doesn't work I'd suggest opening a support ticket: https://store.bistudio.com/index.php?option=com_contact&view=contact&id=1&Itemid=50

Spam via images is still spam, if you have an opinion to share please use words :)

Err that sounds really dodgy, what was the name of the program you downloaded? Obviously if it was Six Updater or something it should be harmless but you might want to PM me the URL so I can check it out.

No offence but this thread is for discussion of the news not for spamming of youtube videos containing your opinion of the news, write it out the old fashioned way to post it in this thread, otherwise the user video thread in General is your port of call :)

And now it becomes clear why I closed the thread...

It depends on the cause of the issue.

Reporting it directly to us with evidence and files to back up the concerns would seem a more prudent course of action than just posting about it in the forums: Placebo@idea-games.com

For CD Key related issues: Please open a support ticket: https://store.bistudio.com/index.php?option=com_contact&view=contact&id=1&Itemid=50

Did you have an anti virus active when you installed? When you installed was Steam running as Administrator?

Falling SkieZ The Game, make it happen Dean, make it happen!

Of course :) And I meant which of us you emailed, not which email address you emailed from ;)

Not really, we need to figure out the best way for everyone involved to integrate the various forums, the DayZ website/forums will stay where they are and primary discussions should be on there because that's the best place suited, maybe similar to how VBS is handled here, a news thread with discussion but any in depth and/or technical discussion should be done on the DayZ forums. Edit: Day-Z-Announced-as-standalone-title

Are you sure you're permanently running Steam as admin?

Let's keep the personal comments out of this thank you. And if anyone wants to paste a wall of text/code please use the code and spoiler tags.

In answer to your original question, you could post here: Congratulations Bohemia Interactive

If you want to know who got your email and when you need to specify what Email address you sent to.