Scytheford

The companies I buy the cdkeys from still have to buy copies of the game from BIS' publisher. They DO get money from the sales. I just cut out the middlemen who apply ridiculous markups to games sold in Australia. BIS gets their money, I save money, everyone's happy.

At the risk of violating rule #3: "§3) Discussions about copy protection or copying, backing-up, hacking, cracking or reverse engineering of any of BI's products or the products of any other developer will not be tolerated and such discussions will be deleted immediately. Any breach of this rule may result in the poster no longer having access to the forum." I'm going to go ahead with this post. I live in Australia and, as such, am burdened with silly-expensive games. Quite often I opt to purchase the games overseas and have them email me the cdkey and install the game using an image. This is what I did for ArmA1 and got many, many hours of enjoyment out of it, and not a hint of the symptoms of FADE. I'm wondering if I'd have any success doing the same with ArmA2. Will I have any assurance that FADE won't kick in, provided my cdkey checks out with the online authentication? I would love to be able to plug my retail cdkey into steam and register the game there, but to the best of my knowledge it won't work that way. Any official word? Is the CD required in the drive to play? Thanks, Scytheford.