Hi everyone, I have a steam copy of arma 2 pmc and all of the rest of the DLC and to keep a long story short I got pissed at being hacked 24/7 and downloaded a program which I thought did nothing but after i ran it a few days later I got global banned.(i was F%^$ing stupid) That was nearly a year ago, since then i've been playing on a new copy of arma 2 + all DLC with keys I bought and downloaded from BIS store. I understand the hatred people have with hackers and I understand some people might think I hacked but all that happened was my key got stolen switched with banned ones and both got banned in the end.
Now the reason I am here is that I have a predicament with steam, because I have banned arma 2 keys on steam, and I have new unbanned keys that I want to use because of this new patch which from what i've read is steam exclusive the only way I will be able to play is by using my keys on steam.
which I've tried by "activating a product using steam" option but it wont accept the new keys cos I already have arma2 on there.
so is there a way I can convert the keys into the hex format used in the registry, I understand that steam will switch them back every time
I boot the game but if I block permissions to overwrite them then that should not be a problem.
if anyone can help me then that's grand, if not then ill just wait on steam support to do something.
thanks