I have the Original CD of F-22 Lightening 3 which i bought from Best buy a long time ago. Now I have lost its cover which had the key written on it. Does any body know how can i get the key for the game. Personally, I don't understand why the HELL!! do companies put a key on their products. Certainly it cannot be for security purposes as if one goes through imesh or some other p2p software almost all the keys are available there.
thanks ninja! I think the main reason you have cd keys, is that to stop people from playing online if they dont have a valid key!
Contact the company and tell them what happened. Alot of the time if you can provide proof you own the game they will give you another cd-key.
Also so as to prevent piracy, or help reduce it. Whilst it doesn't stop, say, doing a copy for a friend, it does stop a lot of people getting the game/program at boot sales, if the owner was careless enough to forget the CD Key for each. But why they gotta be so damn long? Pain in the ass typing like 25 characters out...maybe I'm just lazy.
When XP wouldn't install right i had to type the product ID so many times that i memorised the whole key off by heart.
There should be some online registeration process or some serial number on the CD via which one could retreve the codes again online. Or even simpler, put the code or key on the CD itself.
For me ,... I still remember the key for windows 98SE,..... I must have installed it a million times,... For me, it was a very unstable system. Gave a lot of errors.
