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I want my CD key to work and update on steam... dissapointed with Stardock

October 23, 2012 5:01:34 PM from Stardock ForumsStardock Forums

Title pretty much sums it up, i want my cd key to work in stream so it keeps my game updated not the very crappy stardock system.... Anyway to fix this please? Thank you...

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Reply #1 October 23, 2012 5:07:03 PM
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Sorry, Fallen Enchantress does not use Steamworks and the serial keys are not portable. The only way to download via Steam is to purchase from Steam.

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Reply #2 October 23, 2012 5:12:25 PM
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Quoting ,
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Title pretty much sums it up, i want my cd key to work in stream so it keeps my game updated not the very crappy stardock system.... Anyway to fix this please? Thank you...

Fix what? It's not broken. If you want Steam to do your support for you, you are gonna have to kick Steam a few bucks, by purchasing it from them.

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Reply #3 October 23, 2012 5:24:55 PM
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Then can i have this useless key annulled and given a steam one please? I find extrmelly subpar from the company not have this kind of support, Paradox Interactive does so much better

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Reply #4 October 23, 2012 5:30:54 PM
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Quoting kryo,
reply 1
The only way to download via Steam is to purchase from Steam.

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Reply #5 October 23, 2012 5:36:50 PM
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Well, the other game you bought  was purchased without steam. You didn't have a problem with it then. If Stardock were to buy 100,000 steam keys, that would cost a ton. Taking away vital resources for the next content updates. Not really fair to criticize them for this. It would be nice, but there are costs preventing this. Updating from Stardock makes you take one extra step and there is a program to do it automatically in beta as we speak. The question is, how easily are you disappointed?

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Reply #6 October 23, 2012 5:40:39 PM
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Well if all other companies can, im sure stardock can...

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Reply #7 October 23, 2012 5:53:11 PM
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If you want the game on steam click on games and then add-non-steam game to you library. The only thing is that you must download your patches from stardock.

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Reply #8 October 23, 2012 5:56:12 PM
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Quoting parrottmath,
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If you want the game on steam click on games and then add-non-steam game to you library. The only thing is that you must download your patches from stardock.

 

Which is specially what shows the 0 comitment from stardock sicne you have to manually download and isntall patches. really terrible company..

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Reply #9 October 23, 2012 5:59:10 PM
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What other companies are giving a free game to 100,000 people that purchased it from a totally different source?

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Reply #10 October 23, 2012 5:59:34 PM
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File is corrupt.  Wonderful.  3.5gb of useless.

Would have been nice to get Steam keys but oh well.

 

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Reply #11 October 23, 2012 6:00:15 PM
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This guy provokes me. He is getting the game for free and acts like a spoiled child.

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Reply #12 October 23, 2012 6:07:16 PM
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Quoting seanw3,
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What other companies are giving a free game to 100,000 people that purchased it from a totally different source?

 

Taleworlds? Cyanide? Creative Assembly? Bethesda? Rockstar?

 

Stardock is pretty much the only company to do this. The biggest shame of this is that Stardock is the only company that really needs to, considering they can't figure out how to release updates and patches properly, or even include functioning automatic uninstallers with their betas so people who want download new versions don't have to go searching for every file and manually delete it, only to have all that effort become useless as they download a corrupt file from Stardock.

 

Making amends with the free upgrade is great and all, but at this point I'm not sure if all the trouble is worth it.

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Reply #13 October 23, 2012 6:08:47 PM
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Check out stardock central. It automatically will check and download updates for you from stardock.

I guess your right this company has 0 commitment for it's customers... People per-purchased E:WoM and got Fallen Enchantress for free as well as the first expansion pack. Sure E:WoM was buggy and didn't have the greatest launch, but what did the people who pre-purchased Legends of Pegasus get? If you really want the game on Steam so badly, then buy it on Steam.

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Reply #14 October 23, 2012 6:10:01 PM
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It's not a matter of wanting the game on Steam or not.

 

I want the game to work. It's a shame that Steam seems to be the only way this will happen, and that is impossible without dropping another forty bucks.

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Reply #15 October 23, 2012 6:22:45 PM
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Quoting Encadi,
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Then can i have this useless key annulled and given a steam one please? I find extrmelly subpar from the company not have this kind of support, Paradox Interactive does so much better

Don't be so rude.

You think SD hasn't already pursued options to intergrate SD keys with Steam keys?? They GAVE the game away to everyone who owned WOM for pete's sake.

Steam wants people to buy the product from THEM....not SD. If you want the SBS (steam babysitting service) to handle your software, you'll have to give them their due.

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Reply #16 October 23, 2012 6:35:33 PM
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I keep getting corrupt files downloading from Stardock.  I'm not being rude, I just want to play the game.  I guess you truly get what you pay for. 

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Reply #17 October 23, 2012 6:38:04 PM
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Quoting Stuie_,
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I keep getting corrupt files downloading from Stardock.  I'm not being rude, I just want to play the game.  I guess you truly get what you pay for. 
What browsers? SDC? Error message?

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Reply #18 October 23, 2012 6:46:15 PM
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We need a better eye rolling image.

 

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Reply #19 October 23, 2012 6:56:50 PM
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Quoting Zubaz,
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What browsers? SDC? Error message?

I was doing direct download from Firefox.  When I go to install, I get a box that says "File is corrupt" and some other useless message.  I'll try SDC.

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Reply #20 October 23, 2012 7:03:24 PM
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Quoting Encadi,
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Then can i have this useless key annulled and given a steam one please? I find extrmelly subpar from the company not have this kind of support, Paradox Interactive does so much better

 

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Reply #21 October 23, 2012 7:10:36 PM
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Quoting Stuie_,
reply 20

Quoting Zubaz, reply 18
What browsers? SDC? Error message?

I was doing direct download from Firefox.  When I go to install, I get a box that says "File is corrupt" and some other useless message.  I'll try SDC.

I hate to be the one to break this to you but if you are having trouble downloading large files from the Internet, you either have some bad RAM (most likely) or bad disk sectors (less likely).

RAM testers basically simulate putting a big file into memory and seeing if it fails a CRC check. 

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Reply #22 October 23, 2012 7:48:45 PM
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Note that older browser will have problem downloading the game due to it being larger than 2GB (int vs long long). I've used firefox 16 and have used chrome. Also with a game this large if you have any sort of memory issue (parity errors) it is likely to cause issues due to more memory being touched (though to be honest here I'm more familiar with how linux manages i/o buffers than windows).
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Reply #23 October 23, 2012 7:50:50 PM
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Quoting Encadi,
reply 9
Anyway to fix this please?

Buy it from Steam.

I do wish I could have installed it through Steam using my Stardock CD key, but I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.

Quoting Encadi,
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Which is specially what shows the 0 comitment from stardock sicne you have to manually download and isntall patches. really terrible company..

Never mind.  Looks like you're just another self-entitled spoiled brat.

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Reply #24 October 23, 2012 7:55:44 PM
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Quoting TroubledWaters,
reply 13

Quoting seanw3, reply 10What other companies are giving a free game to 100,000 people that purchased it from a totally different source?


Taleworlds? Cyanide? Creative Assembly? Bethesda? Rockstar?

Stardock is pretty much the only company to do this.

Seriously?  All those other companies gave away a free game through Steam to people who had bought an earlier game directly from the developer?  Strange that I've never heard about this.

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Reply #25 October 23, 2012 8:38:17 PM
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Quoting Zubaz,
reply 18

Quoting Stuie_, reply 17I keep getting corrupt files downloading from Stardock.  I'm not being rude, I just want to play the game.  I guess you truly get what you pay for. What browsers? SDC? Error message?

 

And why didn't he start his own thread, since his problem is different from that of the OP, and doesn't even reflect the thread's title?  It's easy to get overlooked if you attach your complaint to someone else's--and that much more likely, if it's a different complaint, entirely.

 

 

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