CD AoE3 ESO problem

不二情不二心 · |2019-11-26

　　Dear AoE3 Communtiy,
　　I’ve seen a lot of posts about steam CD key problems lately but I’ve been having the same problem only with the CD version.
　　So my situation is: I have the base game and all expansions CD copy. They’re ALL installed. I can play ALL of them.
Problem: when I try and create an ESO account on the base game, it tells me I have a bad CD key with the common error message. Also, I can’t find the base game’s box, therefore I don’t have the product key.
　　What I have that could solve the problem: Because I can still play the base game due to no CD updates, I can access it and I have the product ID. I also have the Warchiefs and Asian Dynasties CD keys.
　　My question is, can I fix it with this information?

都都 · |2019-11-26

　　the cd key might still be saved in your registry.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Age of Empires 3\1.0]

狼图腾 · |2019-11-26

　　Hello, you wouldn’t be able to fix this even if you had all the information. The right solution here would be to refund the purchase since you got sold a bad key, but from what it sounds like, it is way too late to do that.
　　Best way forward is getting the game on a Steam sale.

河泫雨 · |2019-11-26

　　Thanks for the advice, almost a crazy good call, I found all sorts of info including product ID there, unfortunately I couldn’t find the key. Thanks!

卐哈利路亚卍 · |2019-11-26

　　Yeah looks like I’ll just have to get the Steam edition. Annoying because I can play them all and clearly the key worked well enough to install the game but hey ho.
Thanks for the help!

启源 · |2019-11-26

　　The product id does contain the key, it’s only stored as hex in UTF-16 (MS-Unicode) format.

浅笑心柔 · |2019-11-26

　　So you’re saying there’s a way of retrieving it?

游走的安朵拉 · |2019-11-26

　　Just right click the digital product id, click edit and you can see the hex to readable in the right part of the window.

仙人掌 · |2019-11-26

　　Yes, but it is of no use, since you got sold a bad key that doesn’t work for multiplayer.

		自动登录	找回密码
密码			加入团队

[aoe III] CD AoE3 ESO problem

最佳新兵

推广达人

宣传达人

社区元老

玩帝国，到新时代

在这里，找到战友，找到家