Bluecow2 1 Posted August 31, 2012 Alright I have a very odd issue with ArmA 2 when trying to join DayZ servers. You see I'm getting the "CD key in use" error, however it:1) Only happens around 7pm everyday and has been doing for the past few days.2) Interestingly, nothing changes at all, my character is in the exact same spot I left him in and all my gear is still there.The problem for me is that I just can't seem to play after 7pm each night, but when i wake up the next morning it works again. I bought combined operations from steam and I'm running it with DayZ commander. I have tried re-installing the game.I've written Bohemia about the issue but I'am asking here in case its a database bug or something that will be updated, or I've missed something crucial to fixing this error. It also didn't start right away after I purchased the game (last week). The first time I got the error must have been this Monday and its been happening everyday at around 7pm each day since. At first i thought it was from quickly server hopping to join my friends server, but today I made sure to not hop at all and it still happened.Honestly I'm pretty stumped on this problem and I'm wondering if anyone is able to help me out here. *If this makes any sense, my theory is that my key gets stuck in a server and i can only play once the server restarts, because that would kick everybody off the server(right?).*-Thank you for your time 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lorenzo0852 3 Posted August 31, 2012 (edited) It seems that this is happening...From BATTLEYE.COMWARNING: Massive cd-key theft going on [ 29.08.2012 • 17:00 ]As already mentioned in the previous news post, there is currently a massive ongoing effort by certain entities to steal people's cd-keys to then sell them for a profit. Private hack forums are full of posts of these fraudsters trying to sell heaps of cd-keys for a cheap price. We are talking about hundreds of cd-keys here, so this is not a small issue at all. The game developers confirmed that this is a huge problem right now.Their process of stealing cd-keys is quite simple: They advertise a supposedly undetected hack on sites like YouTube and the moment you download and run it (it will probably report that the hack failed to load) your cd-key is already stolen. In many cases your actual cd-key in registry is overwritten with a banned one, so you will automatically receive a global ban message on join (see below). This is done to prevent you from using your cd-key again, so the fraudsters can sell them claiming that they are valid and not in use. Note that this can be fixed (temporarily) by deleting the cd-key from the registry and reinstalling your game. While your original cd-key is not banned due to this, it might very well end up being soon when your cd-key is being used by a cheater that purchased it. This causes many players to think they were innocently banned when in fact their cd-key was stolen and used for cheating. At the very least you will often receive a "CD key in use" message when trying to connect to servers.If you think this is false propaganda to cover up supposed false global bans I advise you to do some research on this yourself. You can easily verify this by searching for "free ***" on YouTube. You will see lots of results and almost all of them are scams. Most of them are actually quite popular and have thousands of views. When downloading them and opening the .exe file in e.g. Notepad (warning: do not actually run the .exe!), you can find cd-key related strings such as "SOFTWARE\Bohemia Interactive Studio\ArmA 2 OA" (the registry location of the cd-key) inside.In short, heed the following: DO NOT EVER RUN ANY HACKS OR OTHER SUSPICIOUS SOFTWARE! If you end up being banned due to your cd-key being stolen there is nothing we can do for you. Edited August 31, 2012 by Lorenzo0852 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chodeofwar 145 Posted August 31, 2012 TLDR OP.Oh Yeah, and sucked you dumb cheating hacker. LOL ! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
loaded 0 Posted September 22, 2012 (edited) Alright, but what happens if you didn't run a h@ck? Mine is giving me the same issue :( Edited September 22, 2012 by loaded Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MrBattleDerp 0 Posted October 20, 2012 I have the same problem! And I did not download any hack! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rekrul 91 Posted October 21, 2012 Sticky: http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/97180-the-complete-thread-about-serialcd-key-problems/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jeff Ng 0 Posted October 22, 2012 hmmm..... i have a big problem , every time when i start ARMA 2 OA , steam said Bad CD key.......anyone can help me ,plz i just bought it today Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rekrul 91 Posted October 22, 2012 See the post above yours ffs! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Austin_Mills 0 Posted January 12, 2013 This should fix everyones problem, Please subscribe to me and any opinions are welcome for you to comment. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
