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PostPosted: Sun May 01, 2005 6:22 pm

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was perusing a well used torrent site (for ligitimate backups...) just having a look..

there was a no cd activation key for guild wars :weird:

obviously i was confused, but intrigued and tried to download it (dont have guild wars -just seeing if it was an evil virus or an actual thing)
the tracker was down and no obvious people seeding the download.

just one of those strange things that you come across i guess. just thought i'd mention. :blank:

PostPosted: Sun May 01, 2005 7:44 pm

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I THINK you can get the client for free.

You need the CD key for the character creation.

Probably a marketing ploy.
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PostPosted: Sun May 01, 2005 7:58 pm

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http://www.guildwars.com/downloads/clientdownload.html

The client can be downloaded free and legally, but to play you need to buy the game in order to obtain your own cd key. :)
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PostPosted: Mon May 02, 2005 12:31 am

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Which is a smart way to do it, if you ask me...
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PostPosted: Mon May 02, 2005 1:16 am

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Sneaky bastards. lol. No doubt someone will crack it soon enough though :( .

Its an interesting find tho will be interesting to see how long it takes them to crack it/get a CD key gen. Usualy only takes em a week or two.

PostPosted: Mon May 02, 2005 2:28 am

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Depends on the system.
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PostPosted: Mon May 02, 2005 12:17 pm

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I'm not sure how people go about doing the cracking stuff, but each GW key is unique and can only be used once to register one account. So it'd probably be hard for anyone to do that with any mmorpg i think.
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Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

PostPosted: Mon May 02, 2005 12:48 pm

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ill put it this way you dont play on the legit servers someone puts up a "cracked server" then each person can play on that server i know this as i have (just to check it out) play WoW on a cracked server (play about an hour and got bored)

So it can be done

PostPosted: Mon May 02, 2005 1:33 pm

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Again, depends on the system. Playing on player run servers for things like Ultima and EQ can be a bit dull, the people who run it have to spend ALOT of time generating content.

And spending that much time on something illegal and not profitable usually gets boring quick.
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