Dead Space 3 Key and Origin problem

[Drancon101]

Im absolutely stumped. I bought this game two years ago and was playing it just fine until recently I had to uninstall the game to make room on my drive. I just now re-installed it and now the bloody game won't launch. When it launched Origin, nothing would happen, and when I looked at my game library on origin, the bloody thing was telling me I need to buy the game. I already contacted EA support and they somewhat helped me on the issue as in they removed the game from my library so that I can re-activate it I guess.

But the problem with that is that I can't seem to find the darn cd key for dead space 3. And I know about the 'KEY' in the DLC tab, but its useless because you can't view the key itself, and steam support in that regard is absolutely unhelpful. And no, you can't right click Dead Space 3 and view the CD key's that way because I already tried and they don't have that for dead space 3 for some reason.

Does anyone know how I can find my dead space 3 CD key, or know of a way to view the 'KEY' that you see in the DLC tab? I may sound a bit crass, and thats because I wasted about 3 hours searching for potential solutions that don't even work or are outdated, and with both ea and steam support being completely unhelpful. Im almost considering looking for pirated CD keys to just get the game that I payed for to work again.

[AustrAlien2010]

Normally, if your game has a CD-key, it would be accessible through your Steam library, by right-clicking on the game title, and then go to "Manage". In the menu, it should say "CD-Key".

If you don't have that, then you don't have a CD-Key.

[Drancon101]

Originally posted by AustrAlien2010:

Normally, if your game has a CD-key, it would be accessable through your Steam library, by right-clicking on the game title, and then "Manage".

You would think that. But for some reason dead space 3 doesn't have the CD-Keys in the manage tab.

[AustrAlien2010]

Then we'll have to look into that. I don't have an immediate solution.

These people have the same issue:
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Dead-Space-Games/dead-space-3-activation/m-p/9666985/highlight/true#M16054

[Drancon101]

Originally posted by AustrAlien2010:

Then we'll have to look into that. I don't have an immediate solution.

I figured it'll be some time till Im able to play dead space 3 again. I wish I can just disable the whole, launching the game through origin thing.

[AustrAlien2010]

Maybe you somehow have to link the accounts again?
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Origin-Client-Web-Technical/How-to-link-my-EA-Origin-account-with-Steam/m-p/9768184/highlight/true#M100420
I really have no idea.

Support should help you with this. And help you properly. This is not my responsibility. I have no idea how to do this.
https://help.steampowered.com/en/

[Drancon101]

Originally posted by AustrAlien2010:

Maybe you somehow have to link the accounts again?
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Origin-Client-Web-Technical/How-to-link-my-EA-Origin-account-with-Steam/m-p/9768184/highlight/true#M100420
I really have no idea.

Support should help you with this. And help you good. This is not my responsibility. I have no idea how to do this.
https://help.steampowered.com/en/

Thats fine man. Im not asking anyone to fix my problem for me

[AustrAlien2010]

I am only interested, but did their support provided you with a workable solution? (Because they are supposed to, in case something like this happens. Considering you paid them for the game.)

[Drancon101]

Originally posted by AustrAlien2010:

I am only interested, but did their support provided you with a workable solution? (Because they are supposed to, in case something like this happens. Considering you paid them for the game.)

As of yet, Steam support has not gotten back to me on my issue. And EA support was not helpful what so ever as they told me its a steam matter that only steam can help me with.

Are there any other, better ways about contacting steam support? Because this is just silly how hard it is to contact steam at this point

[AustrAlien2010]

I was wondering about that too, because you shouldn't be caught in a situation where both Electronic Arts and Steam support end up pointing to each other, and neither of them take responsibility for this.

If they're still working on this, then I suppose they will get back to you at some point.

[Drancon101]

Originally posted by AustrAlien2010:

I was wondering about that too, because you shouldn't be caught in a situation where both Electronic Arts and Steam support end up pointing to each other, and neither of them take responsibility for this.

I know right? Im being patient with steam, because I did send them a report on my issue a day ago. I know reports take time to get back to. But if that doesn't bear any helpful results, im pretty much stumped on how to contact steam better. And my game is not eligible for refund because I bought the game two plus years ago and have over nine hours of game time. But I don't really want to refund it, I just want to play it again

Im almost at the point to going out my way to find pirated CD keys so I can activate my game on Origin, so that I can play a game that I bought again

[Grzybu]

To aynone having this issue down the line and with other Origin gams please spread here's a fix.

Download and instal the Origin launcher, make a account or login into a exisitng one, Link it with your steam account, tick to keep looged in, it should automaticly fetch your CD keys from steam make sure you're logged in on your steam and the game is already dowloaded, if not try re-launching origin/re-installing
Now in Origin launcher go into your game library all our Origin based games should be there, right click on the game you want to fix - game properties and untick "Enable Origin In Game for...." save and you're done now you can launch the game in steam, you also can now close origin as well steam will lauch and close it automaticly but it will take a few seconds it may look as if the game crashed just give it a second or two.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

There no key for dead space 3, DS3 list on Steam less than 2 years ago.

How EA games works, you link your Steam account to your origin account. To that install Origin client, login, and download your game from Steam, launch it, and ask if want to link to account, once link is done, any thing you buy on Steam should automatically update on your origin account adding the same game, if not, simply launching the game will do, and clicking yes to link the game to said account.

You must use same Origin account you link to your same Steam account, in order to launch your game, and yes Origin client need to be running as well.


EA is going change the origin client to EA desktop, in due time origin no longer exist it be called EA desktop, don't worry nothing is lost, and be same account you be using as they're just replacing the client, and name that all they're doing. Can opt into EA desktop if wanted anytime, but no rush as they haven't push yet, and it be automatic thing as well when they finally move everything over to new client.

[MancSoulja]

Originally posted by AustrAlien2010:

I am only interested, but did their support provided you with a workable solution? (Because they are supposed to, in case something like this happens. Considering you paid them for the game.)

I remember buying Crysis 3 on Origin on its release date and it would let me launch the SP fine, but never the MP, to this day, I've never got to play the Crysis 3 MP and EA did ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ to help.