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If it IS actually a hard-coded limit from Valve, shouldn't the problem be mentioned like...
"Too Many Activation Attempts:
There have been too many recent activation attempts from this account. Please wait and try your product code again later."
..? Notice that in my version the word "unsuccessful" is missing (since there WEREN'T "unsuccessful attempts"? The way it's written, it makes you think someone MAY have stolen one or more of your keys!
Caps for emphasis, not shouting or being rude here (...and, by the way, would it be better if I bolded the words - and if yes, how?!).
There's a "Formatting Help" button next to the "Post Comment" button that would show you how to use bold.
You said yourself that you didn't know if a key might have been 'wrong'.
1. At the very least, the phrasing of the problem is wrong, IF there WASN'T "a wrong key". I mentioned the correct way of telling the user if there's a problem in this case - and I'm not a native English speaker.
2. If there WAS "a wrong key", the "logic" behind Steam is WRONG: ANYONE can make a typo, and that doesn't mean that he's a bot - if previously he'd entered more than 20 CORRECT keys in a row. Bots do the exact oposite: they hammer a key-field with WRONG keys until they stumble on a correct one.
3. If it IS an artificial limit on part of Valve, again, "it does not compute". It's illogical. Is Valve limiting how much someone can spend on it? Do you see a logic in them stopping you from paying them?
Now, can you stop replying like a kid and give a logical explanation to why this happened? I'm not crying like a kiddie 'cause I can't get my game fix. I think I stumbled on a phrasal or logical problem in Steam that I never met in any other program or platform in general in the 27 years I'm using computers and gaming, and just wondering if there's some kind of reason it happens. 'Cause if it IS "a problem", like I see it, it's something that Valve could, you know, FIX. Trying to HELP here, you know. Would it be better if I wrote "Yo, Valve, del unsuksesfool, its rong"?
1. How many keys did you enter before one stopped working?
2. Did all the keys that you entered before this last one activate successfully? If they did, you should have seen a confirmation message. It is pretty conspicuous.
I have heard of at least one retailer selling key codes that were already used, but I haven't heard about this problem in a while. I don't know why you're unwilling to state the retailer you bought your codes from, but I can't conclude anything else.
The bundles were Reboot 5, Reboot 3 and Resurrection. First two have got six games each, second one... fourteen games. Got them just for 1-2 titles in each I'd played in the past or wanted to see (i.e. Blades of Time, Rune Classic etc).
So, I had 26 keys to enter in a row. It stopped me in the last two. And I'm (almost) sure I didn't do a typo, since I just copy-pasted them.
So, we're either talking a problem in the phrasing of the problem, or some kind of silly restriction, or someone, somehow, stealing one key or selling one that doesn't work. But, to answer your question, I can see all games I activated in my Library, and didn't meet any error while activating them (up to the one I mentioned).
@[JBG] MAGIKARP : Heh, sorry, as I said, not a native English speaker, may do some mistakes from time to time. And, nope, PS2 was (and still is) a great, great console. Ah, how many nights I've spent over Burnout 3... :-)
So, we're left with either problem in phrasing or silly restriction. Yoooo, Vaaalve! Which of the two is it? :-D
I never got the error you came across.
You have must of entered the wrong key 10+ times in a short period of time. Getting it wrong 5 or less times can be put down to human error but more then that and you will be looking like a bot or a guy trying to get free games through pure luck/chance.
The whole procedure went like "key - accepted, key - accepted, key - not accepted due to all the incorrect keys you entered previously".
That's why it seemed so... dunno, "wrong", but not in a heavy world-is-ending-due-to-kaiju-attacks way.
It sounds like it was indeed an automated lockout, just with the wrong message. Seems like it's nothing much to worry about. Just don't add keys en masse in the future. I suggest only adding those games you want and keeping the others saved somewhere.