Counter Strike : Source

[Static]

So I just borrowed CSS from my cousin brother , he doesn't know what a product key is and says he lost the cover box (where the product key is). So thing is , I don't know the product key and I can't play CSS without it. Is there anyway I can solve this ?

[KRI2H]

good game

[Static]

? Lol , you didn't help at all.

[Static]

Anybody ? Please help me.

[Spawn of Totoro]

You can't "borrow" it anyways. If you added the key to your account, then you wouldn't be able to give it back.

Chances are he already added the game to his account, so you wouldn't be able to use it either.

[Static]

No , he doesn't even knows what a product key is and said he couldn't install CSS. But it's working fine for me , all I need to do is get the key but he lost the cover box (in which it is). Also , he told me that he doesn't likes counter-strike so he gave me. Isn't there any other way through which I can get a product key?

[Spawn of Totoro]

Messaggio originale di Static:

No , he doesn't even knows what a product key is and said he couldn't install CSS. But it's working fine for me , all I need to do is get the key but he lost the cover box (in which it is). Also , he told me that he doesn't likes counter-strike so he gave me. Isn't there any other way through which I can get a product key?

Buy the game. That is the only way.

CS:S has always been a Steam game. If he had played it, then he had to have attatched the game to a Steam account and keys are non-transfurable. Even with the original key, you wouldn't be able to play it. It would just say that the key has already been used.

[Static]

No. He didn't play it. He did say the game was not installing in his computer.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Messaggio originale di Static:

No. He didn't play it. He did say the game was not installing in his computer.

I wouldn't take that as fact, but that is me.

As I said, if you want to play, then you have to buy the game, since that is the only way to get a key for the game.

[Static]

Oh ok. Thanks though. You were helpful.

[Static]

Or maybe he didn't lost it but stored the box containing the PK somewhere :p.

[Lion]

If the game is in your Steam Library (or the original owner).. Right click it and it should say "View CD Key"
If you click on that it should pop up the key.

I don't own a counter-strike game, but that's how it works for the Batman Arkham games and Company of Heroes.

Good luck!

[P.S.] If this game is NOT with Steam.. then try contacting the company and give them your serial number, maybe they can give you a new key (or the key that originally came with it.)

[Spawn of Totoro]

Messaggio originale di Minase:

If the game is in your Steam Library (or the original owner).. Right click it and it should say "View CD Key"
If you click on that it should pop up the key.

Won't work. Game are non transferable. CS:S won't show the key either, since it isn't needed after you add it to Steam.

Messaggio originale di Minase:

I don't own a counter-strike game, but that's how it works for the Batman Arkham games and Company of Heroes.

Batman uses GFWL. It needs to key for that service too. Not sure about COH.

Messaggio originale di Minase:

[P.S.] If this game is NOT with Steam.. then try contacting the company and give them your serial number, maybe they can give you a new key (or the key that originally came with it.)

CS:S is a Valve game and so is available on Steam. It also requires Steam to play. They will not give a new key or provide the original key. That would allow people to scam the system for free games.

[Lion]

Said if it was in HIS library (or the original owners) they could get the key code that way.

On my spare Steam account I have Battlefield: Bad Company and it shows me the key the same way. So I doubt it wouldn't for them.

And if they have proof of purchase, how is it scamming?
The game isn't transferable, so it's not like they are tossing the game around from account to account.
If they lost the key.. it's worth a shot in contacting Valve. Better than having an unplayable game. (If they haven't already activated it.)

[Spawn of Totoro]

Messaggio originale di Minase:

Said if it was in HIS library (or the original owners) they could get the key code that way.

I said they can't. It won't show up for that game. Even checked as I own it myself.

Even if they could, it wouldn't do any good. It is attatched to an account already and you can't "borrow" games.

Messaggio originale di Minase:

On my spare Steam account I have Battlefield: Bad Company and it shows me the key the same way. So I doubt it wouldn't for them.

I said I wasn't sure about that game.

Messaggio originale di Minase:

And if they have proof of purchase, how is it scamming?
The game isn't transferable, so it's not like they are tossing the game around from account to account.
If they lost the key.. it's worth a shot in contacting Valve. Better than having an unplayable game. (If they haven't already activated it.)

Someone could try and get the key that ways, then use it as "proof" (at a latter point) that the account belongs to them and not the other person. People have been known to "give away" keys for that very reason.

If the key was used (and I beileve it was), it would be tied to the account. After that, it would no longer be needed to install the game. There would realy be no reason to have the key around after that, excpet for proof that it is your account if the account ever got hijacked.

[Lion]

What I'm talking about is recovering the key, not transfering the game or abusing the system. All I stated was WHOEVER HAS THE GAME IN THEIR library should have tried that. (I don't own a Counter-Strike game so I wouldn't know if it worked, just a suggestion since it works for the games I have.)

[P.S.] Company of Heroes and Battlefield: Bad Company are two different games.