I have a friend who also picked up the game today, and it activated fine for him. Currently I am downloading the game through EA download manager and hopefully that works...
Why people still willingly give EA money is beyond me.
lol funny/sad thing is the pirates have been playing the game already, and the poor saps who preorder and get the game on the first day can't even play!
*SOLVED*
Got back on with EA tech support, and they gave me a new key code that actually worked!
Well that was a pain, but I have to say they did resolve the issue pretty quickly so I won't hold it against them.
They resolved an issue that shouldn't be there in the first place. If you buy a new car a the bumper falls off as you drive away, it's probably going to be covered under warranty and fixed quickly but it still shouldn't have happened. You're totally justified in holding a small grudge against them. Between this and the Crysis 2 multiplayer activation problems it sounds like EA is really starting to fuck up their game activation system. No bueno
I agree that it never should have happened in the 1st place, but what's most important is that they resolved it quickly. Especially when compared with something like Black-Ops which was completely unplayable for me for about 3 months. To expand on your car analogy, yes the bumper should not fall off, but if it does do you want to deal with a company that replaces that bumper the same day, or a company that makes you jump through hoops and drive bumperless for 3 months? I prefer the latter.
I think you mean "the former." The latter means that you prefer the second option - driving around bumperless for three months and jumping through hoops.
Uhhh why would a physical copy of the game have a date restriction? To prevent people from breaking into the freaking store and stealing it before release date? How is that even an issue worth preventing with this nonsense? And why is it set to the wrong date?
EA is a scurge upon gaming.
They resolved an issue that shouldn't be there in the first place. If you buy a new car a the bumper falls off as you drive away, it's probably going to be covered under warranty and fixed quickly but it still shouldn't have happened. You're totally justified in holding a small grudge against them. Between this and the Crysis 2 multiplayer activation problems it sounds like EA is really starting to fuck up their game activation system. No bueno
Market studies have shown that a company gets better approval ratings if they have small problems which they quickly remedy beyond the customer's expectations than if nothing were to ever go wrong in the first place.