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Crysis 2 CD Keys for PC on Preorder now! - US$26.99 CDKeysHere.com

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What will you get:

You will get Crysis 2 CD Key (scan of the cd key from original DVD box) on 22 March 2011. You can download the game from EA Downloader and activate the key originally. This key can not be activated on Steam platform.

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  • Nice! :)

  • Just reading the previous forums - did the legality of this ever get sorted out?

    • -1

      Will the games work ……….. Yes, unless EA catches on.
      Are the games legitimate……. No, the games are in breach of the EULA, you know the pages of text you accept without actually reading.

      I also have to question why these places refuse to send out the physical medium, surely they could add a tickbox and have the option of sending out the physical media for extra shipping.

      This makes me think there is something dodgy about them that they don't give shipping of the physical medium as an option. Perhaps they are using different regions activation servers to bypass security, since I notice that some of their games are Russian versions which they then ask you to download a pirated English version to get it working. Also the fact that EA and other companies have cracked down on these type of keys in the past, yet have never targeted people who have imported games from overseas and have the physical medium.

      Also the fact they sell Steam keys should also highlight this. Why would steam sell Russian cd keys to other vendors for a cheaper cost? It makes no sense they are just undercutting themselves. hence why steam ban's these keys whenever they come across them.

      So not only are they not legitimate, they are more than likely not legal. Save the heartache and order the physical medium from overseas from site like zavvi,ozgameshop, the hut, or play-asia.

      • -3

        I totally agree. Does this type of thing breach Ozbargain conditions?

        • No. Do your research.

        • -1

          greydaniel - Actually I did look at the Ozbargain "terms and conditions of use" & hence why I feel this violates the "proper use" section. Whether you agree with the games manufacturers or not, use of these keys may be in breach of the EULA (End User Licence Agreement) and hence I feel they are inappropriate to be listed on Ozbargain.

  • Any bf3 preorders?

  • -3

    Under no circumstances would I recommend ordering from these guys, I stupidly bought a Fallout New Vegas key from them a few months ago and had the key removed from steam claiming it was fraudulent. CDkeys here sent me another key which was also removed. Now they refuse to answer emails or talk to me about it.

    Beware!!!!!!!

    • hmmm I bought MOH, COD BO without issue.

      • +2

        i've also purchased COD BO, MOH & DS2 from them without issue.

    • Sorry, my mistake

    • +4

      Please don't lie! We don't sell Fallout New Vegas because there's a region restriction. Check our store, you can't find this gam in our store. Don't scam people!

      • Naz is very honest and upfront, he refunded me after the original black ops problems, without any issues. I ended up buying another copy off him a month or so later for a friend. It is working fine.

  • +2

    can you just give us all the 3% discount, not everyone use farcebook..

  • +1

    I've bought 4 games from these guys now with no problems.

    Does the 3% off apply to all purchases after you have become a fan of the FB page, or just the next purchase?

  • -1

    No personal experience from buying from these guys but cant help but feel the whole operation just smacks of "dodgy". Though other people seem to be content with it.

    • I think it's dodgy how we get charged a premium for everything over here in Australia. I mean with the dollar being as strong as it is and the whole digital distribution systems that are in place, why do new release games cost us close to $70 - $80 AUD.

  • -1

    Prove to me this is a legally obtained fully legit copy.

    • +2

      They will email you a scanned image of the DVD case and key.

      If they ship out the actually game will make it more expensive and more for them to do. Would be that cheap anymore.

    • +1

      Developers will try and region lock games online and in other ways to stop parallel imports, but it is not enforceable by law in Australia. A purchased, licensed copy, no matter where it is sourced is perfectly legit here in Oz.

      see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_import

      In particular;

      Quote in the ‘Australia” section.

      “In 2000 the Australian Government resolved to remove parallel import restrictions from a range of products except cars, and followed this up with legislation making it legal to source music and software CDs from overseas and import them into Australia.”

      As many have stated on here including the OP this IS PERFECTLY LEGIT.

      Seriously you Mod: Removed by mod have no idea.

      • +1

        The legality has nothing to do with parallel importing. As for the extra price in shipping the hut and play-asia manage to do it for less than 5 bucks a game. Not exactly a huge cost. Would be very simple for them to give the option.

        Really the clear indicator of the illegal activity is the fact they sell steam keys. Steam will ban these keys when they discover them. Steam do not sell their keys to other sites so how do these guys have steam keys? Also the fact with some games you have to download a pirated English version in some games and paste it over the top hardly sounds legal.

        Why does EA crack down on these as well? I can tell you it is not because of parallel importing because they don't care they get the money anyway.

        As for the claim of it being legitimate don't make me laugh. You break the EULA hence removing the legitimacy of the game. I think you meant to say they are legal, and that is extremely questionable. Steam says that alot of these places uses stolen credit cards to get the games. Other places say the games are stolen in the supply chain usually in Russia. Either way you are receiving stolen goods.

        • -1

          I cannot say about Steam key because most games can only bought from steam online.

          But with DVD retail version I would say 100% legal because it is the same I bought a game from overseas and activate it on EA download manager because they will scan a copy of the DVD retail box and email it to you. If that is not legal it would be illegal if I bought a game from overseas and take it back here.

        • -2

          It would be the same if you went overseas stole the DVD retail box and brought it back to Australia.

          The issue with the keys is not with parallel importing, the issue is how they acquire them.

          Steam and EA ban these keys all the time because of how they are acquired. It has nothing to do with the fact you are playing it in a different region. I import games all the time and have never had any game blocked/banned except I import the physical medium. I originally thought the same as you, cheaper overseas hence why they can do this. I have in the past bought 2 cd-keys on-line and both were blocked and banned.

          When I asked why they gave me the reason of stolen keys. So I then contacted the people who I bought it from and they refused to give me a refund but were more than happy to throw more keys at me, eventually I just did a charge back on my card.

        • +1

          Except they don't sell steam keys.

          Could you guys cite the specific paragraph of the EULA you think is being breached?

          These aren't illegal (what crime??), at worst the supplier is in breach of their licence agreement IF such conditions are even legal in that country. Given you guys don't even know which country is the source of the cd-keys to claim they're illegal and other rubbish is being very silly and I don't know why the mods are allowing it.

        • Rutger

          They do
          http://cdkeyshere.com/metro-2033-cd-key.html?keyword=metro%2…

          Pretty much every single program has a different EULA.

          However pretty much all EULA's have one thing about DRM. They say not to circumvent the DRM and the example superforever gave where they used a Russian VPN or proxy server to activate is clearly in breach of the EULA. Since it is circumventing the region protection setup in the activation servers.

  • +1

    I am talking about buying retail box (e.g. from play-asia) and take the box back here and activate it on EA DL manager. Not about stolen keys. In this case of CRYSIS2 we are talking about buying a retail box from CDKEYSHERE and they will give u the key but without send you the box and they will destroy the box after a period of time.

    The place where you bought before 100% was stolen and not the same case. If you haven't bought any keys from CDKEYSHERE before don't comment.

    Even with COD BO they sold and we could not activate it online. They offered either refund or they activate for us. A lot of received refund very quickly but I just let them activated it for me and no problem.

    • -2

      However you are not buying a retail box. You are buying what they say is a retail box. So it doesn't matter to you if they are stolen or not? Just as long as it works right? Why not just pirate it then?

      So let me get this straight, you bought a game that had a dodgy key you could not activate and didn't think that was suspicious? I have never bought a game from the box that I couldn't activate before. Yet you still say that these keys are legitimate. If it was procured how they say it is the keys would work 100% of the time because EA, Activision etc would have no way of telling the difference between them. Obviously EA, Activision can tell the difference between them which is why when they catch wind of them they ban them.

      You can keep telling yourself that the games are legal however that doesn't make them so. You just need to look at it logically and it answers itself.

      • The reason because so many of us bought keys from them. Check ozbargain and Whirlpool.

        If you haven't just stop keeps saying them are dodgy. Give us some prove the keys you bought before were from them not from another one or ebay, etc.

        • -2

          Because so many of them got keys???

          How does that make sense? a cd key is a unique identifier, it doesn't matter if they sell 10 billion of them, quantity sold has nothing to do with it. Sounds like they fed you alot of BS. After all if they sold too many logic would dictate they would run out of keys, not the fact one of their keys would not activate.

          There are huge threads in whirlpool regarding the dodgyness of these sites probably a bad reference. A few of them were selling MSDN windows 7 keys which are illegal. Pretty bad way of proving your point.

        • It would be interesting to hear from naz_eg or cdkeyshere.com so they can explain:
          1) exactly how they get these keys
          and
          2) why they don't offer an option to ship the retail box to the customer (considering the customer is buying this & hence it would rightly be the customers property).

  • kasp, you are talking "the dodgyness of these sites". They are selling unique keys for every people bought from them not a batch of stolen keys.

    In that case please check what peoples talked about cdkeyshere not "these sites".

    You still didn't get it, we are discussing cdkeyshere only not "these sites". I agreed some of them sold stolen keys, etc.

    If cdkeyshere is not good ozbargain and whirlpool should have already blocked them.

    Try cdkeyshere yourself before you comments.

  • @Gaz1:

    1. We get our keys from authorized retailers in some countries. They take photos and destroy the dvds.
    2. We don't offer this because retailers r out of our country. Also they sell too much keys and don't have time to send physically. If you want phisically there's many fees, like custome taxes, shipping fees, etc. We want to sell cheaper and we will not offer this in the future too.

    Btw i can't understand how some people say dodgy. Did they try us? Some of sites only sell text codes which generated from keygens, or got via stolen credit cards, but we sell photo of your original dvd and doing this job since 1 year without any problem.

    PS: My English is not so good, sorry for misunderstandings.

    • I would like to know why some of your keys are blocked by EA and Steam the second they become aware of them?

      Superforever said that he bought keys from you which would not activate and the reason given was that you sold too many keys. How is this possible? A cd key is a unique identifier that connects to an activation server. If you sold too many keys you would run out of keys to give, not that the keys would stop working.

      Also you sell steam keys for example a Russian version of metro 2033. Steam do not sell their keys wholesale, how is it possible that you get Steam keys when steam does not sell these. If you are selling retail copies steam considers all cd key sellers as unauthorized resellers because in their words.
      http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1556292…
      It has to contain the retail box.

      So how can you say that the keys are from an authorized retailer when clearly with metro 2033 this is not the case.

      • "I would like to know why some of your keys are blocked by EA and Steam the second they become aware of them?"

        From where you saw that? Are you still talking about from cdkeyshere?

        "Superforever said that he bought keys from you which would not activate and the reason given was that you sold too many keys. "

        From where I said that "the reason given was sold too many keys?" The reason is because the game is Russian version which would not activate in Australia. We have to let cdkeyshere to activate it for us.

        "Also you sell steam keys for example a Russian version of metro 2033. Steam do not sell their keys wholesale, how is it possible that you get Steam keys when steam does not sell these. "

        How do you know they don't? They must have some channel to get it which I don't think they will not tell you how they did it.

        But regarding CRYSIS 2 EA DL Manager version, I think they bought BOX version from place like Russian and sell the key and detroy the box. Regarding Steam keys I have no idea none of my business as long as the key works 100%.

        • -1

          So they used a Russian vpn or prxy to access Russian activation servers. What were you talking about because they sold too many then?

          How do I know?
          I asked steam and they said No, why don't you ask them yourself? Steam has to keep publishers happy which I can guarantee you selling cd keys like this would not. Also unlike normal retail where publishers get 30% of profits they get 70% through steam. It makes no sense for them to undercut themselves, they are a online retail shop. They do not accept keys from other online retail shops, you know because they are in direct competition with them.

          Steam frequently bans games from cd key places, if they were selling these keys wholesale and then banned them they would get sued. As for purchasing games outside of steam and registering them steam considers games without the retail box as illegitimate.

          Their steam keys are dodgy, if they are being dodgy with steam what makes you think the rest of their games aren't?

  • -1

    OK, I just saw this on your site,

    http://cdkeyshere.com/windows-live-universal-cd-key.html?key…
    For those of you who won't bother going there it says it activates the following games.

    Batman: Arkham Asylum
    Battlestations: Pacific
    BioShock 2
    Fallout 3
    FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage
    Fuel
    Gears of War
    Grand Theft Auto IV
    Halo 2
    Hour of Victory
    Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights
    Kane & Lynch: Dead Men
    Legend of the Galactic Heroes
    osmos
    Quantum of Solace
    Red Faction: Guerrilla
    Resident Evil 5
    Shadowrun
    Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Republic Heroes
    Stormrise
    Street Fighter IV
    The Club
    Universe At War: Eath Assault
    Vancouver 2010
    Viva Piñata
    Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II
    Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II Chaos Rising
    Where's Waldo
    World of Goo

    New Games (We ll not guarantee this key to work on these games but maybe you can activate.)

    Australian Rules Football
    F1 2010
    Fallout: New Vegas
    Homefront TBA 2010
    Mafia 2
    Max Payne 3

    All that for 14.95. Still think the site is legit?

    Sounds like they got a backdoor key and are selling it for as long as they can get away with it.

    That key is dodgy, the steam keys are dodgy. Or are superforever and naz_eg really going to continue to say how they get these from authorized channels. I don't care what kind of good deal you are getting there is no way in hell you will get 30 games many of which are AAA titles for 14.95 legally.

    I really hope Microsoft shuts you down, all this site does is make people think they are buying something legitimate (Although with this key you would have to know something is up) When in reality they might as well pirate it.

    Want a legitimate cheap game, buy it on the steam super deals or order it from play-asia, zavvi etc. Buying from this mob you might as well be pirating it.

    • There's a bug on old Live games and everyone know this. You can activate 20-25 games with one original Live game. I uploaded sample photo (Fuel game) below. You can activate all of these games with this key. This s not our fault, this's Microsoft's fault and bug. If they don't fix everyone can use it.

      http://i53.tinypic.com/s3d9w2.jpg

      You can continue to buy from Steam because you'r Richie Rich i think.

      • You do realize thats illegal right? Did you know theres a weakness in a cars security system which means if i pick up a rock and throw it at the window I can then reach in and grab all the contents. It's the car manufacturers fault though, as they know about this weakness and have not installed titanium windshields yet.

        Why shouldn't people just pirate it instead of handing you 15 dollars.
        However people can continue to buy from cdkeyshare because they are Richie Rich I think.

        What about your steam keys? steam themselves say your steam keys are illegitimate or is there some bug that allows the activations as well?

        Sounds like your entire business model revolves around exploiting weaknesses in the activation systems, yet you continue to say how legitimate your keys are.

        • There's no special steam keys, all of the games r boxed, can't you understand this? Here's the list of the retail games which steam supports:

          https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7480-WUS…

          If you have a retail cd, you can activate your key in steam, it's allowed. You can't understand this; all of our product photos taken from original dvds. These dvds r cheap in some countries and we import them for you. Steam of course says it's illegal because they sell same game 60$ instead of 25-30$. And they gain too much money through you. You can search some game prices in Russia or China. They r cheaper then you. If it's ok for you to pay 2-3x for the same game, i don't wanna talk again. You can buy where you want. But don't trick people.

        • I am not tricking anyone it is you who are deceiving people.

          Steam says for a game to be considered legitimate you need to have the retail box. You are only supplying people with a cd key so it is illegitimate right there.

          You have already proven you have no problem abusing the activation systems. EA and Steam have cracked down on these type of cd keys in the past and they will do it to your customers as well. The only way I can see them being able to work out which keys are dodgy or not is by an abuse of the activation system.

          If you really are legitimate it would be so simple to add an option to have the physical media sent out. Hell you could even add a few extra dollars handling fee on top and make a profit. This would also give people assurances about your company not being dodgy. This would also stop steams problem with your cd keys as well. However you refuse to saying it would cost to much or customs etc. When reality is if it's optional it is up to the individual to decide whether it's worth while to actually own the media.

          Why don't you just add the option? You can even make a buck from it. You don't because you are abusing the activation systems. Just like you are abusing the games for windows live system.

      • Do Steam or Direct2Drive have an option to send the game physically? I think they'r illegal too, according to your opinion. You can activate the game too if you buy the game from any physical game shop. This doesn't mean you'r abusing the Steam system.

        • Huge difference between you and steam and direct2drive they are both authorized resellers You are not. Steam and Direct2drive have their own servers supplying the product and own DRM systems, you use theirs. Steam says your keys are illegitimate yet you still use them to deliver your product. Steam doesn't tell people to torrent a pirated English version with some of their games and copy it over the top.

          So you say you are not abusing steam? How much money do you pay them for using their servers? A big fat 0, it costs steam for the bandwidth you know, granted not much but it still cost's them.

          You have already proven you have absolute no problem completely abusing the activation system in regards to your Windows Live universal key. You are unwilling to give an option of sending the physical media which would make your games legitimate. Yet you expect people to believe these are legal.

  • -1

    I have to clarify I am only one of the happy buyer of cdkeyshere and I didn't work for naz_eg.

    This thread is talking about Crysis2 EA Download Manager version, can we back to this topic.

    All I can say I received a scanned copy of the DVD box of MOH (actually as well as COD BO Russian version) that I bought from cdkeyshere and activated and played without problem. I am 100% sure they imported those BOX version from place like Russian, China, etc and sell the key to us and not like kasp said they have a bundle of keys and sell them again and again.

    They are legal or not I don't care, my thinking is they are exactly like I bought a grey imported camera from ebay which is a lot cheaper than from HN, DSE, etc. The camera may came from HK, China, Russian, etc….

  • +1

    Wow that is a lot of reading and speculation….. Naz, keep doing what u are doing, people who have a true understanding of the legality will continue to buy from you for many years to come, (unless the laws change here in OZ) Thanks for the great prices!

    • No speculation. Steam does not consider them legitimate. If you are using the Steam platform to access the software shouldn't you pay attention to what Steam says about these type of keys? Since this particular game is from EA how about you ask EA how legitimate these keys are. I have fired off an email to EA and I will let you know the answer.

      The steam games Naz_eg sells steam will ban if they discover them. If you don't believe me ask steam yourself, they have a very helpful support team. If you do not have the retail box it is considered illegitimate in steams eyes.

      You already have proof of how dodgy the site is with their windows live universal key. Why is it so hard for you to believe that they are exploiting the activation systems especially with some games you have to connect via a Russian vpn just to activate, or you have to download a pirated version to get the game working properly.

      • Let us know how you go…. Interesting that Steam sees it as illegitimate if there is no box, but they do not sell games in a box anyway???
        I use Steam, and love it, but I think you will find steam ban some keys simply from using their servers to play the games, unless you have bought the game from them, and I could be wrong but yeah anyway not getting into a full on debate, I will happily buy from this store as I have previously on the good faith that they are not breaking the law. If they actually are, and I get shafted for a few bucks, after a couple of purchases I would still be in front… and as Naz said they are happy to refund if you strike out…… You could be right, you could be wrong, but I have not seen any real evidence to say that this is illegal…..

        • Steam has a on-line distribution platform setup and has allowed people who buy physical copies from retail stores to use their service. It is not like steam will start accepting keys from Impulse (another online gaming service with downloads) or vice versa.

          Cd-key places sell games online, steam sells games online. They are in direct competition. However the cd key place then gets steam to deliver their product to their customers without paying steam a cent. Yet you can't see why Steam would frown upon this? This is why they specify the retail box, they are trying to get people to use the online method, not supplying their competition with a free platform to deliver their products.

          I will try and explain this in an easier way. You buy a unlimited refills cup of coke from Mc Donalds, however you walk into Subway and fill it with coke. Sure you still paid for the coke but you did not give Subway a cent for it. This is what the cd-key places are doing to steam.

          Well you just said it before if your keys strike out they will replace it with another key. If the key was legitimate it would not strike out. I doubt the keys are legal but I am 100% sure they are illegitimate since they go against Steam's terms and conditions.

  • -1

    You still don't understand I bought a Russian box version of COD BO and install it on my PC to play so what wrong with that? Because you can buy COD BO in retail box !!!! If they sell you a key that doesn't have retail box available in the market, yes may be u are right (which I don't think I will buy it if that is the case).

    LIke Crysis 2 100% they will have retail box which I can buy from overseas and I can either activate it on EA download manager or install it directly from disc, so what wrong with it?

    May be they are not allow to buy a large amount of retail box and resell them to overseas if you consider that is illegal.

    So people use VPN to buy games from US Steam, online shops selling non Aus region DVD, blu-ray are also illegal.

    When you talking about they are illegal make peoples think they are selling keygen keys, stolen keys or keys bought by stolen credit card, etc.

    • How about that games for windows live ultimate key? do you buy that key and get a box for all 30 games they sell. No, they give you a key that abuses the network and essentially tells you to steal the games.

      So you think it's ok that they abuse Steam?

      Steam says you need to own the retail box to enter the keys into steam a photo of the box does not cut it. The reason they state this is because of cd key places. Cd key places are in direct competition with steam yet they use steam as a free distribution network. Would you walk into Subway with a Mc Donald's cup and fill it up with coke? Sure you might have bought the coke from Mc Donalds, but Subway has absolutely no responsibility to honor it.

      Steam allows people to enter physical retail copies to get people into online shopping, they do not do this to give the competition a free distribution network .

      This is what makes the games illegitimate and I have no idea how you can not see this. Steam has every right to tell these cd-key places to piss off and ban the keys whenever they come into contact with them. After all the cd-key places do not pay steam a cent for the privileged of using their distribution network.

      Whether they are legal or not is questionable, however a company that is willing to essentially steal from steam and encourage the theft of games for windows live do you really expect they will have integrity in the manner they acquire keys? However if the keys were acquired the way they say there were there would be no way for the companies to tell the difference between the cd key places and retail keys.

      • -1

        "do you buy that key and get a box for all 30 games they sell"

        Agreed this, I won't buy them.

        "do you really expect they will have integrity in the manner they acquire keys?"

        So far no problem and nobody complained stolen keys or whatsoever yet, can't tell in the future.

        "However if the keys were acquired the way they say there were there would be no way for the companies to tell the difference between the cd key places and retail keys."

        That's the point.

        • Cdkeyshere is ripping off Windows Live and Steam and you believe they have integrity? What they do to Steam and Windows live is the same as theft,how can you possibly say they are a legitimate company?

          You completely ignored the fact they are abusing steam. Are you going to avoid all of their steam keys now?

          As for the keys themselves, the companies do crackdown on these keys. It happens to cd key places all the time. If the keys were legitimate the companies would get sued for this kind of behaviour.

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