Help installing Orange Box

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  1. pcrazy99

    pcrazy99 Regular member

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    I bought a copy of The Orange Box used. The woman I bought it from said it was a Christmas gift for her son. The realized they didn't want him to play it and sold it to me. She said she uninstalled it from her PC. When I try to install it I get a message stating that the key is already installed with another Steam account, making the key inavalid. Any suggestions?
     
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    sounds like you got screwed...try looking online for keys...maybe you can just find a free one like with halo 1
     
  3. pcrazy99

    pcrazy99 Regular member

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    I'm sure I wouldn't have a problem looking online for a key so I can play the single player version. I bought this game with the key, the discs and box. The reason I bought it is for the online play. The game was installed and then uninstalled. I got an email from Valve stating that they do not reset cd keys for games sold by an individual or used game store. Oh well lesson learned. I won't buy any Valve games or anything to do with Steam.
     
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    u could try to get a refund from her and just make a steam account and buy the game online and download it.
     
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    I finally got my money back the other day. I'm not going to bother trying to buy a new copy from Steam or the store. I just decided to not buy anymore games from Valve.
     
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    Valve is really good at what they do...
     

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