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every game i have purchased that uses steam is listed as "pre-load complete" this is bullshit cause i bought the games and it says i can access them unless i buy them. I tried to activate the games with the CD-keys and it say thier already in use. And ive tried rebooting them.
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The thing with multiple game keys is that if you dont activate them on your account that you already have, then your starting a NEW account for every key. That could be where the preload problem is happening.
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i restored my computer to factory and im still having the same problem, when i go to use the key to activate my games it say the key has been used for a another account, and the only account it has been used for it mine
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yeah, bloodhands is right. if it says preload is complete and the cd key is entered, it was loaded on another steam acount. my father has his own steam acount, and i logged into it from my computer here where i live and bought Episode 1 for him. then when i load up my acount, it says Episode 1 is preloaded. i obviously can't play it unless i'm in his acount, so this sounds exactly like your situation.
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no u dont understand i was playing my games on my steam account, i shut down my computer and came back later and it said that all my games are "preload complete"
im probably gonna have to send my game out so then can reset my key
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have you tried logging out of steam and then logging back in? I had to do this once for an issue similiar to yours. Razor wrote:Killing people is good therapy.  
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ive done everything, ive been going back and forth with the guys with steam hopefully i can get it resolved
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My problem was solved, sort of, by the next Steam update. Looks like that update ate your machine. Maybe the next update will fix your machine . . . and screw up mine again. Steam sucks. You should be more like Cantrip.  Twitchy: "I pulled a Cantrip . . ." GivePeaceAChance: "If the Tempest had nipples, I'd pinch that shit." Xylicon: "I'm about to deliver my [Richard] in your face for posting that stupid shit. " WDF?: "He keeps reaming me... night after night... I'm rather sore." GivePeaceAChance: "OMG MY NIPS ARE HARD" llenta: "cantrip, you fail!!!" Filliam H. Muffman: "i'm on top of dick"
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Did you Format? TerribleNate wrote:Fuck nice... Tell her she is fat and stupid every day. Don't be afraid to pop her one every once and awhile. This will make her think shes doing a bad job and try harder. Believe me, if I started murdering people, there'd be none of you left.
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One of my friends had this happen to him, It was because his CD key was already used. Someone like went on the internet and stole it somehow, I forget
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ill have steam reset the key if need be
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Sounds like to me your key has been hijacked. That happened to me last summer, I had a lame password and one day my games were "preload complete." I was like whuuu????! 3 weeks later I called steam and they said I am currently logged in at a differant machine which I wasnt. They then reset it and had me create a new password. I really recommend alpha numeric passwords. I was the one that said "nah, itll never happen to me, Nobody wants a user account that says Saddamizer" Well sure enough...
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Saddamizer wrote:
Sounds like to me your key has been hijacked. That happened to me last summer, I had a lame password and one day my games were "preload complete." I was like whuuu????! 3 weeks later I called steam and they said I am currently logged in at a differant machine which I wasnt. They then reset it and had me create a new password. I really recommend alpha numeric passwords. I was the one that said "nah, itll never happen to me, Nobody wants a user account that says Saddamizer" Well sure enough...
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Saddamizer wrote:
Sounds like to me your key has been hijacked. That happened to me last summer, I had a lame password and one day my games were "preload complete." I was like whuuu????! 3 weeks later I called steam and they said I am currently logged in at a differant machine which I wasnt. They then reset it and had me create a new password. I really recommend alpha numeric passwords. I was the one that said "nah, itll never happen to me, Nobody wants a user account that says Saddamizer" Well sure enough...
Did you have spyware on your machine? If so do you remember what any of it was? I've heard reports of spyware designed to harvest Steam accounts but have never seen it actually happen - don't know how else people would be getting the account info though unless they have physical access to your machine? Razor wrote:Killing people is good therapy.
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