Batman Arkham City - Activation Limit reset?

Has anyone had any luck getting their Batman Arkham City activiation limit renewed or reset? I bought it through EA Origin and with my latest install it says it has reached the activation limit. The link just takes me to the WB forums, and then if I try manual activation you need an activation key, and there they just give me an email.

I emailed them just today, so I guess we'll see how that goes but not sure if anyone else has had any luck with any other route? Since I bought it from Origin, I have been trying to get online chat and it's said "connecting to an advisor expected wait time less than 5 minutes" and it's been that way for over 45 minutes.

 

I ran into the same problem with Crysis though I purchased it over Steam. I got the activation limit reset over live chat though I did have to wait for some time. I've read that Origin support is pretty good about responding to email, much better than Steam support. Give it a bit of time. Otherwise you might want to hit up the Origin forums. I know support staff is active there. Good luck.

 

I bought Arkham City on Steam and never managed to get the game fully activated. It was installed, and I had to sign up for some accounts like GFWL and hotmail, etc., and I was able to play the game. But in order to be able to save you had to sign up for some other Xbox Gamer Club account something or other. I just gave up at that point.

 

I had no problem before, just that I ran out of activations. It is annoying to buy from Steam or Origin only to have to run and install another client, especially GFWL which is confusing and annoying. It offers no added value to anyone that I can tell. And in addition it uses SecuROM so what's the point? I did get a response from WB Games, but can't find an email address for Origin, it only gives me live chat which I had on for over an hour and still nobody ever came on, even restarted a chat help request and went another 30 minutes still nothing. I clicked on the "call me" option but still nothing.

WB Games told me I need to provide a photo of the original CD key as I received it and the purchase receipt, no copy/paste or screenshots allowed. grrr. I bought it from Origin and it's all digital, what am I supposed to do?

 

I think I'm going to run into the same issue when I try to install AC on my M18x. I bought it for $7.50 a while back on getgames.com, and I've installed it on 3 laptops so far so I doubt it's going to let me activate it on a 4th. I hope getgames.com has decent support.

 

I believe you get 5 activations?

 

I'm not sure, I thought it was only 3, but I can't find the email that tells me how me many activations I can do. Hope you're right though!

 

I got it settled, just not real happy with results. 3 activations on up to 3 computers, 9 activations total. I wonder what happens if you buy the game on Steam or Origin and you can't get more activations, and you can't have more than one copy of a game per account. How dumb.

 

You guys install it on like 3 computers, but do you really play it?
How many computers does it take to play a single game?

 

Well Wingnut has two laptops, plus he's had to install games on laptops he is reviewing but doesn't own. In my case, I just go through a butt-ton of laptops lol.

 

failwheeldrive answered it. I have two laptops out that I'm reviewing right now. At the moment Arkham City is part of the benchmark suite I run. Plus on my personal laptop and desktop. I realized you can also revoke licenses if you remember to do so, but you can only do that so many times. I'll just have to remember to revoke the ones on my review laptops to at least regain those activations.

Not to mention Windows clean installs periodically, etc.

 

In that case, demo would be better, but unfortunately it hasn't got one... Bummer.
AC Steam store page isn't available in my region right now, but AA says this:

 

I agree, demo with benchmarks I much prefer. usually smaller file size, unlimited installs and runs, no hoop jumping.