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Old Key no longer working.
Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 1:29 am
by ansonr
Hi there, I purchased Kenshi the day it became available, and I played for awhile, but lost interest and figured I would wait until it was further along before playing again. Now today I re-installed it and tried to activate, but it says my key is invalid. I've double checked that i've entered it correctly several times, even copied and pasted from my email and it still doesn't work.
Re: Old Key no longer working.
Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 1:27 pm
by Captain Deathbeard
The first few hundred keys were a name/key combo. So you had you enter your name and your key, but I changed it because it caused a lot of problems.
So if you have one of these old keys, you need to enter them both on one line like this:
Jim Smith 00000-00000-0000-0000etc
You should copy paste the exact name that you registered it with, from the email with the key.
Also, if you have an old key, it means you are awesome.
Re: Old Key no longer working.
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 2:42 am
by ansonr
Oh ok! Thanks Chris! Keep up the great job on Kenshi! I'm rooting for you!
Re: Old Key no longer working.
Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 5:09 pm
by jmedge91
Hi,
I'm in a very similar boat, although it is a lost one without compass, cannons, or rum. So not a very good boat then, as I've no means of navigation, explode-igation, or drunk-igation.
All pirate-boat metaphors aside, I too purchased within the first week of availability, but I've lost my code as well as allowed the email to be deleted. How would I go about recovering this?
Re: Old Key no longer working.
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2012 4:28 pm
by Captain Deathbeard
send me a pm with the email address you used to purchase with, and include a haiku about the importance of saving all your keys in a safe place. A good haiku mind.
EDIT: Don't do this, Send an email to orders -at- bmtmicro.com. You will need to tell them the exact email address you used when you ordered, and ask them to re-send you your key.
Re: Old Key no longer working.
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 4:47 pm
by jmedge91
I pray my haiku has pleased you.
Re: Old Key no longer working.
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 7:36 pm
by Captain Deathbeard
That haiku was awesome. Thanks to you, its now an official requirement for everyone who loses their key.
Re: Old Key no longer working.
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 1:34 am
by xksimon
Chris_The_Great wrote:That haiku was awesome. Thanks to you, its now an official requirement for everyone who loses their key.
my key is not working too. even with the exact name in front of the key. I PMed you already, can you help me Chris
Re: Old Key no longer working.
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 9:44 pm
by Captain Deathbeard
Some of the older keys got missed out for Steam registration. I will add them in the next few days.
Don't enter the name in the steam activation code, just the key on its own.
Re: Old Key no longer working.
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 11:19 pm
by ansonr
Excellent I had to come back and make sure I wasn't the only one.
Re: Old Key no longer working.
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 1:22 am
by FunktionJCB
I'm having problems with my key.
I entered it on Steam, and managed to activate it.
But then, when I try to play the game, it says my key is invalid.
I tried what you said above, copy & pasting the name + the key from my email, and I get the same problem.
I remembered I originally had problems playing the game because my name has a "~", and that caused some issues with my key.
Is there any chance you may, for example, change the key info on the server so that I can play using only the key (as steam provides) instead of name + key, since a character in my name is causing problems?
thanks
Re: Old Key no longer working.
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 5:03 pm
by CookieEatingHuskarl
I also tried every method listed here, but the name I used to buy the game happens to be my email address. This caused the steam input box to cut off the end of my key as it doesn't allow the name + key input because it got too long.
Re: Old Key no longer working.
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 1:29 pm
by Captain Deathbeard
DON'T enter your name in the steam box. Just the key on its own in the steam box. Name & key for when kenshi starts up (which you won't need to do unless you've re-formatted your PC since last playing kenshi)
Re: Old Key no longer working.
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 5:15 pm
by TyrAlexander
Still nothing
Re: Old Key no longer working.
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 2:40 pm
by Captain Deathbeard
Is it possible you were one of the first buyers? There are a few keys still to send to steam yet from then.
Re: Old Key no longer working.
Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2013 6:30 am
by CookieEatingHuskarl
Chris_The_Great wrote:DON'T enter your name in the steam box. Just the key on its own in the steam box. Name & key for when kenshi starts up (which you won't need to do unless you've re-formatted your PC since last playing kenshi)
I've tried that one to begin with. Putting it in with the name was what I did when just putting the key in failed. But cheers Chris. Seems like my key works now.