Red Alert 3 Unplayable Online for Many Through Steam

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Those who bought Red Alert 3 during Steam's holiday sale are finding themselves with a partially useless game purchased at an admittedly excellent price. Steam users report that the downloaded copies of Red Alert 3 don't include serial numbers, which the game requires for online play. A similar issue occurred through Steam with SPORE.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digg/topic/playable_web_games/popular/~4/0AB3S-VPHRU" height="1" width="1"/

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[Bloodnok]

This now meant to be fixed but if you have issues try this

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Steam Support.

The issue which was causing users to be unable to play Steam purchases of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 online should now be resolved.


If you are still experiencing this problem, please take the following steps:

-If you are running in Windows Vista or Windows 7, please completely exit Steam, and right-click on the shortcut which you use to launch Steam and select "Run as Administrator."

-If you are running in Windows XP, take the following steps:
1) Exit Steam.
2) Go to the "Start" menu, select "Run", type "regedit" and click "OK".
3) Navigate to the following registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\VALVE
4) Right click and select "Permissions"
5) Check the boxes for "Admin" and "System" to "Full control" and "Read".

Please verify the GCF for this game:
Title: Verifying Game Cache Files (GCF)
Link: http://support.steampowered.com/kb_a...2037-QEUH-3335

If you have any further questions, or this message did not pertain to your issue, please update your ticket and we will be happy to assist you further.

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[Amesy]

Your not missing much. C&C3 was much better.