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Old 03-19-2019, 12:03 PM   #21
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I work in IT and this guy is literally the example of the worst customers I get. The type of people that make you hate people. Markus/Lukas you guys handled this situation great - kudos.
I know, paying for a game early and expecting to be able to play it on release date, crazy for me to think that.
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Old 03-19-2019, 12:12 PM   #22
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I know, paying for a game early and expecting to be able to play it on release date, crazy for me to think that.
Pete, I get it that you are frustrated. And I would love to help you, but unfortunately I can't directly, we have no access to the eSellerate code / system.

Are you sure you followed all the troubleshooting steps, like disabling firewalls / virus scanners? As I said, this kind of problem is exteremely rare, like only one out of 2,000 customers have issues with the activation.
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Old 03-19-2019, 12:23 PM   #24
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Pete, I get it that you are frustrated. And I would love to help you, but unfortunately I can't directly, we have no access to the eSellerate code / system.

Are you sure you followed all the troubleshooting steps, like disabling firewalls / virus scanners? As I said, this kind of problem is exteremely rare, like only one out of 2,000 customers have issues with the activation.
Yes. All firewalls/virus scanners have been turned off since I downloaded. I cannot activate online or offline.
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Old 03-19-2019, 12:52 PM   #25
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I know, paying for a game early and expecting to be able to play it on release date, crazy for me to think that.
Hello Pete- I so very much appreciate your frustration here. And I don't want this to devolve into an argument where you get denigrated and you respond with anger and defensiveness.

I think you are absolutely right that if this happens to you every year that is a problem. But I think the point that others are making here is that this doesn't happen to the vast majority of people here, either every year or even any year. So this is not to put the blame on you but it is to say that clearly something needs to be resolved, hopefully before this happens next year, that seems to be pretty much unique to your circumstance.

I hear that the developers are trying their hardest to work with you to try to identify what might be going wrong, but also that there are things out of their hands. Hopefully eSellerate can help you identify what keeps going wrong and help you to avoid it in the future.

Again, your frustration is understandable and I certainly sympathize.
But it does seem like you are mis-directing your frustration a bit at this point. I hope that with the help of those best situated to identify the problem you will be contentedly playing OOTP20 soon.
I believe it will be worth the wait, as always. But hopefully in the future you won't have to wait so long.
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Old 03-19-2019, 01:08 PM   #26
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While unique, it happens on all my devices with any internet connection I use.

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Hello Pete- I so very much appreciate your frustration here. And I don't want this to devolve into an argument where you get denigrated and you respond with anger and defensiveness.

I think you are absolutely right that if this happens to you every year that is a problem. But I think the point that others are making here is that this doesn't happen to the vast majority of people here, either every year or even any year. So this is not to put the blame on you but it is to say that clearly something needs to be resolved, hopefully before this happens next year, that seems to be pretty much unique to your circumstance.

I hear that the developers are trying their hardest to work with you to try to identify what might be going wrong, but also that there are things out of their hands. Hopefully eSellerate can help you identify what keeps going wrong and help you to avoid it in the future.

Again, your frustration is understandable and I certainly sympathize.
But it does seem like you are mis-directing your frustration a bit at this point. I hope that with the help of those best situated to identify the problem you will be contentedly playing OOTP20 soon.
I believe it will be worth the wait, as always. But hopefully in the future you won't have to wait so long.
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While unique, it happens on all my devices with any internet connection I use.
What do you mean by any internet connection?

There is only 2 things that can stop the activation. Either Windows configuration or something on your Router.

You could try disabling wifi on your cell phone and using its LTE as a hotspot connecting to it with computer and trying to activate.

Or you get a 2nd hard disk or ssd and install fresh install of windows. boot to that and try activation.

Either way to troubleshoot it. We would need a ton of information about your computer with OOTP installed on it and your router. But we would have to start eliminating problems. Only way to do it is with a different computer hooked up to your network, your computer hooked up to a different network, clean computer hooked up to a different network.

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While unique, it happens on all my devices with any internet connection I use.
Yes, I hear you. And I am certainly no tech expert (far from it! )
But clearly something is consistently breaking down and it is very unlikely something that the OOTP developers have direct control over, from the evidence at hand. I sincerely hope that you can get to the bottom of this soon and never have this issue again.

A little anecdote that likely won't be any help at all (): I order a lot of clothing online. Other than baseball, things sartorial are a primary passion of mine. And I very much trust the few main online sources I use for this. But one time a package was marked as delivered but I never received it. I didn't know if someone had stolen it or what kind of mix up might have happened. It wasn't a huge order, monetarily one of my smallest. So I just figured it was a lost cause and moved on. But a few weeks later I happened to notice a small package sitting on the porch of a neighbor across the street. Not quite sure how long it had been there or why they didn't identify that it was for someone right across the street and bring it to me. But it had the look of the packaging the company I purchased my clothing from used. I hesitantly walked onto their porch (it didn't seem anyone was home) and sure enough it was my missing package.
Yes, I know, this was a one-time deal and not a repeated problem. I know it's not the same. But my essential point is that in any transaction process there is no assurance of 100% success. And often the problem isn't with the provider of the product or the consumer, but something that goes wrong in between. That's probably the case here too, but since it is something that is happening consistently there is more motivation to fix it but also more reason to believe that once it is fixed all will be smooth moving forward.
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Old 03-19-2019, 01:42 PM   #29
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Pete, I get it that you are frustrated. And I would love to help you, but unfortunately I can't directly, we have no access to the eSellerate code / system.

Are you sure you followed all the troubleshooting steps, like disabling firewalls / virus scanners? As I said, this kind of problem is exteremely rare, like only one out of 2,000 customers have issues with the activation.
Markus/Lukas,

I was able to get the game activated. As a troubleshooting method, I deleted and re-installed the game, disconnected from my internet connection at work, connected via my personal hotspot on my cell phone and was able to activate online. Not sure if there was a connection on my office wi-fi that was blocking the activation back (Lukas mentioned it appeared it was an issue coming back to my machine) but that is what worked.

Apologies for sounding off, but the process is amazingly frustrating, and has happened outside of my work wifi. And I have to go through this process every year.
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Yes. All firewalls/virus scanners have been turned off since I downloaded. I cannot activate online or offline.
Did you try this way? It gives a phone number to call.
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If you have an eSellerate Publisher account, there are two main methods of contacting eSellerate Client Services to request support: Submit a Ticket via the Support Portal or Send an E-mail Message.
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eSellerate Publishers can log on to the support portal with just one click and no need to enter any credentials - just click the Support link at the top right-hand corner of any page in the control panel.



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For publishers who prefer e-mail over using the portal, you need never log on or view the portal at all (though the Knowledge Base is highly recommended). But if you need to look back at a previous support e-mail message you have sent from an address associated with your publisher account (or received from Client Services at such an address), the portal will have a record of it. Replying to an e-mail message received from Client Services will automatically update the ticket record to include your response.

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Old 03-19-2019, 01:49 PM   #31
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Additionally, started the game in Safe Mode to activate.

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Markus/Lukas,

I was able to get the game activated. As a troubleshooting method, I deleted and re-installed the game, disconnected from my internet connection at work, connected via my personal hotspot on my cell phone and was able to activate online. Not sure if there was a connection on my office wi-fi that was blocking the activation back (Lukas mentioned it appeared it was an issue coming back to my machine) but that is what worked.

Apologies for sounding off, but the process is amazingly frustrating, and has happened outside of my work wifi. And I have to go through this process every year.
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Markus/Lukas,

I was able to get the game activated. As a troubleshooting method, I deleted and re-installed the game, disconnected from my internet connection at work, connected via my personal hotspot on my cell phone and was able to activate online. Not sure if there was a connection on my office wi-fi that was blocking the activation back (Lukas mentioned it appeared it was an issue coming back to my machine) but that is what worked.

Apologies for sounding off, but the process is amazingly frustrating, and has happened outside of my work wifi. And I have to go through this process every year.
Exactly what I said lol. Work network come on. Most work networks are severely locked down. Even your home router might not be optimally setup especially if you aren't gaming with other stores/consoles/pc games etc. Routers out of the box are setup awfully most of the time. Especially if the router is provided by your internet service provider.

That needs to be the 1st thing you mention in post #1, come on really lol

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Old 03-19-2019, 02:15 PM   #33
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Exactly what I said lol. Work network come on. Most work networks are severely locked down. Even your home router might not be optimally setup especially if you aren't gaming with other stores/consoles/pc games etc. Routers out of the box are setup awfully most of the time. Especially if the router is provided by your internet service provider.

That needs to be the 1st thing you mention in post #1, come on really lol

It didn't work on my home network, or hotspot initially either. So not exactly what you said lol Safemode seems to be the missing piece from what I did yesterday,.
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Exactly what I said lol. Work network come on. Most work networks are severely locked down. Even your home router might not be optimally setup especially if you aren't gaming with other stores/consoles/pc games etc. Routers out of the box are setup awfully most of the time. Especially if the router is provided by your internet service provider.

That needs to be the 1st thing you mention in post #1, come on really lol

This whole topic doesn't make sense to me. He said he tried it on multiple, different internet connections, with all his devices, and it did not work. Then out of nowhere, using one of his devices, it magically works. Something is not right here.
I'm a retired CPA and had clients that would do this to me.
I fired them.
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Its always either network or windows config.

either the hotspot fixed it or safe mode. since safe mode doesn't load up any startup items and its a base config.

sometimes peoples safe modes are still messed up thats where the clean install is needed.
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Its always either network or windows config.

either the hotspot fixed it or safe mode. since safe mode doesn't load up any startup items and its a base config.

sometimes peoples safe modes are still messed up thats where the clean install is needed.
I know nothing about computers. But, I have common sense. If the same issue keeps happening to me, year after year consistently;
I would come to the conclusion, that there is a problem on my end.
Am I missing something here?
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Really glad you got and working, that's great news!

Sorry it has to be such a frustrating process

I really wish it was something we had more control over. There are just so many variables here when you're dealing with different networks and routers and anti-virus programs etc. It's frustrating for everyone involved.

At least there's happy ending now, I'm really glad of that!
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This whole topic doesn't make sense to me. He said he tried it on multiple, different internet connections, with all his devices, and it did not work. Then out of nowhere, using one of his devices, it magically works. Something is not right here.
I'm a retired CPA and had clients that would do this to me.
I fired them.
I truly think opening the game in Safe Mode is what got me through it. That's the only thing I did different. Posting because others have reported a similar issue.
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Really glad you got and working, that's great news!

Sorry it has to be such a frustrating process

I really wish it was something we had more control over. There are just so many variables here when you're dealing with different networks and routers and anti-virus programs etc. It's frustrating for everyone involved.

At least there's happy ending now, I'm really glad of that!
Might be helpful to throw into the help database opening the game in safemode from the start menu in Windows. It's the only thing I did different from my other attempts and it worked. Thanks for your patience with my attitude.
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Might be helpful to throw into the help database opening the game in safemode from the start menu in Windows. It's the only thing I did different from my other attempts and it worked. Thanks for your patience with my attitude.
Yeah, I'll add that to our instructions, as that might end up being super helpful for some other folks.
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