This product no longer gives 5 activations. In addition to this assault on our money, it also doesn't activate, or show up in product orders pages. Not thrilled to discover that I am no longer getting 5 activations on 5 personal computers. And this is just insult to injury since I can't even activate the one I just bought. It was sent to the email address. I typed it in. However it is not activatable.
Additionally I will DIE before I will fill out another CAPTCHA from the RECAPTCHA SERVICE, (buses, bicycles street signs etc) which is used to identify IP ranges so that they can be BLOCKED by websites. Which is what Stardock is requiring me to use just to look up my product keys, after paying about 39.99 usd for my ONE (1) activation of this software. Which doesn't activate. I will NOT deal with the RECAPTCHA discrimination and identification service any more.
OK I FOUND my keys, but they were not sent to my new account, but my old account, which I changed, so that I could purchase the licenses again freshly and get a new key, for a few dollars more than it would have been to resubscribe, so that I could get an additional 5 machines with the new activation. Which turns out to only be 1 machine, which is a problem for me, as I'd expected 5 activations as before.
Now I have a total of 6 machines on the same account. Or do I have more than just one key with the new product activation? I will have to see later on if it activates to another computer, but it stated clearly that it is now only for one computer, which I did not expect. I found this info only when dealing with trying to find the product order, after purchasing the software.
I didn't assign or purchase the key to/with any old Stardock account or address. I used the new Stardock account I am using to type this. Even though I paid with the same payment name. So what happens if two people have the same name? This isn't appropriate to send to the old account and assign the keys to the old account, based only on the name/credit info used in payment. I had sent the key to my 2nd account's email address and even indicated it as a gift purchase. Then I received the key at that email. I doubt very much that I used the same method to pay in 2017 when I first bought the product.
I truly intend to give this product as a gift to my new wife's children. However I would like to protect my name and address from her old husband. So how do you go around sending my gift automatically to an old account, which will reveal my name and not keep me anonymous? WTF is ACTUALLY going on here? Is this all some kind of RUSE? Is my MONEY being kept behind another internet border by some force of software piraters? I need explanations and I need them fast, with only 3 weeks till Christmas.
