Is it safe to buy a USED copy of Sins?

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Hi All,

 

I am just wondering if it is safe to buy a used copy of Sins? From what I understand, Stardock allows a limited number of license key registrations for the registration to be considered "valid" and therefore for me to download subsequent patches, etc. The person I would like to buy from said they only registered the game once but I have no way to verify that. I am worried that if they are lying all the registrations will already be used up? Thoughts?

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

The game serial can be registered to one account only.  Once registered, it can not be re-registered.  That account can install/activate the game as much as it likes.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Ya, the registration number can only be put on one account, though unlike many other games that account is free to install and update it as many times as you want. Thus, buying the game used is highly risky, because if he has registered the game to his impulse account the updates and thus multiplayer will be unavailable to you. To be safe I just wouldn't do it. Buy it new or digitally.

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Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Should be about the right time to start finding Trinity marked down in the stores.  Even at $40 it's a pretty good deal though.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting psychoak, reply 4
Should be about the right time to start finding Trinity marked down in the stores.  Even at $40 it's a pretty good deal though.
End of psychoak's quote

Yeah, and also occasionally they'll put either regular Sins or the expansions on sale on Impulse (often half price), though there is no guarantee that will happen anytime soon.

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting psychoak, reply 4
Should be about the right time to start finding Trinity marked down in the stores.  Even at $40 it's a pretty good deal though.
End of psychoak's quote

I saw it at Target for $30 last week.  As always, people need to keep their eyes open.  In the two weeks before Memorial day regular Sins was on sale for $4, making it $24 to get the game with both expansions.  After the $4 sale I think both expansions went on sale as a pack for $15, so it would have been possible to do it for $19.

Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting DirtySanchezz, reply 6
In the two weeks before Memorial day regular Sins was on sale for $4
End of DirtySanchezz's quote

 

Yeah, I actually remember that sale but at the time the computer I had wasn't sufficient to run it (old P4) but I just upgraded to an i7-860 and now I'm really regretting I didn't just buy it back then. =( I played the demo this weekend and it rocked.

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

you could have played sins & expansions on the p4, as I have even played sins on a celeron 1.8ghz with low settings and no problems.

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Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top

Hmmm I was, at the least, memory bound on the P4. I only had 512MB of RAM and during the demo then I was using it all and starting to swap to HDD via virtual memory. Also, I wasn't seeing any ship graphics (presumably due to the memory or something else)... all ships just looked like icons at any zoom level. I found this a little strange since Homeworld 1/2/Cataclysm all ran fine on that machine with comparable ship graphics quality (though I'm sure the poly count is higher with this game). At any rate, it runs on the computer I have now. I just have to buy it. :)

Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top

You really do want to have a minimum of 2 GB RAM for this game.

Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting psychoak, reply 4
Should be about the right time to start finding Trinity marked down in the stores.  Even at $40 it's a pretty good deal though.
End of psychoak's quote

grrrrr looks like i have to wait until christmas(or my b-day) >:( >:( X( :cylon: :cylon: