"Another user has logged in with your License Code."

(Sniper_94) #1

Or something along those lines. This is the second time this has happened. It has something to do with my brother and me, we can’t play together. I don’t remember how we fixed this last time, but we did.

So I’m asking, is there a fix, and how?

(Dthy) #2

If you’ve both registered an online account with the same CD key, you can’t play online at the same time. For you to both play online you’d need separate keys. You can however play LAN with one key.

(Sniper_94) #3

Could be it, so can I simply make a new account and it will work?

(Dragonji) #4

I think you just have to buy one more copy of the game.

(Dthy) #5

To both play online at the same time, you’d need a different CD key, so another copy of the game.

(Sniper_94) #6

But I should have a different CD key. I did however play on his Steam account with my own ETQW account before I got my own ETQW account on my own Steam account.

(Dthy) #7

I’m not sure since I don’t own the game through steam, but I think you’d need to make a new account since your account is tied to that key on his steam account.

(Aristotle) #8

If you didn’t buy ETQW twice through steam, and just downloaded it on two PC’s, then you still have to buy another copy of the game, either through steam or a physical copy.

(Runeforce) #9

If his brother bought it Steam and he bought on Steam, he shouldn’t have to buy it again!

But if you are using the same license key, the only way to play together, is on un-official servers, and there is not a lot if those around (in fact I don’t know of any. Ps. At least since the authentication server got back up :wink: )

Perhaps you bought two licenses of the game, but used the same license key to create your accounts (by mistake)? Either that, or you are A PIRATE (Yaaaaarghhh,) CONDEMMED TO HELL BY THE POWERS THAT BE! (Or your account got hacked! Perhaps your brother used it?)

(Aristotle) #10

[QUOTE=lakersforce;404894]If his brother bought it Steam and he bought on Steam, he shouldn’t have to buy it again!
[/QUOTE]

OMG, LIKE SERIOUSLY? NO ****ING WAY!?!!?!

Read what I replied to again. He never said his brother bought it, and then he bought it again. Just that he played the SAME QW account on both steam accounts.

(Runeforce) #11
  1. Find your own key (somewhere in Steam or on the back of the manual) 2. Compare it to your brothers and make sure it is not the same. 3. Create an QW account with your own key. 4. Team up with your brother (or against him) and frag, frag, frag!

OMG, LIKE SERIOUSLY? NO ***ING WAY!?!!?! Or my favorite insult: No shi, Sherlock? You must be a ****ing genius!

Actually he said he played with an account on his brothers Steam account, and then got a new account from his own Steam, with a different license key (as I understood it.)

But yeah, if they do not own two license keys (one each,) your words hold true. In order to play the game on two accounts simultaneously you would have to own two licenses (unless your play on “LAN-server”, which btw. can be played over the internet, in which case you don’t need any license at all…technically.)

My guess would be he logged into the account created with his brothers key instead of his own, and he now gets kicked when his brother gets online. You have to use the account with your own key, my brother, if you want to play with your brother! :slight_smile:

In short: create a new QW account, with your own unique key and not your brothers. And likewise, make sure your brother has not created any accounts with your key. In-game you can look up what accounts are tied to a particular key, by typing in the key, at the user selection/creation screen (which is skipped if a user is set as default, in which case you would have to log off your user!)

Long live the license code strategy: divide and conquer!

(Humate) #12

Its two aliases registered with the same key, played at the same time.
The error does not come up otherwise.

(INF3RN0) #13

If he is trying to play on the account registered on his friends key… he just has to make a new account on his new key. I can’t remember if there was a way to change the key used on an account, but if there was that’s what he would have to do to keep that account.

(Gvardman) #14

I don’t think so, because he won’t be able to see servers list at all (if you are in lan account and trying to click “Online game” game will say that you need an online account :slight_smile: )

(badman) #15

[QUOTE=Humate;404920]Its two aliases registered with the same key, played at the same time.
The error does not come up otherwise.[/QUOTE]
This. Player accounts are tied to license keys (and not installs), and there is no way to move a player account from one license key to another.