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GoldenEagle
01-09-2006, 05:04 PM
My girlfriend and I enjoy playing RTS games. She recently moved in with me and we now have computers side by side. Yesterday, we played the first Empire Earth together over the LAN without a hitch. We were able to play the computer. Anyway, we plan on taking our game to play others on the Internet. But today, I tried and load up my game and everything has gone haywire. We can not join the same LAN game. Our versions do not match.

What I did was start the game up and then give her the CD. Well, we entered the same CD key on both versions since we are in the same household. I think that is what caused my game to change versions.

Is there a workable solution around this? Is what I am doing considered ethical? Would it be best just to break down and buy another copy of all the games we want to play together?

Deattribution
01-09-2006, 05:08 PM
Certain games it works fine with, infact, some games encourage it as long as you are doing it via LAN. So I guess the ethical side of it depends on the game you're playing.

Concerning your problem, It almost sounds like one of you automatically updated - to have two different versions now...