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Call of Duty 4

I have the same problem....

agentkev said:
Picked it up at Fry's today. But it won't play; error message says "Not authorized" and it doesn't matter if I try to play as Admin or not. Can't figure it out . . . yet.
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Picked COD4 on Saturday at Fry's. I get the same "not authorized" error. You should definitely go to Aspyr's support website and open a trouble ticket. The louder the complaints, the faster they'll take the issue seriously.

IMO Aspyr has terrible QC if they actually shipped a product that won't install and work on a stock Mac configs. (It's not like the PC world where they have a million different configs to test.)

I suspect the problem is related to the DRM/copy protection, but we'll have to wait for the official word.

In the meantime, has anybody gotten this game to work?
 
just got it at Fry's earlier today and have the same problem. Did anyone try opening a ticket on Aspyr's support site? I just did and hopefully someone will know what's going on. I'm thinking it has something to do with the fact that there's a cd key on the back of the manual but it doesn't ask for one during installation.

Hopefully this gets fixed, I don't want to be regretting not getting Spore instead :(
 
Delu said:
just got it at Fry's earlier today and have the same problem. Did anyone try opening a ticket on Aspyr's support site? I just did and hopefully someone will know what's going on. I'm thinking it has something to do with the fact that there's a cd key on the back of the manual but it doesn't ask for one during installation.

Hopefully this gets fixed, I don't want to be regretting not getting Spore instead :(
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I'm already regretting this.
 
jimby said:
I'm already regretting this.
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lol, I've been searching online for anyone else having this problem but it seems that we are the only three people to purchase the game.

Is this the reward I get for patiently waiting for a mac version instead of just getting it for windows? No wonder mac gamers don't exist, the games are released a year later and don't work.

EDIT: So apparently there's six reviews up on the apple store for the game and nobody's mentioning the problems we're having. This is the first the first time I bought a game for my mac that wasn't also for pc (all of Blizzard's games) and it looks like the last.
 
Delu said:
EDIT: So apparently there's six reviews up on the apple store for the game and nobody's mentioning the problems we're having. This is the first the first time I bought a game for my mac that wasn't also for pc (all of Blizzard's games) and it looks like the last.
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3 of those 6 reviews were put up before the official release date of the game, so I suspect some of those posters are just babbling on about the game on a different platform.
 
Just got this in from Aspyr:
Unfortunately, the copy of Call of Duty 4 that you have is a faulty version of the game. The store in which you purchased the game from was not supposed to distribute the disks.

To get a disk replacement please send the disc (no packaging, or any included material), the receipt, and a note explaining the issue to:

Aspyr Media Inc.
Attn: Returns
PO Box 5861
Austin, TX 78763

We will be able to send you a working version of Call of Duty 4 when the new discs become available. If you would like a pre-paid envelope please reply back to this email with your name and address and we will send it as soon as possible.

We would also deeply appreciate if you could provide us with any of the following information:

Name of the store you bought the game from.
City in which the store is located.
State
Zip code
Store number of the retail outlet (if available) which can usually be found on the receipt.

We are sorry for the inconvenience.

Thank you for contacting Aspyr Media Technical Support.
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I'm guessing that Fry's was sent this first batch of COD4 and were asked to send them back once when this problem was discovered but instead just sold them.
 
well Ron, if you took the time to actually read up about the game you'd see that NO, even your G5 can't run it..it's intel only...
 
Delu said:
Just got this in from Aspyr:
I'm guessing that Fry's was sent this first batch of COD4 and were asked to send them back once when this problem was discovered but instead just sold them.
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I got the same email too. It's very unusual for a software publisher to ship a product that is this screwed up. Usually products can be patched, but this is bad run of discs, which means that someone at the publisher wasn't checking the manufacturing samples.

Also, publishers usually do only one batch of discs for distribution, which means that most likely the entire run of discs is screwed.
 
Is it just me or WTF! These people do this for a living and they ship bad discs right from the get go, un-f'n-believable I say! Like how hard is it to do a check of a production disc before you pack and ship it to be sold...? Total hack jobs I say, it's a video game not brain surgery...guess they gotta quit givin out degrees to potheads with a 6 month certificate...

These morons should be fired, period. I can only imagine how many other bugs and shotty work is in the actual game, since they can't even get the first run discs to install, bah to these n00bs!!!

Sad thing is, I'll still get the damn game, but not until I see how they reconcile their n00b arses...
 
Aspyr asking for COD4 disks to be sent back . . .

I was hoping that the disks aren't actually bad, but that the game won't play if it "thinks" the system date and time are prior to the "official" release date. No joy; unless the "official" date is after October 10th and setting the date later than 10/10 makes it work. Looks like I'll be waiting for Aspyr to send me a pre-paid envelope; if it takes 'em longer than a week, I'll be returning to Fry's with the Aspyr e-mail, asking to speak to a manager, and requesting my money back. If that doesn't work, a letter to Fry's with a cc: to the Washington State Attorney General along with a copy of the Aspyr e-mail and a copy of the receipt might get the job done.

Too bad; I was really looking forward to playing this game, natively, on the Mac.
 
Shipping unusable, unpatchable, broken product to retail, and then requiring your paying customers to return the disc for a replacement is about as bad as it gets for a software publisher.

I worked in the computer game industry for 6 years as a producer for two major publishers, and we shipped lots of product, and I never saw anything this bad. We never had to recall a product that was shipped to retail. If a game had a problem, we sometimes had the first patch ready for online download before the product actually showed up in stores. It usually takes 4 weeks or more from the disc manufacturing run at the plant to the product hitting the shelves at retail - plenty of enough time to get your act together.

In the case of COD4 someone was asleep at the switch; most likely manufacturing samples weren't properly checked before they okayed the manufacturing run. Worse, nobody actually checked the shipping product (a publisher's last chance to identify problems about a week before retail delivery).

These facts are obvious because the Aspyr website had no mention of the problem with this title even after the launch date; indeed, the website still had the "COD4 - Coming Soon" notices up, which is deplorable for a publisher with product on the shelves.

I don't know for certain, but I suspect that the problem is from a copy-protection process applied during manufacturing (such as SecuROM by Sony DADC). Aspyr could have shipped a working gold master to the plant, but it may have been screwed up in manufacturing - still no excuse for not checking the sample discs.

And Aspyr blaming retail for putting "faulty" discs on their shelves is really lame. That's what retail does; you ship them product, and they put it on the shelves.

What a mess.
 
BigRig said:
Total hack jobs I say, it's a video game not brain surgery...guess they gotta quit givin out degrees to potheads with a 6 month certificate...
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Hey now, ain't nothing wrong with a plant.

But really, what's more awesome is that it was delayed so long that this is just salt in the wound.
 
Plants are fine by me, it's just the mental level of some people that choose to use :cool:

Anyone know if there is a co-op option?
 
Is this a cider port?

I'm only asking because it seems like cider ports play horribly in OSX, and beautiful in boot camp. So do you guys think the MAC version will play just as smooth as the PC version?
 
t19880821 said:
Is this a cider port?

I'm only asking because it seems like cider ports play horribly in OSX, and beautiful in boot camp. So do you guys think the MAC version will play just as smooth as the PC version?
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Play? We're trying to get the damn thing to run!
 
does anyone know if there are legal downloadable distributions available online? That might not have this problem?
 
Delu said:
Just got this in from Aspyr:


I'm guessing that Fry's was sent this first batch of COD4 and were asked to send them back once when this problem was discovered but instead just sold them.
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Incase you guys havent realized, the official release isnt until September 30th, so if you are buying them somewhere right now,and not preordering them, then they are likely doing so illegally (the store that is) thats why Aspyr wants the name of the store...they are likely to get in some serious ****. Its like that at video stores, they get movies 4-7days a head of time to prep them, etc, and cannot sell or rent until the release date.
That might be why they arent working, because its not even released...maybe they have some sort of prerelease protection??
 
http://www.gameagent.com/store/aspyr/DisplayHomePage

Its available for online purchase at Aspyr's GameAgent website.
Its downloading now(6.8 gigs, ugh)...hopefully I'll work and not a lame cider port :/

UPDATE: Installed the game and didn't have any problems w/activation. Works quite good at medium-high settings(1440x900 res) on 2.4 MBP, 4 Gigs of RAM, 8600 GT.
 
marclapierre13 said:
Incase you guys havent realized, the official release isnt until September 30th, so if you are buying them somewhere right now,and not preordering them, then they are likely doing so illegally (the store that is) thats why Aspyr wants the name of the store...they are likely to get in some serious ****. Its like that at video stores, they get movies 4-7days a head of time to prep them, etc, and cannot sell or rent until the release date.
That might be why they arent working, because its not even released...maybe they have some sort of prerelease protection??
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Wrong. The discs have a manufacturing problem. Aspyr has admitted this in email:

"Unfortunately, the copy of Call of Duty 4 that you have is a faulty version of the game."
 
Kyouya said:
UPDATE: Installed the game and didn't have any problems w/activation. Works quite good at medium-high settings(1440x900 res) on 2.4 MBP, 4 Gigs of RAM, 8600 GT.
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So you've got it running how does it compare to the PC version is it just as good? I'm waiting for some reviews before I go buy it :D
 
Site error

When i try to download the game from gameagent.com i get error "SIT_000002". Before i even get to the payment screen.
Anyone know what the **** is going on? :S
 
I downloaded from game agent it last friday, 1.3 mb/s speed, it was pretty fast in about 1 hour and a half it was done. I runs pretty smooth on my MBP, the only thing I had to deactivate was the AA and Sync every frame option. The resolution works perpfect at 1440x900. The only thing I am not comfortable with is the 1.5.549 version it has about 443 servers compared to the 1.7 version on pc which has about 14,000 :eek:.
 
Chali427 said:
I downloaded from game agent it last friday, 1.3 mb/s speed, it was pretty fast in about 1 hour and a half it was done. I runs pretty smooth on my MBP, the only thing I had to deactivate was the AA and Sync every frame option. The resolution works perpfect at 1440x900. The only thing I am not comfortable with is the 1.5.549 version it has about 443 servers compared to the 1.7 version on pc which has about 14,000 :eek:.
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Chali, can you please tell us the framerates you're getting? And what settings (low, med, high)?

The only reason I ask is because 30FPS is good to some people, while for others (like me) it's pretty laggy.

I'll only get it if average FPS is 40 (even though acceptable framerates for COD4 is 50+).
 
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