From United States

I read the sticky post about the keys should be automatically enabled and done, so I shouldn't have to worry about them, but when I click on multiplayer it tells me to use the CD key changer thing. But I don't have any CD keys to use. I don't know where to find them, or anything. I checked the .pdf manuals, and they're not there either.

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olnorton

From Australia

Posted April 13, 2017

Go to your account > NWN2> view downloads> More> serial keys.

thehellslayer

From United States

olnorton: Go to your account > NWN2> view downloads> More> serial keys.

Vengeance47

From Sweden

For others where this didn't resolve your problem. Try swapping the two expansions keys around! No matter what I did the keys GoG gave me originally didn't work resulting in an unauthorised CD key error. The moment I swapped the two keys for the expansions I connected to servers instantly and haven't had an issue since.
N.B: There was an issue where the expansion keys were printed the wrong way around and this has possibly caused issues with GoGs database as well

Post edited April 17, 2017 by Vengeance47

Brother112

From Canada

mb65026

From United States

I must be crazy or something but i can't find where my keys are and the directions for my account and such isn't doing me any good. Help please. Is this under the gog website or on my computer or what?

Themken

From Other

mb65026: I must be crazy or something but i can't find where my keys are and the directions for my account and such isn't doing me any good. Help please. Is this under the gog website or on my computer or what?

Camthegrand

From United States

olnorton: Go to your account > NWN2> view downloads> More> serial keys.

Post edited May 13, 2017 by Camthegrand

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keepbotting

From United States

First, some backstory (not required reading):
I bought Neverwinter Nights here at GOG.com, noting the very fair price and lack of DRM as positive aspects.
I played through some singleplayer modules, then decided to run NWServer on my LAN server so me and my brother could play cooperatively.
To my dismay, we could not join the LAN server at the same time: all copies of NWN from GOG.com ship with the same CD-key. NWServer checks clients' CD keys against each other, and won't allow duplicates to join.
Not exactly DRM-free, now is it? But that's beside the point.
I Googled around a bit and quickly found the solution: request a new key from GOG. Easy enough, I sent a support ticket, sat back and waited.
Roughly six hours later, I received an email with a replacement nwncdkey.ini file, containing some unique CD keys.
Overall, I was quite impressed with the process, I had no problems and I'm not here to complain about that particular aspect.
What's my point?
My point is that about halfway through the entire process, I got tired of waiting and decided to scour the Internet for CD-keys to use.
You'd be surprised (maybe not) at how many places offer lists of static CD-keys, applications with which to generate unique CD-keys, and even cracks to remove CD-key checks entirely.
Having just bought the game, I felt completely justified using a combination of these tools to prepare a few versions of nwncdkey.ini, all of which possess unique CD-keys.
My point (or more, accurately, my question) is: why doesn't GOG.com do this? I doubt many people would care (or even realize) that methods of circumventing DRM were being used. It'd surely make a lot of peoples' lives easier.

kalbaern

From United States

Many of the CD Keys found on old lists or produced by key generators are banned on some older PWs (Persistent Worlds). If its just you and your brother, there's nothing to worry about. If however, you attempt to join a PW, you could find that the key you used has been banned. I've also encountered cases where 2 or more players on a PW used keys from a generator or listing of 'valid' keys and ended up with the same keys. Then, whoever logged in first would unintentionally block the others. Many PWs also block the generic GoG keys to prevent issues down the road.

Tallima

From United States

Key generators like to have trojans, also. I'd never go that route on a PC I cared about.
I'm hoping that once Galaxy is finished, they'll implement auto-CD-keys for NWN. We'll see.
When NWN came out on GOG, everything was like this. Request and get a CD key. But the newer games (like NWN2) automatically come with CD keys to put in.
Lastly, many folks consider CD-keys for multiplayer aspects to not be DRM. They consider multiplayer gaming a 'service.' I disagree whole-heartedly, but I also see their point. Multiplayer gaming has a lot of complications that single-player gaming does not. NWN was built to reference each character with a unique identifier and they used the CD-key as that identifier. So you have to have a unique key so that the game can figure out who you are as you play. Also, many modules use CD-key for various purposes (including banning and account protection security features).
So, it's useful. But it's be more useful if we just got a key when we got the game.

Darvin

From Canada

Tallima: I'm hoping that once Galaxy is finished, they'll implement auto-CD-keys for NWN. We'll see.
When NWN came out on GOG, everything was like this. Request and get a CD key. But the newer games (like NWN2) automatically come with CD keys to put in.

Tallima: Lastly, many folks consider CD-keys for multiplayer aspects to not be DRM. They consider multiplayer gaming a 'service.' I disagree whole-heartedly, but I also see their point. Multiplayer gaming has a lot of complications that single-player gaming does not. NWN was built to reference each character with a unique identifier and they used the CD-key as that identifier. So you have to have a unique key so that the game can figure out who you are as you play. Also, many modules use CD-key for various purposes (including banning and account protection security features).

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