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Uploading a game to steam?

My computer recently started crashing constantly so I had to get a new harddrive for it.
I thought when you bought a game the product key was good for at least two loads?
I’m trying to load Dead Island to my computer and Steam, but when I try it tells me the product code has already been used which yeah it has once on my old harddrive.
I’m not going to go out and buy the game again for like however much it costs now.
Is there any way to get another product key for the game so I can load it?

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taway20 offline Verified User (2 years, 5 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Unknown Location | 10 months ago (38 minutes after post)

If it’s the x-box dead island all you have to do is contact Microsoft and they can fix the problem so your code will work again unless you have a pirated copy.

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Anonymous #
10 months ago (59 minutes after post)

It’s a pc version and it’s the real version bought in a store. I just decided to contact Steam to see if they’d help me out because I thought even with pc versions, the code should work at least twice.

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SlightlyUnique offline Verified User (4 years, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 10 months ago (1 hour, 9 minutes after post)

nope - the code only works once - it ties the game into your steam account

all you need to do is log into the steam account that you originally purchased the game with (rather than a new one) and you are away :)

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Anonymous #
10 months ago (1 hour, 11 minutes after post)

I bought a hard copy of the game at Best Buy. And when I log into my Steam account and look at my games it shows every game but Dead Island. And even when I tried to load it it was like this game has been loaded and it sent an email to my email. But my game is not on my Steam account anywhere.

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Anonymous #
10 months ago (1 hour, 12 minutes after post)

It just annoying that it tells me the game is on my account and the game isn’t.

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SlightlyUnique offline Verified User (4 years, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 10 months ago (1 hour, 16 minutes after post)

if it was there then the only people that can help would be steam themselves…

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