What will reformatting do to BF2 CD Key?

[malbur]

Hey this is my first time posting but I have attempted to search this forum for anything to help with my situation and I appologise if I repeat a question I did not find.

Anyways, I just bought Battlefield 2 and am loving it. However, I am going to college soon and at my school I will be obtaining Windows XP and as a result will reformat my hard drive to install that. Now normally this would not be a problem but in a discussion with a friend recently, he claimed that battlefield 2 is not tied to a EA games registration name but it is instead tied to the actual computer. Is this true? If I reformat will I lose my ability to play BF2 due to the "CD Key is not valid" error that people recieve with borrowed or fake cd keys? Any help would be excellent!

[SMeeD]

I dont think so. Ive had my BF2 installed on my other computer with the same key for a LAN and it worked fine. Even if it didnt work, you could probably get a new key from EA.

[Talus]

You will have no problem whatsoever.

You can even play your BF2 account on somebody's else's computer with their CD key in their registry.

You can play your copy of BF2 or play your BF2 account on ANY computer you want.

You can only have 1 account per unique CD key playing online at any one time.

[malbur]

Thanks very much! Thats what I thought but its always best to double check

[Talus]

Yup...I'm gonna be sad the day that PC games start linking themselves to specific hardware.

Operating systems are already going that way and it makes me sick...

[malbur]

Will that really ever succeed though due to the fact that a company which provided the users with this security "service" would in term be ridiculed for the fact that their solution would make it impossible for gamers to reformat and reinstall or buy a new system? The current solution found through EA and Valve (and others I am sure I do not know of) with accounts showing the companies what games you have seems more than adaquate...