So you suggest I leave my car locked away in the garage with the doors boarded up too, in case someone steals it and uses it in a bank robbery as a getaway car?
You have installed the game with an illegal key. This is not a big issue, IF you really own the game. But you have to admit it does sound a bit suspicious. This is not common at all.
And the fact that your key works, does not mean it can't be pirated. illegal keys work, for the game. We have had plenty of members here that oviously were playing with a blacklisted key but who were found out about when they tried to get on the forum with it. But you can't use the patches AFAIK, and didnt you report patch V1.3 not working in another topic?
We cannot force you to register your key into the forum, obviously. But as far as the game goes, you don't own it. VSTEP owns the software, you only buy a license to use it. Your reason for not registering it, in my eyes, is weird. You bought it, why not use it? VSTEP is not EA. And if you prove you have it, you will never be banned or blacklisted, even when someone happens to get a hold of your key without you knowing this or when it's not your fault whatsoever.
The people at VSTEP are very helpfull and if you have done nothing wrong you will be helped. Not just disregarded as "another pirate" as an inpersonal giant like EA would do. VSTEP actually care about their customers, EA just cares about money. (Is my personal experience with them when I had problems with their products)
Why pass up on the restricted areas of the forum when this is something else you have a right to with the product you have bought, is what I wonder? You're not protecting VSTEP from someone using your key illegally or yourself from getting into trouble if this happens, you're only limiting your own enjoyment, as far as I am concerned. People that want to do wrong WILL do so anyway, wether you register your valid key or not. So that's why I think your reason is a weird one. But i will be the first to apologize if I would be proven wrong.
So....I guess you just have to miss out on technical support and other extras like added content, multiplayer and of course bug fixes.
Regards,
Fred