How do I activate Soulstorm through steam?

[horse]

I've tried numerous times and it won't work. I put in the cd keys in the product activation utility and it just tells me Invalid Product Code. The steam support page is pretty much useless.I registered on the steam forums to ask this question but it won't let me post anything yet.

Does it matter where the game is installed?

 

[Spanks]

Are you trying to activate a retail version?

 

[horse]

yeah, hard copy

 

[limitedaccess]

Steam is a digital distribution platform. Only games that are bought through it, games that use it as part of its distribution/DRM, or brought through channels with business ties to it (this is more rare, see Humble Bundle for example, certain Nvidia game promos, etc) can be activated through the service.

A physical copy of Soulstorm is neither of these.

 

[Gardack]

Assuming you mean Dawn of War: Soulstorm I don't see any mention of it being a Steamworks game on the wiki page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warhammer_40,000:_Dawn_of_War:_Soulstorm

 

[horse]

Well I'm sure I read somewhere that this could be done. SS was supposedly one of the first games to be able to do this I thought. Hmm... I'm confused now.