EA has done it again!

Let's assume now from that EA did not consider it necessary once again, the game in the current version to sell and actually remove at such an old game unnecessary copy protection:

Again EA has carved out an anthology box with invalid serial!
Got the game yesterday, and as with the anthology box before some are sold with invalid serial. That is, you can install the game so, but as soon as you want to play online you get the message: Invalid serial number "

It's a mystery to me, must be as limited you to make the same mistake 2 times in a row. I have 2 year old postings found, the report of exactly the same problem with the newly non-EA Classics version.
How can such a thing happen in a republishing again?
There are such problems but really only in EA games, I still remember my Battlefield 1942 when my CD-Key also from one day to the next was not valid ....
Now I have contacted support and I hope that I can play the game within the next two months as well. That's really crazy to be with this company!