right I had flight slim x on my pc and I had the same problem, I brought a new laptop good enough to play the game at ease, its a brand new game brought it the day before, and everytime I go to activate it, it says there a technical error and that I cant activate it, try doing it by phone but that says the same thing, I can play the game fine just kicks me off like 20-30 minutes due to not activating, playing the game on windows 8 and my pc was ex, im getting frustrated as all I want to do is play the game ! help please