Can steam detect cracked DLC’s?

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I bought skyrim on steam a while back.... and after playing it... alot, ive gotten slightly bored and dont know what to do in it. So i was thinking of getting the DLC's. But then i came to the conclusion to, i dont have enough money right now... so i was wondering, if i were to pirate the DLC's if pirate bay and install them on my legit, bought version of Skryim, can Steam detect the dlc's? have you heard of it happening to anyone? and also, if steam does catch, what would happen. what would they do??Any help would be appreciated! thanks!

Demetrius Gusikowski · Accepted Answer

1st, its not likely the pirated versions will work with a legal game. If you do manage to install them on Steam to use them, Steam will recognize them as pirated versions because they won't have the right codes for the DRM. Steam will also likely ban you as you will have broken the agreement you made with Steam when you made the account which says you will not violate any laws or copyright agreements, which is what pirated versions of games do.

Demetrius Gusikowski · Answer

A lot of people have done this and I have never heard of anyone complain about getting banned for it. Skyrim DLC works like any other mod. You just copy and paste some files into your data directory. They'd just show up as another DLC.However these DLC do have achievements. I have never pirated them so I don't know if achievements work if you don't actually have the DLC on your account. For Steam to find out someone would have to individually look at your achievements and see if you have the DLC achievements while not actually owning the DLC. Skyrim is one of the best selling games ever on Steam. I don't think Steam is going to go and individually check to see if every single person who owns the games pirated the DLC.With that being said you could always get banned. No one knows for sure.

Demetrius Gusikowski · Answer

Steam Cracked

Demetrius Gusikowski · Answer

I added cs go as a game and no I did not buy itIt was a pirated game and now I cant login to steam from the appAlthough I can login from the website but thats not helpful as I cant play games in my pc

Demetrius Gusikowski · Answer

No, you'll be perfectly fine because it's as if you're installing just another mod from the nexus, go for it.

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