Can steam detect cracked DLC’s?

Question

I bought Skyrim on Steam a while back, and after playing it a lot, I've gotten slightly bored and don't know what to do in the game. I was thinking of getting the DLCs, but I realized that I don't have enough money right now. I was wondering, if I were to pirate the DLCs from Pirate Bay and install them on my legitimate copy of Skyrim, can Steam detect the DLCs? Have you heard of it happening to anyone? Also, if Steam does detect them, what would happen? What would be the consequences? Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!

Anonymous · 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.

Anonymous · 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.

Millie Wiza III · Answer

Steam Cracked

Anonymous · Answer

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

Anonymous · Answer

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

Nathaniel Dooley

Can steam detect cracked DLC’s?

5 Answers

AI-Powered Insights

Want to answer this question?

Categories

Tags

Related Questions