I can foresee a potential problem here...
If people get part-way into Dawnguard, only to have it removed further down the track, will that screw up their saved games?
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Well, that's a nice question. If you think like that, yes it will screw up their save games.
But if you think again, they'll have the DLC installed on their PC, so they might not get screwed. Dunno what they'll do with activations and so on, this kind of mistake never happen.
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Skyrim DLC comes in .esm format, therefore you have to activate it in Data Files like every other user-made mod (all Skyrim DLCs act like mods and have no protection). Unless Steam is able to delete stuff from your HDD without your permission, people that have Skyrim installed will have this DLC as long as they have the files. The only thing Steam can do is to remove it from your account, but the files will still be there and playable.
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I think this is a mistake that might have been fixed already.
I didn't know, for some reason Skyrim started updating, but I had to restart my PC. Just before this, Steam updated.
Now I opened Steam again, and Skyrim resumed updating with 0 bytes downloaded. It was a ~700MB download prior to this.
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It's "gone" now. However if you check your game the stuff is still there?
So. Free Dawnguard? Unless they do some weird update that makes it so that can't work.
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Interesting! Guess you needed to download the files before the mistake was noticed, though?
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If so, it looks like I chose the wroooong time to uninstall.
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Nope. Can't do that. It's yours. I played Dragonborn without owning it for months simply because my SO who I bought it for played it on my PC and got it installed on it. Found out a few weeks later that I didn't actually own it. Consider it Steam Family Sharing.
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Heard thats how it is with Bethesda games in general, basically the DLC's stick like a Mod would.
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I got a beggining of a download but it ended almost immediately with the 6XXMB bar complete (just opened steam now). When I look at the dlc I don't own it, and I don't have dawngard.esm in the list, but my custom settings got kinda reseted. I guess I'm not lucky..
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... I own Skyrim and seem to be the only person that doesn't have it :(
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Wait how can you possibly say 'same' to a statement that includes "seem to be the only person", it's worse than dividing by zero. D:
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Um... Yes it is? You weren't given a license to play it, therefore it's piracy. Granted, it's more of a gray area than most situations, and there's no way Steam or Bethesda will do anything about it, but that doesn't make it any more legal (according to US law).
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I guess if there's a sliding scale with balls-out, grog-swilling piracy at one end and legitimate use at the other, this is probably slightly to the non-landlubbing end of the continuum :)
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Luckily for many reasons, I don't live in the US, so am not subject to its laws :)
Not that, for the record, I have any intention of pirating games.
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If it's given to you for free on your account, and you did nothing (thus nothing illegal) to put it there, it is a mistake on Steam/Bethesda's part. It is not your fault as a customer. You are not committing piracy.
P.S. I'm more than happy to go over the intricacies of intellectual property law if need be.
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So when a nice PR person gives you a candy bar for some promotion, you should throw it away, since you don't have a proof of purchase, its stealing.
They gave it to you, its yours. The license comes with the giving.
EDIT: I'm expecting someone is going to throw the "So if a shady guy comes and gives you a stolen car, and you take it, it's a crime." Yeah, but Bethesda isn't a shady guy, they're the creators/owners of the product, just like the candy bar guy.
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More like PR person was carrying bag with candy, there was a hole in it and some spilled at the ground, where people quickly picked them all one by one before she noticed.
No, PR person won't ask you to hand them back, as that would be bad PR, but she didn't gave them to you intentionally either. And no, licence NOT comes with "giving" unless you can point to Dawnguard licence on your Steam account. You're a pirate, deal with it :P
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No. In this case we didn't pick up the candy, it fell straight into our pockets.
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You own a piece of DLC that doesn't need a license.
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Well, I don't doubt if they find a way to lock people out from playing the DLC they don't actually own.
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That would require a recoding of the entire game.. much more expensive than just writing off the downloaded dlc.
Due to the way the game is encoded, the DLC files are not checked and are treated just like every other mod file you could get from say nexus.
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Unless you have a time machine lying around the house, you're shit out of luck.
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Wait. I don't have Dawnguard.bsa only Dawnguard.esm does that mean it wouldn't be playable for me?
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I just got an update (700mb), checking my DLC tab and saw I now have Dawnguard.
Bethesda ? Giving us a 20€ DLC for free ? Really ? Wow.
Edit:
THERE IS NO MORE DLC FOR FREE, THE GLITCH IS FIXED
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