Pirated Game

I think you're fine. Weird issue tho

http://steamcommunity.com/games/399270/announcements/detail/894347264615198383

http://steamcommunity.com/gid/[g:1:10140515]/announcements/detail/894347264615198383

You aren't playing a "pirated" game on purpose, so why should you or anyone else ever get punished for it? :?

But so the free keys from there gives you a pirated game instead of what the original Quick Slick Deadly is supposed to be, instead of those non legit keys just getting removed? Confusing as heck.

Was it a steam key?

Spacewar is (usually) a way for Unreal gamedevelopers to test their non-released game in a Steam-environment.
I've used it to test some of my own projects.
I highly doubt it would ban you.

How can that even happen? Pirated games don't have steam keys.

A VAC ban has nothing to do with your issue. You get a VAC ban when you are cheating on a game server that is secured with the VAC system. So you can rule that out. Besides that, I can't see why you can get any problem with Steam.

Well, apparently someone who bought the game is having the same issue: http://steamcommunity.com/app/399270/discussions/0/360670708780044414/

I don't understand. You should drop the word pirated as it's misleading. If there is a problem with the game it's on Steam/devs side. And if there is an issue with the keys it means they were stolen/misused.

Many people seem to misinterpret VAC-bans, which is an anti-cheating system for online games. You can't get VAC-banned for this since it has nothing to do with online gaming. Also Valve most likely doesn't care since it doesn't involve (enough) of their money.

Sounds like the developers put the wrong number in the steam_appid.txt included in the installation. I imagine that they used Spacewar's appid as a placeholder until they had one for Quick Slick Deadly and then forgot to update the file with the correct appid.

You can check this yourself by opening the game's properties in Steam and clicking "Browse local files" and then opening up steam_appid.txt. If it exists and contains the number 480 then that's your problem. You can fix it (at least until the next time the game gets updated) by changing that number to 399270 and saving.

VAC ban =/= account ban

Games use VAC as anticheat.

Btw you cant get banned for activating pirate game, that is dev and steam fault