I've preordered a physical copy of Skyrim from Game and realise it can't be activated by Steam til midnight. Fine. But I've seen a couple of people suggest they put the key into Steam (when they received their copy) and still had to download the game? This isn't the case right? I can install straight from the disc when it arrives? Am worried I won't be able to play at midnight as it will take an age for me to download the whole thing if I need to...

Sorry for the stupid question. Did look for the Steam thread but didn't see an answer that was clear enough to my brain lol.

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1255286-pc-installing-skyrim-from-disk-not-steam/page__pid__19137224__st__20

You have 2 options, you can either enter your key on steam and pre-load, making the disk utterly useless (I chose this route) or you can wait until midnight and install from the disk, meaning you'll start playing at around 20 minutes past midnight or so. It's just the way steam works unfortunately.

Hi hon - thanks! Saw that thread but the OP had deleted his whole first thread so I didn't read any further



Thank you honey - you're a star. Perfect. Will install from disk.

No problem hope it all goes smoothly.

You can enter the cd key if you have it and then once it ulocks install from the Dvd

Enter the key and download? HMMM, that seems quite vulnerable to piracy....

Lol I didn't delete my post, go to page one in my link

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1255286-pc-installing-skyrim-from-disk-not-steam/

Nope. The files you download from Steam are encrypted, so it's safe. They are decrypted once the game is released.

And it doesn't include all the files anyway, as far as I know the .exe isn't included, which makes playing it impossible no matter what.

Nope, pirates will have to wait like the rest of the world before they can crack the game