Hello

I hate Steam and the idea of having to use it in order to play Skyrim. I have an original copy of the game and I wish not to play it through Steam, how do I do it?

Please post useful replies or none at all, in stead of "no you can't" ...I am sure it's possible, but how?

You can't do it by any legal means. Sorry to tell you that.

But, you don't ever have to have steam in online mode to play Skyrim.

The only way is to have steam in offline mode. You cannot legally play without steam altogether sorry.

Like mentioned it can only be done with a (illegal) crack.
I have the same issues as you with it and for me Skyrim is the first and last game which uses Steam.
You can set Steam to Offline but Steam will never ever be really offline. The phrase "offline" means something totally different in the Steam universe then in the rest of the normal universe

There is a way to force it offline always which I don't think is illegal or anything.

Download a program called Peer Block. With that running, if you launch steam, it instantly says can't connect, want to sign in offline.

If you have the game on disc, you don't need steam. Steam requirement was patched in 1.3 so any version older than that and you are good to go.
I hate that bloatware drm as well.

In short, you need Steam. End of story.

In short; No you don't. End of story.

Not true. Only the very first version had that. My version of Skyrim on disc does not run without Steam, I believe that version 1.1. I believe that the first copies on disc were able to be played by running the main Skyrim EXE file directly, so nut using the game launcher. They fixed that right away. But still you had to have Steam installed because otherwise you could not install Skyrim.
SO like DeathsSoul said: you need Steam, end of story ... well, you don't need it ofcourse, it's just forced upon you

If someone is just installing the game now Steam forces the latest updates anyway regardless if its the disc or DD

& Steam is the reason I don't have the game

You can play the retail release without steam and still get all the updates.....FACT, I do it.

You can't do it legally.

I don't care, I paid full retail price for the game, I'm not stealing from Bethesda or anybody else. I just refuse to be forced to install steam to play a game that I paid for.

hell usually even the hacked versions require you to be in an offline mode...my copies ligit

Sad thing is that you did not pay for the game, you paid for the right to play it ... at least, that is what they say.
I am with you though: I too hate that whole Steam thing. It has both spam and virus like things in it and worst of all, it's just forced upon us. You HAVE to use it to play Skyrim.
For me I decided that's just the way it is with Skyrim. But it will be the only Steam thing I will ever use

I'm a personal fan of steam, but there is nothing wrong with this perspective. After paying for the software, as long as you don't release it you can do whatever you want with it on your machine. Last I checked after I paid $60, I own those files, and neither steam nor gamesas can stipulate what I do with them unless as I said, you release or share it.

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1359009-unofficial-steamdrm-discussion-27

Use that thread for discussing Steam, as this board is for support.

You need Steam to play the game, either in on-line or off-line mode. Any further discussion is not allowed on these forums and any discussion of playing it without Steam will receive contact from a moderator.