my friend just bought dark souls 3, but he already has the cracked version of the game, need help pls

[Applethal]

okey here is the thing, i bought him DS3+ ariandle's DLC, he has already installed the cracked version of the game which contains the 2 DLCs, i'm aware that you can simply copy/paste the game's files into steamapps folder, but sadly his DS3 has the 2 DLCs, not only one, he has a very limited internet, and i'm afraid that he might get banned for that, if only he had one dlc installed this would be easy.

[MxS7HGS]

Are you seriously asking that over here? lmao.

[Johnny Swamphand]

It. Will. Not. Work. Aka you lack the license for this dlc

[Aaron]

He won't be banned. I also had a cracked version with the two DLC before I bought the game. I tried to use my savefile after buying it but it didn't work.
The game won't let you start the save file because it says that the DLC are missing.
It's not possible to help.

[cooperman]

Delete none legit copy and remove all save data from %appdata%\DarkSoulsIII (copy n paste in to windows search) then install proper dark souls 3

[Aaron]

Originally posted by pyjama voltz:

Originally posted by -Aaron-:

He won't be banned. I also had a cracked version with the two DLC before I bought the dame. I tried to use my savefile after buying it but it didn't work.
The game won't let you start the save file because it says that the DLC are missing.
It's not possible to help.

in other words i can simply just copypaste the game into steam without redownloading it again ? the save file doesn't matter for me , i just don't want him to redownload the game from the scratch

Oh, I'm not sure about that. I downloaded the game again, but it shouldn't be possible? Most of cracked games have a fake steam file. I don't think that would work, I'm sorry

[SirusTheMadDJ]

Originally posted by pyjama voltz:

okey here is the thing, i bought him DS3+ ariandle's DLC, he has already installed the cracked version of the game which contains the 2 DLCs, i'm aware that you can simply copy/paste the game's files into steamapps folder, but sadly his DS3 has the 2 DLCs, not only one, he has a very limited internet, and i'm afraid that he might get banned for that, if only he had one dlc installed this would be easy.

Would be easier for people to not commit piracy in the first place, but hey, we like doing the daft thing and seeking advice while blatantly admitting you stole the game in the first place.

You can't "just copy the files over" as the DLCs also came with content updates and patches. Your "friend" is going to need to completely delete the title and re-download it.

As for "getting banned for having limited Internet", I'm fairly sure your ISP throttling or charging extra for going over your data cap has nothing to do with anything remotely linked to the game. It's playable offline, and he clearly had the connection caps to download the game off a torrent service, so I fail to see or care why this is now an issue.

[Sticky White Stuff]

"He" can't. Steam has an index file for verifying files. If that is missing, you can't just put it in the directory and think it will auto-detect the game, because it won't.

[SirusTheMadDJ]

Originally posted by pyjama voltz:

you won't get the struggle of having a limited data each month, thanks for your effort guys, i just wanted to know if he can simply copy/paste the game data i guess without redownloading it

While that looked like a wonderful cheap shot, data caps do exist in other countries. So you can "imply" all you fancy, it doesn't change the fact that he seemed to be just fine downloading the game before hand. But I conciede that torrent clients do have some decent settings on them to prevent going over it in the first place. Anyway, not relevent to the problem, so let's just leave that there. d=P

Steam does have a bandwidth limiter, but not a hard cap to it, so there's one advantage you get for sailing the good ship TPB I guess.

But yeah, even for legit copies that get corrupted mid download or reset due to a update, you cannot just paste files from one folder to another. Think I'm up to double figures of Steam fully restarting a download due to a title update when having 98% of the game sat in a download folder that I've needed to delete as it wasn't transferable. So trust me this screws over legit customers too. -_-

I haven't tried copying files from one legit folder to the same folder, so you could try using a USB to copy a copy downloaded through steam and transfer it that way, but I don't know if that would actually work, and it of course assumes you have access to his computer or said files in the first place.

Otherwise I'm out of silly comments or ideas. Sorry chap.