# How would I go about getting a No-Steam version of a game?

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**Created:** [April 6, 2012, 7:12pm UTC](https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/how-would-i-go-about-getting-a-no-steam-version-of-a-game/2043 "2012-04-06T19:12:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://b-cdn.sourceruns.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@BlankSlate](https://forums.sourceruns.org/u/BlankSlate)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2012, 7:12pm UTC](https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/how-would-i-go-about-getting-a-no-steam-version-of-a-game/2043/1 "2012-04-06T19:12:17Z")

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I figured I shoudl practice with older, glitchier versions of a game, so, how would I go about doing this?

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**Author:** ![Inexistence](https://b-cdn.sourceruns.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/d26b3c/32.png) [@Inexistence](https://forums.sourceruns.org/u/Inexistence)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2012, 7:49pm UTC](https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/how-would-i-go-about-getting-a-no-steam-version-of-a-game/2043/2 "2012-04-06T19:49:06Z")

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First probably reasonable to show that you own the game, and aren’t just wanting to pirate it and asking us for that.

If you own it, generally the versions we play on are require Steam and a very particular bunch of files that are a snapshot of the old version. These are only necessary in very particular cases for things, and making a random post, not specifying any game, or any actual reason is just quite suspect.

So nyeh.

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**Author:** ![quadrazid](https://b-cdn.sourceruns.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/f6c823/32.png) [@quadrazid](https://forums.sourceruns.org/u/quadrazid)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2012, 9:32pm UTC](https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/how-would-i-go-about-getting-a-no-steam-version-of-a-game/2043/3 "2012-04-06T21:32:04Z")

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Download older versions and play them.

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**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://b-cdn.sourceruns.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@BlankSlate](https://forums.sourceruns.org/u/BlankSlate)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 5:21pm UTC](https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/how-would-i-go-about-getting-a-no-steam-version-of-a-game/2043/4 "2012-04-07T17:21:56Z")

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I plan to purchase to VCP soon, so any valve game I want to play, trust me, I’ll have 8)

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**Author:** ![Centaurium](https://b-cdn.sourceruns.org/user_avatar/forums.sourceruns.org/centaurium/32/206_2.png) [@Centaurium](https://forums.sourceruns.org/u/Centaurium)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 12:19pm UTC](https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/how-would-i-go-about-getting-a-no-steam-version-of-a-game/2043/5 "2012-04-08T12:19:17Z")

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Buy that first, torrenting is bad and you should feel bad doing it without prior owning the game.

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**Author:** ![Pineapple](https://b-cdn.sourceruns.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/7993a0/32.png) [@Pineapple](https://forums.sourceruns.org/u/Pineapple)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 3:57am UTC](https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/how-would-i-go-about-getting-a-no-steam-version-of-a-game/2043/6 "2012-04-09T03:57:24Z")

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What CooL said.