nmabhinandan 10 Posted September 9, 2014 I have purchased Arma 3 in steam recently. Since my friend has already purchased and downloaded the game, I don't wanna downloaded the whole game again. So can I use his downloaded game and activate it in my steam account? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
enad 11 Posted September 15, 2014 What? You can't use someone else's games if that's what you're asking. It sounds like you both have purchased ArmA 3 already, why do you want to download it from his account and add it to yours(Which is impossible by the way)? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
meat147 1 Posted September 15, 2014 There is a way to Backup ArmA 3 in Steam. http://imgur.com/IgcKWRG Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nmabhinandan 10 Posted September 15, 2014 What? You can't use someone else's games if that's what you're asking. It sounds like you both have purchased ArmA 3 already, why do you want to download it from his account and add it to yours(Which is impossible by the way)? I have purchased it in steam. But my internet is so slow that it takes months to download 13GB! And I don't wanna keep my PC on at night because of power issues. ( I'm from India :mad: ) But I have high speed internet at my college but they have blocked steam in their firewall. So I downloaded a pirated Arma 3 DVD from torrent site (Reloaded version). But steam only detects the game but doesn't let me play it without downloading it again. So what I'm expecting is a steam backup of the game which I can download from college and activate it in my steam account at home. I would appreciate it if someone from BI send me the backup personally. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
novemberist 2 Posted September 15, 2014 (edited) I have purchased it in steam. But my internet is so slow that it takes months to download 13GB! And I don't wanna keep my PC on at night because of power issues. ( I'm from India :mad: ) But I have high speed internet at my college but they have blocked steam in their firewall. So I downloaded a pirated Arma 3 DVD from torrent site (Reloaded version). But steam only detects the game but doesn't let me play it without downloading it again. So what I'm expecting is a steam backup of the game which I can download from college and activate it in my steam account at home. I would appreciate it if someone from BI send me the backup personally. I don't think this is the right place to confess piracy of Arma 3 to be honest, even if you really own the game. Why do you expect a cracked version (that has potentially been stripped of any steamworks components) to compatible with steam anyways? I also don't think BI send out stuff to people personally. You might be able to copy the content of your friends already downloaded game to your steam folder and somehow make steam recognize the data, though. What? You can't use someone else's games if that's what you're asking. It sounds like you both have purchased ArmA 3 already, why do you want to download it from his account and add it to yours(Which is impossible by the way)? I don't think it's impossible at all. The data that is inside ..SteamApps\common\... is basically the same on every installation and doesn't contain any account specific stuff, so if you can make Steam recognize it as the data of the copy of Arma3 linked to your account, it might actually work. I have also copied Arma3 to another computer of mine before and had steam recognize the data even though it was downloaded on another pc. Edited September 15, 2014 by novemberist Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
