
Originally Posted by
MOnk
You are misinformed. There are no non-Steam versions of Skyrim. What was happening is that you could run Skyrim WITHOUT Steam, hence avoiding Steam's exe verification. With the latest patch it is no longer possible to modify the exe directly and still have a valid Steam install.
This was the case with Fallout New Vegas but you could still use the work around to run it with the Large Address Aware executable. So there is already a new LAA enabler for Skyrim that uses this same workaround, so not exactly sure what this 'big uproar' was for.