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PC Skyrim (with all DLC) owners to receive free upgrade to Special Edition
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wonderful103
Member
This is why pc owners are pc owners. We get free remasters every time we upgrade our hardware too.
texhnolyze
Banned
Damn, I need to buy Legendary Edition now. I only own the base game after all these years.
I wonder which will be cheaper, buying the legendary edition or every DLCs on sale?
I wonder which will be cheaper, buying the legendary edition or every DLCs on sale?
veloxStrix
Banned
I know. I never imagined I would be, and I can't imagine how they would stop me from just denying a download in some imaginary doomsday-scenario where Bethesda tried to Windows 10 me. I guess I was basically just saying "I don't personally care and I'm not sure why the majority of Skyrim PC owners would" but carefully worded so I wouldn't have to argue with people.
I really, realllyyy hate remasters personally, but I moan and mope about them enough that I figure I can give it a rest for the people who do enjoy them.
Edit: And on the mods aspect, it at least force me to re-install any of t3ndos' mods since a light breeze seems to disrupt them. >.>
The only break we ever got was half off the year-late DLC for one (or two?) week(s).
And I took it. I bit into it like the shit biscuit that it was. And I said "Fank yuuu papa Befesda" and papa Bethesda wiped his ass with my money.
Ah, I didn't realise Bethesda put a bundle up. SteamDB doesn't keep track of those outside of a listing page and said page has yet to update, so I just saw this:
...and figured Bethesda was disallowing cheap LE/DLC pickups just in time to dash people's Summer Sale hopes.
banefirelord
Banned
I imagine they'd do it as a separate install, a la something like Divinity OS extended.
You can also browse to each item in the bundle and add them to cart individually so I don't really see where you saw them take Skyrim 2011 off the Steam store to be honest.
DigitalScrap
Member
Guess I should buy the Legendary Edition on PC. I didn't have a decent PC to play on back when Skyrim came out and played it on X360.
See my edit if viewing SteamDB isn't an option.
VlaudTheImpaler
tl;dr
Wait... So if I bought the legendary edition from CDKeys right now would I be able to redeem the code?
Yes. The subs are still valid, they're just not longer available on the store as the bundle makes them redundant.
chrominance
Member
Went from feeling dumb for buying both vanilla and Legendary only to not play either, to "okay, maybe this will be the thing that gets me to finish Skyrim!"
zerokoolpsx
Member
Good guy Bethesda. Maybe I'll finally start Skyrim >_>
Eraser_Arcade
Member
Cool. I've been thinking about going back into Skyrim & remodding it. So now knowing that this is going to be a free upgrade, I'll just wait until it is released and see how mods will work with it.
DarkLegion
Member
Sweet! This is a great surprise.
Thanks Bethesda
Thanks Bethesda
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
The funny thing is that I was actually thinking about picking up Skyrim during the Steam sale this year. And I probably won't because Bethesda will probably not give it much of a discount due to this. Previously went for $5/$10 for standard/legendary. Probably going to be at least $10/20 this year.
Very suspicious of the motives here. Guess they can keep control of the content this way.
I imagine there will also be a few different loyalty discount tiers for those who don't own everything. E.g.:
Skyrim only: 60% off SE
Skyrim + one piece of paid DLC: 70% off SE
Skyrim + two pieces of paid DLC: 80% off SE
Skyrim + all three pieces of paid DLC: Free SE
But that's never going to be the case on PC anyway. It's not like Steam Workshop support made NexusMods dry up overnight. The mod interface is a massive deal for consoles but on PC it's really just an appetizer.
jediyoshi
Member
Yes, owning the game + all DLC and Legendary Edition are one and the same thing on Steam.
It's absurdly simple, people who want to jump in on the deal buy the DLC.
If that's its worth, why does it matter what they charge?
Reagan's BR
Banned
I don't personally own the game on PC but that is great for those that do! Hopefully mod authors will be able to update their mods to carry over.
KirbKirb30
Member
That's fantastic news, but my Skyrim has been modded to hell and back so I'm scared of the damage this upgrade might cause on launch day.
It's a separate app, not a patch. The last time Bethesda fiddled with any of Skyrim's content depots was over a year ago and that was just an update to the Czech and Polish localisations.
Edit: There's also been no additional DLC attached to the Skyrim app, aside from an unreleased soundtrack.
The only DLC I was missing was Hearthfire. It's normally 4.99 but Steam offered a 39% discount to get the missing stuff to get me to Legendary, so I just paid 3.04 to complete the collection and now I'll get the upgrade.
ChoklitReign
Member
I wonder what the chances are that it will use a 64-bit executable. An Elder Scrolls game without save bloat would be great. I'll consider playing it again if the engine tweaks make it in line with Fallout 4 rather than just being the PC version of Skyrim.
The Lone Courier
Member
Noice. Thanks Beth look forward to it.
tiebreaker
Member
Cool. But I'm not sure I want to dive back in again.
It's very nice, but not sure I would have paid anything extra for the Special Edition on PC especially if I already own all the DLC. There are already a lot of incredible graphics overhaul mods for Skyrim that would appear to already add a lot of these new effects and then some. But I'm not terribly well versed in Skyrim graphics mods so perhaps some of these new SE edition things are new effects not possible in the mods currently (or perhaps do them with a lower overhead on performance). It's certainly nice to have a better looking Vanilla version of Skyrim, but I have to imagine most folks on the PC have already installed a bunch of graphics overhauls; as much as their system can handle.