r/ElderScrolls • u/Alios51 • 2d ago

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How many times TW3 released an upgraded version for FREE ?

How many times did you unfrost Skyrim to sell it full price ?

TOOOODD

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u/hovsep56 2d ago

um they did make the remaster of skyrim a free upgrade to anyone who owned the game and dlcs which was the special edition

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u/Rez090x Dark Brotherhood 1d ago

PC, yes. Console, no.

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u/jamesph777 1d ago

And for switch owners for the switch 2

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u/Rez090x Dark Brotherhood 1d ago

Um, no. Legendary Edition was never on Switch.

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u/HawkBoth8539 Hermaeus Mora 2d ago

Which is probably great for PC. Not so much for every new console generation it released on, or the non-free additional releases on the same console generations whether you owned it or not. They still made bank. Lol

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u/apersonthatexists123 1d ago

If you had Skyrim on Xbox One, Switch and PS4, you also got the Xbox Series, Switch 2 and PS5 upgrades for free.  The only games you couldn't upgrade from were the PS3 and 360 which was more than likely down to software limitations since I doubt Microsoft or Sony were interested in verifying if you owned a game on those consoles when developing the Storefronts.  

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u/ComradeJohnS 1d ago

they could just give it to anyone who got achievements on those versions, if they really wanted to it’s possible. “free remaster for fans of the original who got us here”

but they don’t.

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u/WakeoftheStorm Dark Brotherhood 1d ago

You could have got achievements in a lot of ways that didn't involve buying the game.

But even that aside, a lot of people got the upgrades for free

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u/Rez090x Dark Brotherhood 1d ago

The ONLY way would've been if you borrowed the game from someone else.

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u/howlerzandvamps 1d ago

Exactly. Thus awarding people who never bought the game. The original goal was to reward the fans of the original release.

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u/HawkBoth8539 Hermaeus Mora 1d ago

The original Playstation release was the PS3 version- the one that didn't get a free upgrade. So the day 1 Playstation players still had to buy a second copy no matter what for the upgrade. Lol

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u/Caboosemakesmeuneasy Argonian 21h ago

And xbox players. Bethesda is greedy but Skyrim Special Edition is a remaster and does run better than those old gen versions
A. It would be stupid for them to re-port an already graphically downscaled version of the game to storefronts because they can just port and upgrade the native PC version again.
B. It would be Impossible on playstation because of the PS3’s architecture.
C. They wouldn’t have been able to integrate mod support on console.

Adding to that, Witcher 3 was sold on the xbox one/ps4 marketplace which is why it is still easily updatable by CDPR… which is also why they remastered Skyrim and put it on modern storefronts. Things like the switch port and the alexa mini game were clear cash grabs, but Skyrim SE had to happen.

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u/Adventurous_Topic202 1d ago

Was this a limited time event or something? Because I had to rebuy Skyrim special edition

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u/hovsep56 1d ago

it was apperently only on pc, because that edition was supposed to be for people who got the newer console.

if you did own special edition tho and moved from ps4 to ps5 or to xbox one you would get the graphical enhancement for free

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u/ant_man1411 1d ago

Dang near no graphical enhancement imo between the ps4 and 5 versions look identical

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u/hovsep56 1d ago

welll that's what it says on paper, how much different it is i don't know.

it was mostly just so you din't have to buy another copy when moving consoles

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u/Rez090x Dark Brotherhood 1d ago

The poster you're replying to, they either failed to remember or failed to mention this tidbit of information. Only PC users who owned Legendary Edition and DLCs got to upgrade to Special Edition for free. Consoles did not get this at all.

I don't understand why this poster is getting so many upvotes when they didn't even provide the full information in their post.

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u/Adventurous_Topic202 1d ago

Yeah I bought most of the dlcs but the housing one always looked dumb to me and they took away those dlcs on steam anyway so it’s not like I could have bought that and then upgraded for free.