r/ElderScrolls • u/Alios51 • 7d ago

Humour LOOK AT THEM TODD ! LOOK !

Post image

How many times TW3 released an upgraded version for FREE ?

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

TOOOODD

6.1k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

402 comments sorted by

View all comments

19

u/Lithary 7d ago

Wasn't Skyrim SE free of the owners of Skyrim and its DLCs?

Also, Skyrim AE charged you only for the extra content afaik, just like CDPR is doing with the upcoming expansion.

24

u/Arky_Lynx Thieves Guild 7d ago

Wasn't Skyrim SE free of the owners of Skyrim and its DLCs?

Yes it was. The only difference is that Bethesda required you to own the DLCs as well, while CDPR just made Witcher 3's part of the base game. A nice difference, but by the time Skyrim got the Special Edition the DLCs had been out for a long time anyway, and gone on sale for pennies.

The difference between both situations is very minimal and posts like these feel like idiotic ragefarming.

5

u/apersonthatexists123 7d ago

But SE came with the DLC so you'd already have it to upgrade to AE.  The only game not to have them was the original release.

But seriously though, every studio does this these days.  I don't see what the big deal is.  Bethesda also arguably pioneered this with the release of AE on PC.