Skyrim special edition worth full#

Many developers release remasters for a nominal or DLC-like price SE was priced near enough like a full new release, despite just having what amounts to a few visual tweaks and despite not incorprating the countless well documented bugfixes carried out by the modding community over the years. They removed the vanilla version to force all future customers to buy that instead, something they could only do at all because modders have kept the base game alive and playable despite developer indifference to its half-finished state.

That is a dev actively discontinuing availability of a beloved, award-winning and bestselling title, one which has already paid for itself a million times over in its first incarnation and in the form of countless lazy ports, one which has been endlessly sustained and extended in its lifecycle and appeal by volunteer modders - and the purpose of the discontinuation was to literally force customers to purchase the remastered version, a version which represents the publisher's best effort to make those modders redundant by duplicating and profiting from their overhaul efforts, a version which requires vastly more powerful hardware and takes up exponentially more disk space and which retains countless bugs and glitches, known and unfixed since the original release years ago. It's the pinnacle of laziness and greed and in Bethesda's case that was cemented by their decision to remove vanilla Skyrim from the Steam store when they released SE. It is part of a wider trend of crap, lazy remasters that smack of developers trying to jump on and monetize the 'overhaul' bandwagon modders have been pushing for years and turning out to be drastically incompetent at overhauls compared to the modders. They reduced the FOV, upgraded the textures, lighting and particle effects slightly, added god rays, and it somehow tanked performance relative to what mods could achieve on the vanilla game with similar or better visual improvements. My personal take on this, having played both, is that SE is a pile of poo.

Skyrim special edition worth