On Mon, 08 Jan 2024 20:55:03 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

Most of us probably missed the news - I know I missed out - but a new
version of Skyrim was released early last month. "Skyrim: Anniversary >Edition" was an enhanced 'upgrade' to the "Special Edition" that had
been released in 2016, and it promised to add new quests, monsters,
spells and more. All for the low-low price of $20USD! What's not to
love?

Well, nothing except the fact that none of this is new Bethesda
content; it's all third-party mods of varying quality. Of course,
depending on how you feel about Bethesda's own content, that might not
be such a bad thing to you. What is more concerning is how this
upgrade is a backdoor to leveraging in a paid-mod marketplace,
something the community in general has been vehemently opposed to. Oh,
and the 'upgrade' part of the anniversary edition broke many existing
free mods too.

Fans of the game have, understandably, not taken to well to this
behavior, and it's currently reviewed as 'overwhelmingly negative'.
Some of the mods, it is agreed, are quite nice, but they aren't worth
the price - neither financial, nor morally, nor the cost to the Skyrim >modding ecosystem. It's a scummy move by a company that, though it
once was held amongst the best of PC gaming developers, has faltered
ever since its heyday back when Skyrim was first released in 2011.
Whether it was the continued re-releases of Skyrim, the flawed
"Fallout 4", the mostly unwanted "Fallout 76", or the tragically >underwhelming "Starfield", Bethesda has not been living up to its
potential, and the 'anniversary edition' is just another example of
how rudderless and out of touch the company has become over the past
decade.

*--

Thanks for the heads up Spalls. Really appreciate it.

My favorite Bethesda game besides the original Skyrim was a football
game for the Atari ST. Nothing but Xs and Os the screen on top of a
football field but I remember it being a blast.

-pw

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On 1/8/24 19:55, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Most of us probably missed the news - I know I missed out - but a new
version of Skyrim was released early last month. "Skyrim: Anniversary Edition" was an enhanced 'upgrade' to the "Special Edition" that had
been released in 2016, and it promised to add new quests, monsters,
spells and more. All for the low-low price of $20USD! What's not to
love?

Well, nothing except the fact that none of this is new Bethesda
content; it's all third-party mods of varying quality. Of course,
depending on how you feel about Bethesda's own content, that might not
be such a bad thing to you. What is more concerning is how this
upgrade is a backdoor to leveraging in a paid-mod marketplace,
something the community in general has been vehemently opposed to. Oh,
and the 'upgrade' part of the anniversary edition broke many existing
free mods too.

Fans of the game have, understandably, not taken to well to this
behavior, and it's currently reviewed as 'overwhelmingly negative'.
Some of the mods, it is agreed, are quite nice, but they aren't worth
the price - neither financial, nor morally, nor the cost to the Skyrim modding ecosystem. It's a scummy move by a company that, though it
once was held amongst the best of PC gaming developers, has faltered
ever since its heyday back when Skyrim was first released in 2011.
Whether it was the continued re-releases of Skyrim, the flawed
"Fallout 4", the mostly unwanted "Fallout 76", or the tragically underwhelming "Starfield", Bethesda has not been living up to its
potential, and the 'anniversary edition' is just another example of
how rudderless and out of touch the company has become over the past
decade.

Love how the "Anniversary" version just outright steals content that
already existed. Ironically, it does show how the company has changed
over the years..
--
user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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Anniversary has been out for 2 years, but yeah, a naked cashgrab. Did I buy it? yeah lol. (but discounted <$10. You can get the full Anniversary game
at cdkey sites for $15 or so).

rms

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