why i didn't receive SE edition for free ?

[MOITA]

i own Skyrim since 2012 when its released on steam. I bought the 3 dlcs back there when it was released.

Now i discovered people who had the old skyrim should own SKYRIM SE in the library. Why i didn't received SE ? Is there any way to claim still ?

[Fear2288]

If you truly did own the original game and all three of the DLCs before October 2016, you should have gotten it for free.

If you believe that was the case and there is a mistake you need to contact Steam Support.

[Liquid Inc]

Originally posted by Moita713:

i own Skyrim since 2012 when its released on steam. I bought the 3 dlcs back there when it was released.

Now i discovered people who had the old skyrim should own SKYRIM SE in the library. Why i didn't received SE ? Is there any way to claim still ?

If you owned LE (Skyrim + All DLC's) prior to the launch of SE, you would have got it free.

Did you buy any of the DLC for LE after Oct 2016? If you did, then you didn't own LE when it was released and therefore were NOT entitled to the free version of SE.

If you did own all of it before SE launched, contact Steam support like Grimus said.

[MOITA]

Originally posted by Liquid Inc:

Originally posted by Moita713:

i own Skyrim since 2012 when its released on steam. I bought the 3 dlcs back there when it was released.

Now i discovered people who had the old skyrim should own SKYRIM SE in the library. Why i didn't received SE ? Is there any way to claim still ?

If you owned LE (Skyrim + All DLC's) prior to the launch of SE, you would have got it free.

Did you buy any of the DLC for LE after Oct 2016? If you did, then you didn't own LE when it was released and therefore were NOT entitled to the free version of SE.

If you did own all of it before SE launched, contact Steam support like Grimus said.

Im trying to contact support, thanks. But im pretty sure i bought all dlcs way before 2016.

[AllergicToBrainRot]

Originally posted by Moita713:

Originally posted by Liquid Inc:

If you owned LE (Skyrim + All DLC's) prior to the launch of SE, you would have got it free.

Did you buy any of the DLC for LE after Oct 2016? If you did, then you didn't own LE when it was released and therefore were NOT entitled to the free version of SE.

If you did own all of it before SE launched, contact Steam support like Grimus said.

Im trying to contact support, thanks. But im pretty sure i bought all dlcs way before 2016.

you can check your purchase history by clicking on your profile. account details and look in view purchase history. See if it was in 2016 or below.

[Altbert]

To be a bit more specific: you need to own Skyrim LE (including Dawnguard, Hearthfire and Dragonborn) before or on 28 October 2016.

[MOITA]

I checked in my purchase history and didn't find the dragonborn dlc. But somehow i own this DLC and remember playing it. Dragonborn is the last one right ? probably i didn't buy it but received after for free ?!! I can't remember because i don't touch skyrim since 2013

[steventirey]

Even if you did have all the DLCs before that date, the offer ended long ago. Its not an on-going thing you can take advantage of whenever you want.

[peppermint hollows]

Originally posted by Moita713:

I checked in my purchase history and didn't find the dragonborn dlc. But somehow i own this DLC and remember playing it. Dragonborn is the last one right ? probably i didn't buy it but received after for free ?!! I can't remember because i don't touch skyrim since 2013

Maybe you misremembered? There was also an error/oversight at one point with Steam's file distribution where some people had ended up receiving the Dawnguard DLC for free for the original version of the game, in fact this happened to me. If you google it you can find really old threads about it. But I have no idea if that ever happened with Dragonborn too. However, it wasn't actually added to your account but simply downloaded to your game files and since DLCs function in basically the same way as mods you were able to play it like that as long as you had it installed.

[th]

I can't recall it exactly, it was a long time ago. But didn't one need to enter the game's page and press a button "get it for free" at the time? I suspect that there was no automatic adding of SE into the library.

[Arthmoor]

If you actually owned all 3 DLCs in addition to the base game, SE would have been added to your library automatically. No need to cash in an offer.

As others have said though, that would only happen up to October 28, 2016. After that point it wouldn't matter even if you bought the DLCs you were missing.

[Ruenis]

Basically, you had to own the original Skyrim, and all three of its original DLCs, to obtain the SE for free at the time it was released.

The "LE" - "Legendary Edition," was just the original with all 3 DLCs. It didn't matter if you owned that, or just the original with all 3 of the DLCs. Either/or, and you would have received the Special Edition for free, but only at the time of its release.

[Fear2288]

Originally posted by th:

I can't recall it exactly, it was a long time ago. But didn't one need to enter the game's page and press a button "get it for free" at the time? I suspect that there was no automatic adding of SE into the library.

Nope.

It was automatically added to your library.

I distinctly remember deciding I wanted to play Skyrim again in 2018 and I had not even heard of the SE. I opened Steam one day to install LE and saw “Skyrim Special Edition” under my uncategorized library tab.

It was a pleasant surprise until I realized I now had to try and find all my “can’t live without” mods from LE for SE and spent the better part of the next two weeks browsing Nexus, downloading mods, troubleshooting LO issues, and so on lol

[th]

Thanks for clarification. As I've said I may be wrong.

[MOITA]

Right. Thanks for the clarifications everyone.

Steam support answered me. They said im really not elegible because i do not have the DRAGONBORN DLC. Even it existing in my library.

I guess what happened then is that somehow the dragonborn DLC got added to my library magically after SE release?! Idk if this was a feature for everyone who has not the full legacy game with 3 dlcs at that time. So I probably shouldn't have the Dragonborn DLC in 2016.

The last time I logged into Skyrim was in 2018, probably to check out some feature or simply out of nostalgia since I already have beaten the game. Perhaps the DLC was installed at that very moment.

Well, i think i will wait for a next sale maybe. SE costs the price of some recent games I'd like to play too.