The stability improvements made in this port are invaluable and something modders can't retroactively add to the old version.
Mods that didn't require a script extender mostly worked out of the box for this version, but the lack of a script extender significantly hurt the modding scene for the first few years.
Many PC fans were skeptical that this remaster of Skyrim would be a complete cash grab, selling users an unrefined version of what was already possible on PC thanks to the passionate modding community.įortunately, Bethesda did the noble thing and gave Skyrim: Special Edition out for free to anyone who had both the base game and all of its DLCs, which is most of the community.
