Game News Elder Scrolls freebies on Steam

[Morpheus Kitami]

I guess it's nice to have it on Steam as well?

I think it is. Steam has a lot more reach than GOG and Bethesda's website requires a Bethesda.net account unless they've changed that. Even though I have Daggerfall on GOG, I grabbed it on Steam as well so it'll always be on there as well with all the other Elder Scrolls games I have. There's a few games I own on a few different platforms.

Did Bethesda's website require one of those at some point? I don't remember ever having one+originally got it from tere and when I went to check it just now it let me download without registering anything.

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

Did Bethesda's website require one of those at some point?

Yup, I actually think that was when I bought it on GOG. It was on sale and I think I decided that a couple of bucks was worth not registering on Bethesda.net.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Elderscrolls freebies sounds so dirty.

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

I'm wondering why Daggerfall is free while Battlespire is $6. As far as I know, Battlespire didn't sell well whereas Daggerfall sold pretty well. Daggerfall came out in 1996, Battlespire was a year later. Both are over 20 years old. I would think that Daggerfall would be the one they could charge money for as opposed to Battlespire. I'm not saying they should charge for Daggerfall at this point, I just think it's odd they charge money for the less successful of the titles which were released at the same time. I think if you asked someone to name the Elder Scrolls games, there's a good chance that Battlespire wouldn't be mentioned. At best, it would be an after thought.

In my YouTube feed, Daggerfall and Morrowind pop up a lot. Oblivion does as well. Mostly lore videos, a few let's plays, some retrospectives. I don't think I've ever seen a Battlespire video.

 

[hello friend]

As far as I know, Redguard doesn't even work properly on the last several iterations of Windows. GoG never bothered to fix it, so I can't imagine it's any better on steam. They'll still charge you, though.

 

[Rincewind]

Who cares. Real men get it from here. They haven't even enabled aspect-ratio correction on their own games; it's pathetic, really.
And I'm sure they're still using mainline DOSBox with no shader support for nice sharp-bilinear HW accelerated or pixel-perfect scaling...

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Hmmm.....

 

[Zeriel]

I'm wondering why Daggerfall is free while Battlespire is $6. As far as I know, Battlespire didn't sell well whereas Daggerfall sold pretty well. Daggerfall came out in 1996, Battlespire was a year later. Both are over 20 years old. I would think that Daggerfall would be the one they could charge money for as opposed to Battlespire. I'm not saying they should charge for Daggerfall at this point, I just think it's odd they charge money for the less successful of the titles which were released at the same time. I think if you asked someone to name the Elder Scrolls games, there's a good chance that Battlespire wouldn't be mentioned. At best, it would be an after thought.

In my YouTube feed, Daggerfall and Morrowind pop up a lot. Oblivion does as well. Mostly lore videos, a few let's plays, some retrospectives. I don't think I've ever seen a Battlespire video.

Daggerfall was released years ago for free by Bethesda as an anniversary PR stunt. That's why.

I'm sure that retard Hines would love to charge people for it on Steam, but you can't unrelease a game you already released as free.

 

[Morpheus Kitami]

'm sure that retard Hines would love to charge people for it on Steam, but you can't unrelease a game you already released as free.

Actually, its entirely possible. Granted, in this case its going to be mildly annoying since so many people got it for free over the years, but it is possible. A considerable number of games have had enough days on the free section of GOG and Steam that are basically in the same situation. Further, I remember that the original Zork trilogy got released for free a long time ago, but then Activision started selling it. On computers, anyway, for a while you get it for free on your mobile phone, but they charged for any non-Zork I Infocom game. (which was actually the last time you could buy some of these) What, a few people on internet forums are going to mock them? That were probably going to mock them anyway? I'm sure that will finally worry Bethesda.

 

[OSK]

'm sure that retard Hines would love to charge people for it on Steam, but you can't unrelease a game you already released as free.

Actually, its entirely possible. Granted, in this case its going to be mildly annoying since so many people got it for free over the years, but it is possible. A considerable number of games have had enough days on the free section of GOG and Steam that are basically in the same situation. Further, I remember that the original Zork trilogy got released for free a long time ago, but then Activision started selling it. On computers, anyway, for a while you get it for free on your mobile phone, but they charged for any non-Zork I Infocom game. (which was actually the last time you could buy some of these) What, a few people on internet forums are going to mock them? That were probably going to mock them anyway? I'm sure that will finally worry Bethesda.

I've seen developers sell their own open source applications on Google Play.