All I want is my complete TES collection on GOG is that too much to ask?

Says the person that only has TWO games currently in their "collection"...

I might want to add, joined in September 22 (this month) most likely 2 of the free games, because all those Skyrim trolls with 0 games were to much obvious in the past and asking the same old question again.


At OP (and the likely old user behind it).
Steam Modsstore and Bethesda does not want are the 2 answers you already know.

Skyrim (and Fallout 4) now have Creator Club built into it, and if it gets released here, half of the forum will have an anurism

I'm pretty sure they'd take the opportunity to create yet another Skyrim edition for the occasion, such as "Skyrim Ultimate GOG Edition"... mod compatibility is anyone's guess™.

Needless trolling threads such as this and, even more, with swearing in the title, should be deleted immediately (not locked, DELETED) and the OPs strictly warned.

There is only one good The Elder Scrolls game, and it has been available from GOG for years already.

I would very much like to upgrade my ancient xbox 360 copy. It has sat on my steam wishlist for many years, but I never pulled the trigger because I was hoping for a GOG copy.

Not to trigger anyone, but to be fair, I did not know anything about why Skyrim wasnt here yet. Did not know there was a club thing built into the game. Is that the only way to mod the game, by paying to mod it?

No it is not

You can still use NexusMods/Wabbajack etc just fine, CC is basically another way for you to mod your game. Not one that I would use personally but hey, its..there


But to stay on topic: Why have the LE version on sale? its NOWHERE near as optimized as SE, its more unstable with many mods, if the Beth.net /CC existence is so unbearable for you OP to the point that you would rather play an objectively worse version of the game because of it, then I dont know what to tell you honestly.

no it is not, it is completely optional. I have and have played both of them (over 500 hurs in Skyrim, and 400 in Fallout 4.... i need to get a life) both modded and un-modded. I have never touched Creation Club, not even made an account. But the fact that it exists, and these games came here with it, would trigger quite a lot of people even though it is completely optional.
I agree. I found LE completely pointless. It is better to use SE and then install the mods you want to use (if any).

Does not LE also include CC?

No. Legendary Edition was released in 2013. Creation Club was part of Special Edition, which was released three years later.

Edit: Legendary and Special Edition are treated as separate games. Bethesda dropped support for original Skyrim (Legendary Edition), when Special Edition came out.

DRM-Free generally means "the game is shipped without DRM", not "the game has DRM as part of its core monetization, pretend it isn't there". That you haven't personally bought anything via CC is irrelevant as it doesn't mean there aren't background CC connections going on, ie, the game does not know what content you / others have or have not purchased until after it's performed the check to know what to unlock for those that have and if it's coded to do that (go online and perform an ownership check via the CC servers), then it's obviously a DRM'd game that's going to fail to work without a client / online connection. So the "triggered anurism" people are entirely correct in saying that DRM code needs removing in order for a DRM-Free GOG version to work if that's what the CC code does 'under the hood'.

The reason some have suggested it is because removing the one layer of DRM (essentially Steam client check the early original / LE games came 'wrapped' in) is a lot more trivial than removing two layers of DRM (Steam client check + all the online CC monetization code that's part of the SE game (rather than the client)), and the publishers may be more open to that as a compromise. Same way we have games here minus stuff like "online daily challenges" as a compromise.