I never bought the dragornborn exp. Until a few days ago - only so i could get the special edition for free. 
 
Not bad for $12.99... SE is released in 2 days!

I actually picked up the game on Steam sale a few years back for 37.99. The mods kept me coming back to it again and again. I even put the game and save files on an SSD for faster load times with all the mods I loaded in.

Just noticed this was added to my steam archive. So do you have to uninstall the old version first or leave it? Was nice of them to give a free copy.
Getting ready to start pre-load.

OK the preload is only 9.8 gig so unless there is a lot more coming on the 28th the graphics just cant be that great.

I don't think they release the full product until it's released. 

It's there in my Steam Library, but I have no intention of downloading it.  My old Skyrim is already visually superior to the "special" edition using the methods mentioned above.

Dukman
It's there in my Steam Library, but I have no intention of downloading it.  My old Skyrim is already visually superior to the "special" edition using the methods mentioned above.

its 64bit vs the 32bit original, so it can be modded beyond what Skyrim original can handle

Got it preloaded. Staying up tonight to see how it looks. Supposed to have some new quests too. I hope they aren't all, fetch this, kill skeletons, bring back LOL.
 

I got it preloaded, but we know the preload is compressed and needs to be extracted for install. We also know that Bethesdas idea of a high resolution texture is not much compared to the mod community who dropped 4k textures and improved static meshes. On the other hand they are using newer compression methods introduced in dx11 so it might not be so bad. I'm really hoping for a drastic improvement in draw distance, the reshaping of the background in real time was driving me nuts. I can't to play some later tonight.