diff --git a/components/esm/esmreader.cpp b/components/esm/esmreader.cpp
index 41a2f738af..b4f581d7e8 100644
--- a/components/esm/esmreader.cpp
+++ b/components/esm/esmreader.cpp
@@ -78,8 +78,6 @@ void ESMReader::open(Ogre::DataStreamPtr _esm, const std::string &name)
     getHNT(mCtx.header, "HEDR", 300);
 
     // Some mods abuse the header.version field for the version of the mod instead of the version of the file format, so we can only ignore it.
-    //if (mCtx.header.version != VER_12 && mCtx.header.version != VER_13)
-        //fail("Unsupported file format version");
 
     while (isNextSub("MAST"))
     {