Elder Scrolls Oblivion Charges for Extras

[Ioman]

So you just plucked down $59.99 for the Game Elder Scroll Oblivion. Now the company wants to charge you $2.50 for in-game horse armor.

http://www.majornelson.com/2006/04/03/pimp-your-oblivion-ride/

This is why Microsoft sucks.

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[ECA]

OMG, thats a LONG one, and hasnt ben up long either...

I like the last part...
Its the idea of a CLOSEd system, that ONLY MS can control. they sold you the Box, and then the game, and NOW, everything ELSE is going to KEEP costing MORE, then another THING, and more money and another and another..



When MS announced the Xbox Live Marketplace it was supposed to be about microtransactions. Yet there are very few items on there that I would consider to be microtransactions. Themes, gamer picture packs, horse armor are all >$1. A dollar is not a microtransaction; in my mind a microtransactions is something that you can count with pennies and nickles, and possibly dimes. I do not have a big problem with all the content on the Marketplace that developers are trying to charge for, what I do have a problem with is their prices.

Horse armor is just the last in a laundry list full of overpriced items on the Marketplace at the moment. Now if the horse armor was priced accordingly with the value add it brings to the game, say a couple cents. Let’s say a whole nickle, or 5 Microsoft Points, that would be a microtransaction I could get behind, and I bet a whole lot of people would not be complaining about Bethesda on forums and instead would be riding around on their new pimped out ponies.

So I say to Bethesda, to other developers and to Microsoft, price your stuff on the XBLM accordingly. Make it a microtransaction of only a few MSP and you’ll virtually eliminate gamer outrage, and sell a hell of a lot more content.

[Paintchipeater]

I find this real interesting. First I've been playing Morrowind on pc for well over a year ( okay I know I have no life and I'm a loser, I don't care) there's so many sites for modding Morrowind that Google is Gooooooo....gle. Buy the game and it comes with a program to write your own. And yes Bethesda actually has some too. Free, the expansion packs are not. The Xbox version cannot be modded at all but does come with the packs.

Sorry for the digression. It seems to me that this might be an attempt for Xbox users to 'get in on some of the action' as they say.

As far as the cost is concerned; I wouldn't pay for a mod either. I'd take or sell it back and get the pc version. If you don't have the pc that it requires get Morrowind Game of the Year version.

[Ioman]

I guess we all had a sneaking suspicion that Microsoft was going to start doing this. I just thought they would stick to their own games, I did not expect Bathesda to go along with it.