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Oblivion Downloads

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Obliviondownloads.com is now online (thanks Shacknews), offering sales of in-game items for Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. They have a couple of items listed as "coming soon," and are offering their first item, the same horse armor that was released for the 360 version on the Xbox Live Marketplace. We tried to calculate the amortized cost of a full expansion based on the item's $1.99 sale price, but it broke our calculator. We're not the only ones struck by this, Gamers With Jobs has a Q&A with Bethesda Softworks' Pete Hines examining the justifications for this, learning, among other things, that this actually has nothing to do with expansion plans: "This has nothing to do with what we might or might not do with an expansion."

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Re: Corporate rape

Apr 5, 2006, 00:57

Howin

If I'm not mistaken, the Better Bodies mod for Morrowind took EXTENSIVE help from Bethesda because the model format was not public? The model format was available as 3d stuido plugins for exporting to morrowind. This is the spin on where the exporters are for Oblivion: http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=249841&st=0&p=4507860&#entry4507860 I call bullshit as I had no issues importing models into other havok games, eg farcry and half-life 2.

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Comment [quote="Howin"Apr 5, 2006, 00:57]q[If I'm not mistaken, the Better Bodies mod for Morrowind took EXTENSIVE help from Bethesda because the model format was not public? ]q The model format was available as 3d stuido plugins for exporting to morrowind. This is the spin on where the exporters are for Oblivion: http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=249841&st=0&p=4507860&#entry4507860 I call bullshit as I had no issues importing models into other havok games, eg farcry and half-life 2. [/quote]

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