It's good to see Bethesda be refreshingly honest and transparent in a world where everyone wants to obscure their methods. Even if the most cynical see it as a facade, at least they sport the impression they actually give a damn about their customers, which seems to be a rare thing in this industry.

-DSR

Actually, yes. Simple add-ons have been released for free in game patches for years. We've all come to expect that. If you want to sell something, create a lot of new professional content and release it all together in an expansion pack and we'll have a deal.

In the meantime, this nickel-and-diming has had an interesting effect on my buying decisions. At first, I was going to pick up a 360 soon and I wanted to get Oblivion along with it. The recent threads about the $2.50 horse armor texture reminded me of the dangers of closed systems (like cell phone service providers charging $3 for ringtones, because they can) and I decided to stay away from that console for a while.

I was then going to get the PC version of the game, until I saw this and realized they were going to try the same shit with PC gamers.

Look, this may turn out to work as a new business model, but I won't be a part of it. Until I have no choice anymore, I have no intention of buying the missing parts of my games a couple of bucks at a time. I hope I'm not the only one who feels this way.

This comment was edited on Apr 7, 10:38.

Honestly, the whole horse-armor thing is so incredibly repulsive it's turned me off from the game.

I probably won't get it, now.

Companies like that don't deserve my support.

The Horse Armor Pack has been very popular, and exceeded what we thought it would sell.

Well, that's disappointing.

No, don’t say you want it free, because these plugins take a surprising amount of time to create, polish, and test (much more then Morrowind's).

Like the free horse armour that some else made? I'd rather they just make an expansion pack, and leave the plugins to modders.

Make it so that I can click the right mouse-button to go "back" in the UI.

Then do something else UI-related that will make my life much easier, build a new dungeon or something for me to explore, and sell me the result for $1.89


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No nickel and dime shit...throw it all on a cd for $30...

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Even larger dungeons and if possible with some new textures added or a better variety or less usage of that one corner tile with the same stalactites and same stalagmites....

Yes, please! Pretty please!

"God isn't interested in technology. He cares nothing for the microchip or the silicon revolution. Look how he spends his time, forty-three species of parrots! Nipples for men!"

Even larger dungeons and if possible with some new textures added or a better variety or less usage of that one corner tile with the same stalactites and same stalagmites....

But that is really quite minor. I have almost a hundred hours into this game and have yet to finish the Dark Brotherhood quest line. I have closed five gates now and done numerous other side quests. And it seems after you hit level twenty there are even more NPCs approaching you with quest offers.

Not much to complain about here.