I am actually a bit disappointed all of a sudden.
Bethesda just released the first plugins for Oblivion, just like they did with Morrowind. The difference is, these plugins used to be a gift from Bethesda to their paying customers. Now it's just a commercial sham.
A PC-owner has to pay two american dollars per plugin, while an Xbox360 owner pays 200 credits on the Xbox Marketplace (which is actually roughly more expensive). Hey that's not much for game content you migth argue, but the thing is, it's more than much. It's a damn ripoff.
The content in question is definitely not worth 2 dollars. Features that were supposed to be in the final game but never made it in. We're talking horse armor, a mere aesthetical touch really, a short mage quest for some ugly gizmo, and a house just for mages. Oh, but 2 dollars is quite ok for that you might claim, but you are wrong. These features cost 2 dollars each, summing up at roughly 6 dollars (~9 dollars for Xbox owners), which is almost a third of the price for a full expansion. So, imagine just 6 more small plugin features like this and you have a full expansion? No of course you don't. Noone would pay 20 dollars for that little content.
I certainly wouldn't cough up 20 bucks for this little game content. Especially not for stuff that were supposed to be ingame already to start with.
Shame on you Bethesda! Shame! Didn't your game sell well enough? Or has Bill Gates greedy black heart gotten you at last?
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Ett bättre system vore ju att man kan köpa något i stil med Oblivion Premium för 10 dollar extra och på så sätt få tillgång till alla plugins. Det här är ju, som du säger, en ripoff.
Ja, eller att de säljer ett plugin-pack med massa gotta om några månader för någonstans mellan 5-10 dollar. Typ som ett booster-pack eller nåt.
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