Comments on: I’d (Not) Buy That For A Dollar

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By: ubvman

ubvman — Tue, 02 May 2006 07:03:52 +0000

But its the virtual best horse armor bits that USD $2 can buy!

To be fair, I am one of the sheeple that has bought all the little add ons (3 now). They are good products for $6, I like em and I also use the free mods (BTMod, saddle bags).

The latest add-on is an incredibly nice caster house with teleports, alchemy garden and spell research facilities.

By: Zen of Design»Blog Archive » Mindmelding With Marketing Suit Types

Zen of Design»Blog Archive » Mindmelding With Marketing Suit Types — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:30:02 +0000

[...] There are interesting parallels in the game space. Magic: the Gathering and Runescape are two games that were designed with specific pricing structures in mind, and as such, the game mechanics of the game were able to embrace it and leverage it. By comparison, Bethesda’s experiment with microtransactions feels like a blatant money grab. The technology of Oblivion might have been built with horses and orrery quests in mind, but the design was not. As a result, people who play MTG are delighted about the chance to slap down $80 bucks to buy a box of the upcoming booster pack expansion, while the people who spent 2 bucks for a horse in Oblivion are mad as hell. [...]

By: Eryl Flynn

Eryl Flynn — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 14:27:29 +0000

I bought it on the 360, wanted some thing for my shiny new box. I of course didn’t pay 60 bucks, I am tending to wait for them to be onsale for at least 50 to buy them.

As for the content, what content? I won’t buy that crap from them. On the 360 they have an excellent system for downloading things and buying things. The flaw is crap like this, things not worth buying and downloading. I hope Bethesda learns from this, but I doubt it. I am sure there are enough idiots out there for them to feel this is a success.

By: Cake

Cake — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 03:02:05 +0000

“13 year old kiddies with attention spans smaller than their IQs could play”

Well I’m not 13, and I’m not sure that saying their attention span is lower than their IQ is actually that insulting, but I do have a painfully low attention span and I can’t play it. First Oblivion gate? So bored, never went back. Kind of irritating because I could have gotten a reasonable bottle of tequila instead of this game.

By: =j

=j — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:55:27 +0000

I can\'e2\'80\'99t wait for the day when paying for crap is the norm, and $60 games ship in a half-completed state. You are then expected to shell out another $60 over the next couple months to get the complete experience.

Dude! You just described every MMORPG ever produced. Kinda sad to see this revenue model move into games that do not necessarily have high post-release costs (game severs, CSRs, billing, money hats, etc).

By: Heartless Gamer

Heartless Gamer — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 22:56:06 +0000

Is there a reason I’m not playing Oblivion? Oh yeah… there is.

By: Surprised Penguin

Surprised Penguin — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:55:32 +0000

“No, if people stop paying for content, they\’e2\’80\’99ll stop making it.”

The “added content” for Morrowind was free. Whether it was crap or not is debateable.

By: Hellfire

Hellfire — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:34:02 +0000

You forgot to mention that the sheeple who bought this on the 360 automatically paid a 10$ premium for the honor.