Malygris on 4/4/2006 at 22:11
It's not the money that has me irritated, it's the fact that add-ons like these were free with Morrowind (and justifiably so, I might add), which makes the whole thing smell like a money-grab. And while two bucks isn't much, it adds up. Are 15 mods comparable to the Horse Armor add-on worth the same as a Tribunal-esque expansion?
I'm not going to scream about how this is some great injustice and that I'll never buy a Bethesda product again and all that sort of thing, but it doesn't change the fact that, first, two bucks is a lot of money for fairly minor mods (and I do think there's some validity to the argument that this shit should've been included with the original game, but that's for another shouting match), and second, Bethesda has squandered a lot of goodwill by doing this.
Teh-Builder on 4/4/2006 at 22:22
If they want a premium price, they should deliver some premium products to match it.
They might sell what? 50.000 horse armor mods... that's 100.000$ right there.
I'm fine with paying for a mod, but considering stuff like this was free for Morrowind, they should really put more effort into, and provide more then just two new skins. Give me a new faction, long questline, a new area or something similar and i would be happy to pay.
But for two armor meshes that took a skilled artist what? 1 day to make? 100.000$ sure is fat paycheck for that...
Epos Nix on 4/4/2006 at 23:17
I would prefer they put their energies into fixing the abundance of really stupid errors I've been finding. I've had to go into the editor 3 times now to fix quest items that had fallen into other items upon area load, thus becoming unreachable. I know for a fact the Xbox version suffers from this as well. So that and the constant crashing (the area map is the worst culprit for me) make me wish they'd just expedite a patch post-haste and forget about mods... at least for the time being.
RyushiBlade on 4/4/2006 at 23:25
I'm sure Bethesda's team is more than one person. Those working on the patch are probably in an entirely different department than those working on mods.
Epos Nix on 4/4/2006 at 23:42
Naturally. But we have news of new official plugins and none of official patches. It just shows where their priorities lay.
ignatios on 4/4/2006 at 23:46
If they'd been announcing official patches before the game came out, you can bet the response would be worse.
Tuco on 4/4/2006 at 23:51
I was defending this decision to my colleauge, but the horse armor mod I won't defend.
I don't even use horses, like hell if I'm paying for a mod that makes them better.
Anything I pay for had better have content that's targetted at me. AKA: High level dungeons.
Huckeye on 4/4/2006 at 23:58
Nobody owes you a free mod. If the game ended after an hour of play time or the NPCs all didnt have legs then I could see your point on paying for extra content. Youve purchased a game that has literally HUNDREDS of hours of unique gameplay while most other publishers are happy to provide 5 - 10 hours (for the same price I might add). And you feel cheated for an OPTION to buy some EXTRA stuff that is completely irrelevant to the gameplay?
I can't comprehend how you feel the company owes you anything. Being free once was a huge high five on their part and you say thanks by demanding it for all of eternity because of their generosity.
Wait a few weeks and download new cities, guilds, factions, and yes, even horse armor for free from the fans.
Epos Nix on 4/4/2006 at 23:58
Quote:
If they'd been announcing official patches before the game came out, you can bet the response would be worse.
But I don't care about response; I just want my game to work right :erg:
I'm not making a big deal of this though... Morrowind did the exact same thing upon its release and I beat it and was through with it before the devs made any major strides in the patch department. The difference here is they are adding cost to a broken game whereas the mods for Morrowind were to tide us over till an official patch came out.
I dunno... stuff like that just irks me. :nono:
NeoPendragon on 5/4/2006 at 02:13
It makes sense. They're using their programmers to make new stuff. They deserve some payment yeah? $1-$2 seems about right for that. However, horse armor doesn't seem that useful to me. But the Daggerfall type Holidays mod that they cancelled would've been great. :mad:
