Summary
- Oblivion's Horse Armor DLC is one of gaming's most notorious controversies, priced at $2.50.
- Lead designer Bruce Nesmith reflects on the controversial DLC, admitting it was not what players wanted.
- Despite negative reactions, the Horse Armor DLC became one of Bethesda's most popular packs, selling millions of copies and leading to free armor in Skyrim: Anniversary Edition.
Almost twenty years on, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion's Horse Armor DLC remains one of gaming's most notorious controversies. It🉐 was known f♚or being the first cosmetic DLC, with players up in arms at the lofty price of $2.50 for an item in a single-player game.
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With the controversy now well in the rearview window, and cosmetic DLC a huge staple of the gaming landscape, Oblivion system designer and Skyrim lead designer Bruce Nesmith has been reflecting on that periodꦺ in April 2006.
"Wow, What The Hell Are We Thinking?"
Speaking to , Nesmith said the team wanted to start with "something small," something th𓄧e developer seꦆemingly regrets. “Only in hindsight could it be seen that that’s not what people wanted and that we basically thumbed our nose at them without realizing it," he said.
The reaction to the DLC was overwhelmingly negative, something Nesmith says the team didn't expect, “Both Bethesda and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Microsoft were caught flat-footed at th🤡e re💟sponse to it, [we] did not anticipate that at all.”
“It must have been in the millions, it had to be millio♛ns,”
But the negative sentiment didn't have too much of an adverse reaction. In 2016, that the Horse Armor was one of the most popular DLC packs Bet𒅌▨hesda had ever released. Nesmith added further context to that.
Speaking of its sales, he said, “It must have been i꧙n the millions, it had to be millions,”
As time has passed and cosmetic DLC has become more common, Bethesda has learned to laugh at its past indiscretions. Howard 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:previously said, "Horse armor is not bad. I think horse armor is fine," and in 2021's The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition, Bethesda released two sets of horse armor, Steel and Elven, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:for free, poking fun at Oblivion.
Set in Cyrodiil, The🦂 Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion is an open-world action RPG that sees you attempt to stop the Mythic Dawn cult from opening a portal to the afore💝mentioned Oblivion. Critically acclaimed, it was expanded upon in Knights of the Nine and Shivering Isles.
