Skyrim lead says Bethesda was knocked back by furious response to Oblivion Horse Armour DLC, but it sold 'millions' anyway: 'You're all making fun of it and yet you buy it'
Skyrim lead says Bethesda was knocked back by furious response to Oblivion Horse Armour DLC, but it sold 'millions' anyway: 'You're all making fun of it and yet you buy it'
Yup, sounds about right for a massive videogame controversy.
Sssoooooo… they can’t fathom that the millions that bought it aren’t the same people as the tens of millions that made fun of it?
How do these people run companies?
14The people who pushed back against it, like myself, didn't buy the damn thing lol
Game sells millions of copies, but only a few tens of thousands of people online publicly spoke out about it. 🙄 Even in the largest spaces, the majority of us in forums and social media are barely a blip in the total number of people playing and buying things in the game.
17People who evaluate things with a critical eye, and are willing to push back or act differently because of their evaluations are a miniscule minority among the masses. This is true for all areas, not just gaming.
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Nesmith said he no longer remembers the exact sales figures for the add-on, but he remembers it being a lot. "It must have been in the millions, it had to be millions," he said.
So... No accounting for how many of these sales came from bundles/GOTY editions, and we are just going off his memory of the sales numbers?
Great reporting, this really vindicated Horse Armor's legacy...
40Did you expect him to put in a request for that information with their archive accounting department for transactions from 18 years ago? Come on, man!
4I didn't expect him to do anything. But does he expect anecdotal evidence provided without context to change my mind on horse armor? Come on man!
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'You're all making fun of it and yet you buy it'
No, those are two different groups. Gamers (tm) are not a monolithic block. Some like it, some hate it, some in between. To lump that all together is moronic.
54Yes, and the most outspoken Gamers™ represent a minority. There's a reason studios don't pander to them.
9Most Outspoken Gamerstm nowadays don't even play the games they're being outspoken about. Look at all the clowns calling Ghost of Yotei "woke" for having a female protagonist when Tsushima already had multiple female warriors.
7Outspoken Gamers™ are not a monolithic block either. That's the funny thing about people.
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It was included with the game of the year edition, I wonder if that factors into the sales
40Truly a watershed moment for the enshittification of microtransactions
23That was one of the earliest console DLCs. They came out of the gate shitty.
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I did not buy it, but thanks for introducing the cancer of microtransactions you jackass!
15I stopped buying their trash after fallout 4 which was a decent game but kinda dated when it came out.
They keep trying to milk that formular while others moved forward
14the entire base building system in 4 feels like a mod rather than part of the actual game.
13That honestly is being too generous. I'd say it feels like an incomplete mod, because I usually have to add a mod to actually make the settlement system worth interacting with.
5It certainly felt very tacked on. I never enjoyed having to interact with it, nor did it add anything to the story.
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Didn't Xbox ask Bethesda to charge 10 as they were already selling themes for about that much?
1That's a bad omen for TEVI
16Yep. The type of people buying the horse armor are not the people who are complaining about what it means for a full priced game to have such and and the direction that pointed the company in. Given this is what he is talking about now, and not how they have lost their way and are working on delivering solid experience for players, unlike their last games, is telling.
But, I lost all hope for TES6 to be good when Starfield came out. Maybe I'll be wrong, hopefully I'll be wrong, but I'm not holding my breath.
16I'm running on the hope that Starfield was meh because they secretly have the majority of staff working on TES6 or that they rushed it because they're working on new engine.
I can dream
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