I remember laughing at people buying horse armor when Oblivion came out, and now I’m glued to the screen watching streamers drop $300 on gacha game pulls
I remember laughing at people buying horse armour. Now I’m just sad at the state of everything.
I remember getting Rock Band songs for $1.99. The old ones even went down to $0.99 for a few years.
Now, they’re about $3.50 and they’ve stopped releasing new ones.
“Horse armor is not bad. I think horse armor is fine. The price point, at the time, was the issue. We felt, it’s probably worth this,” he said. “I won’t say who at Microsoft said, ‘Well, that’s less than we sell a theme for; a wallpaper is more than that. You should charge this; you can always lower it.’ We were like, ‘Okay!’”
Also it’s weird to me that Bethesda gets crap for their DLC’s. Oblivion’s horse armor was bad, but it wasn’t the worst or the first. Heck, Morrowind had expansions. MapleStory is pretty widely cited as the earliest form of micros transactions. And most of Bethesda’s DLC’s have been great- all 3 of Skyrim’s were ton of content relatively cheap.
I guess that’s the price of popularity?
Expansions are really not the same as “micro transactions” (now very much macro transactions). Expansions were typically content filled and had a fair price point, regardless if they shipped boxed on a CD or were packed into a digital download. Now we pay the price for a full sized expansion for a single cosmetic in some games.
