Bethesda on DLC, patches and pricing again
After their previous interview on the subject, Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion developer Pete Hines of Bethesda now speaks out himself on the Elder Scrolls fora about the upcoming DLC for their epic RPG, and even better about the pricing for the products.
On the downloads Xboxic had already spotted on the download site Pete provides lots more detailed information in his post. It’s a bit too much to copy so might as well read it there. What’s interesting is some direct remarks made on pricing:
We hope to have The Orrery available for purchase next week. This plugin will cost 150pts on Xbox, and $1.89 on the PC. The Horse Armor Pack has been very popular, and exceeded what we thought it would sell. Despite that, we’re still trying to find the right spot, so we’re putting a much larger plugin out for less than the last one and we’ll see what happens. Your feedback as we move forward in this is invaluable. Tell us what you want to see, how much of it, and what it might be worth to you. No, don’t say you want it free, because these plugins take a surprising amount of time to create, polish, and test (much more then Morrowind’s).
Cheers Pete, that was almost an apology for the ridiculous price of the Horse pack 
But seriously, the content does take a lot of time, so it’s quite logical it’s not for free, and I personally think 150MP for real added value and hours of extra gameplay is something I would pay without complaining.
They’re also planning to patch Oblivion for the PC and Xbox360. The patch will address a number of issues that are reported by users and confirmed by Bethesda. Their plan is to first release the patch as a beta patch for the PC, and when everything is fixed it will be released as a final patch for PC and Xbox 360.
Another great find by Xploited13 (yes perhaps we need to hire the guy )
What about the other country’s?
Will we be able to download it too.
Untill now the horse pack is not available in Belgium and other countrys in europe
I think that maybe the reason that the pack is only available for the English versions is because of the localization issues he refers to. Once they got these sorted out, you guys might get to download the expansion packs too. Just my guess!
haha, what happened to that other article - did two of you submit it at the same time?
150MP sounds a bit more bearable, particularly as there’s slightly more to them than bloody horse armour.
The patch is of much more interest to me though, there’s a few locations in the game where I get a lot of slowdown (Imperial City waterfront being the most noticeable), even after clearing my cache. Hopefully they’ll address things like this.
Yeah I guess great minds do think alike
One minute apart, same article, same quotes
Yeah we accidentally did submit the two articles at the same time, only a few seconds between it. But it’s already fixed, I thought no one would see it, but you already did although it was there for only second
I wish they had a patch out befor I got into the game…
Nice, but I still havent downloaded the horse pack.
Wouldn’t it be a good idea for them to lower the price of the horse pack then? If I pay $1.89 for a dungeon (zone, whatever you want to call it) which is obviously more content, I’d pay maybe $0.25 for the horse armor.
hecatomb:
If they were to lower the price of the horse armor quickly after its release, they would find thousands of gamers angry because they got shafted on the price cut. Gamers would expect the difference back from the price cut.