Paying for Oblivion content
April 5, 2006So in addition to shelling out $80 for Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, Betheseda and Microsoft also want users to pay for downloading mods as well. Mods (modifications to a game) were once the purview of enthusiastic fans, and were always for free. So I find this attempt by Betheseda to cash in on the modding craze a little bit mercenary in nature. I’m not willing to pay $5AUS just so my horse can have access to some new armor. Especially when you consider that several free mods have already been released for the PC already. One recent example was a mod that gave you magical weapons at the very beginning of the game. If it’s a choice between a whole variety of magic weapons or paying to have my horse laden with armor, I’ll choose the weapons thanks.
