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Frustration With Oblivion Mod Costs on Xbox Live
Vizionary wrote to mention the player backlash swelling out of a recent addition to Xbox Live. Major Nelson's blog made the announcement that they'd finally added the (previously announced) barding for the player mount in Oblivion. The catch is that the simple modification costs 200 points, removing a lot of the appeal of the small mods the Elder Scrolls series has thrived on. From commenter 'SW 1540' on that site: "Unquestionably, some downloadable content should cost money/points. Having said that, the cost of that content should be directly proportional to the enhancement it provides to the original game. For example, I would expect to pay $20.00 for the soon to come Perfect Dark Zero maps or new cars for Project Gotham. On the other hand, I would expect any additional costumes for PDZ to be free. I imagine there is good arguments on both sides, but one can see that the potential is there to exploit an eager fan. "
Um, Oblivion is a single player game. They are talking about paying for small extra content that is freely available with the PC version.
I have no fucking idea what the above story is about.
Nor do I care.
The alternative is you could actually earn real world money at a job and spend it on real world things like going out to movies and restaurants and stuff with real live human beings. But I guess that wouldn't be nerdy enough.
You NEVER were a true hardcore PC gamer or you would not praise the console.
You just CANT play Skilled FPS like Quake 3 on a PAD.
And there is NO true rpg (RPG with the definition of rpgcodex.com) on a fucking console. No fallout, no planescape torment, no baldur's gate (dark alliance is a joke), no daggerfall, no ultima, no wizadry nor a might&magic.
In the console you don't have true adventure games like The Longest Journey, Day of the Tentacle.
If all you played on the PC were shitty sports game of EA, that's different.