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Apr 5, 2006 - 01:07 AM |
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I Owe Bethesda Money |
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According to the company that produced it, this is worth $2. (Also 360 losers behold the high res textures on my faraway landscapes and weep with despair!)
So yeah, now charging for official mods which would have been free during the Morrowind era. Lots of people say this is stupid. So stupid, in fact, that links to download the mod without paying began popping up all over the official forums within hours.
What really interests me though, is how this whole fiasco is a perfect example of how the pay for content system being used for Xbox live will never work properly for the PC. Those who actually paid for the mod are being forced to download an exe file that many have claimed problems installing at whopping speeds of 5.6 kb/s. Additionally, some have also said their confirmation number never arrived by email. Now compare this to all the happy pirates out there (including yours truly) who merely had to download and unzip the contents into their data folder and were happily running around with their stolen horse armor literally seconds later.
Now see the landscape this has set for next week's mod. Many of those foolish enough to pay for the content this time around will see the futillity of their ways and just wait along with everyone else for the illegal links to start popping up, possibly late at night when the boards (especially the mods forum) are essentially unmoderated. PC gamers are used to free content, and anything contrary to this will result in hostility and the inevitable piracy.
Bethesda isn't a dumb company though. It's likely they didn't really expect to make any money off the the PC releases of official mods, relying instead on the 360 market who has no other choice if they want new content. Why then, they still decided to make the PC content pay to download is anybody's guess. Perhaps it was just an experiment. See you next week, when the door to the Imperial Orrery opens. I'm betting on having a free download two hours after release.
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