#Oblivion horse armor bug mod#

You do this every single day with literally every product and service you chose to buy or ignore. ItвЂ™s only a buck IвЂ™ll grab it.вЂќДЄre both natural reactions.

вЂњOh look thereвЂ™s horse armor in this game. Voluntary transactions between informed adults ahoukdnt ever be cause for outrage. There was outrage because some nerds believed (and some still do) that the video game market is somehow special and exempt from the basic theories that describe literally all consumer behavior.Д«asically: if a seller offers a product people want at a price theyвЂ™re willing to pay, theyвЂ™ll make money and customers will get something they liked.

#Oblivion horse armor bug mod#

Especially as free mods are still a thing too so even if they were hoping some one would make a mod to fix teh imbalance no guarentee it wouldn't be free anyways. Meanimg they can't try to make the game worse in hopes you'll pay for the 'fix' to fix the imbalance. Which honestly I still feel is better than MTs because other people are making the mods Bethesda can't try to aim the game at pushing any certain mod. And even now they are trying creative ways around that so now instead they are trying to offer paid mods. Though the outrage did seem to keep Bethesda from doing it for a while. Horse armor was probably just the first try at pushing it. I think they would have kept pushing it until people got used to it. And it turned out to be a really really really good way (for making money anyways). So microtransactions was the best way of making money (trojan horse to get past people who didn't want to pay the real cost of making the game).

I think where companies got the idea to push more MTs was mobile games where people were more outraged if the game cost 99 cents or more rather than the game having microtransactions (people just wanted their free/cheap ass games). So in the end the consumer is always screwed here. There are people who are completely against them, but they are clearly extremely successful because for a large swathe of the market it is a normal practice they have experienced elsewhere, likely first exposure in mobile games, or aren't familiar with how content was sold in the 4th, or 5th, or 6th gens because they weren't there or engaged at that time.Д«ut to protect consumers, in USA, we have shitty legislators who don't give a shit enough, unlike Canada or Europe. This is the same battle against lootboxes. And on the broader scale, despite some people being stalwarts against MTX in fully paid games (like myself, unless it's a large expansion quality DLC that adds much to the playable game portion), most people do accept this and view it as normal. There is a continuum of how people's expectations treat microtransactions, some who are not accepting at all and others who are very lenient. So who really accepted this microtransactions? Some gamers don't accept them at all, some accept it in certain circumstances, some view it as normal and acceptable in any game. Originally this practice was completely new, and the first people who knew about it were people who actively were aware this was free content in any other game if it were on 6th generation hardware.ДЄnd at the same time mobile with Play Store and Apple store mobile applications were taking off and normalizing it for the masses. Who was outraged though? That's the key about it.