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Skyrim lead says Bethesda was knocked back by furious response to Oblivion Horse Armour DLC, but it sold 'millions' anyway: 'You're all making fun of it and yet you buy it' (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Nesmith said he no longer remembers the exact sales figures for the add-on, but he remembers it being a lot. "It must have been in the millions, it had to be millions," he said.

So... No accounting for how many of these sales came from bundles/GOTY editions, and we are just going off his memory of the sales numbers?

Great reporting, this really vindicated Horse Armor's legacy...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Yeah I had the GOTY edition with shivering isles etc, but if it came with the horse armor I have no memory of it. I certainly didn't buy it with horse armor in mind. I'd like to know if that was included in the figures.

We know pretty damn well that people buy cosmetics though, especially in the current gaming landscape. So he's right, and we all lost something important here

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Did you expect him to put in a request for that information with their archive accounting department for transactions from 18 years ago? Come on, man!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 34 minutes ago

I mean, if you asked me something like that about our system's sales, I'd have an answer for you in a few minutes. But then, I'm BI and not Accounting, so I'm probably more proficient at pulling aggregated data straight from the archive DB.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

I didn't expect him to do anything. But does he expect anecdotal evidence provided without context to change my mind on horse armor? Come on man!