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Oblivion Horse Armour dev looks back on hated DLC – “We had no idea what we were doing” (www.videogamer.com)

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[-] PunchingWood@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Bethesda had no idea how much backlash the DLC would create

Yeah sure.

Either they're just straight up lying, or they're completely incompetent over at Bethesda.

Sadly, both don't seem very unlikely realities for what that studio turned in to.

[-] linearchaos@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago

no idea how much backlash

That's not to say they didn't expect backlash, they fully expected some, they simply didn't do a field study to see how bad it was going to be. Actually pretty common in the industry. Thow shit against the wall, see how bad the outcome is, discount that against profit. :)

[-] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 month ago

plus

“One of the things about Horse Armour that you have to remember is Bethesda, I believe, was the very first company to do downloadable content expansions,” Nesmith told us. “Nobody had done that before for the platforms. We literally pioneered that. And so Bethesda didn’t know what the hell it was doing at the time. We didn’t know!”