Bethesda Vice President of PR Pete Hines sat down with Gamasutra to talk about Oblivion's Shivering Isles expansion. In the Q&A, Hines stated that the the content will only be available through Xbox Live Marketplace. According to Hines, stand-alone expansions can not work with another existing product on the Xbox 360, leaving Marketplace downloads as the only viable option. Despite Bethesda wanting to have a version for the retail market, they were unable to do so because of this. Should implementing expansions via disc become possible after some extensive work on Microsoft's part, Bethesda plans to explore that option for Shivering Isles.
As for price point, Bethesda doesn't have anything concrete yet. They are still in talks with Microsoft to find the proper balance between value and profitability. After Shivering Isles releases, Hines said that they are planning one or two more pieces of content for Oblivion, albeit not the size of the forthcoming expansion. So are you going to download Shivering Isles? If so, how much are you willing to pay?
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1-25-2007 @ 7:42PM
Jonah Falcon said...
You could buy the Morrowind GOTY version with all the expansions attached. Why not sell the full version of Oblivion with the expansion added from the disc as if it were online?
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1-25-2007 @ 7:43PM
Ayo Jube said...
Why couldnt they just have you buy the disc and have it save to your hard drive just like the marketplace download would be, oh wait. Forgot about people who dont have Harddrives.
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1-25-2007 @ 8:14PM
J.Goodwin said...
I think 1200 points would be fair. I'd buy it for 1600 though.
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1-25-2007 @ 8:16PM
L said...
2Why couldnt they just have you buy the disc and have it save to your hard drive just like the marketplace download would be, oh wait. Forgot about people who dont have Harddrives"
Well that would mean i could buy one copy and give it to everyone i know :P
SOrry but it looks like downloadin it is the only way ....plus it will use information from the game any ways ...can,t see the download bein more than 1.5 gigs
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1-25-2007 @ 8:33PM
teknomusik said...
1200MS points if they can work in 200 Gamerscore points/12 Achievements (similar to an arcade game)
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1-25-2007 @ 8:45PM
zourskittles said...
"Well that would mean i could buy one copy and give it to everyone i know :P
SOrry but it looks like downloadin it is the only way ....plus it will use information from the game any ways ...can,t see the download bein more than 1.5 gigs"
couldnt you still copy it from HD to HD using that 3rd party HD transferere, or just use memory cards if they come big enough. Also i am definitly buying this even if its 1,000,000MSP... i love me some oblivion
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1-25-2007 @ 9:02PM
DeadPlasmaCell said...
1200 would be nice.
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1-25-2007 @ 9:09PM
Strike Man said...
"Well that would mean i could buy one copy and give it to everyone i know :P"
Exactly. It would be the Halo 2 map pack redux.
...and I was kinda hoping for that too. :p
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1-25-2007 @ 9:25PM
StylesofBeyond said...
If it's a full blown expansion pack I'd gladly pay 800 points for it, if not more.
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1-25-2007 @ 9:37PM
Insomnious said...
... I kinda regret trading in my copy now. Oh how I miss those incredibly individual dungeons and glitched quests!
:'(
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1-25-2007 @ 10:22PM
Vistigil said...
All the game needs now is some variety in armor and weapons, for the love of christ there are maybe 4 or 5 diffrent armor sets. Why did they waste so much time making that ugly ass clothes? for the rest of the ugly asses in tamriel? sons a bitchs!
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1-25-2007 @ 10:46PM
Arno said...
1200 and it better come with every single piece of Oblivion content ever released, including horse armor.
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1-25-2007 @ 10:54PM
rjm72 said...
I would pay 1200, more if I had to though I wouldn't be happy about it.
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1-25-2007 @ 11:16PM
Mike said...
800 would be nice. I wouldn't spend any more than 1200. Otherwise I'd just wait and buy any eventual Oblivion "GOTY" edition, which would have all the content at a price of $20-30.
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1-25-2007 @ 11:56PM
eLiNeS said...
I will wait for it to become free, but if they add extra achievements to it then I could see paying maybe 500 to 800.
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1-26-2007 @ 12:52AM
sovietdancinbear said...
I'll wait and see what all is in there but anymore then $20 would have to be a huge amount of content before I go for it.
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1-26-2007 @ 4:11AM
WarriorDyke said...
i'm with #15 800ms points, 1200 is pushing it. anything over 1200, and MS, Bethesda...you can forget about getting my money. i've got other bills to pay besides feeding a gaming habit!
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1-26-2007 @ 6:35AM
Polar said...
I will buy it no matter wat it will cost. You wont get more game for the money than with Morrowind and Oblivion. Considering how much more gamevalue I got from those games im ready to pay up to get even more of the tes magic.
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1-26-2007 @ 7:51AM
DaStuph said...
800 pts? 1200 pts? You're nuts if you think its going that cheap. I agree with an early post. This suckers going to be in the $25-$30 range because you're getting an expansion thats bigger then most other games.
Didn't they say there would be NO achievement points for the expansion since Oblivion already used up the 1000 pts? If thats true, its going to be hard for me to buy this expansion. Why wouldn't they give us Gamerpoints for a game that gives you as much as its going to deliver??
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1-26-2007 @ 11:41AM
Chad said...
I'd probably go for $20 on it but not more. The problem is Oblivion was fun while it lasted but I'm done with it now. I'd need a reason to put it back in the 360 again. This expansion might get me to do so, but only if the price is right.
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