Bethesda Celebrates April Fool's Day With Half Off Oblivion DLC, Horse Armor Price Doubled
In what might be one of my favorite April Fool's day pranks yet, for the next week Bethesda has dropped half of the price on all Oblivion DLC. Everything from Knights of the Nine to the Wizard's Tower, and even the lengthy Shivering Isles expansion are all 50% off for the next week. All DLC that is except for the notoriously useless horse armor, which now costs twice as much as it normally would. The price cuts/raises, in addition to April Fool's day, are to help celebrate the 3rd anniversary of the release of horse armor (April 3rd), or as most people think of it, the beginning of DLC price gouging.
Normally I wouldn't report on an April Fool's day joke, but this one struck me as particularly brilliant. And it's actually true. A quick look over at Microsoft's Oblivion page shows that all DLC is in fact cheaper, with the exception of the horse armor which is now a ludicrous 400 MS points. I haven't played Oblivion in probably over a year now, but with the expansions at a discount, I might pick up Shivering Isles and give it a whirl. Kudos to Bethesda for doing an April Fool's day prank that is both funny and useful.
NaviFairy
Posted to Video Games on 1 April 2009
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Good thing they didn't do something crazy like announce DLC for the PS3 version... No one would believe that for a second.
WHY!?
I just bought all these last week.
/sob