Defend this!
you don't have to buy it
>>739014630Why, it's armor, right? It's already defending itself.
>>739014630The grim state of gaming when you compare the uproar over horse armor then, versus the prevalence of far more offensive "microtransactions" today
>>739014630ok*buys horse armor*
>>739014820It's still hilarious that anyone would pay for a Bethesda DLC like this when the modding community exists.
>>739015520Anon, Bethesda literally packed a few mods and sold them as a new version of Skyrim. The real world is funnier than any hypothetical
>>739014630It got Donald Trump elected twice, so we're winning
>>739014630I think it was a perfectly reasonable DLC. Bethesda did a great job with Oblivion, so you can look at the horse armour as a way of giving them additional support and praise in exchange for some cool protection for your equine friends.
>>739014630Just buy the damn horse armor DLC.
>>739014820>"it's not that bad bro">"just don't buy it bro"this will never not make me seetheone day AI will shove an iron rod up people's asses and they'll wonder how that happened
>>739015912AI dictatorship or aliens assraping us would be preferable to this shit government and media now.
>>739014630Undefendable. I was there. There were two sides:The "Who Cares" Team>you don't have to buy it if you don't want to>it's just 1 little horse item that doesn't matter>doesn't affect the game so stop whining>they are a company they can do whatever they want>tell doomers to shut teh fuck up and assure us the sky isn't fallingThe "This is Dangerous" Team>microtransactions had never been done before in gaming>warned that if unopposed, it would be adopted across the medium en masse>warned that it would encourage devslop and day 1 DLCs/half the game behind a paywall one day>argued that we paid full price for a game that contained data for the horse armor DLC, and that buying the DLC literally changed a code flag from false to trueWe were right. The "Who Cares" idiots just didn't have the foresight to realize what kind of damage microtransactions (and the later natural evolution with Battle Passes, Live Service, lootboxes etc) would do to gaming as a whole. However, in Capitalism things are bought and sold based on consumers desires and consents, so enough people consent to DLCs/Battle Passes/Live Service/Lootboxes/FOMO DLC that they aren't going anywhere.I was beginning to think nothing could sink a AAA developer/publisher until I seen Ubisoft's stock plummet by over 90% due to their wokeslop garbage.
>>739014630>Defend this!Okay. I place this card face-down in defense position and end my turn
>>739014630It's just a few bucks, what are you, poor?
>>739016237you don't look like nostradamus when you shit out a retrospective 20 years after the fact
>>739015668>muh CCCwho the hell cares, its overpriced broken slop most of the time
