Shivering Isles to cost 2400 Microsoft Points

360 News | That horse armour doesn't seem so bad now, does it?

According to Pro-G, Bethesda Softworks V.P. of Public Relations and Marketing Pete Hines has revealed that The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion expansion Shivering Isles will cost 2400 Microsoft points. Urk.

This will make the content the most expensive content on the Live Marketplace, though Shivering Isles is a fully fledged expansion, so you're getting a lot of new content. The expansion will be available on the PC and on the Xbox 360 on March the 27th. By comparison, the PC expansion will cost £19.99 / $49.95AUD when it comes out.

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10 Comments

The Brett

5 years ago

Actually I'd say it makes the horse armour look expensive more than anything, considering the pure quantity of new material Shivering Isles offers.

mantra79

5 years ago

good call the brett i agree

Kaboth

5 years ago

$50? You can buy Oblivion for that price. These microtransactions seem to be pretty majorly priced.

B3NBO

5 years ago

Kaboth wrote

$50? You can buy Oblivion for that price. These microtransactions seem to be pretty majorly priced.

I agree.

That is pretty overpriced..$20 would have been better, especialy seeing as its not on a disk.

slapshakle

5 years ago

2400 points for a solid 30 hours of great gameplay = sold

drunknmonkey_au

5 years ago

I really don't get how some people can be so deluded to think that it's cost much less then this. The norm for expansions it usually about $50 and this one is pack with more content then a lot of full games that get released these days.
2400 points only add up to around $40. Not a bad price if you ask me and a little cheaper then the PC version too.

Spanca

5 years ago

^ Exactly. This isn't supposed to be a 'microtransaction' in any way. It's just a regular expansion delivered through the Marketplace rather than via retail outlets. To call it expensive is to show a lack of thinking.

DancesInUnderwear

5 years ago

But whether its logical or not, people are going to look at a 'virtual' copy of something and think it should be much cheaper than an 'actual' copy (for example with many of the downloadable titles on XBLA / VC / PSN). And this is likely to continue until 'virtual' copies become the norm.

Cerebral

5 years ago

It's cheaper than the PC version and people still complain?

I personally don't give a toss about a box, manual or a disc. Once I install the game, they just take up space.

cwad89

5 years ago

Well worth the cost imo. It just makes the horse armour seem even more ridiculously expensive now. 30+ hours of gaming for roughly 2400 mspoints, sign me up!

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