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3 points

28 days ago

Not gonna dispute this but horse armor has a cache

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Farid@startrek.website

1 point

28 days ago

Oh, it had like an inventory functionality? I love Oblivion, but I obviously didn’t get the armor and don’t remember the details. I suspect it also provided defense for the horse? In that case it’s almost approaching Assassin’s Creed’s “buy xp to skip grind” level of egregiousness, but still just a DLC.

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1 point

28 days ago

apologies… cache as in it was a meme with gamers about paying for it haha as it was a joke but here we are :/

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Farid@startrek.website

1 point

28 days ago

Could you please explain? Now I’m curious.

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-1 points

28 days ago

If the internet was a real a place i would be able to pull article from the time period but search yields jack shit.

but here something now (2020) https://screenrant.com/oblivion-horse-armor-dlc-controversy-explained/

In 2006 - a year after the Xbox 360’s launch - the term “microtransaction” wasn’t even widely known. Instead, Oblivion’s Horse Armor was just called “bad DLC.” But it ended up kick-starting of one of gaming’s most hated and most lucrative business tactics.

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Farid@startrek.website

1 point

28 days ago

I didn’t find any references to “cache”. That’s the part I want to understand, what the significance of that part of the joke. Why “cache”?

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1 point

28 days ago

cachet*

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mindbleach@sh.itjust.works

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1 point

27 days ago

Cachet.

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