There's a new preview/interview hybrid at ShackNews. There's not really much new stuff discussed unfortunately, but it is a pretty nice summary of what we've learnt so far for those of us who are a little behind. There is at least some reassurance that "if you're spelunking a deep dark dungeon and are in the middle of a battle, you can't just open the map and warp away". So it doesn't sound like the Fast Travel system will go too far.

Also, there's something a little odd for those of us planning to play on XBox 360 and try downloadable content:



It seems you'll have to pay for the priviledge of downloading content! Whether this applies to the PC as well I don't know.

Credit to Kaleem of the forums for spotting this before me.

Lol, I'd like to see Bethsoft try to make that stick on PC You poor 360ers - I have a theory that Bethsoft have sabotaged supplies of the 360 so they can release Oblivion wiht it properly - too bad guys, I played on the new Perfect Dark in Game the other day... meh< methinks PC owners will be untrubled, except for the dumbing down factor of the shiny new console

Random rantish thing over. Nice find Kaleem if the interview .

I'm not too surprised on the pay-for-plugins idea, Neverwinter Nights has been doing it and it's worked well. You pay a small price ($5-10) for a mini-expansion that adds a few hours worth of quests to the game. And the quality is high, so you don't have to worry about wasting time on it.

I don't think we're going to see anything like "$5 for the Sword of 1337ness" plugins for sale, since there won't be any market for them on PC.

Once the game gets released, someone has got to put together a blooper reel of these previews.

End of the first quarter of 2006? April? I hope this is just a guess...


So this paying thing, is that for official mods only?

If it is, it won't take long before someone pays for it, uploads the mod onto his site and let it be downloaded for free.

I'm not good at maths, but those are 5 skill tiers...


Edit: And it would be useful if you linked the first page of the preview instead of the second

*shakes head*

Damn! beaten to it again! Damn you, EVE Online, Averting all my attention!

*shakes fist*

(*back to reality* Nice find switch!)

End of first quarter would be March, wouldn't it? Although I have a feeling they do things a little weirdly...


It would be. There's no way they could impose paying rules on privately run websites.

And giving the official mods off for free would probably get you in legal deep water.


Whoops! Post edited. I didn't even notice I'd done that. Thanks!


Thanks. It wasn't so much a find as spotting Kaleem's post before anyone else.

Haha, I hadn't noticed that MB! That's what I get for skim reading. Very amusing. Maybe it's not as much of a good summary as I thought.

Oops yes that is march. But i still want it on 25 january

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