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@MrClickerson

There are plenty of reasons. July 4th Steam Sale, Halloween Steam Sale, Thanksgiving Steam Sale, Christmas Steam Sale, Random Steam Event Sale ...

at which time it will probably be $5.

@Duke

these additions are not "icing" they are blatantly obvious design ideas that anyone playing the game has come up with. See: mods.

I've seen hundreds of posts questioning why you can't fight from a horse or where the snow effect is and why you don't have any snow footprints.

The point is they DIDN'T create a better experience. They created an average experience and left all this out. Until this is put in the game Bethesda haven't added anything to the "experience," they've made a set of features in one week that just adds fuel to the fire that Skyrim was rushed to deadline and has a world that could have been much better if they had bothered to. They could have added most of this in a day one patch. "Dark dungeons" and adding some snow footprint decals do not take a month of dev time and they could have dropped in some of this after the game went gold just working casually.

Clearly the emphasis was on quantity over quality.

@Chuck Bosworth

Priorities? This took them a week of just messing around. Are you telling me that in FIVE YEARS they couldn't spare a week (or one day a year) to add something like swinging a sword on a horse? Or creating a dungeon quest that had no lights?

What were they prioritizing? Fixing quest bugs? Writing more dialog so the guards don't repeat the same thing over and over? Designing a user interface specifically for PC gamers?

If it's a choice between adding endless bounty quests of "Kill random bandit at random location" or designing another tier of useless potions to add to elixir, minor, major, extreme, draught ... I'll take horse combat.

@Darklink2009

All of these are OBVIOUS ideas. Especially the "dynamic weather and snow" which was supposed to be a feature in the game to begin with.

@Darklink2009

I always found that funny when you uncover a hidden tomb that the lights are still on.

It never even gets dark outside either. Most of the time it's hard to tell if it's the middle of the night or juts a cloudy afternoon. Contrast that with STALKER where night was damned scary without a light.

What's even more ridiculous about this video is that many of these features have been in the Fallout games for 5 years now. Did they not play that game? Followers in Skyrim are just mules with dialog options. I was expecting at least some personal quests as they did in Fallout but you get nothing to make them characters instead of just props. Same with eating and sleeping. Again, had value in Fallout but in Skyrim have no point at all.

Some of these are so damn basic they should have been in the release version.

"Dark dungeons" seriously? Turning out the lights to make the generic tombs more interesting never occurred to anyone in 6 years of development?

That chest piece looks completely stupid.

Why didn't they just make it look armored in ME style or with Normandy color scheme?

@dsp4

Texture were nowhere near good enough in Skyrim unless you are viewing everything from at least 20 feet away in game. Walking up to characters revealed their pixelated low-res clothing, furniture and environment clutter was covered in blurry flat crap with no detail, faces were chunky and low res with banding ...

That's got to to be the laziest comparison video I've ever seen.

Woo. Two screen comparison.

If you want to see the real difference walk up to any character. The new clothing and armor is a hundred times better than the pixelated crap the game usually has.

@Misterlee

That's not the case at all. The majority use completely new textures using photos and renders.