Bethesda Gives Non-Live Subscribers Hope!

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As the Shivering Isle expansion was ONLY originally planned to be an Xbox Live download for the Xbox 360 it left many fans without Xbox Live wondering exactley how they were going to get their 'hands' on it. Well Bethesda have now offered them hope and said Shivering Isles could very well have a retail boxed copy coming out to. They have said they dont have a lot of control over that area but would love to release it as a retail game. Here is quote from senior game designer Bruce Nesmith...

Eventually we will publish a complete version, a Game of the Year or Special Edition - I don't know what they'll actually decide to call it - of the game that will include a compilation of everything. And at that point you could have one DVD that has everything on it. Of course, it would mean "re-buying a game that you already bought", which is "not really an ideal situation", but it would be a way for non-Live Xbox 360 owners to obtain Shivering Isles. We would "love nothing more" than be able to release just the expansion for Xbox 360 in stores, but it's not something we really have a lot of control over.

Microsoft does not have a method for delivering expansion packs in stores for the Xbox. When you put that extra CD or DVD into the Xbox, it has no way to know that's part of the original game because it's physically a different DVD. So unless you want to put the entire game on the DVD, and distribute that... We don't have a way to deliver it. It's something we really hope Microsoft find an answer to.

He also mentioned that Bethesda is producing one more piece of downloadable content for Oblivion that will be released after Shivering Isles.

It's "a fighter stronghold kind of thing", Nesmith said. "It's the one character class that we haven't really dealt with yet so it'll be something for those guys who are into the heavy armour and the big, big sticks".

 

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PS3/PC/Xbox 360 Shivering Isles Trailer:

YouTube - GDC '07: Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles Trailer