Elder Scrolls Anthology, Anticipation and discussion Options

[mirocu]

I´ve already said shouted out that I´m getting the Anthology for my collection and I couldn´t be more excited!! Pixies will be up as soon as it arrives unless one of you beat me to it

I think it´s an awesome thing to do; give out all the games in the series in one, big bundle and I really hope they´ll do the same to the Fallout series. Since Arena and Daggerfall are more hard to come by in physical form these days I´m the most excited about them though I don´t know if I´ll play them. But maybe I should, it almost feels like an obligation
I´m also excited about the maps. Not only will I get copies of the maps I already have, but also one of Tamriel as a whole and one of Iliac Bay!

Anyway, the poll is up! Do your thing!

[jack cloudy]

Best as I can tell, it is laziness. No retail edition of Oblivion ever came with the DLC (apart from KOTN that was treated as a full expansion). Instead of making a new version that includes them, they've simply hauled the old manufacturing hardware out of storage I think. Not that I actually know how installation programs and disc-burners are made or operate.

A better example is morrowind perhaps. I've only seen the promo-image of the box, but I remember mentioning in one of the threads about the anthology that Morrowind apparantly comes on multiple discs. For clarification, Morrowind came before the dvd era and came on cds, as well as its expansions. Now a cd (man, this makes me feel old, I remember the floppy disk that held ~1 megabyte) holds only ~700 megabytes. The first time I bought Morrowind it came on two cds, one for the game and another for the construction kit. Disc-swapping was required during the installation process.

When Morrowind was later rereleased on dvd as GOTY, it and its expansions easily fit on one disc.

So there is no reason for Morrowind to need multiple discs for the anthology, unless the promo-image showed multiple discs solely as an easy visual for the expansions.



As for the poll, I am waving back and forth on it. On the one hand, shiny box and everything nice and tidy in one place (minus Oblivion DLC). Also, maps. On the other hand, I already have the three I would play.




And a question to those who did buy it. About the maps, does it show anything about the continents beyond Tamriel?

[Kiln]

Best as I can tell, it is laziness. No retail edition of Oblivion ever came with the DLC (apart from KOTN that was treated as a full expansion). Instead of making a new version that includes them, they've simply hauled the old manufacturing hardware out of storage I think. Not that I actually know how installation programs and disc-burners are made or operate.

You're probably right, either that or they had lots of extra copies laying around and figured out a way to sell them easily.

It does look very nice though going by the pics just posted by Mirocu.