Wizards's Tower is awesome!, Screenies here Options

[HyPN0]

As most of us know,official mod Wizard's Tower was published today.For those who have it:
How do you like it?
For me,it's MUCH better than Horse Armor or Orrery.Exept it looks cool it has some really cool perks.

For those not having the mod,here's some screenshots:

Tower Outside
Tower Inside
Atronach Summoning
Atronach Commands
Tower Garden
Guarded Storage Area(that BTW takes makes a lot of lag,low-end configs beware)
Mage's Guild Teleport
(there is some more stuff,but i don't want to spoil just everything)
There are more rooms,and you can buy some stuff (furniture and such) for the tower in Mystic Emporium.

If you don't have this one,buy it!
This mod will really make your 2$ pay off (IMO).
Perfect for solitude mages,but it's also very useful for any other classes.
A must have!

[Ibis]

I just cannot get behind this paying $2 for mods. It just doesn't set right with me. As I've heard other people say, think about how many downloads you had for Morrowind. Now imagine if you'd payed $2 for each one ot them.
If you played 50 mods ... you'd have spent $100 additional on Morrowind. Seems kinda excessive, doesn't it?

[Olav]

I just cannot get behind this paying $2 for mods. It just doesn't set right with me. As I've heard other people say, think about how many downloads you had for Morrowind. Now imagine if you'd payed $2 for each one ot them.
If you played 50 mods ... you'd have spent $100 additional on Morrowind. Seems kinda excessive, doesn't it?

Well that's kind of true, but there are some benefits to it:

- the mods have been made by the same people who made the game. This means quality and proper testing. I've installed more than 20 other mods, and some of them mess up the game. Amateur modders should be more careful of what they release, and at least make proper installers and readme files. Proper testing prior to release would also be appreciated.

Well that was actually the only benefit(s) I could think of now...

Personally I see no difference in buying add-on packs like Bloodmoon compared to instant-buying downloadable small mods that together will make the game better and more immersive like those CD/DVD add-ons (I supect there will be no such add-on for Oblivion, only lots of small download mods?). I'm all for this.

Then again I have a healthy income and no-one to share it with, so that probably makes this easier for me to swallow... What I paid for the game I make in about 30 minutes of work (well, if sit and stare at a monitor and write on this forum can be called work ).

Then again Bethesda have taken quite a risk with this release, since they don't have implemented any 'real' copy-protection software. I bet they're loosing millions of dollars by doing this, but instead they get a huge amount of 'pirates' hooked - which in turn will probably see nothing wrong in paying the price of half a beer to improve the game immensily - and legally - by downloading these official add-ons. Most of the pirates will probably buy the next TES release or even this release, once they're 'hooked' on the Tamriel lore and history... and games.

Anyway, this post became a bit longer than I'd planned (well as long as I get paid.. ), but my point is that I'm with Bethesda on this. The gaming industry is highly corrupted. These kinds of mods are a good way to keep the company in business and be able to bring us more brilliant games in the future...

This post has been edited by Olav: Apr 28 2006, 06:21 PM