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Bethesda Softworks has a pretty good idea of what it’s doing when it comes to DLC and to prove it, Vice President Pete Hines reveals that after all this time and ridicule, people are still buying horse armor. “Horse armor.” Two great words that go great together when you’re trying to encapsulate the “sucker born every minute” approach to downloadable content. Released in 2006 for two bucks or 200 Microsoft points, the Horse Armor pack for Oblivion was the subject of much derision because it was, well, armor for your horse: a purely cosmetic upgrade to an optional mount that […]http://cdn.themis-media.com/media/global/images/library/deriv/50/50567.jpg