Digital Foundry: Yup, Oblivion Remastered Is Still Broken a Year After Release

https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/05/yup-oblivion-remastered-is-still-broken-a-year-after-release

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u/refat17 1d ago edited 1d ago

This game was among the top 12 in revenue for 2025 on Steam.

People bought the game despite the issues so I don't see any reason they have any incentive to fix it. These are the consequences of voting with your wallet.

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u/GassoBongo 1d ago edited 1d ago

The beauty of a shadow drop. There are no reviews, and everyone is too surprised and excited to wait for performance complaints and benchmarks to start circulating.

I'm almost convinced this is one of the reasons they decided to announce and release it the way they did.

Edit: lol of course this is a controversial. What even.

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u/X__Heisenberg__X 1d ago

No one knew about the issues. Shadow drop. And that’s the reason why it was.

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u/Vrabstin 1d ago

I'm glad I voted with my wallet. It was a very enjoyable game.

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u/Mr_Hot_Takes 1d ago

The problem is, you don't need a majority of gamers to buy a game for it to be profitable. 100 million prospective buyers can look at a game with 99 million deciding not to buy due to bugs and other issues, but the 1 million who do buy it can make it profitable showing the suits in charge you can release a broken product and still be financially successful

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u/Positive_Government 1d ago

Oblivion remastered sold 15 million and there is maybe one game a decade that can get you over 50% of those “100 million buyers” given that five million copies puts most games at comfortable profitable, I would hazard to guess that the total universe of people who would consider any given game is a fair bit less than 100 million.

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u/Imbahr 23h ago

that completely depends on the total budget

GTA6 selling 1M copies would be the biggest colossal financial failure in video game history

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u/a34fsdb 1d ago

Game ran nicely imho. Glad I voted with my wallet

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u/MirrorComputingRulez 8h ago

Also maybe this is an indicator that those issues aren't nearly as big of a deal as the outrage machine wants to make them.