Elden Ring’s new Tarnished Pack is getting a mixed reaction from players for the paid skins The $5 upgrade adds new starting classes, weapons but it also includes skins for Torrent, fans are comparing it to Oblivion’s infamous horse armor DLC. People are worried this is the first step toward a bigger change in how the studio monetizes its games. “The industry literally back to selling horse armor.”

Despite Elden Ring becoming FromSoftware’s biggest success, Hidetaka Miyazaki says the studio still doesn’t make games for a specific audience. “We don’t really have a set audience in mind at the start. It’s very much showing that this is what I wanted to make; the motivation is that this is a game I want to see exist.” Miyazaki also says FromSoftware has not moved away from single-player games. The recent focus on multiplayer with Elden Ring Nightreign and The Duskbloods simply lined up that way. “At the end of the day, our motivation is always to just make a game that we want to play, something we’ve been wanting to make.”