2013 Release Planned For PS3 Skyrim DLC

[Sight Unseen]

I'm still calling timed exclusive on this, probably had and Non Disclosure Agreement with Microsoft on the matter.

That's why it's still not available on Steam either right? Oh wait...

 

[supermanNBC]

So what exactly did PS3 owners do to deserve free or reduced DLC given so many PS3 owners behavior over Skyrim?

What I've seen:
Bethesda we demand daily updates even if its you saying the same things!
Bethesda it's offensive that you keep telling us the same things!
Bethesda PS3 deserves special treatment, how dare you work on the game for other platforms!
Bethesda we demand updates with specific dates and times so we can complain that you didn't get it done exactly when you said it would be!
Bethesda we don't care that you are having problems with PS3 infrastructure, other completely different games that do not resemble Skyrim except in the vaguest possible way work on the PS3 and Skyrim should work exactly like those games!
Bethesda we demand that DLC now even though we will scream louder if there is any bugs in it at all because you rushed it out!

Yeah, that behavior totally deserves free things given to them.

Be mindful that these complaints/comments come from idiots and don't speak for the entire PlayStation community. They just get the most attention because of how ridiculous they sound. Personally I'm pissed, i have well over 200 + hours in skyrim for ps3, and I should be playing the dlc also, even if it sucks. Its not fair that we were promised a product that's been released on other consoles. The delay is unacceptable and yes, we deserve something. I didn't buy Dishonored cause of the skyrim crap thats going on. And yes i know they didn't make that game, only published, but still, I'm not the type of person that will keep buying Cod cause "they might fix the issues from the last one". If Bethesda does absolutely nothing or IMO, a BS price reduction, yeah will be the last product I'll buy from them.

 

[Eggsnham]

I sincerely hope Bethesda doesn't actually expect us to pay for Dawnguard.

A month or so after the expected release is one thing, but ~5 months for a simple port that should have been ready at the time they released it?

No. It's either free/heavily discounted, or fuck you.

 

[Proverbial Jon]

Considering Hearthfire was Skyrim's Horse Armour having PS3 users actually pay for it x months later would be the final blow. I bought my copy for Xbox 360 but I can imagine the frustration of PS3 players being excluded from this content.

 

[SajuukKhar]

Yeah, that's likely the case. If Bethesda really wants to get the loyalty back from their PS3 customers they should do some kind of sale for them.

Pete Hines, Bethesda's PR guy, has pretty much confirmed, on his twitter, several times, that the "PS3 memory problems" were the cause.

It isn't that the DLC doesn't work on the PS3, it's that it runs like crap because of how the PS3 handles memory, and how Creation engine does its thing.

Considering Hearthfire was Skyrim's Horse Armour having PS3 users actually pay for it x months later would be the final blow. I bought my copy for Xbox 360 but I can imagine the frustration of PS3 players being excluded from this content.

Horse armor added horse armor

Hearthfire added
-3 new homes
-different buildable wings for your house
-Adoption
-The ability to change companions into stewards
-Pets

Hearthfire =/= horse armor. try again plz.

 

[Aesir23]

While it's nice that they're finally getting around to it this whole debacle should never have happened to begin with.

I'm incredibly reluctant to buy a Bethesda game again after all of this. Yes, they've cited the PS3's memory hardware as being the bulk of the problem but since so many other companies can create multi-platform games and have them run just fine, I'm beginning to think the problem lies with Bethesda.

Not to mention that their games always seem to be horribly bug ridden. The complaints that Skyrim got on all systems made it seem like they didn't even bother to beta test it before releasing it.

In short, I've just lost my patience with them.

 

[Iron Criterion]

I sorry but how does a minor inconvenience equal free stuff? It'd be nice if Bethesda did some kind of discount, or package deal as a goodwill gesture, but you don't get to demand free stuff cause you had to wait.

 

[nexus]

*Blah blah, complaining, grumble grumble*

What is that armor in the News pic? They have fur collars and hoods. I haven't seen that before?

 

[Roxas1359]

Until I actually see the DLC on PSN store I'll take this with a grain of salt. I honestly think that Bethesda really screwed the pooch on how they've handled this and while I do know that the memory has been an issue in the past with DLC they could have most likely found a solution ages ago. I honestly think that this has more to do with the "exclusive DLC time" that basically Bethesda always seems to do because they take Microsoft's money. I feel bad for other PS3 users as I've learned to not purchase Bethesda games on the PS3 because this always happens. The only way Bethesda can hope to regain the trust of PS3 users is for them to give a discount on the DLC as this whole debacle has really damaged their image. Plus Skyrim is already buggy as hell which is honestly why I stopped playing it after I got all the achievements and beat the story, had to try and work through all the stupid bugs, 10 months ago. All I knows is that Fallout 4 better not have these problems or I'm honestly going to be just done with Bethesda in general.

 

[Oly J]

well I haven't had my copy of Skyrim since at least February, lent it to someone and lost contact with them without ever getting it back, so I wasn't particularly bothered about the DLC until recently when I did get a little miffed about it, just because it seemed like us PS3 owners were being shafted because of our console choice (I know it wasn't intentional on the developers part so no need to point it out, it doesn't make it any less annoying) and it's good to know that Bethesda are still trying, I think if they were going to give up on the DLC for PS3 as I'd feared, they would've said so by now, but if they do release the DLC I'll get another copy of Skyrim (2nd hand obviously, I'm not giving a developer money for the same game twice, unless by some bizzare paradox it would be cheaper) I actually do kind of want to play Skyrim again I only made one character

 

[srm79]

I really want to know what it was about Dawnguard that they couldn't get to work on PS3. It's hard to imagine they haven't ironed it out in the last 6 months.

I imagine it's less about the specific DLCs and more about the old issue of Bethesda's inability to correctly code for the PS3's memory causing problems for them, as it caused so many in base Skyrim itself.

So my guess is they found a way to work around that finally, but instead of going back and porting Dawnguard and Hearthfire first, they instead decided to give the newest one and go back to port over the others later.

Fixed that for ya.

They might even have gotten my money for this if I hadn't traded Skyrim in disgust at their unwillingness/inability to code properly for the PS3. Lazy porting from PC works fine for Xbox360. Lazy porting from PC does not, and never has worked well for PS3.

As it is, I won't be buying any more Bethesda products on the current gen without waiting to see how fucked up the PS3 version is. Which is a shame because when they work, they're brilliant. I was even able to tolerate the hourly reboots after reaching a certain point in New Vegas but the fact they can't have not known how badly fucked the PS3 version of Skyrim actually was before happily taking millions of pounds of PS3 owners money doesn't sit well with me.

The only way I'll be playing the DLC's is if I can pick up a pre-owned GOTY edition on the cheap in the distant future.

 

[NiciUniverse]

Bethesda announced that they would work on the Dragonborn DLC as a priority instead of the 2 others for now.
Under this process they believe that they will learn what it was, that they did wrong with the previous 2 DLCs.
Since they are not working yet. And therefore pass the new knowledge into the previous DLCs so that they will work.
I hope their plan works, because when I saw the article about their statement I started having a little faith in them again. xD