Bethesda "Disappointed" There's No PS3 Skyrim DLC Yet

[DracoSuave]

You're absolutely right, what was I thinking. They get paid to delay the release of something, and I'm foolish for believing a delay in release could be related in some way to the release date being paid to be late.

How silly of me.

Quoting you directly.

The thing is, because they took money to delay it, that means they didn't put as much resources into developing it sooner.

So once Microsoft bought a months exclusivity for the first three DLC for Skyrim, Bethesda's PS3 team took the month off, right?

No.

Every version was developed at the same time, the release dates were staggered to allow the Xbox to have exclusivity for one month.
That was the deal - Dawnguard was always being developed and actively worked on during this time.

But if it's being worked on -truly- concurrently, then why wasn't Dawnguard done earlier? Because they weren't working on it as much before the XBox release. Because they didn't have to. It's just good business. XBox release coming? Put more people on it. That means less people on the PS3 version--which means it won't be out as quick. Then the month is coming up, the PS3 version is behind a bit, but the Windows version is doing fine? Put more effort on the Windows version to get it out on time. Now the PS3 version is even more behind.

And when you have that 'it'll be delayed' mentality going on months in advance, that's actually the capacity for a long delay. It doesn't matter if Microsoft payed for however long a delay, the fact is they did and the fact is that doing so will take resources off one and put it on the other.

Those 'let's get this other thing out now' redistributions add up. Combine that with the fact that Beth is only NOW consulting Sony on how to fix a lot of the issues--issues that apparently popped up months ago--and you're showing me a Bethesda who shows less interest in satisfying their PS3 customers, and more interest in signing Microsoft's checks.

That's the part of the dialog that is missing. Bethesda makes a statement that it's late, and no one is confronting them with 'Well if you're sorry it's late, why do you take money to make it late in the first place?' This is entirely Bethesda's fault as a business choice, and they could have rectified this a lot sooner.

 

[Lord_Gremlin]

I'm pretty sure DLC will never get released at all, although they will simply never say that and instead keep silence until it dies down or shitstorm comes to Forbes, BBC and others.
See, there is no chance in hell Sony would certify their DLC now. Plain and simple. Sony certification is a certain brand, a badge consumer is supposed to trust to only pass fully functional games. Granted there were ports of below standard quality like Bayonetta and Mafia 2 but but you would lie if you'd tell they were not fully functional.
And now Bethesda comes with Skyrim, which is actually worse than Fallot 3 and NV, aka actually broken and unplayable - and Sony takes a huge hit in trust department.
They're supposed to sell new Vitas and in a year or so launch PS4 - this is NOT a good time to make people think that Sony allows straight up broken stuff to be released on their consoles.
P.S. Myself i only buy Bethesda games on PC with a heavy discount. But being PS3 gamer mostly, not to mention their games start to bore me, I think Skyrim is my last Bethesda game. I've abandoned in 3 or 4 hours in too (according to Steam).

 

[Josh123914]

Honestly Bethesda, I am dissapointed now and I won't be buying Dawnguard from you unless it's cheaper than it is on the 360.

P.S. Get better PS3 programmers. It's taken you nearly 4 months to port it? why?

 

[maxymunte]

I got a question.

Why do you idiots keep buying Bethesda games off a PS3? Sometimes I feel like the only logical person here where I just buy the 360 version or PC for modding sake.

It's obvious Bethesda has difficulties making PS3 ports. Hell Its been obvious since the PS3 version of Oblivion. Yet you continue to buy it and Fallout 3 and Skyrim, and yet your still sitting raging and crying at your keyboards.

You get a Bethesda game for either Xbox 360 or PC. It's that simple. Otherwise, it's your own fault for being idiots once again on buying something from a company that obviously have trouble porting a game on. Just ask From Software on how their PC port of Dark Souls went.

um im have an extremly rare high iq of 140+ and the difrence between you and me are probably bigger than between you and a chimpansee ok now compare the cimpansee to yourself in smartness no thing about that im thinking it more about you and i tell you what i have a ps3 am i a dumb idiot? lol the bug with ps3 and that they cant patch it is a lie ofcourse 100% sure its abvious as hell and take that from me becouse im way smarter than any of you its sad that they accsept the money from microsoft to benefit the xbox users and what your saying is bullcrap and thats a fact becouse my way of thinking is unimagenable by you lower intelegent humans
easyer explaned its like the first computer on this world vs ?10.000 computer of this time becouse the intelegent thinking quadrates with the iq points so its a huge difrence my point is your calling me dumb you monkey

 

[WhyPS3]

Alright when I first heard of Dawnguard coming out for the 360 my friend told me that it would probably come out within a month after 360's release, as you can tell it's been a little after a month and still no word of it coming out besides "Microsoft paid off Bethesda", and "They're working on it all right, they just don't want to release a buggy DLC" that last one is fucking hilarious because, do you really think they care about the bugs? They launched a fucking broken game from the start! You think a DLC is gonna be ANY better? They still haven't even fixed the game! Then look back into Oblivion's add-on content... There is ONE DLC in there... The shivering isles... Sure that's fine & dandy but then you go onto Xbox and there are atleast a dozen random DLCs. Sure as pointless as most of them are, they are still DLCs!

Another thing that really pisses me off... If Bethesda was paid by Microsoft to treat PS3 like shit, WHY THE FUCK DO YOU CONTINUE TELLING US "We're getting to it! Don't worry guys!" When clearly you aren't working on it. And if you weren't paid by Microsoft and did give a damn you'd think the smart thing to do is to say (if this is the case) "Sorry the Dawnguard DLC will not be coming out because of shitty PS3 coding", or even "the DLC will be delayed for some time due to:...."

But that's almost fraudulent if not pretty damn close, make people pay money for a game that is either broken or next to unplayable because of shitty quality. IE: My friend got the brand new game on his PS3 and guess what happens when he starts the game up (untouched completly new) "Bethesda presents... AAAUGH!" his character dies flying out of the map along with eveyone else in the convoy... it even happened with my version on Skyrim on his PS3. And thanks to that he'll need a new PS3 or console just to play Skyrim until they update it again! And as much as I hate to say it, if you can't release a playable game on the PS3 don't release it at all for that console.

All I gotta say in the long run is. If you don't like a damn console, don't release any of the games you're planning onto that console.