I didn't have a problem with bethesda's suggested retail price, I did however have a probem with microsofts price, they made it 100 points more then the closest point package so you where forced to buy twice as many points then you needed to get this dlc, ended up paying as much as the original game costs for christ sakes v_v

I'm getting so sick of these pricing scames, almost ready to quit gaming all together cause of it, I just can't take it anymore, microsoft always putting their dlc for like 1600 points but you can only buy 1500 or 3000 points, and of course 1500 isn't enough to get it, they are doing this crap on purpose its such a disgusting buisness practice...

Don't know about ￡14, but 20€ (￡16 or $25) is too much for me.

You can't compare the price to previous DLC for older games, simply because the economy is not a static thing.

Going by the sheer volume and pricing of other DLCs available on XBox, no, I don't think it's too steep.

For instance, a new set of clothes or an armor otherwise available only to "pre-orders" can run anywhere from $2.99 to $4.99 for a new game. $5 for a pair of pants? That's not "too steep"? Well, okay, what about the DLCs that are nothing more than new maps... no additive story, maybe (or not) a new creature or two, possibly one new weapon... those go for what, up to $9.99? Comparative to other DLCs and their content for other games, Dawnguard is a glaring bargain at its current price. IMO, the only "RPG" that is current and even comes close to approaching Skyrim's depth is ME3. Difference in price between "Standard" and "Digital Deluxe"? $20 US. So, it's not even really a question, Dawnguard is perfectly inline with the pricing of other DLCs.

So, complaining for weeks that you can't get dawnguard, now you can get it, you start complaining. You sir do not deserve the right to buy dawnguard.

I think it should have been $10 or $15, $20 is a little steep for an add-on, but I bought it anyways, lol.....

I don't think it's worth ￡14, mainly because for that money you can pick up 3-4 older games (sometimes not even a year old yet) and get like 20 times more gameplay hours. I bought the STALKER series for less than the price of Dawnguard and it took me longer to finish just the first one than it would have taken me to fully explore the DG expansions, and I still have 2 games to go. And they're all proper PC titles, unlike Skyrim which is a sellout to casual gaming and not nearly as good as previous TES games.

while this is a bit off topic, but i think that PS3 should cost less then the other two consoles, as we don't even know when we are getting it and everyone else has had it for awhile.

dawnguard only took up aprox. 600mb, it should have been $10. If anyone remembers, Broken Steal took up 1 gig or so and was ten bucks. BESIDES THAT. I thought Bethesda was going to make legitimate expansion packs as stated in this article http://kotaku.com/5885983/bethesda-skyrim-dlc-will-feel-more-like-expansion-packs but dawnguard isnt even half the size of what the Shivering isles was, which really svcks.

I played both and i felt like dawnguard was a bigger and much better polished dlc than broken steel. It was worth 20 bucks in my eyes and don't forget starting from morrowind, they always release a mini expansion first ---> tribunal, knights of the nine, dawnguard. The second expansions for oblivion and morrowind were bigger, shivering isles and bloodmoon. So im pretty sure we'll get a bigger expansion after dawnguard. Good news too is that dawnguard was much bigger than knights of the nine, around the size of tribunal.

Seriously?

Dawnguard is larger than several of Oblivion's DLCs. Like Thieves Den, Wizards Tower,, Vile Lair, Fighter's Stronghold, The Orrery, Mehrunes Razor.

The only ones that I wouldn't consider Dawnguard bigger than is Shivering Isles and Knights of the Nine.

Typically I think 10-15 dollars is fair for DLC of this type.

I mean Festival of Blood was a standalone DLC, you could just buy it without even having the base game and that was released for 15 bucks based off of the quick read I just had to go back and do (couldn't remember how much I paid but it was definitely no more than 20)

That was for a stand alone DLC for the game with no bugs to complain about from my end.

Since it's not out for PS3 I can't really say, but all I've heard was people thinking the story was kind of dumb in some areas



People also complain it's a bug fest. Game breaking bugs in some cases. Some people have bugs where they can't attack, or the people won't talk to them, the NPC's randomly attack them, people dissapearing, so on and so forth.

Some regret spending 20 dollars on bugs.



Now bugs don't affect everyone for whatever reason. So people just happen to get in a situation that others don't. But there are definitely universal bugs as well.

For the quantity it may be worth it. But by the sound of it, not for the quality.

Now when it hits for PS3 I'll get it regardless. I want to go ahead and continue the MQ as a VL.

i have no problems with it other than the fact vampire mode isnt so powerful if you start on a high level, which i used the creation kit to change that, no big deal. I would like to see more of the soul cairn, does anyone know if it has any relation to Battlespire? Another thing I wonder about is if beth plans to make 2 expansion pack, like shivering isles, maybe one daedric realm and one misc, like being able to travel to blackmarsh or something new.

For the amount of content it offers, I'd call it downright decent.

I got about 12 hours out of it (and that's only the main quest, as I haven't touched the sidequests yet), which is roughly the amount of time I'd get out of an expansion pack back in the day- which cost double what Dawnguard costs.

I personally think ￡10 would have been a better price, but I already bought it, so I guess it wasn't too bad to not buy it.

Now that i have my DG problem fixed and i don't crash anymore on launching , thx to the modding community and not bethesda ( they created the problemin the first place)
i think the price is indeed a bit steep
i keep to my earlier comments that alot of the new features should have been in the original game and that there are mods out there that do a better job than some of those feaures and been out aslong as skyrim been out ( arriow fletching , so many more good looking lore friendly armoursn better graphics without FPS loss, better followers AI etc etc)

i am however nicely impressed by the new locations and questline but those alone are not a reason enough to make it relative expensive for just a add on to the game

It depends on what you ask for in it. If you're looking to explore something like Solsteim again, then there's certainly not much of that. I would actually rate some aspects of the DLC (like one or two of the boss fights and some of the quests) higher than the main game. It also adds a flooded Dwarven ruin with some interesting, original sights. The crossbow I'd say is my favourite gameplay addition; it's satisfying to use and feels heavier than any other weapon in-game. I haven't actually explored every part of the DLC: I understand it adds some skill-trees and new side-quests, but they're mostly just for fillers. I would say the Dawnguard side was more padded than the more interesting vampire side. Overall though, I enjoyed the pack, certainly a lot more than Knights of the Nine. I'd say that if you've bled the main game dry and and are hungry for more quests, then Dawnguard will definitely quench that thirst.

If you don't have plenty of disposable income, wait for a Steam sale.

EDIT: I got about 15 hours out of it, 7.5 for each questline. My advice is to not rush through it and not use fast travel. ￡14 is a bit steep I'll admit.

￡14 aint that bad.that'll only get you 5 pints down the pub.(at least where i live it will!)
its good content and once the modders have had at it,it will be even better. cheers

Considering that it's the #3 top seller over all and #1 top RPG seller, and Skyrim's still in the top 10 (all that last time I checked), I don't think there's a great chance of that anytime soon. Maybe as a 10% off deal if you buy both together. Otherwise, you'll be waiting quite some time methinks.

On others comments about "could have" and "should have" been in the original game... uh, no. BGS released the game, you purchased it, you used mods to make it what YOU wanted it to be. If you wanted a custom developed version of Skyrim just for you, I can guarantee you'd be looking at Dawnguard (after hearing the price for your personally developed version) and nodding and thinking, "You know, that's a real bargain". And yeah, you'll complain that "but the modders give it to us for free". Have you considered that the modders HAVE NO CHOICE? Do you really think they wouldn't make money off of it if they could? AND, don't you think that, if they could, they wouldn't? Why? Because 3P dev houses would step in with mods and packs of their own They'd be big enough to be co-developed with BGS to prevent bugs, BGS would have right of refusal to "features", etc.

No, sorry, "should have been" arguments don't hold water. 15 hours of gameplay isn't worth it? I can't imagine you could have done both sides without rushing through in that time-frame, but whatever, 15 hours of gameplay for $20? Do you go to the movies? What's a movie ticket cost you? Does that ticket entitle you to watch it twice, or three, or four times?

I didn't complain about the length, I think it's a fairly good length for the DLC. I don't actually know how much time it took me, I'm just guessing; then again, it's easy to get lost in the world.

And how much did those games cost when they were released?

It's really dumb/pointless to compare release prices for games with old/sale prices.