I'm in the same boat as you. I'm more disappointed because, as I said, Hearthfire went through the same steps Dawnguard did, then Bethesda kinda dropped the ball by showing us.....this. Hell, even the trailer, imo, is laughably bad. There's a reason Gun Runner's Arsenal, Horse Armor and Frostcrag Spire didn't get their own trailer: because it's hard to hype up something that small without sounding like you're trolling people. I die of laughter at the part where they mention skeever infestations.
There's nothing wrong with the content itself (cept adoption. They should light that idea on fire and toss it off a cliff), but of COURSE this is gonna disappoint, as it should.

And yeah, I think it's a question of "is it worth it." Hearthfire is small to the point where people might not bother. Still makes more sense to me if they just would've attached the house-building feature to a bigger, Dawnguard-sized DLC.

Whether or not it's a disappointment is a matter of personal flexibility. Would I have liked to have seen another DG sized expansion? ABSOLUTELY. But am I "disappointed"? Well, no, not for what it is, at the listed price. In fact, in an older thread around here somewhere regarding building your own home, it is EXACTLY what I'd predicted/hoped for, I mean, down to minutest detail like random "invasions", modular building, multiple locations, buying the plot first, etc. So, no, for what it is, I am hardly disappointed.

Gstaff just wrote this to me
This is something we thought you guys would enjoy. Admittedly, it’s a smaller add-on (made by a smaller team). We’re still keen on doing “big and meaty” content, too

You had me at mushrooms.

Good.

Sorry but your wrong, The only quest related to Honorhall orphanage is the Dark brotherhood. From Selveni Nethri own dialog she snuck back to Riften to reclaim her daughter, but couldn't find her. Her daughter must have been adopted before Grelod the Kind stopped allowing it. (or she ranaway).

This is a DLC I was hoping beth would create. Always wanted to build my own house on my land I purchased somewhere around falkreath. I already made up my mind that I will not purchase the DLC Dawnguard AKA Townguard because of random vampire attacks inside cites. Im not a player who would use, play as a vampire lord or werewolf anyways. Hopefully Hearthfire is released for ps3!

Tell Gstaff a good deal of people are very happy about it.

I think bethesda largely ignores all of the kneejerk overreaction crap that go on, on these boards.

Heh. I already own a house. IRL. Why would I want to play house in a game?


Ok, it might be cool. For $5 what's not to like?


I'll buy it.

LOL there was someone who said it would be the sims 3... i coulnd't believe it XD well, at least they should also improve marriage <.<

I'm going to flag Grelod as adoptable in the CK, adopt her, beat the hell out of her, resurrect her and then beat her over and over again.

The Tallest.... he..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYEXzx-TINc Hey, guys, he likes it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85cL1HisrNc

Well, for five.

I skipped Dawnguard, it looks i'll be skipping Hearthfire too. I was hoping Bethesda would give us two large expansions like Morrowind instead it looks like we're given less content than Oblivion and mich less than Fallout.

I'm not going to reward this policy. My money will stay in the wallet this time.

Make almost all NPCs into your steward? o.o Hmm..

They are making something big,remember they told us they release small stuf meanwhile they work on something big? well heres the small add-on. also gstaff told me this when i asked him about "big and meaty" dlcs they were talking about before.

"This is something we thought you guys would enjoy. Admittedly, it’s a smaller add-on (made by a smaller team). We’re still keen on doing “big and meaty” content, too "

Ditto.

As I said, I'm sure the DLC itself is fine (cept adoption, burn in hell adoption, you horrible, horrible design idea), but for me? The content we're being given as DLC for Skyrim is a lot less than before, on par with the house plug-ins for Oblivio or equal in content to a FO DLC but requiring double the development time and cash. I don't wanna encourage this policy either.

I'll be back when quality and/or quantity seems back up to speed with what it once was.

Lower the flag, Ulfric, GStaff confirmed that a smaller team worked on this while the majority of resources were diverted elsewhere. This is just a small tidbit to make the wait easier.

At least, I think he confirmed it. Can I trust a post on the forums? Nah. I'll wait till he comes along and says something himself. Ignore this, then. Sorry Longknife.

Nope. How about you give me the link to the official Beth announcement that said it was going to be a stupid Sims addon?

Obviously the "big one" has yet to come. In the meantime, no one is forcing you to buy this one if you don't like it. Meh, Bethesda can't win.

I understood that.
Still feels like there's been a drop in DLC quality with Skyrim.
I mean, they ARE force-feeding us content that, according to Todd, was developed in a single week when they let devs make whatever they want. I say force-feeding because whether it seems relevant, doable, marketable or not, (adoption, that undead horse mount, vampire lords despite lore complications) it gets released. They shoehorn it in whether the idea is good or not.

That's what bothers me. They're not weeding out the bad gamejam ideas, but rather just releasing all of them, some as paid DLC. It feels very lazy to me and I don't want to encourage this policy.

bwahahaa did you see Skyrims sales? can't win? they hit the jackpot.

I'm just comparing it to Oblivion, to be honest. You had Knights of the Nine, the houses, Mehrune's Razor, spell tomes, horse armor, and then Shivering Isles. Not necessarily in that order.

I like to imagine that the team at Bethesda suffers a severe personality switch when they work on Fallout and TES. Much like the personality switch of the writers of the quests and dialogue and their work on the books and notes.

Is this the last DLC?