The point is Microsoft wants you picking up the Xbox copy not the PS3, it wouldn't do them much good to announce it after release.

I have a PC as well as the PS3 and Xbox 360, and I am getting tired of the Xbox bashing
Sony has its exclusives such as Assasins Creed Brotherhood, Mafia 2 etc

so instead of complaing be glad that the game is coming out
and maybe this time the DLC will actually be playable for the PS3

i bought fallout 3 for both ps3 and the xbox
and i had nothing but problems with fallout 3 on the ps3
too many to discuss in fact...

I have a bad feeling give it a couple pages and this thread will get closed theres just too much arguing going on.

The one thing I would like to know and I'm asking this nicely is why did Bethesda give the content exclusive to the 360 over the PS3 and PC thats all I ask

I think you have it exactly correct, its an "encouragement" more than anything else. It matters Not to any of us who pre-ordered, as we already made our decisions. I do wish they would elaborate more on the content, as the peeps are not going to be Nearly as upset if its just the pre-order content. Microsoft still gets their encouragement, and nobody gets screwed out of content. Again though, everyone should just calm down a little - this is only going to be pre-order packs combined with maybe a toy or two, but nothing more significant than that.

Anyway I'm so glad they announced this before I bought the game on Friday. Looks like I'll get Vanquish instead now on friday and wait for the other news reguarding the other DLC before deciding on getting Fallout New Vegas. I'm sorry but I'm not buying a game were I'll have to wait a year for DLC that cost me a total of 50 euros again. I'd rather just wait an extra year for the Goty edition that comes with all the DLC at the same price as what the game will cost me. Bethesda you's screwed up again and The announcement of "The First DLC will be exclusive" Thats to trick us again isn't it. Leaving PS3 fans thinking we still have a chance so we buy it only to have us wait again were yous will say we told yous before the games release.

I hate to go on a tangent here, but: Am I the only one who doesn't care for the idea- infact, even a bit annoyed that DLC's being added in the first place? DLC's have turned into tacky bits of content thrown together and charged for outrageous prices, added to games that should have already been finished. Or content such as new maps for a multiplayer game, that at one point in time would be free content. Nowadays however you'd have to fork out a tenner.
Take Broken Steel for example; paying for the ending that the original game had botched up, with a half-assed ending. Or Operation Anchorage, Mothership Zeta and the Pitt which added maybe two hours extra gameplay- yet cost 800 MS points, or $10, each. Point Look-out was a bit more expansive but that by no means justified the extra $10. I miss when expansions were worth the cost. Like Morrowind's expansions, they added hundreds of hours onto the already extremely long game. They were worth the amount of money they cost. Oblivion's DLC "The Shivering Isles" paled in comparison. It didn't, however, stop them tacking the $30 price tag on it, or stop people buying it for that matter.

DLC's are ridiculous extra-profit making schemes that needs to die. Yet for some reason no one seems to notice this and continues to pay copious amounts of money in comparison to their actual value. When I see threads activily anticipating these kind of tacky little expansions, like a DLC soley adding Area-51 into the game. It makes me lose all hope in humanity when people can't see DLCs for the rip-off they are. If there's going to be extra content added to games, it should be so it's actually worth the price they put on it.

The Mods and Admins must be doing recon waiting for the right time to make the announcement "Yeah we'll release DLC for all 3 systems".

Come to think of it, do we know who's actually making the DLC? If it's Obsidian than great, if it's Bethesda than set sail for fail.

So true it hurts.



Agreed. And I think Obsidian is allowed to handle their own products expanding. Nothing else wouldn't make any sense.

Its probably Bethesda as I think in an interview Obsidian said that Bethesda was in charge of DLC

I have to agree though I thought Shivering Isles was fairly large and better than most DLC out there.

Well, I certainly feel like someone crapped in my cheerios.

As a loyal fan who bought the xbox 360 version of Fallout 3, every single FO3 DLC as they came out, and then FO3 GoTY for my PS3, I figured they wouldn't make the same decisions this time around. I preordered on PS3 because it's become my console of choice, and I've been dying to get FNV. For the past 3 days I've been bouncing in my seat with excitement for FNV's release, now I don't feel so good. I imagine it's too late to change my preorder, so I'm going to get locked out of some content either way -- that or forced to play on a platform that while I do own it, I don't want to play on. I just bought a few things that allow me to play sound over headphones that are only compatible with PS3 too.

I've been an enormous Bethesda fan since Morrowind, now I just don't know. I thought better the company -- I am extremely disappointed. Bethesda was literally the only company left who I regarded as releasing "must buy games" pretty much every time -- so much for that. I think I'm canceling my preorder and washing my hands of it.

If Bethesda is going to get in bed with Microsoft again, I'm not joining them this time.

Whew, everyone take a deep breath; I'm sure GStaff is honest when he said, "Again, we'll share more info in the coming weeks." Which could mean they will let ya know what is planned for the other platforms and their DLC. With all the attention and references they make to all the community forum activities, I'm sure they are aware that every platform would love add-on content (which they would benefit from providing to). Everyone have some fun and let's get to gaming tonight!

Additionally: Bethesda is the only reason I bought an Xbox360, I was hooked on Elder Scrolls Series and have been double hooked by the Fallout title... I feel they will not let their fan base down.

Just as FO3 dlc "Issue" when they were released, I always had a nagging question "What does XBOX gain by getting exclusive DLC" Do they expect to Get people to buy xboxs just to get the dlcs?

Surely making the DLC Xbox exclusive only serves not just to annoy all Ps3/PC users But to potential delaying the profits from the game.

I understand "Exclusive games" but exclusive DLC for multi platform games baffles me perhaps I have missed something along the way.

:brokencomputer:

wow...77 people ...nice
on topic: i say FEH to this dlc let ms have it im just gonna sit over here for 1 yr then try to play it later to find the dlc unplayable

This DLC exclusivity is getting old. I feel that no matter if you are a PC, PS3, or XBOX owner you should have access to any DLC. The players that are not getting it are being cheated. But at the end of the day it's about money and not gamers.

LOL WIN!

They could just say that we are releasing DLC for all 3 systems it will take time but we will get it done eventually

xbox is trying to make it look like its some big fallout fan its trying to make it an xbox exclusives xbox is



pc gamers and ps gamers join and make playc :rofl: stop it it hurts :cryvaultboy: :rofl: stop it your a bully im calling the police

Say it ain't so. :sadvaultboy:



I hate game exclusives and exclusive dlc. Why alienate paying customers regardless of platform preference.

See I think its the other way around. Bethesda "controls" the permission and rights over any DLC, and that's what Chris Avellone and others have spoken to when asked about DLC - it really isn't up to them If and When they start working on a DLC.

But I think that it wouldn't make sense for Bethesda to be making the DLC because we know that most of their team is deeply-engagued in the "next game" (that we know nothing about yet, other than they rebuilt the entire engine to be more suited for open-world RPGs). Given that fact, it doesn't track to me that Bethesda would spend resources on that when Obsidian could do it alot faster given it's their story and their team is 100% focused on that engine.

Again this is just my opinion, but I GECKulate that like the the main FNV game, Bethesda will be producing/controlling while Obsidian develops the content.

What are they gonna do? Refund the money back to Microsoft? If this DLC was exclusive to whatever platform your getting it on, it'd be a different story.

No. You are not the only one. :foodndrink:

Welcome the the club... (of two?)

I will say though if you are gonna do DLC do it right. So much DLC is like Knights of the Nine and needs to be more like Shivering Ilse.

So much hating on Bethesda, whats up with that, I loved Point Lockout, Broken Steel, and the Pitt.

If it is something as simple as the pre-order packs I'd take back everything I said, but if 360 is getting an additional branch of adventure that everyone else isn't getting -- just like they did last time -- then that's unforgivable.

I suggest Bethesda elaborate on this immediately before release if they want to keep customers, because I'm probably canceling my preorder tonight. I even submitted questions about this during every fan QA before the game came out that they clearly just didn't want to answer.

Given the high traffic volume, I'm not the only one who's incensed. I suggest people put their money where their mouth is and tell Bethesda you're not buying the game tonight without more information.

They can watch their initial sales numbers drop like a rock over this if people actually vote with their dollar.

EDIT: Otherwise, get ready to see this with Fallout 4 and the next TES game.