Well we now know that werewolves are in. Some A-hole was posting spoilers in all-caps in the general discussion forum. I knew you were lying bethesda, I knew werewolves were in! how do you all feel?

Cheated. I feel bad for kicking puppies and punching kittens for absolutely no reason now that werewolves are in the game. But then again, I am happy!

Bethesda never said they were out. A foreign 3rd party video game blog did, and everyone took it as the word of Bethesda.

Many of us told you to be careful what you read on the internet, but most people ignored us.

I like the tactic.

I told them. Me. They laughed at ME! WHO'S LAUGHING NOW?! HAR-TEE-HAR-HAR!

Yes they did. In an interview Todd howard stated that werewolves were officially NOT in.

Bethesda never confirmed they were in or out.
The only official statement we had is "Let the players find out"

A third party German website get an interview with an art designer. The interview was also translated through Google Translator,

It seemed pretty obvious for me.

EDIT:Nevermind

Meh oh well

oh by the Shivering Ilse. there is no cheese in this thread. plenty of werewolves but no cheese.
so do enlighten me, maybe I'll be clear in the head enough to understand, why we have so many Oblivion blasted threads on werewolves.

"HAR-TEE-HAR-HAR!
Is that a new Dragonshout?!!?

If you really thought they wouldn't be in there then you're a fool. No way they would not have the most popular Bloodmoon creature in the game, especially the way everyone was crying for it. I guess they wanted to surprise us with it. Too bad the leaks spoiled it.

I feel like 11-11-11 needs to get here. Let the hunt begin!

Because in Oblivion, you could only become a vampire, and wouldn't it be cool to also become a werewolf? But alas, you couldn't. And that was doubly disappointing because I guess in Morrowind you could with an expansion pack - but I have no firsthand knowledge of this.

But for me, it's more than that. In Oblivion, you could become a vampire, but in all honesty, it was the stupidest thing ever. It began by completely ruining all your many hours of toil in the character creation screen. My dark blue Breton who looked completely awesome is suddenly transformed into a pasty looking wrinkly peach with these ridiculous pink eyes. But ok, I can live with that, even though it repulses me every time I enter the menu. What I can't live with is the stupid notion that a vampire can only feed on people who are asleep and that this does them no harm. What - is this suddenly a pacifist game? I can become a professional murderer and get paid for it or I can even kill just for sport as long as it's with magic or weapon - but I become a vampire and suddenly I can't even attack a victim who's conscious? And I can't drain their blood until they're dead?

I want MORE. I want to be able to attack anyone, any time with my vampire fangs and drain their blood. I want to be able to do this in broad daylight, right in the Imperial City in front of the guards, and when they try to arrest me, I want to dazzle them with a display of my power and disappear, laughing all the way to my lair. I want the villagers to come out with pitchforks and torches and raid my 2,000 septim home on the waterfront, looking for me. And I don't want becoming a vampire to turn me into a ridiculous looking old man! Isn't the whole POINT of becoming a vampire to gain eternal youth? Good grief! The vampires of Oblivion ARE NOT vampires! Give me vampirism, REAL vampirism.

And I still want more. I want lycanthropy. I want werewolves. I don't want werewolves that transform once every full moon, and I have to feed on some stupid sleeping person in sneak mode either. I want REAL werewolves. I want to be able to attack a city without fear. I want to laugh at the Imperials who try to shoot me with their pathetic arrows or swipe at me with their toy swords. I want to tear their arm off and beat the other soldiers with it. I want to break down doors and tear houses apart and devour my victims within.

If you're going to turn me into a creature of the night, then let me OWN the night. Let the people of Skyrim flee in terror before me, let them whisper of me in the daylight and pray that they are spared that night. That's what I want.

Of course, we don't always get what we want in life. But if this isn't the kind of vampires and werewolves we're going to get, then don't give us any at all, because Oblivion's vampires were about the sorriest excuse for a vampire I could have even conceived of.

I have spoken.

I can wait to prowl the night as a wolf of the moon light.

^^this guy has the right idea. Especially the part about beating soldiers with their own arm

Same here,the wait is....all of a sudden.....unbearable.

I like it. They obviously didn't want to let people know about the feature, but people kept berating the heck out of Pete and creating threads in the forum demanding to know. I'm sure they had hoped that it would be a feature that players would discover after the game was released, but there's nothing they can do about the fact that it got leaked.

I wouldn't have minded them to keep saying "No comment"

But apparently Todd said No. Just flat out No.

I would of liked the surprise of finding one in the game when we were being told they most likely are NOT gonna be in.
But screw it,this makes me more excited!

I just made a couple of my friends preorder the game now after telling them,soley because of Werewolves,yeah go figure,more money for you Bethesda!

It wasn't Todd that said it. One of the other Devs said it wasn't in and that they "might do it in an expansion.

This...so hard. I was glad I saved before becoming a vampire in Oblivion.

oh so werewolves are in hmm to feed on flesh and bone or blood choices choices...

It was fairly obvious they were going to be in. I don't understand why some people are suprised.

Bethesda said "we're not ready to talk about that yet" in regards to vampires, the dark brotherhood, and werewolves... and surprise surprise, all have been confirmed. If one wasn't going to be included in the game, I think it would've been a straight up "no".

I still havent seen it actually being confirmed... What did i miss

Everyone is extremely confused about what bethesda did or did not say. List of facts:
1)Todd Howard never said anything definitive either way.
2)Matt Carafino stated that "They are not a part of the game at this current time"
3)Pete Hines did not ever confirm or deny them on Twitter

So we know they are definitely in the game, Bethesda is on a rampage to keep all this under wraps and Pete Hines won't say anything about it, even though I'm sure people are blowing up his twitter. Matt Carafino's comment could be construed as werewolves not being in that particular build of the game, which at that time was early alpha (the same version from PAX) It makes sense that if Beth really wanted to keep it secret, that they wouldn't have included it in the builds that they were letting the public play, and Carafino's comment would have been true at the time. Maybe they added the werewolves in to the beta build or gold version, or simply unlocked them in the same way they unlocked dragons for recent previewers.

I really did not want to get my hopes up and get hurt again, I was crushed when I thought they were officially not in the game, but I have to say after reviewing EVERYTHING
on the interwebs and looking up all the old interviews/tweets/videos pertaining to the subject, as well as all the naughty leaked stuff, I am actually really hopeful. I truly believe they are in and playable. I actually cried