[Margarita Diaz]

If the PS3 users have to suffer.....then so should the PC users!!!! HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!

[Rebecca Clare Smith]

Apparently, on the page it says the password for for the beta is foo.
Even though its completely inaccessable.

[Liv Brown]

If the PS3 users have to suffer.....then so should the PC users!!!! HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!

Tssskk, that's not very nice, you're going to give us PS3 folk a bad name. It's Xbros that are childish hah!

I have skyrim for PC but I own a PS3 aswell. I could fully see them delaying the PC version to coincide with the release with that of the PS3.

Can you imagine all the posts and controversy that would be genereated if they released the PC version first and PS3 bro's have to wait ages?

It would probably be as bad as it is now lol.

[Javier Borjas]

Apparently, on the page it says the password for for the beta is foo.
Even though its completely inaccessable.

That's quite the password, lol. Didn't even notice that.

"foo".

[Penny Wills]

You might as well give the DLC to only Americans first and leave the rest of the world out for 1+ month.

As a Brit, allow me to say 'been there, done that, got the T-shirt old chap'.

Been there, done that, got the T-shirt old chap!

You may continue. Pip pip tally ho!

[Jade Payton]

That's quite the password, lol. Didn't even notice that.

"foo".

It's probably a placeholder because the password isn't published

[ANaIs GRelot]

Im hoping we can expect it tuesday.

[Vera Maslar]

Do Not Buy This DLC! There is an amazing title being released every 15 days (sometimes 2 at a time) starting this coming Monday between now and the end of the year. Spend you money on a company that cares about you as opposed to a company that doesn't even have the courtesy to give you a real statement on the status of something they expect you to pay for. Again, DO NO BUY THIS! If you buy this, you are telling Bethesda that it's okay to treat you like crap and that you'll keep giving them money no matter how terrible they treat you. DON'T BE THAT GUY!

Does taking longer than 30 days to release a DLC on PC and PS3 really count as treating us like crap? Seems comparatively tame compared to some of the other stunts that game makers have pulled in recent years. It's not like Dawnguard was included locked away in the vanilla game (but fully playable), or like Skyrim required a constant internet connection to play.

That said I am confused as to why they're delaying, considering how much people seem to be looking forward to it.

[Emilie M]

Why doesnt bethesda package 1.7 with dawnguard?

[alyssa ALYSSA]

Why doesnt bethesda package 1.7 with dawnguard?

Because patches are free and Dawnguard is not...?

Anyway, been watching these threads for a while. Got some rage, got some laughs. Really, I don't understand all the raging and boycotting. Nobody promised we would have it on PC or PS3 now. Nobody promised we would have information on it now. I am mad about all of it, but I'm not gonna flip out about things we weren't promised and I'm not gonna quit my favorite game franchise because of it.

Just thought I'd throw in my two cents or whatever. ^.^

[Kayleigh Mcneil]

There is no excuse for delaying it longer than Tuesday.

10,000 points for gryffindor!

[Laura Cartwright]

Yes but LETS CELEBRATE! CHEESE FOR EVERYONE!

You know what I'm gonna summon Haskill to get Bethesda to give me DLC.

[Anna Beattie]

Im hoping we can expect it tuesday.

That all depends on when they released Patch 1.7. They said the coming weeks so that could range anywhere from Sunday onward.

[Christine Pane]

Hello,

This Microsoft funded delay of the Dawnguard DLC has upset me too. Bethesda is currently giving their fans the silent treatment and there's a bunch of anger floating around on the internet, but I have yet to see a compilation of data showing how long we have had to wait to see Bethesda DLC appear on the other platforms relative to the early microsoft release days. Therefore I have signed up on these forums and compiled the data myself to post for everyones ease of access. I started out by just looking up DLC release dates for oblivion, fallout 3, and fallout NV on the games corresponding wiki's (im doing this on my friday night, and I'm not going to go hunting through past game articles looking for official information). So, here's the raw data:

-----------------------------------xbox.date-----ps3.date-----pc.date
oblivion: Shivering Isles***------------3/26/2007-----10/16/2007---5/27/2007
f3: operation anchorage-------------1/27/2009---10/1/2009---1/27/2009
f3: The Pitt--------------------3/24/2009---10/1/2009---3/24/2009
f3: Broken Steel--------------5/5/2009 ---9/24/2009----5/5/2009
f3: Point Lookout------------6/23/2009---10/8/2009---6/23/2009
f3: Mothership Zeta----------8/3/2009---10/8/2009-----8/3/2009
fnv: Dead Money----------12/21/2010---2/22/2011----2/22/2011
fnv: Honest Hearts----------5/17/2011-----6/2/2011---5/18/2011
fnv: Old World Blues-------4/19/2011----4/19/2011--4/19/2011
fnv: Lonesome Road------9/20/2011-----9/20/2011--9/20/2011
fnv: GRA/couier's stash---9/27/2011----9/27/2011---9/27/2011

***I couldn't easly find information abouth the other oblivion DLC's so they are ommited for this mini-report.
So, next, going from each row, we look for the earliest release date (xbox) and subtract that from the latest release date:
----------------------------------time difference (days)
oblivion: Shivering Isles---------------204
f3: operation anchorage--------------247
f3: The Pitt-------------------------------191
f3: Broken Steel------------------------142
f3: Point Lookout-----------------------107
f3: Mothership Zeta---------------------66
fnv: Dead Money------------------------63
fnv: Honest Hearts----------------------16
fnv: Old World Blues---------------------0
fnv: Lonesome Road--------------------0
fnv: GRA/couier's stash-----------------0

So far this gives us an average time to wait of approx. 94.18 days with a std. dev of 90.4 days.
Aslo if you plot this data it appears that the overall trend is that the time to wait is decreasing linearly or possibly even slightly exponentially however, this doesn't accurately describe what's actually happening. Instead, what we can say is that for each title, the wait to release on all platforms has decreased from the initial wait time for the first DLC for that title.

Anyhow, the std dev tells us that this DLC would be released anytime between now, September 28th and December the 27th at the latest.

But, we can still do better. Assuming that for the last three dlc of new vegas microsoft didn't pay off bethesda (given that there's 0 time to wait for release on all DLC titles) we can ommit the last three data points. I omit the Honest Hearts wait time too because even though it's possible that microsoft paid for exclusivity for the Honest Hearts DLC 16 days seems small compared to previous deals.

Thus, the new average is approx 145.71 days with a std. dev of approx 71.20 days. So that would set the dawnguard release date from September 8th 2012, November 18th 2012(avg), to January 28th 2013. The good news is that if Skyrim follows the trend of the previous Bethesda titles, the time to wait for the next download content for skyrim should be less than the time to wait for this one.

Thanks for your time,
Yuki

PS: It is apparently very difficult to post tables on the forums here, you can't use excessive spacing to help allign table values and how much space the hyphens take up vary from line to line (in a way which it doesn't vary when your actually typing out the post)! Therefore, getting a table value to line up is a blind task, and I just hope its not too unreadable for you.

[lillian luna]

Nice. The mod locked my topic and it isn't even related to the Dawnguard release date. Excelent work! Next time at least read the topic to see what it is about.

[Dark Mogul]

Spam posts and piracy posts removed, behave folks

Nice. The mod locked my topic and it isn't even related to the Dawnguard release date.

Of course it was, it was about the lack of information from Bethesda regarding the Dawnguard release date.

[REVLUTIN]

Hello,

This Microsoft funded delay of the Dawnguard DLC has upset me too. Bethesda is currently giving their fans the silent treatment and there's a bunch of anger floating around on the internet, but I have yet to see a compilation of data showing how long we have had to wait to see Bethesda DLC appear on the other platforms relative to the early microsoft release days. Therefore I have signed up on these forums and compiled the data myself to post for everyones ease of access. I started out by just looking up DLC release dates for oblivion, fallout 3, and fallout NV on the games corresponding wiki's (im doing this on my friday night, and I'm not going to go hunting through past game articles looking for official information). So, here's the raw data:

-----------------------------------xbox.date-----ps3.date-----pc.date
oblivion: Shivering Isles***------------3/26/2007-----10/16/2007---5/27/2007
f3: operation anchorage-------------1/27/2009---10/1/2009---1/27/2009
f3: The Pitt--------------------3/24/2009---10/1/2009---3/24/2009
f3: Broken Steel--------------5/5/2009 ---9/24/2009----5/5/2009
f3: Point Lookout------------6/23/2009---10/8/2009---6/23/2009
f3: Mothership Zeta----------8/3/2009---10/8/2009-----8/3/2009
fnv: Dead Money----------12/21/2010---2/22/2011----2/22/2011
fnv: Honest Hearts----------5/17/2011-----6/2/2011---5/18/2011
fnv: Old World Blues-------4/19/2011----4/19/2011--4/19/2011
fnv: Lonesome Road------9/20/2011-----9/20/2011--9/20/2011
fnv: GRA/couier's stash---9/27/2011----9/27/2011---9/27/2011

***I couldn't easly find information abouth the other oblivion DLC's so they are ommited for this mini-report.
So, next, going from each row, we look for the earliest release date (xbox) and subtract that from the latest release date:
----------------------------------time difference (days)
oblivion: Shivering Isles---------------204
f3: operation anchorage--------------247
f3: The Pitt-------------------------------191
f3: Broken Steel------------------------142
f3: Point Lookout-----------------------107
f3: Mothership Zeta---------------------66
fnv: Dead Money------------------------63
fnv: Honest Hearts----------------------16
fnv: Old World Blues---------------------0
fnv: Lonesome Road--------------------0
fnv: GRA/couier's stash-----------------0

So far this gives us an average time to wait of approx. 94.18 days with a std. dev of 90.4 days.
Aslo if you plot this data it appears that the overall trend is that the time to wait is decreasing linearly or possibly even slightly exponentially however, this doesn't accurately describe what's actually happening. Instead, what we can say is that for each title, the wait to release on all platforms has decreased from the initial wait time for the first DLC for that title.

Anyhow, the std dev tells us that this DLC would be released anytime between now, September 28th and December the 27th at the latest.

But, we can still do better. Assuming that for the last three dlc of new vegas microsoft didn't pay off bethesda (given that there's 0 time to wait for release on all DLC titles) we can ommit the last three data points. I omit the Honest Hearts wait time too because even though it's possible that microsoft paid for exclusivity for the Honest Hearts DLC 16 days seems small compared to previous deals.

Thus, the new average is approx 145.71 days with a std. dev of approx 71.20 days. So that would set the dawnguard release date from September 8th 2012, November 18th 2012(avg), to January 28th 2013. The good news is that if Skyrim follows the trend of the previous Bethesda titles, the time to wait for the next download content for skyrim should be less than the time to wait for this one.

Thanks for your time,
Yuki

PS: It is apparently very difficult to post tables on the forums here, you can't use excessive spacing to help allign table values and how much space the hyphens take up vary from line to line (in a way which it doesn't vary when your actually typing out the post)! Therefore, getting a table value to line up is a blind task, and I just hope its not too unreadable for you.

If your calculations are correct and it is 2013, nobody will buy it. Too many good games coming out early 2013.

[pinar]

im getting tired of waiting on bethesda silence so i have made my mind up and decided if the dawn guard dlc does not reach us PS3 users by 28th September i simply do not want to know about dawn guard as on the 28th September Fifa 13 will be out for all platforms not just xbox , make note Bethesda how EA take care of their customers .
Also i'm not going to pre-order Dishonored as it has Bethesda written all over it , therefore in the future i will not be buying any Bethesda products , they have let PS3 users down time after time and i suggest to anyone who is angry at Bethesda to not buy dawn guard when they eventually release it .

[Holli Dillon]

im getting tired of waiting on bethesda silence so i have made my mind up and decided if the dawn guard dlc does not reach us PS3 users by 28th September i simply do not want to know about dawn guard as on the 28th September Fifa 13 will be out for all platforms not just xbox , make note Bethesda how EA take care of their customers .
Also i'm not going to pre-order Dishonored as it has Bethesda written all over it , therefore in the future i will not be buying any Bethesda products , they have let PS3 users down time after time and i suggest to anyone who is angry at Bethesda to not buy dawn guard when they eventually release it .

If it comes outafter I go to school im not getting it.

[Alex Blacke]

-----------------------------------xbox.date-----ps3.date-----pc.date
oblivion: Shivering Isles***------------3/26/2007-----10/16/2007---5/27/2007
f3: operation anchorage-------------1/27/2009---10/1/2009---1/27/2009
f3: The Pitt--------------------3/24/2009---10/1/2009---3/24/2009
f3: Broken Steel--------------5/5/2009 ---9/24/2009----5/5/2009
f3: Point Lookout------------6/23/2009---10/8/2009---6/23/2009
f3: Mothership Zeta----------8/3/2009---10/8/2009-----8/3/2009
fnv: Dead Money----------12/21/2010---2/22/2011----2/22/2011
fnv: Honest Hearts----------5/17/2011-----6/2/2011---5/18/2011
fnv: Old World Blues-------4/19/2011----4/19/2011--4/19/2011
fnv: Lonesome Road------9/20/2011-----9/20/2011--9/20/2011
fnv: GRA/couier's stash---9/27/2011----9/27/2011---9/27/2011

The thing about this is that it has been going on for years. I don't remember people making this much of a deal over the delays before.

[Jack Walker]

The thing about this is that it has been going on for years. I don't remember people making this much of a deal over the delays before.

Yet after years they still aren't doing anything to get rid of the delays.

[Tamara Dost]

The thing about this is that it has been going on for years. I don't remember people making this much of a deal over the delays before.

It's not the delay.
Its the lack of communication.

[Lynette Wilson]

You have all miss understood, 30 day exclusive, 3 month exclusive, it's all the same Microsoft and Zenimax

[quinnnn]

It's not the delay.
Its the lack of communication.

Well, they did say there will be more information in the coming weeks. So it won't be long until a release date is announced. People waited for Fallout 3 DLC to come for nearly a year, I am sure people can survive a month or two.

[James Shaw]

I was stoked for dawnguard... about 30 days ago. Then I didn't get the patch 1.6 even for weeks, then the 30 days were up, no release date on dawnguard and no date on the patch that got rolled up into a minor patch