[Nicholas]

I hope everyone can be civil about this subject. While it's perfectly fine to have a negative opinion about the lack of a solid release date, you have to express them in a civil and mature way. We do not want to see immature hostile posts

Anyway, the only official word we have as of now, is from http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1398818-inquiries-re-dawnguard-release/. So unfortunately we have to wait until there is more information.

We have not announced release plans for Dawnguard on platforms other than Xbox 360 (available worldwide). As soon as there's any new information to share, we'll let everyone know.

Gstaff has also said he will have more information very soon.

That was the window for exclusivity, not an indication of when Dawnguard would be available on other platforms. The only date we set was for the Xbox 360 release.

I hope to provide more information in the very near future so you guys don't feel left in the dark. And sorry, there's only so many ways to say that without sounding like a broken record.

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1399083-pcps3-release-date-thread-part-11/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1399152-pcps3-release-date-thread-part-12/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1399222-pcps3-release-date-thread-part-13/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1399369-pcps3-release-date-thread-part-14/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1399462-pcps3-release-date-thread-part-15/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1399556-pcps3-release-date-thread-part-16/

[luis ortiz]

ok thx for that , i can understand some people are annoyed about this but we need to wait and see.

[W E I R D]

The first view days its irritating because you planned to play the DLC but after 2 a 3 days you really dont care so mutch anymore,we waited 30 days so another 30 days shouldn't be a problem i think.

[An Lor]

yh i agree but there are alot of impatient people, bethesda will release it in there own time

[Conor Byrne]

From my personal perspective, against no one specifically:
I completely understand the current situation about trying to keep this thread civil and respectful, thats great! But I will continue to wonder how a company like Bethesda made such a bad decision to first release Xbox version with 30 days exclusivity, and then not to release the DLC for PC and Ps3 after that 30 days. The DLC should've not been released for Xbox in the first place until it was certain that after the 30 days it will be ready for other platforms. That was the terrible mistake Bethesda decision-makers made, and I feel somehow aggrieved about it.
I've had a strong love relationship with Bethesda games, and this kind of actions, when the DLC is already late (for most opinions), its really unbelievable. This current situation in here is not the fan's fault, and this kind of "raging" about this issue must be taken for granted when a company fails with a release like this. At least the company could take the responsibility for it and say it out loud, maybe even apologize to PC and Ps3 users (paying customers).
For my own perspective, Im really, really sad about this delay (even angry), since if the DLC is not coming out very soon, there is no time window for me to play it enough to spend my money on it. Borderlands 2 is coming out soon, and that'll take all my limited time for games for the next months to go. Of course I can get the Dawnguard DLC next summer, or something, but once again, there are many, many new games coming out and its not guaranteed that I'll have time to play Dawnguard at all. For this personal reason, Im really sad and angry about this, since I've been excited about the first DLC for Skyrim.
After all, in my opinion, Skyrim is the best game after Fo3, and it means a lot to me. When I hear someone saying "be patient, its a small thing, not the worlds biggest thing" etc.., be that anyone, thats only half the truth for some of us. Understating the passion of a true fan is not advisable

[Darian Ennels]

Well, at least there is something said finally and I can live with that. Although I am laughing at the added "And sorry, there's only so many ways to say that without sounding like a broken record. " part of it.

All you need to say is "We will be releasing Dawnguard for the PC/PS3. No solid release window as of yet but we will keep you updated". No clever jabs needed, no more explanation till you can say something more concrete, and nothing else expected. Is the PR department ran by people fresh out of an online college? Anyways, thank you mods and admins for displaying the information in as clear and concise way as you can. Only thing left is to get back to some other games till DW is released and I can play with some of the awesome mods I see coming from it.

Happy gaming everyone!

[Ilona Neumann]

Well, at least there is something said finally and I can live with that. Although I am laughing at the added "And sorry, there's only so many ways to say that without sounding like a broken record. " part of it.

All you need to say is "We will be releasing Dawnguard for the PC/PS3. No solid release window as of yet but we will keep you updated". No clever jabs needed, no more explanation till you can say something more concrete, and nothing else expected. Is the PR department ran by people fresh out of an online college? Anyways, thank you mods and admins for displaying the information in as clear and concise way as you can. Only thing left is to get back to some other games till DW is released and I can play with some of the awesome mods I see coming from it.

Happy gaming everyone!

+1

The longer they the wait for release, the less people are going to buy it.

One reason that I am kinda sad about it is because there's going to be 9/10 games that I'm looking at buying before christmas comes along.
The closer those release date's come, the less likely I am to buy Dawnguard, and If I do buy it. Less time I'm going to spend playing it.

[Monika Fiolek]

From my personal perspective, against no one specifically:
I completely understand the current situation about trying to keep this thread civil and respectful, thats great! But I will continue to wonder how a company like Bethesda made such a bad decision to first release Xbox version with 30 days exclusivity, and then not to release the DLC for PC and Ps3 after that 30 days. The DLC should've not been released for Xbox in the first place until it was certain that after the 30 days it will be ready for other platforms. That was the terrible mistake Bethesda decision-makers made, and I feel somehow aggrieved about it.
I've had a strong love relationship with Bethesda games, and this kind of actions, when the DLC is already late (for most opinions), its really unbelievable. This current situation in here is not the fan's fault, and this kind of "raging" about this issue must be taken for granted when a company fails with a release like this. At least the company could take the responsibility for it and say it out loud, maybe even apologize to PC and Ps3 users (paying customers).
For my own perspective, Im really, really sad about this delay (even angry), since if the DLC is not coming out very soon, there is no time window for me to play it enough to spend my money on it. Borderlands 2 is coming out soon, and that'll take all my limited time for games for the next months to go. Of course I can get the Dawnguard DLC next summer, or something, but once again, there are many, many new games coming out and its not guaranteed that I'll have time to play Dawnguard at all. For this personal reason, Im really sad and angry about this, since I've been excited about the first DLC for Skyrim.
After all, in my opinion, Skyrim is the best game after Fo3, and it means a lot to me. When I hear someone saying "be patient, its a small thing, not the worlds biggest thing" etc.., be that anyone, thats only half the truth for some of us. Understating the passion of a true fan is not advisable

Just one problem with that, PS3 never got Patch 1.6 we're getting that rolled up into 1.7 So to release it after the 30 day mark would be useless for PS3 players such as myself, we couldn't play it.

[RaeAnne]

nevermind

[CRuzIta LUVz grlz]

From my personal perspective, against no one specifically:
I completely understand the current situation about trying to keep this thread civil and respectful, thats great! But I will continue to wonder how a company like Bethesda made such a bad decision to first release Xbox version with 30 days exclusivity, and then not to release the DLC for PC and Ps3 after that 30 days. The DLC should've not been released for Xbox in the first place until it was certain that after the 30 days it will be ready for other platforms. That was the terrible mistake Bethesda decision-makers made, and I feel somehow aggrieved about it.
I've had a strong love relationship with Bethesda games, and this kind of actions, when the DLC is already late (for most opinions), its really unbelievable. This current situation in here is not the fan's fault, and this kind of "raging" about this issue must be taken for granted when a company fails with a release like this. At least the company could take the responsibility for it and say it out loud, maybe even apologize to PC and Ps3 users (paying customers).
For my own perspective, Im really, really sad about this delay (even angry), since if the DLC is not coming out very soon, there is no time window for me to play it enough to spend my money on it. Borderlands 2 is coming out soon, and that'll take all my limited time for games for the next months to go. Of course I can get the Dawnguard DLC next summer, or something, but once again, there are many, many new games coming out and its not guaranteed that I'll have time to play Dawnguard at all. For this personal reason, Im really sad and angry about this, since I've been excited about the first DLC for Skyrim.
After all, in my opinion, Skyrim is the best game after Fo3, and it means a lot to me. When I hear someone saying "be patient, its a small thing, not the worlds biggest thing" etc.., be that anyone, thats only half the truth for some of us. Understating the passion of a true fan is not advisable

they should not have agreed with the 30day delay in the first place. what if sony starts doing the same, then you need to check for evry game for what console to get it for optimal support and evrybody will need to get evry console. what do they think we are made of money or something?
and thats why i dont support tactics like these they can ruin the complete game industry!

[Margarita Diaz]

they should not have agreed with the 30day delay in the first place. what if sony starts doing the same, then you need to check for evry game for what console to get it for optimal support and evrybody will need to get evry console. what do they think we are made of money or something?
and thats why i dont support tactics like these they can ruin the complete game industry!

What do you mean 'what if Sony start doing the same', they do and have done. In fact they've paid for completely exclusive DLC on multiplatform games.

[TASTY TRACY]

they should not have agreed with the 30day delay in the first place what if sony starts doing the same then you need to check for evry game for what console to get it for optimal support and evrybody will need to get evry console. what do they think we are made of money or something.
and thats why i dont support tactics like these they can ruin the complete game industry.

Exactly. When this kind of deals are made with every DLC and such, in the long term, the paid company will lose more money by losing sections of its faithful paying fans, than what it gets from the exclusive payments. Its neglecting 2/3 of the fans, and will cost dearly in the long run. There is only one who wins in that, and thats the company that gets the exclusive deal. All other participants will lose, fans right here and now, the paid company over time (some fans will be gone, reputation will suffer greatly etc..). Altho, this is only what I strongly believe, not what I know for a fact.
Its always the same with bigger companies: they fail to separate the forest from the trees, and after some time, when they wake up and see that something went wrong, they wonder what happened

[Blackdrak]

Exactly. When this kind of deals are made with every DLC and such, in the long term, the paid company will lose more money by losing sections of its faithful paying fans, than what it gets from the exclusive payments. Its neglecting 2/3 of the fans, and will cost dearly in the long run. There is only one who wins in that, and thats the company that gets the exclusive deal. All other participants will lose, fans right here and now, the paid company over time (some fans will be gone, reputation will suffer greatly etc..). Altho, this is only what I strongly believe, not what I know for a fact.
Its always the same with bigger companies: they fail to separate the forest from the trees, and after some time, when they wake up and see that something went wrong, they wonder what happened

So there was a massive exodus of PS3/PC players from Rockstar when they did this with the GTA IV DLC? Nope. There is absolutely zero precedent for this happening.

Yes beths PR left a lot to be desired, no these deas are not harmful to anyone whose patience extends further than that of a gnat.

[matt oneil]

It's a dike move by Bethesda, they are showing a huge amount of disrespect to their PS3 & PC Customers. I have already decided that because of this I'm not going to buy Dawnguard, I know that my opinion doesn't matter to them and I know that my custom doesn't matter to them, after all I'm only one person. However voting with my wallet is the only option left after they have treated us this poorly.

I wish anyone still waiting to buy this good luck but I'm not prepared to help out or give money to a company that treats it's customers this poorly.

[Cat]

Am I the only one who doesn't wants and doesn't cares about all the "Super amazing" coming games ?
I only want to play Skyrim ( Did so since release ).

[Luna Lovegood]

What do you mean 'what if Sony start doing the same', they do and have done. In fact they've paid for completely exclusive DLC on multiplatform games.

ok that might be true i dont know. but if its true it doesnt make it right and it only proves my point, they just already started doing it.
and i can only hope xbox players find it as inoing a i do right now, because it was microsoft that started it, sony just hit them back the same way they hit them.
I for one would like them both to stop doing it.

[Becky Cox]

ok that might be true i dont know. but if its true it doesnt make it right and it only proves my point, they just already started doing it.
and i can only hope xbox players find it as inoing a i do right now, because it was microsoft that started it, sony just hit them back the same way they hit them.
I for one would like them both to stop doing it.

Exclusivity has existed pretty much since games have, and it used to be total. If anything MS and sonys new approach is by far and away fairer, and I for one hope that publishers continue forcing them to share.

Having repeatedly swallowed the bitter pill of total exclusiveness, time delayed content wouldn't bother me personally, so long as I knew it was coming.

[lucy chadwick]

Exclusivity has existed pretty much since games have, and it used to be total. If anything MS and sonys new approach is by far and away fairer, and I for one hope that publishers continue forcing them to share.

Having repeatedly swallowed the bitter pill of total exclusiveness, time delayed content wouldn't bother me personally, so long as I knew it was coming.

there will always be console exclusives and most of them are made by company's owned by Microsoft/Sony. And i cant help it most of Sony's exclusives are better than Microsoft's exclusive hype games

[luke trodden]

So there was a massive exodus of PS3/PC players from Rockstar when they did this with the GTA IV DLC? Nope. There is absolutely zero precedent for this happening.

Yes beths PR left a lot to be desired, no these deas are not harmful to anyone whose patience extends further than that of a gnat.

Yea, thats true. But, as I said, I only believe in my saying, not that I know it for a fact. But in this case, nothing went right. Buggy version for Xbox (from what I've heard), and delayed release for the rest of us. That I'd call a failed DLC release. Of course, Bethesda gets money from it anyway, but still, angry mob of paying customers is not good for your reputation. We paid for the game, just like the Xbox users, and we demand some sort of equality in this matter. Thats all. But then again, now I feel that this has already gone too far. Im just really sad and frustrated about this all

And its not always about patience. Sometime, for example in this case, many people planned their future actions according to the alleged fact that the DLC would come out 26th or 27th of July (obviously, stupid us, since it was not announced). When this did not happen, no matter if people got mad about it or not, many players decided to move away from the game, playing something else. This will always result in losing paying customers, as the best time window for selling the DLC (right after the 30 days) is now gone. If the 30 days were strictly followed by the PC/Ps3 release, it would not be such a mess. Now it is, and we all know who/what to blame for it.

[I love YOu]

So there was a massive exodus of PS3/PC players from Rockstar when they did this with the GTA IV DLC? Nope. There is absolutely zero precedent for this happening.

Yes beths PR left a lot to be desired, no these deas are not harmful to anyone whose patience extends further than that of a gnat.

This sounds about right, Id like to speculate as well since to me, all the people here complaining(and please don't take it personal I'm also a bit angry and I do believe Bethesda should take next deals concerning the whole "exclusive" thing a bit more carefully) are still buying the DLC, and people that are not buying it don't even venture on threads like these.

Edit:

Am I the only one who doesn't wants and doesn't cares about all the "Super amazing" coming games ?
I only want to play Skyrim ( Did so since release ).

Nah I'm with you man, sometimes I even say to myself "at least take a look at incoming games... eh... better create another character, lets take a look on nexus to see whats new..."

[Kim Bradley]

there will always be console exclusives and most of them are made by company's owned by Microsoft/Sony. And i cant help it most of Sony's exclusives are better than Microsoft's exclusive hype games

I just can't help but see the double standard in this:

- console company buys game rights/dev house outright, completely denying other gamers the chance to play a game period. Gamers shrug their shoulders.

- console company buys temporary rights to a piece of DLC. World ends.

I'm more bothered by missing out on complete titles. Yet I don't let it ruin my life, I have plenty of others to choose from.

[Miragel Ginza]

Yea, thats true. But, as I said, I only believe in my saying, not that I know it for a fact. But in this case, nothing went right. Buggy version for Xbox (from what I've heard), and delayed release for the rest of us. That I'd call a failed DLC release. Of course, Bethesda gets money from it anyway, but still, angry mob of paying customers is not good for your reputation. We paid for the game, just like the Xbox users, and we demand some sort of equality in this matter. Thats all. But then again, now I feel that this has already gone too far. Im just really sad and frustrated about this all

And its not always about patience. Sometime, for example in this case, many people planned their future actions according to the alleged fact that the DLC would come out 26th or 27th of July (obviously, stupid us, since it was not announced). When this did not happen, no matter if people got mad about it or not, many players decided to move away from the game, playing something else. This will always result in losing paying customers, as the best time window for selling the DLC (right after the 30 days) is now gone. If the 30 days were strictly followed by the PC/Ps3 release, it would not be such a mess. Now it is, and we all know who/what to blame for it.

i agree with you completely but this will be the last post i will write on this matter because i started writing about this to let of some steam but its not really helping i only get angryer and im getting to the point i can no longer be civil about the subject, and i think by now evryone knowes how i feel about this subject so i dont really neet to write more posts about it. i think im going to play a other game for a while and check it again in a week if nothing i known about dawnguards release im going to put it on my ill buy it when its old and verry verry cheap list.

[Shiarra Curtis]

Nah I'm with you man, sometimes I even say to myself "at least take a look at incoming games... eh... better create another character, lets take a look on nexus to see whats new..."

You see , I see sometimes all the whiners posts and it really burns me out sometimes.
So when I try to say " maybe they are right ? " I slap myself and come back to Skyrim

[StunnaLiike FiiFii]

I just can't help but see the double standard in this:

- console company buys game rights/dev house outright, completely denying other gamers the chance to play a game period. Gamers shrug their shoulders.

- console company buys temporary rights to a piece of DLC. World ends.

I'm more bothered by missing out on complete titles. Yet I don't let it ruin my life, I have plenty of others to choose from.

i like console exlusives better mostly because i have both XBOX360 and PS3 but also because if its completely exclusive you cant make the mistake of buying it for the wrong console and with exclusives you get full support for your game and will never be a thirth rank customer.

[sally coker]

All the whiners will buy it - anyone who says otherwise is lying - even all the people in the poll topic saying no will actually buy it

Why are those people in the dawnguard forums?
Duh!!! - because they want to buy dawnguard!

If they did not want it - then why be here - to vent(lmao) - if you don't have better things to do than vent about something you claim you won't buy - those people need real help and dawnguard or any game will not fix the issues they need help with - room with padded walls