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

It has been http://www.bethblog.com/2012/08/02/dawnguard-ps3-update/ that the PS3 will be a little late as they are still working to ensue an acceptable performance..

I don't see this situation ending well...

"Its always darkest before dawn"

Oh it won't. Can't blame the PS3 users though. They have every right to rage. I can't believe Beth decided to release the actual game for PS3 when they knew the engine has troubles with it. At the very least, it's good to hear that they acknowledge an obviously major flaw with the optimisation of the PS3 version of Dawnguard and are working on fixing it. For the sake of their company, they shouldn't keep people in the dark this time.

I'm surprised that just like Skyrim, they didn't just release it with all the performance problems and then spent 6 months trying to raise the framerate above 20FPS...

Doesn't really matter anyways...Patch 1.7/1.6 is still being certifed, and it may be along time before we ps3 users see that!.

I patiently waited..! When I read the news about issues with Dawnguard on PS3 (aka "have to wait even more, even though XBox and PC already has it"), the only thing that I felt like saying was a big "[CENSORED]"..

.. I'm a PS3 user..

Now all I can do is *sigh* wait.. Just not patiently.. Because such thing does not exist in me regarding the wait for Dawnguard!

I'm a PS3 user, but I don't feel the need to vent, doesn't change anything bar my blood pressure.
I'll just sit tight and wait, I'll than cheer when it is released.

At least Bethesda is being transparent about it though, I suppose that is something. Better than the "No comment" stuff earlier. Also it shows they are working on getting DG to the PS3 users, which is better than them not.

Also I told all of you so about them announcing DG at Quakecon!

I know it's coming but people are going to rage about PS3 being last anyways. Also, I don't blame them, I'm one of them.

while that is nice the only thing i have a problem with is that they had atleast a whole month or so to sort out the bugs ect..

My thoughts exactly. I just wonder whether or not we will have another communications blackout for a while, for the love of sweet baby Jesus, they better hope not.

Lol pun.

I am gonna guess a week

Seems like a right joke. All this time has passed.. They showed a video of what the modders can do in a week but yet 6 months an yet even more time going to pass to at least get it on the ps3...wow just wow

I thought it would be comical if it were released horribly for PS3 since the game first is broken for PS3 and then they would release a broken DLC... I do have a PS3 and i got skyrim for it.. So then I was forced to repay for it on the PC...

^this^
Well, just some perspective from my own experience:
I have both an isolated gaming rig and an Xbox360. I enjoyed the base Dawnguard dlc on 360 but will not be purchasing it for my pc version. It has some 'features' that I loathe as far as gameplay. And some other glitches introduced, while not game-ending, are just too odd to explain.

To be sure some of these things can be modded for my pc version, but that's not the point. The point is that they shouldn't have been introduced in the first place.
Sloppy coding and QA, plain and simple. I have other things to enjoy on my pc.

While I have empathy for those waiting for this dlc on ps3, I wouldn't wish these 'features' on the unsuspecting. The furor over further delay will persist but, I assure you, it's nothing compared to what would have flooded the boards with a more buggy dlc than has already been on the 360. It's hard to relish in the knowledge of a future dlc that will be less buggy when you want one now, but what would arrive now would ruin your Skyrim experience...further.
Hope that helps

Patience is a virtue often hastily sought.

Haha! Surprisingly civil everyone. All week people have been calling for transparency and more info, now we got it.

Frankly I wish they had delayed the entire release for the entire game on PS3 as clearly it was very broken. I haven't plugged in the XBOX in over a year but may have made an exception for this game. I still place a portion of the blame on Sony for their lackluster and issue laden console.

What svcks most about all of this, I'm on my second character and approaching level 80 / end of game again already. Dawnguard details already feel old, I will likely be done with this game by the time the DLC arrives if it ever does.

I'll tell you one thing I learned my lesson and will never ever bother to buy another Bethesda game until a year after the fact when the greatest hits version or whatever comes out. Oblivion then Fallout 3 and then Skyrim introduced me to this company and while the games have been awe inspiringly vast and awesome, the software quality has been dwindling to the point where it pretty much ruins the game experience.

Peace out!

So is it pure luck that on my copy of Skyrim on PS3 the only really bad bug I've seen is the water freeze bug, which I actually played around for awhile before fixing. Been playing since 11/11/11.

Edit: Ya know, on second though, I think I'll just stay out of it...

Sorry for the PS3 users....


It's 1,15 GBs of size. That can't be done in a week by far.

I am gonna hope a week

The fact that it was all in a week, says to me that it was rushed and just in a good enough state to show off, afterwards is when they flesh it out an and make it have less bugs. (Note, less bugs, not no bugs, just less than there was at the start.)

To quote Francis McReary, 1% better. If 100 people did that, it would be 100% better. (Doesn't Beth have a team of 100ish on Skyrim? haha, they need to do 1% each) Clearly not, I'm rambling.

I felt a great disturbance in the internet, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and then suddenly silenced...


But yeah, how dare they delaying it, I mean they should totally release it with all of it's memory leaky bugs, I mean NOBODY will complain about that...

Yknow I gotta say....


I've been following these threads mostly with the attitude that, with all due respect, you people (lol that sounds racist or something, anyways I mean PC and PS3 users, and btw I'm a PC user) are overreacting.

However, reading that, I gotta admit: that kinda ticks me off. Their wording of it I mean, specifically the underlined parts.
The first underlined part just sounds so.....slimey. Yknow like they're sugar-coating what should be "we royally screwed up and STILL failed to correct our mistake we made with both New Vegas and Skyrim, and lo and behold Dawnguard has the EXACT SAME PROBLEMS with PS§ we should've excepted and been ready to address ages ago." Instead of saying that, they're wording it like "AREN'T WE NOBLE, DOING OUR DARNEDEST TO MAKE SURE PS3 USERS ARE TREATED EQUALLY?? NO NEED TO THANK US!" No you're right, there isn't.
The second underlined part.....just the audacity of that claim that they're as disappointed as the fans, I find that rather bold of them.


Nothing against Bethesda as a company though, I guess, but rather the marketing department. I guess I should admit I have a special hatred for marketing types (figuring out how to do less work for more money and/or coerce people into buying things by any "fair game" means neccesary is basically their job), but it's lines like that that remind me WHY I hate marketing. It just always comes off as slimey, manipulative and underhanded; rewording situations to make things sound much nicer than the stark reality of things.