PS3 Release for Dawnguard - Thread #10 : V - Skyrim

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 5:47 am

Not gonna lie....hearing about hearthfire really broke my spirits....i know its coming out....but damn...how long am i really gonna wait...or care? Keep dangling a carrot in front of our faces....eventually we just stop caring...and find something else to do

» Sat Nov 17, 2012 7:40 pm

i feel that its sort of unfair how us PS3 user haven't even played Dawngaurd yet and your already realeasing another DLC for the Xbox 360 i feel since we have waited longer then anyone else we should either get a discount on the DLC or get it for free because im sort of ready to just move on from skyrim

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 8:24 am

Well, the day is coming to an end and Bethesda has decided to give us no new information at all. Why did they release this game on the PS3 at all if they weren't going to support it? We get the short end of the stick from day one, they put us behind on all of the patches, we don't even get one dlc and now the Xbox will have two. Even the moderators have to admit that this is getting ridiculous at this point. Can Bethesda really not grow a pair and communicate with their fanbase? (sorry correction, former fanbase)

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 1:59 am

I just love how Bethesda have now witnessed 10 threads of this and have STILL not even communicated with us.

» Sat Nov 17, 2012 10:21 pm

I just love how Bethesda have now witnessed 10 threads of this and have STILL not even communicated with us.

Way more than 10. They started renumbering them after PC got it but technically there was something like 8 or 9 "Dawnguard for PC/PS3" threads on this making it almost 20 threads.

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 6:01 am

I just love how Bethesda have now witnessed 10 threads of this and have STILL not even communicated with us.

You think they care? That's the messed up part. If we do get it it'll probably be just to shut us up, and even then it'll probably break key things in the normal game. I don't even know why I care. I'm still going to buy it because I don't want all this waiting and disappointment to be for nothing, but as someone said up there before me it's the last thing I'm buying from them, ever. Real pity because I really think Dishonored looks cool, but never again.

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 8:46 am

Hearthfire will be out (next month?) and we haven't even gotten Dawnguard, and of course, we'll be waiting an extra five months to get Hearthfire as well. So, while they could he working on getting DG out for ps3, they're playing around with building their own houses and adopting children for the xbox. Thanks Bethesda.

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 2:50 am

might aswell trade in skyrim for ps3 get some cash back lol

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 6:35 am

You see, putting the PS3/PSN logo there would effectively force them to release the DLC to PS3. Bethesda don't want that. They want the option to bail out at any possible moment, and they are taking precautions to make that possible. They didn't give us a certain release date so that we can't use the argument "oh it's not out when it's meant to be"; they didn't include the PS3 logo so they don't HAVE to give the DLC to us... you get the general idea.

They don't want to be in the situation where they HAVE to give us the DLC.

Although the 'PSN' logo thing is a bit of a red herring... It did set me thinking as to why they should, in all honour, 'HAVE' to make some effort to produce DLC for the playstation. In the lead-up to Skyrim's release, Tod Howard, Pete Hines, and numerous other Beth. luminaries quite happily appeared at conventions, and in many media outlets, describing the 'large' expansions that purchasers of their game might expect. "Bigger than Fallout", was I believe what was promised. For myself, this was not a small consideration when I forked over my money for Skyrim... some outlay up front, but then at reasonable intervals, more stuff to keep me amused for about the price of a film ticket. As things stand however, I find myself in the position of someone who, pardon the comparaison, bought a car with an 'extended powertrain warranty' but was then told that, no, they wouldn't fix it, because I'd gotten the red one, and that wasn't their preferred colour.

If, as near as I can tell, the supposedly horrific technical hurdles in producing a small DLC for PS3 are in fact fictive... and I have heard no reasonable explanation to the contrary (seriously... adding a half dozen new animations will crash a system that quite happily runs 'Red Dead Redemption', or indeed post 1.4 base Skyrim with less lag than X-Box... or save-file bloat issues are any worse than in any previous Beth. game), I can only assume that for reasons related to their return-on-investment Bethesda have decided not to hazard resources on any further PS3 content. This may make sense for them number-wise... but it also makes them guilty of false advertising.

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 12:24 am

Although the 'PSN' logo thing is a bit of a red herring... It did set me thinking as to why they should, in all honour, 'HAVE' to make some effort to produce DLC for the playstation. In the lead-up to Skyrim's release, Tod Howard, Pete Hines, and numerous other Beth. luminaries quite happily appeared at conventions, and in many media outlets, describing the 'large' expansions that purchasers of their game might expect. "Bigger than Fallout", was I believe what was promised. For myself, this was not a small consideration when I forked over my money for Skyrim... some outlay up front, but then at reasonable intervals, more stuff to keep me amused for about the price of a film ticket. As things stand however, I find myself in the position of someone who, pardon the comparaison, bought a car with an 'extended powertrain warranty' but was then told that, no, they wouldn't fix it, because I'd gotten the red one, and that wasn't their preferred colour.

If, as near as I can tell, the supposedly horrific technical hurdles in producing a small DLC for PS3 are in fact fictive... and I have heard no reasonable explanation to the contrary (seriously... adding a half dozen new animations will crash a system that quite happily runs 'Red Dead Redemption', or indeed post 1.4 base Skyrim with less lag than X-Box... or save-file bloat issues are any worse than in any previous Beth. game), I can only assume that for reasons related to their return-on-investment Bethesda have decided not to hazard resources on any further PS3 content. This may make sense for them number-wise... but it also makes them guilty of false advertising.

"False-Advertising."

Such beautiful words that guarantee a large sum of money as a result of millions of lawsuits from very upset, and lied to PS3 consumers. Hell, Sony should sue Beth for not upholding the promise of DLC if we don't get any. I don't think Bethesda remembers selling their souls when they printed "Add-On Content" on the back of the PS3 Skyrim case.

» Sat Nov 17, 2012 8:16 pm

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE JUST RELEASE DAWNGUARD ALREADY FOR PS3....IF YOUR NOT GOING TO...JUST ADMIT DEFEAT! YOU AT THE VERY LEAST OWE US THAT!

» Sat Nov 17, 2012 7:28 pm

"False-Advertising."

Such beautiful words that guarantee a large sum of money as a result of millions of lawsuits from very upset, and lied to PS3 consumers. Hell, Sony should sue Beth for not upholding the promise of DLC if we don't get any. I don't think Bethesda remembers selling their souls when they printed "Add-On Content" on the back of the PS3 Skyrim case.

Good lord... you're right... there it is, and in a fairly large font too... and there I was fuming over a bunch of half-remembered PR interviews. What a bunch of piss-takers.

» Sat Nov 17, 2012 8:21 pm

I'm at a loss of words right now......they annouced hearthfire, give a release date of next week...(( mind you if your a Premium member you get armored kill for battlefield three next week so stroked for that :biggrin:

)) but nothing for PS3 dawngaurd......Da faq bethesda.

+1 on that, DG is over now, AK will keep me and my mates entertained for a while.

» Sat Nov 17, 2012 10:43 pm

"People have been joking that the Xbox would be getting Hearthfire before we got Dawnguard and here we are. This is beyond ridiculous. Are you even trying to keep any fans Beth? Forget this game it's not like we all haven't heard all of the story points on this forum by now. I'm will not support a company that treats it's loyal customers this way. "
Quoting from the last thread.

I was not joking when I said that xD

» Sat Nov 17, 2012 6:59 pm

you know it really does say 'Add on Content" on the back hmmmm...... but could this mean the patches used to fix the game???
I could see that as a argument thy would make against it if used against them

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 2:21 am

Well bummer. You would have thought there would have been an official word by now. But here I am watching me3 Leviathan download through the playstation store (you know... since it came out the same day on all platforms) and the money I had been saving for dawnguard is gone. Bummer. I'll probably still get it, but it'll be a while... Probably wait and get dawnguard and hearthfire (if it does come out for ps3) at the same time. I'm probably not buying dishonored now...

Good lord... you're right... there it is, and in a fairly large font too... a

I went and checked my box. At least now I can kinda justify the feeling of betrayal that has haunted me through this whole fiasco.

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 4:22 am

"People have been joking that the Xbox would be getting Hearthfire before we got Dawnguard and here we are. This is beyond ridiculous. Are you even trying to keep any fans Beth? Forget this game it's not like we all haven't heard all of the story points on this forum by now. I'm will not support a company that treats it's loyal customers this way. "
Quoting from the last thread.

I was not joking when I said that xD

alot of us who experienced fallout 3 and new vegas dlc's expected this as soon as we heard "dawnguard was delayed" from bethesda's history i expect dawnguard in a few months and i think hearthfire will maybe release the same time as the pc version because its smaller

» Sat Nov 17, 2012 8:00 pm

Erm, I own...
A gaming PC
A 360
A PS3

I bought Skyrim for PC.

I bought Skyrim for PS3.

I decided to bet on the PC and have not opened the shrink-wrapped copy for PS3. Still haven't. I've finished Dawnguard and now sweating on Hearthfire.

I suppose given Bethesda's support or lack of for the PS3, a good move would be to put all that stuff in the cupboard and forget about all things Playstation. Really disappointing.

» Sat Nov 17, 2012 8:54 pm

you know it really does say 'Add on Content" on the back hmmmm...... but could this mean the patches used to fix the game???
I could see that as a argument thy would make against it if used against them

DLC isn't something produced to fix a game, it's a non-essential expansion of content that adds more variety to the vanilla game itself. Since the patches are actually classified as "Patches" they couldn't say it is DLC or Add-On Content due to the fact it's something needed to make the game playable or more-playable.

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 1:29 am

alot of us who experienced fallout 3 and new vegas dlc's expected this as soon as we heard "dawnguard was delayed" from bethesda's history i expect dawnguard in a few months and i think hearthfire will maybe release the same time as the pc version because its smaller

I expect dawnguard in like another 3-6 months if not more lol

But uh, it's funny. This problem that they're having is turning die hard fans into whats this crap you gave me in the first place. Their love of the idea and the company made them love the broken game given to them, but after this incident they realize just how broken the base that was given to them was.

The straw that broke the camels back

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 7:15 am

DLC isn't something produced to fix a game, it's a non-essential expansion of content that adds more variety to the vanilla game itself. Since the patches are actually classified as "Patches" they couldn't say it is DLC or Add-On Content due to the fact it's something needed to make the game playable or more-playable.

they did use patches to add some content though, only thing I know they did was add mounted weapon fighting.

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 1:08 am

DLC isn't something produced to fix a game, it's a non-essential expansion of content that adds more variety to the vanilla game itself. Since the patches are actually classified as "Patches" they couldn't say it is DLC or Add-On Content due to the fact it's something needed to make the game playable or more-playable.

BUT last patch "ADDED" mounted combat

» Sat Nov 17, 2012 11:39 pm

they did use patches to add some content though, only thing I know they did was add mounted weapon fighting.

It's not enough to be classified as DLC though, plus since they bundled it into a required patch, they lost all hopes of using that argument as a scapegoat. I don't remember going into the Playstation Store, selecting Add-Ons, finding Skyrim and downloading patch 1.6 of my own free will. Plus who even uses horses enough for mounted combat to matter, since they die when they try to defend you every time.

» Sat Nov 17, 2012 4:50 pm

BUT last patch "ADDED" mounted combat

Clever of them... Now they could technically back out of ps3 dlc. THAT would be complete horse[censored] if they decided to do that with just giving us some cop-out crap that doesn't even work.

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 6:46 am

I expect dawnguard in like another 3-6 months if not more lol

But uh, it's funny. This problem that they're having is turning die hard fans into whats this crap you gave me in the first place. Their love of the idea and the company made them love the broken game given to them, but after this incident they realize just how broken the base that was given to them was.

The straw that broke the camels back

yeah i think i'll just buy the GOTY edition i'll definitely buy it if the 3'rd dlc is released before dawnguard for ps3. the base game was always broken it was more of a "can you see it kinda thing" most people didn't notice the bugs and glitches or they ignored them that's the problem, now bethesda has a real problem that hearthfire is releasing before dawnguard on ps3 now the "patient people" are getting mad and swearing to not buy any bethesda product again. if you look up a few hearthfire articles you will see alot of them have at least 1/3 of ps3 are complain about lack of dawnguard.