Late-ish reply sorry,
actually it is being released if you'd pay attention to blog updates Sony is having a team assist them they just don't want another problem that was similar to people spamming the tech support area with "my game does not work fix fix fix" and then starting flaming and vulgar posts as per last December, personally i think the new generation of gamers are spoiled rotten thinking 70$ entitles them to have whatever grand dillusions and whims made real, they said they're releasing it sit tight and stop complaining. Also would like to add most of delays i can bet come from PS3's crappy bluray system, personally i like redray (HD) as even though it doesnt store tons like bluray it doesn't take so long I can make a steamer bowel of rice while waiting for a load screen.
It's time for everyone to except the fact Beth is not going to give details as to what is going on, they told you there is a issue and that their working on it with Sony. You can carry on about how you have the right to detail's but the truth you don't, You know there is problem and it's keeping them from releasing DG to ps3 plain and simple. Beth as told us only what they feel we need to know not what we want to know.
It is 2012, almost 2013, the pervasive mindset that i see in the two quoted posts and about the net in general just doesn't fly anymore. Not if you want to to maintain the trust of your customers in your brand. IF it were still the mid-90's or even early '00's, i think Bethesda's current business stratagem(in particular giving the barest of information and repeating it ad nausea) would not be in question. Customers as a whole are just much more inclined to require information about the products/services they want now a days.
Complete transparency is never going to happen in business. I personally think that's fine, customers don't need to know
everything. But as situations like this DLC issue on PS3 drag on, considerations need to be made by the Bethesda top-brass to give customers more to go on. "We are working hard," was barely tolerable to start with; it is beyond inadequate as the days turn into weeks and the weeks become months.
At this point there is usually the, "Why would a company give out their trade secrets?" I reply with, who's asking for trade secrets? A line by line break-down of the game code paired with a detailed point by point plan of action isn't what ppl are asking for. "We are X% through our initial eval of the problem," "Tried a new solution this week, will fill every one in on the result after full set of tests," etc; you know? Actual status reports that would take at most 5 min to type into a pre-formatted company press release form. And not talking a daily thing here, weekly or bi-weekly would be more than sufficient.
Again, ANYTHING would be better than a post every month that continually leaves customers in the dark, backed up by non-answer tweets on a personal twitter feed.
Of course we all wouldn't be here if Bethesda had just diffused the situation before it blew up in their face. And by that i mean an official statement(not a tweet...) saying that the PS3 version of Dawnguard would be delayed do to tech issues. I know what you are thinking, 'Isn't that what they've done?'. Well yes they did, but only after months of shady silence where ppl had only their own suppositions to go on.
» Sun Nov 18, 2012 11:15 am 
