I'm not going to complain widly, but why? When I heard of the dlc's coming out, I was told it would be around the beginning of the year. Now, it's almost the mid of the year where games I pre-ordered or will buy comes out. I can't hold onto money for a dlc that takes so long to come out and is probrably only 5 hours when a 14+ hour game comes out on May 17th, which I doubt the dlc will be out by then. The dlc's are dragging into when other games come out, whcih creates a problem for me. Heck, the dlc's dragging on for so lon is a problem.

I just don't think the DLCs are worth it anymore if they're gonna take this long. By the time they do come out, I'll probrably have no time, money, desire to even buy them.


What do you guys think?


No flamming

What game are you getting on May 14th

April is the middle of the year now?

It depends, really. After all this waiting the devs can't afford to show up with a lousy DLC. Obsidian presenting a Mothership Zeta-like DLC at this point will cause people to not bother buying any of the other ones. They'll have to come up with something awesome to guarantee people staying interested. I think they will.

I'm getting l.a. noir. That's 60 bucks, som of which could have been spent on the dlc if it came sooner. And no, april isn't the middle of the year, june is. But Junes only 2 months away and I haven't even seen the patch/progress since the dlc's were first announced.

Well the patch just came out monday for steam and ps3, should be friday for xbox meaning the DLC isn't to to far away. Give it another week before the announcemen although it may be more, who knows.

But yeah I know how you feel, if it's not announced next week I'm buying minecraft ( wich I'll probably buy anyways....)

I often wonder why we can't get certain topics stickied to this board. Things like post-game play and multiplayer and how they aren't in (and aren't planned to be in) this game.

But then I see a post like this. The subject of which was already addressed (recently!) in a stickied post.

And I realize that people aren't going read what's already out there. And it doesn't mean [censored] that something is sticky.

:sigh:

To answer the question in the OP ("what do you guys think"), I say:

I think asking when we'll get the DLC is legitimate, but adding to the query any of your thoughts on "value" or "desire" in a negative way simply because you can't be patient is now officially beyond ridiculous.

Thanks for coming out.

yes i'm not worried got Dragon Age insted, i will probaly get the DLC's anyway as i'm a FO adicted but not rigth way i will probably wait for them all to come out if they ever do came out

I think if a trailer was released then maybe the OP and many others would be more paitent, announcing that the DLC is finished then not releasing a trailer (that is already finished too) is going to make people loose interest. The only reason i'm still interested is because I have nothing to play at the moment.

This is from the Fallout wiki from John Lewis http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Ausir/Layoffs_at_Obsidian . By these statements we should be seeing at least 1 more DLC (besides HH), but the layoffs svck for those guys and my heart goes out to them.

im not losing interest but at 10 bucks a pop, and 60 bucks for the game thats 100 bucks for one game and i bought the collectors edition,so for me, ill be investing substantially more... from my point of view give us a freaking teaser trailer at least... if its done give us something. its incredibly frustrating being a huge fallout fan and feeling like this game has been neglected in so many ways, probably because of focus being shifted immediately after release to games like skyrim and brink. and this makes me wonder if this same thing will happen to those games or if fallouts fans are no longer important... they havent even given us screenshots or background info... what reason could they logically have to not even give us that? if they have a reason then tell us what that is. we feel neglected bethesda... at least open up a line of communication with us. and a few paragraphs doesnt cut it. if it did then why do rage skyrim and brink get so much more?

i think the notion that they don't want to produce a "Mothership Zeta-type" DLC, and are legitimately concerned about giving gamers what they want, is absurd. the reason it is taking so long is because they don't care about Fallout: New Vegas as much as you do; they're doing more important things and they don't figure you're worth keeping in the loop, because you aren't. as long as you fork over the cash on game day, which you will, all is good in the world.

This is totally absurd and I do believe they want to give us a good product, it's worth it to them to do so and not throw away there fan base. I'm sure we will see and hear something very soon!!!!

Yeah, we were told that a while ago.

I just finished reading the WIKI page about the unfortunate Obsidian layoffs. There's a ton of information regarding the DLCs in the recommendation letters Chris Avellone wrote -- the DLCs are either completely or almost finished. It appears that a large amount of simultaneous development was taking place. There is reference to 'large vistas' -- it appears that one or more of the DLCs is large. The layoffs seem to have happened because the project is finished or down to last details.

If we can be selfish and insensitive for a minute, it appears that the laid-off employees loss is our gain -- we will be getting the DLCs soon and that they will be impressive. It svcks that this is how we got the information.

Any more delays will probably be due to debugging; Obsidian is bound to be very sensitive after the backlash about NV.

The sticky noted pretty much makes clear that a decision was made to make sure the game was stable with another patch before they pushed another DLC out the door. That is now being complicated by the PSN issues, which mean that when PS3 owners get the patch is somewhat up in the air while Sony gets things up and running again. So a DLC announcement that may have been planned is probably being put on hold so they can make sure PSN is back up and the patch running fine. On top of that, Obsidian (and I love them) have a pretty poor record for the pace of patches - various NWN2 expansions and official modules were delayed significantly while the patch team labored away.

Finally, its pretty clear that more then one expansion were being worked on in the last few months. The layoffs bother me because it suggests that we are only going to get a few DLCs (two more?) and that Bethesda decided it wasn't worth keeping the team around for more. That may mean that either a) they don't think New Vegas did well enough to justify more, B) sales of Dead Money weren't as high as hoped, and/or c) the delays noted above mean interest in DLCs has dropped.

its taking this long because of MS' little deal
ive only been waiting since feb 22

With the patch out this week, and trophies for the new DLC being added to PS3 with the patch. I'd say the announcement about the DLC's release would have come this week. With the PSN network being down, and since the new batch of DLC will be released on all platforms at the same time. I would guess that the DLC has been delayed because of the PSN down time. That still shouldn't stop them from putting out a trailer. This is just my guess but I'd bet a trailer will be revealed next week, following the release of the Xbox 360 patch on friday. With the DLC releasing 2-3 weeks later, the PSN better be back up by then! I'm really itching to play this new DLC. Dead Money was fun, and satisfying but I think it fell short of the mark overall.

I seriously doubt this (or at least refuse to believe it because I love the DLC and FO). NV sales were huge and I'm sure DM made quite a bit. I think it has to do with most/all of the DLC being done and the fact that when skyrim comes out most will stop playing NV and move to it. Releasing any DLC afterwords would probably not make them much money. If they release one a month till Skyrim's release, thats 6 DLC. Hopefully they have at least finished the original 4 (DM, HH, OWB, LR) which would take us till august, again assuming its one a month. They probably don't want to release one right b4 skyrim, as people are less likely to buy it if they are about to drop $60 on skyrim a month or two later.

i suspect they'll release ALL of the dlc's simultaneously, across all platforms. in which case, they would have had to polish them all, then port them all to each platform before releasing anything. if this is the case, though, and all dlcs are released simultaneously, one could plan on news reports of multiple nerd cranial explosions across the country as we all decide which dlc to start first; UNLESS the stories throughout the dlc's are somewhat interconnected, and you're forced to play them in an order (however unlikely). afterall, who ISN'T going to buy all of the dlc's, and how would you (or... not you, the average populous, non bethesda forum going gamer) choose to buy one dlc over another. i don't expect this will be like choosing to get point lookout and not mothership zeta.

this is incredibly unlikely, and purely speculation, but it would be nice if we were able to purchase a discounted bundle of all dlc content and save a little cash... which for bethesda, the incentive is they would almost guarantee that all dlc content would be purchased, and we feel like we got a deal.

I hope there all out before skyrim because fallout will go bye bye for a good while on the 11.11.11 :fallout: :tes: .

Look at the timeframe for Fallout 3's release and the release of it's DLC. Fallout 3 was released at the end of October. Anchorage was released in January, then the Pitt in March, then Broken Steel in May, followed by Point Lookout in June and finally Mothership Zeta in August.

The initial game's release was 3 months from the first add-ons release which is comparable New Vegas's DLC timetable. But Fallout 3 had 5 add-ons placed 2 months apart from each other (except Point Lookout). New Vegas only has 4 add-ons that we know of. The first, Dead Money, was released at the end of December, two months after the release of New Vegas itself. As it stands, they have once less add-on for New Vegas then Fallout 3 and odds are they want to drag it out within the same timeframe as the add-ons for Fallout 3. So it will probably be stretched out by 3 months in between DLC instead of 2. Let's not forget, Bethesda is releasing two games in May (in North America). I imagine they don't want those to be overshadowed by New Vegas' DLC.

I think people are getting restless over New Vegas' DLC because there weren't many real beefy quests in New Vegas. I find myself enjoying them once or twice but after that I just go through the motions to get the XP or reward. On top of that, there wasn't much to explore. Fallout 3 had downtown D.C., and lots of mountains, and varying terrain. New Vegas is rather flat and boring to explore, and didn't have a lot locations that you wanted to go to.

This was my feelings as well and I think its safe to say we will get 2 more unless they were lumping DM with whatever is finished, as that might mean just one more (God forbid). I would be happy with 2 but hope for three. If bug testing is holding it up so much the better but they did layoff one tester according to the posts.

Bethesda nor does it's parent company Zenimax, own Obsidian.

i think layed off obsidian employees deleted trailer