ok... We know you sent the DLC and Patch away to MS and Sony .....we know you expected it to be approved in June....so it seems rasonable to assume you sent it in may...

would anyone step up and make a statement regarding what the problem is.... and on which platform....again as the patches for PC have been flowing freely it seems reasonable to assume it is XBox or PS3 causing the hold up....I am sure YOU will have been asking someone what the hold up is...what is the big secret?

They announced it was in for submission on June 24th and today along with the PC stats site going live said "As soon as we have more information on the titles updates for PS3 & 360, as well as the release date for Agents of Change, we’ll let everyone know." http://bethblog.com/index.php/category/brink/

Still not saying much and the general lack of communication is rather annoying. You'd think they'd at least tell us what is in the full title update or even more details about the maps as according to them that has all been completed and submitted for approval. Of course the fact that they still don't have a release date and just keep repeating themselves with the "once we know more we'll tell you" line makes me wonder if they actually didn't get approved and are having to fix the content/update. It wouldn't surprise me with their track record since release.

It really doesn't matter what is holding it up or which platform is the problem. You have to wait for it regardless; SD/Beth cant do anything about it unless they submitted it LATE, in which case they aren't going to admit it anyway, so there is really no point in asking.


...a speculation thread would probably make the wait a little more bearable.

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1210788-the-dlc-and-the-associated-title-update-are-still-in-submission-at-both-microsoft-and-sony-and-will-be-released-when-both-of-them-give-the-okay/

11 pages of people talking about the dlc! You would get just as much reaction in that thread as you will by making a new one.

Wait til they announce an early August release.

I'll close the other one as it's over our post count limit. We can now use this one as our waiting area.

(i'm sori but i put in too much time into this post in the other, now locked thread to not reap anything)

(this is going to be quite a read, so grab a coffee or skip to the next post. just dun leave dat annoying msg, "Bet ppl read that!")

i was just going to comment on the restaurant anologies which according to ppl is hilarious but i've actually been a waiter at a Thai seafood restaurant right after high school and I was SD in that, I got [censored] up sideways by the customer.

It was opening night, i just completed my crash course in serving tables, the new computer ordering system with bar code scanners was going to be tested (this restaurant had the "brilliant idea" of having a fresh seafood market by the side of the restaurant so that customers walk into the market, choose their fish and stuff, pay for it and then get routed through an interconnecting door to their tables where they're presented with a cooking style menu where, they discover, to their shock , the ridiculous prices for cooking the stuff they just bought)

Anyhoo, i took the orders from this group of extended family members (there were like 12 of em), wrote the table's number on a piece of paper (we had an amazing system), tagged it onto the basket and sent it to the kitchen where it joined other baskets dat even the frantic Thai cooks (They cudn't even speak proper English) were having trouble keeping track of them.

Needless to say, the order of customer arrivals got mixed, every customer was slowly starting to glow red, even as I tried to update their orders when the head of that large family called me up and demanded his food coz his brood was understandably starving at this point (they must've waited close to an hour by then).

I got back to the kitchen and me and the cooks cudn't find their basket or their number for that matter and no one remembered what and where it went out in all that chaos.

I still don't know how I dared to return to the table to tell him that I can't find his basket. I remember some cursing, some steam and maybe some death threats while the rest of his offsprings looked on like a hungry pride of lions.

i got back to my captain, told him, shakingly, what had happened and called it a day. My captain gave me a re-assuring look and went off to confront the customer. That's the last time i saw him.

:biggrin:


he came back alright so that he can fu*k me up in return but yeah...

So the point is..... i hate to think that i'm going to turn into the very thing that scarred me for life as far as the service industry is concerned if something doesn't change here, soon.

^^ This is me being optimistic.

the update still isnt out? i came in to see if had worked, thinking it was already out. guess ill keep waiting for it to come out until i play again

firstly, thanks for the replies.....

@ skullman...I actually think that an explanation will help to some degree, insomuch as it will give us a little insight into the process....or problems that are occurring....a little understanding goes a long way...

I am reasonably sure that neither SD nor Bethesda have not followed up this issue with a few questions of their own to MS / Sony...after all an update taking this long is extraordinary( an assumption made from the expected dlc dates given to us)....

and the statement that they are waiting until all the platforms are ready( god alone knows what the logic behind that thought is!...it is free so why make everyone wait....cant be a marketing thing...)

If SD and Bethesda employ people to deal with marketing then, when are they back from vacation... if they can screw up trying to give something away for free then good luck trying to sell us dlc

I think that a significant number of people pre ordered this game on the strength of the pedigree of SD/ Bethesda and the stuff we were shown and told and did not get what they were promised(OK; tiny violin...this is software and issues like this are not unique but all the same...come on, man up and say what happened)

to sum up my personal feelings on this matter ....' if you want to [censored] me, kiss me first!'

yeah I do realise my little digital coffee and nicotine fuelled rant wont actually change anything but I have Aspergers syndrome and this is increasingly annoying to say the least(we neuroatypicals find it ridiculously frustrating to be told one thing...and then be let down.....so June...early July....nothing....is bugging me.


ok here endeth the rant

could it not be the reason its late is because of something so simple as a backlog. with people going on holidays at this time of the year and maybe an influx of other work that had to be looked at before the brink DLC. could this not be why it is running a couple of weeks late. it happens with orders in my work all the time but doesn't mean there is a massive problem. its just a bit late. but don't get worked up over it its only an add-on and you are getting it for free remember. i think you should all stick to making rubbish predictions on what date it will get released. you all seem to be very good at that. lol.

I see an early August-September release (if Sony and Microsoft want to keep holding it back, that is).

I doubt Microsoft or Sony are holding it back.

How many of you have ever been late for work or school or late on a project, homework, doing chores? Believe it or not, even the top dogs of every company are sometimes late. And when you are talking about several companies having to meet a deadline you increase the amount of folks who may add to the lateness of a project.

They are people just like us, working hard to get things done and sometimes facing problems that must be solved. Ranting about it and expecting them to stop what they are doing to come here and answer to us only would add more time to the finished product.

Let's give them some slack like we would want our teachers and bosses to do when we are late.

How many people who have a job that have already been late for a planned meeting and not let anyone know before, having had an important meeting they have to be, with everyone there expecting them to be there at a certain time that you organised and planned, you knowing for a fact you are going to be late well before hand and just letting them sit there expecting you to come without letting them know in advanced? and even after you are meant to be there just leaving them and not saying anythng? you would be FIRED lol [let alone making the people there very angry] . And you know why? because it takes the mick and is disrespectful and dumb.

Just a few minutes of time for an update like any other reputable company who cares for their customers would do who has already lost ALLOT of players and is carrying on to do so, and their game has only been out 2 months with problems.

you know what brothers.... :flamethrower: the time for talking is over...

this is the day of the mushroom revolution.....join with me brothers become a soldier for the mushroom liberation front...we will place caltrops in their parking lots....mines in their hallways...satchel charges in their offices...

Vive la revolution



fyi mushrooms are kept in the dark and fed BS all day long..... :flamethrower:

double post

Yup, they treat us like mushrooms lol, we are all just ￡40/$60 pathetic mushrooms to them

The wait is discouraging but it does give me some time to finish up some of my other games. I just hope the wait will be worth it, One of the main reasons I havn't played Brink in a while is because I want the game to feel new when I do play it again. With the addition of new maps and features I'm thinking the population will pick up.... in the least there should be some quality games around the time the game is updated.

I can wait, just make the update powerful. I would love for SD/gamesas to shut up all the negative talk...including mines...make me Please continue, my good sir...please do...