no

No, it just means they won't make any MORE money... And this I'm okay with as I already payed them 150 bucks for a CE copy of the game... They have plenty of money... I'll still pay for the DLC with no complaints as long as I'm not broke when it comes out...

I have to side with no and only because if Bethesda wanted to release "free" DLC it would only be for the PC for sure and maybe for the PS3 but not a chance for Xbox users as there is not a chance that MS is passing up on a chance to squeeze a buck out of its players and thats been proven in the past.

We always deserve free DLCs just as a thankyou for buying their game and putting food on their table!

Why on earth would we deserve anything? Strange choice of words.

Microsoft don't do free DLC. Wake up people.

Do you guys see your glass as half-empty?

I won't go so far as to say that we deserve anything...

But I've worked in sales... Sometimes you deliver a product to a valued customer that just doesn't meet their expectations. Most of the time it wasn't my fault (been screwed by manufacturing or order processing more times than I'd like to remember)... but it doesn't matter. Perception is reality when dealing with the customer. In those cases, I certainly went the extra mile to make the customer feel like they got something "extra" for their trouble. Maybe it was a free product the next time, maybe it was a discount, or maybe I just took them & their spouse out to dinner & drinks. But I always tried to make it right if they felt they didn't get exactly what they wanted.

Obviously Bethesda can't take us all out for drinks... but enough people feel like they didn't get what they paid for out of the box that- if it were me personally managing Bethesda- I would come up with some sort of olive branch for the customer base.

Of course, then again, if it were me dealing with one of my customers, I wouldn't leave them in the dark without a status update for nearly a month... so... obviously my opinion matters precisely dike.

Im still waiting to start playing the game proper. 40 hours in and loved it but stopped over a month ago until the game is stable enough I cant screw my playthrough up with quests and other bugs.

Its getting bad now, playing Fable 2 FFS.

They don't deserve it (the stuff patched has been pretty minor on PC at least), and even if they did you can be quite sure that they wouldn't get it: the whole point of DLC is to take in money.

Nope, if you had it for PC, you would always have free DLC, its called MODS, They make Bethesda games epic.

I say, yes. Bought game on 111111 and had to wait for more than a month to play it! It had way to many problems.

No if you have the PC version you will eventually get AWESOME PLAYER MADE MODs

Even before the editor is released their are some pretty great mods like the map mod

We deserve (and demand) free patches to keep the game bug free, and in optimal performance stability

Depends on whether I just filled it up, then its half full, if I drank it from full, its half empty .

On topic, there have been free DLC's, Gears of War 3 comes to mind, and some single maps for World at War.

True, but sometimes you have to give away a little to make a lot in the long run.

I mean, the same thing could be said about patches; why spend the time if you're not going to get paid for it?


The answer, of course, lies in the notion that if you don't fix it, your customer base will stop being your customer base and spend their money elsewhere the next time you release a game.

Look no further than the PSN fiasco and the two free games that they gave to customers afterwards. I don't think it's unrealistic to think that Bethesda would do something similar, given all the problems that have been documented with Skyrim, especially on the PS3.

...You have to take care of your customers.

Deserve? No.

Want? Sure, why the hell not

No.

Just a complete patch. Thank you.

No. Game should be fixed first, then dlc can be discussed. They have enough money, so they can postpone dlc for a bit (though I doubt they will).

No. I haven't had one issue that prevented me from playing the game. I haven't had any bugs that required me to back track other than the house issue in Windhelm where the option to clean up disappears if you don't take it first. I've had the game freeze up on a few occasions. Other than that I've had no problems. I certainly don't feel I deserve to get free content for those minor problems.

Gamers whine too much these days.

Except the cost of DLC is nothing to do with MS when theu dont make it. The developers of Pinball FX2 (Zen) Released a time limited free DLC for the title in october last year. Basically they put a pinball table up for free download for one week.

So yeah its happened before. Oh yeah and there are FREE games on Xbox live.

id say yes, something small like spell tomes from Oblivion that took 1 hour of effort. There have been lots of bad bugs we've all had to deal with, some bugs even made some content unaccessable. a little "thank you for dealing with the bs" gift wouldnt hurt.

Depends on how big it is, if it's like Oblivion's house dlc's then yeah those should be free. If it's like Shivering Isle size then yeah I can see paying for a actual expansion.