DLC Exclusivity? : V - Skyrim

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:17 pm

Anyone remember the good old days when DLC's were free to download?

Ah...memories. Nowadays they make you pay for something that could be done even better by modders for free.

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 3:20 am

ps3 owners deserve it just as much as the microsoft butt-kissers... :swear:

Not unless you can convince Sony to pay for it. It's not "butt-kissing" that gets MS the exclusives, any more than Sony gets its exclusives by asking nicely.

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 2:05 pm

Yes, but no more "Horse Armor" DLCs, I want expansions as good as Shivering Isles.

I want an expansion as good as Blood Moon, Isles was terrible.

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 2:20 pm

I really don't think they'd bugger around with Elder Scrolls like that...I mean this series was MADE on the PC, and then ported over to consoles so timed exclusive DLC seems like a kick in the ass to those who popularized the game in the first place.

Lets hope it releases at the same time on all platforms.

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 7:15 pm

I really don't think they'd bugger around with Elder Scrolls like that...I mean this series was MADE on the PC, and then ported over to consoles so timed exclusive DLC seems like a kick in the ass to those who popularized the game in the first place.

Lets hope it releases at the same time on all platforms.

it's clearly not made with the PC mainly in mind. Whenever you hear the devs give an example they always say "controller"... sad but true.

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 4:18 am

It is most certainly not the same thing. DLC's are exclusively downloadble (hence the name) content often in small annoying packages whilst an expansion will often also be released in actual boxes and have larger amounts of content. I cannot stand these small DLC packages, I really hate they've become so popular.

Exactly. I've never bought any DLC.

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 3:58 pm

Bethesda has a long history of making most of their DLC a timed exclusive to the X-box 360, usually leaving the PS3 and the PC out in the cold for months at a time until they get around to releasing it for everyone or throwing it onto a Game of the Year disc so that you'll have to repurchase the game if you want to get ahold of it. What're the odds that this same cycle will repeat itself? How will you react if everyone can play the next chapters of Skyrim months or even a full year before you can?

It's hardly a long history. Morrowind did not come out for Xbox until a bit after it came out on PC because they needed time to port it. It was their first TES game that went to any console and the only DLCs were either free or came in the way of large expansions on the retail market. Oblivion was the first time we had DLCs that were charged for and there was one full blown expansion and one DLC of considerable size. The DLCs for it were time exclusive for PC and Xbox 360.

As long as there is a substantial amount of money offered for exclusive rights timed or not, to make it worth the loss of up front sales of the DLCs I imagine they will take the money and continue to have timed exclusives.

PC also got those timed exclusives for FO:3 and ony with FO:NV did pc not get them first time around. I would imagine (though I have no way of knowing for sure) that pc not getting those had something to do with switching distribution from GFWL to Steam.

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 3:03 pm

microsoft butt-kissers...

Maybe theres a reason why people say ps3 owners dont deserve these things. :whistling: