http://www.joystiq.com/2011/12/11/skyrim-to-have-multiple-dlc-releases-powerful-buckets/

Please Stp all this DLC idea , DLCs are short , fast paced stuff that you eat in one HOUR I want a proper EXPANSION like Shivering Islands , Like Bloodmoon , Like Tribunal .....

I vote no to Horse armors , Oblivion like DLCS , Fallout crap short DLCS ...

Yeah.... no.

That said, I'd like to deductively predict Bethesda's got pretty hefty plans for Skyrim DLC.

They already stated that they're going to focus on larger DLC packages more akin to Shivering Isles than Horse Armor.

As long as they give us a DLC for horseback fighting too

La noire was the worst for this. I really liked that game, but seriously the dlc was a joke.

Depends a lot on marketing and production. 100 short DLCs that cost $1 each that we could pick and choose between would be interesting, while one big expansion pack that we're essentially all shoehorned into with 100 times the content for $100 bucks wouldn't get my vote. Skyrim needs expansion... it's just too restrictive for a sandbox. We need a main quest for "good", and options other than the civil war for motivation.

He says in the article that they won't be quick, they'll have a lot of meat on them.

Hey I kind of liked the small house based dlcs,the mage tower and battlehorn castle were some of my favorite. But yeah, if they are going for more fleshed out dlc I say full length, 2-3 total as opposed to the Fallout style. It must also be said that I do not want to be forcibly ported out of the game world to a seperate questing location. Unless its more well done than the way Fallout did it. A survival mod could have potential.

They have "stated" and he's "said" alot of things...just have to wait and see.

Of course addons, because they offer much more than those fast food DLCs.

But the publishers care more about money than what their players want, that's why DLCs were invented, fast money for little effort. Look what Zenimax Media Inc is doing on youtube, those fools try to delete all the soundtracks, just so they can sell their soundtrack! That's greed at it's finest ladies and gentlemen, but they don't realize that if they delete one track of music, 2 new are going to be uploaded. I think they realized now that it's a lost fight and stopped deleting them.

Heck you don't even know for sure how many publishers order their dev team to cut out content so they can sell it later to artifically increase the price of the game. Of course they won't go public with information like this, i'm sure many of the publishers who already flood their game with cheap DLCs are doing this.

Most of them have crappy half-azzed content and have a terrible price/performance value

I hate DLCs, they are a product of the devil and made for the newer generation of players who see this DLC milking as "normal". Just the trend that most prefere fast food compared to cook it themselves, it's much easier and faster.

I'd like both to be honest some small pick and mix DLC like themed housing, and some big expansion like DLC too. bring it on, Bethesda, and I'll buy it

When you say DLC it sounds short an episodic expansion sounds better because we know what to expect from an expansion I for one hope that Bethesda deliver one or two expansions that add at the bare minimum 50 hours of new gameplay and this may only be a dream but I wouldn't mind seeing the two continents of Morrowind and Cyrodiil re-imaged I mean they were built into skyrim so why not use them just imagine the possilibilities I for one would gladly pay 30 to 40 dollars for them hands down

I'd like both kinds. A few big DLC's a la KOTN and SI and a couple of small ones that give you unique residencies and weapons with a couple of quests attached.

Yeah the DLC was crap, but the game was great. I loved LA Noire more then the joke DA2 that Bioware released...lol

As if those are truly different, and all players want the same things. Bethesda is not EA and has always (to me) seemed concerned to preserve the value of their IPs. The only reliable way to do that is to give players something that they want. Because of the diversity of the player base, individual players may be unhappy with the directions they take, but to keep selling games, they need to produce products that can be enjoyed by the majority. That doesn't mean that they aren't going to make specific design decisions that won't pan out or that as professionals that they aren't going to need to make judgments about the impacts of what forumgoers (a minority of the market!) say they want on the quality of the game. Their audience is also fluid. The games need to be accessible to new players, and even long-term fans (like myself!) don't necessarily want the game that would have delighted us ten years ago--and not just in terms of graphics. I think that there a plenty of issues with game mechanics (some of which involve "simplifications" that turned out to be ill-advised), but I can only applaud the randomness that they've introduced into the game world and the move away from grinding multipliers. There are always going to be unfortunate detours in the re-invention process, but I see no need to view them as anything other than miscalculations/less-than-successful experiments that may fuel improvements in the next iterations (be that patch, dlc, or game).

Please spare me for that horse-armor crap.

I really dislike DLC, it's mostly an artificial way to increase the price for their games by cutting out content before release.

As though anyone was forced to buy it! DLC was a new mechanism at the time horse armor was released. Bethesda experimented with different types of content to see what would interest the players. All players who didn't want to buy horse armor needed to do was ... nothing. Of course, at our house any mention of horse armor triggers a lecture on its benefits by my husband.

I don't mind those little bit things, as long as they're part of a larger proper expansion. I actually would like to see more "Knights of the Nine"-style expansions that add new potential plotlines to the world in addition to the "expansion zone" type DLC we get in fallout.

I keep saying DLC when I mean the big expansion they said they were thinking about doing instead. :facepalm:

Larger expansions of course!
And didnt bethesda said there was going to be large DLCs?


I want a large expansion with alot of new feautures

I didn't vote, because Bethesda has proven with Morrowind that they're capable of doing both.

In Morrowind we had DLCs: Siege at Ft. Firemoth, LeFemm armor, the Master Index quest, Helm of Tohan, Bitter Coast Sounds, Area Effect Arrows, Entertainers and Adamantium Armor. But they ALSO made 2 huge expansions: Tribunal and Bloodmoon.

So, I know they can do both. Why not have both DLCs and large expansions?

I just don't care. Bethesda isn't getting a single cent from me for anything they do - that is 100% sure.

I want both, actually. Small bite sized DLC packs (yes, like horse armor.), some more involved (zone) packs (a la Fallout) and full on expansion packs (2 is a good number. Can have them now?)

Not supporting this game excessively after how well it did would be a mistake, I feel.

NNNOOOOOOOOO!!! oo: