I know this has probably been mentioned but I haven't been on in a while and I want to hear what the community has to say about the possibility of no more DLC. Ever since the release of Dragonborn I've done everything there is to do in Skyrim (aside from making my skills legendary). I'm hungry for more. I don't know about you guys but I would love to at least see one more big DLC added to the game. What do you guys think? What would you guys want to see?

Not a possibility. It is confirmed. No more DLC.

''Possibility''.... Skyrim is over with DLCs and patches.

Of course,Most people want more DLC. But there wont be anymore. Sorry dude.

Did anyone else find it was quite a sudden announcement for no more DLC? I did.

I was pretty surprised, yes. I was busy that day though with Defiance and catching up on the Boston bombing that had just occurred that day, so this wasn't really that important to me though.

This. Been discussed to death. Other DLCs were planned but cut for whatever reasons.

Yep. It's over. For further inquiry about new dlc see my sig. LOL

A little bit. I kinda knew something was up without seeing or hearing a word from Bethesda Game Studios. But hey, the game is already 2 1/2 years old, I don't blame the team fro wanting to move on to another adventure

Since when was it over with patches.

Odds are patches will be very, very rare.

My gut tells me that there will be no more patches. My gut is hardly ever wrong about things like this, so I really wouldn't count on anything new. Better to just move on to something else or to be happy with what you already have.

I suspect there may have been some internal company politics involved.

I don't actually know this, but I would suspect that the ESO guys were worried about potential competition from an ever growing skyrim and won the internal political battle for support.

If my suspicions are correct, then I forecast a strategic disaster for Bethesda.

Hopefully I'm wrong, of course.

Skyrim came out in nov 2011 peeps last year nov 2012 makes it one year, its a year and a half. Correction!

I don't know if you are acquainted with Square-Enix's current company woes, but is your worst case scenario something along the lines that if ESO flops, it might take Zenimax with it? Which is a very, very truncated summary of where SE is atm.

It was a bit surprising. I was confident that there would be at least one more DLC.

I'm hoping there will patches. At least they should fix that annoying lip sync issue, it's horribly out of sync.

Did not know about Square Enix, but you have captured the gist of my post quite well.

The risk I see is that of Bethesda focusing it's future for TES on ESO instead of releasing DLC/content for Skyrim until TES6 is released. Without further fresh content for Skyrim, the ginormous fan base will become a target for competitors that are astute enough to capture what it was that made Skyrim such a stunning success. This would be compounded by the possible failure of ESO in retaining said fan base - and the first several rounds of reviews and sneak peak commentaries on ESO have been generally unfavorable.

Again - I'm not wishing this on Bethesda, but the risk seems quite apparent.

ESO is being made by a different developer, so nothing to do with Skyrim, obviously the team that did Skyrim is better off doing another game rather than DLC for a game that has been out so long already.

Also there would be the problem of the consoles struggling with the memory problems, the game maybe just plain cannot handle any more DLC. They did their patch to fix everything they were interested in fixing, and that is likely it, they have moved on to something more profitable.

Why are most people like patches are over do i need to put up we’ll still have minor updates to Skyrim as needed said on bethblog

Because most people are realists. Judging from Bethesda's actions so far, there's a chance for one more patch- and that's if we're lucky.

I'll admit, I was shocked when they said "no more DLC, moving on to our next game". I had thought there might have been one or two more DLC, like most people on these Forums.

But I also understand their decision.

Bethesda Game Studios is only populated with around a hundred people or so IIRC, and it could very well be that they've been working on their next title for a while. That would make the statement of; "we're at the point with the new title where we need to devote everybody to the task of making our next game" a very real possibility, especially since the new consoles drop this holiday season and the new tech will be official.

So yeah, while I'm still a bit shocked that it's over that quickly, I can also understand the very probable position that BGS is in currently.

Quite frankly, I can't wait to see what they're making.

Oh, i'm with you 100%. I've been a TES fan since '96 when my college roomie introduced me to Daggerfall. Even with my total disgust at how Skyrim as a whole was handled since day one, i'd hate to see Beth brought low as a company.

@1-ESO is being made by ZOS(ZeniMax Online Studios) which is a division of Zenimax...just like Bethesda Game Studios. So yeah, even if you leave out the fact that that MMO is based directly on lore from the TES franchise, BGS does have something to do with ZOS.

Touching briefly on my question to chickenkungfu, Square-Enix is currently looking at a first quarter losses of over $130 million. This is pretty much a direct result of SE funneling almost all of their revenue stream into the black hole of fail that is Final Fantasy 14. Monetary assets, subscription fees from their other online games(notably FF11), manpower from other divisions, etc; the whole 'kit and kabootle'. And sadly FF14 tanked hard in a genre that is not expanding any longer.

Ongoing massive restructuring of the SE as a whole is the result-from the top to the bottom. CEO "stepped down", downsizing of all of their offices worldwide, development of new projects is on hold and many in development stage projects are being re-evaluated. Not good times for them atm.

So yeah, ZOS is a different division, but you can bet if Zenimax is pooling resources to pour into ESO, that game is going to need to do VERY well. Because MMOs are not the cash cow they used to be. They have always been a gamble, but its even more of one now since the genre is on the way out.

@2- If Skyrim was opened up to 64bit, any kind of DLC limitation would disappear. But that would never happen because the 360 wouldn't be able to take advantage of it. IMO anyways.

Nope.

No more DLC for Skyrim. Onward and upward to the next great Bethesda game!

I hope they're not betting on every fan of ES to buy the mmo. I don't do pc gaming, and I don't do subscription fees, so unless it's also on consoles without a subscription fee I won't be playing it.

Sad but true.
They had so much more to expand with skyrim, lots of questions and lots of end game / end faction things that needed a bit more.

The fact that theres no more dlcs coming leaves a bad taste in my mouth but that could just be the mead.....