I can agree with that much. Werewolves and Werebears were said to 'plague' Skyrim though. They don't. There should have been a DLC that added werebears and werewolves before vampires. And before vampires there should have been a DLC that added Volkihar vampires as we knew them. They seemed much more interesting in Immortal Blood(the BATW perspective applies here imo, Batty vampires never really seemed like TES vampires to me, they are not derived from a bat. Their origin is a divine disease/blessing from Molag Bal. Oblivion(Cyrodiil) would have been the game to have all the lycanthropes though. That could have been it's focus too lol.

Yes and no. I mean, yeah, we got an expansion focusing on vampires, but not really in a way a lot of us who were vocal about our displeasure with the vampires in Skyrim wanted.

Personally, I wanted Volkihar that could do all the stuff I read about in Immortal Blood. I wanted the Order to be inching its way into Skyrim. I wanted the new Vampire Lords to be a different strain altogether, threatening both strains.

Instead, I got a complete mess in regards to vampire mechanics that try as I might does not make any sense at all.

To answer the OP, I don't want the Vampires and Lycanthropes to be the focus of new TES games, but I do want them to have more to offer as characters than featuring in one questline or being found in the odd dungeon here or there. They should be more properly integrated with the world. They should feel dynamic, diverse, and alive. They should offer new gameplay options, because of both the bonuses and penalties that come from being one.

In short, I don't want them to be treated as just different monsters for you to fight, but as different races and characters with their own cultures, systems, and social structure.

Imagine a game that allows you to traverse and explore this world, until one day you are infected with one of these multiple diseases and you turn. Suddenly, the world is completely different, and you discover there are numerous societies that were completely invisible to you when you were "normal."

If you want to know more about my thoughts on this, I suggest clicking the link in my signature.

Would I buy it? Yes. Would I buy it because it was more heavily focused on vampires and werewolves? No.

One does not preclude the other. Hircine's werebeasts are derived from animals, so why can't Molag Bal's vampires be derived from winged rodents? There have been references before about vampires having some link with bats (see the Diary of Springheel Jak from Oblivion).

This bit? Damn, here I was hoping they would try a different take on it like it seemed they were. I must have glossed over that in Oblivion. Even then it seems like a failry harmless reference, well until Dawnguard. Vampires and Bats and especially http://tiffanyvalentine.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/bram-stokers-dracula-9.jpg interpretations of Vampires are really overdone at this point. They are essentially werebats at that point. http://media.pcgamer.com/files/2012/06/Dawnguard-vampire-incinerate.jpg just seem like a cheap knockoff of other artsyles. Like the Underworld vampire guy mixed with Bram Stokers version. Maybe that is what I do not like abouit them. They feel uninspired.