More Details on Dawnguard's PC, PS3 Release Soon

Just in case no one has mentioned it yet you can sort of buy Dawnguard on steam like... right now.

@DJJoeJoe said:

@McShank said:

what i believe it is stating is that people who own on pc will not go and buy for 360 or if they own both they wouldnt buy it for 360 over pc due to lower graphics and no mods as thats a waste. Otherwise if you have a 360 and the game why wouldnt u get it if you didnt have the pc option. But besides that i will own both ps3 and pc darksouls dlc as soon as it launches as i will play both simultaneously.

I own both and play both, they have different use cases. Minecraft for 360 was the biggest hit at a LAN I went to recently, mostly because of it's easy of jumping in with the splitscreen. Have you ever played Minecraft on a 50+ inch tv? How about 3 of those tvs, with beer and about 10-11 friends all having a good time? You don't come close to that sort of experience with the game on PC, at most you get a few pals over the internet talking through vent.

I very much wish it was easy to transfer content from both versions though, for obvious reasons. I have done the most interesting things building wise on the PC because I do it solo, I like building wood houses in mountains. http://djjoejoe.tumblr.com/tagged/Minecraft

My A+ cert class from when I was in highschool hosts lan parties a few times a months and minecraft is usually the choice of game so I have played with 10+ people all drinking and enjoying building and destroying and punching pigs galore.. + no mods to make the game look better sucks due to already putting hundreds of hours into that damn game.

I recently came back to Skyrim, and it felt like "coming home". I will most likely look close at this DLC when it's available. :)

@Galiant: It sucks but that's how things work, sometimes games are made for all platforms and sometimes they are not. Sometimes they are on some for a while, then on others later. There are plenty of platform exclusives to go around here and there, Microsoft has really had it's foot in the timed exclusive DLC arena for... since the 360 I guess.

Waiting for Dawnguard to arrive on my PC has allowed me a few hours of replaying Skyrim again, checking out some of the newer mods (not as many new ones as I'd hoped, but I've never thought highly of the bethesda game mod scene anyways... leave my bodies dirty and my women clothed and unable to preform fellatio on my player character thanks.) Great part about Skyrim so far for me is that eventhough I'd put a good 100+ hours into the game on release almost all the 20 or so recent hours I've been playing have been mostly new content and areas, it's suprising the scope of content that I was happily unaware of eventhough I pretty much trekked the entire landmass of Skyrim many times. Waiting for DLC sucks, especially when it's something you're really looking forward to but you shouldn't be sad because it's very very apparent the DLC will in fact exist elsewhere soon enough, ideally slightly polished from a patch or two before it comes as well (which already seems the case with the recent patch I got from steam).

Anyhoo, I poked in to see if there was news of Dawnguard, I see there really isn't much so I will leave you guys to it :)

@project343 said:

@TrafalgarLaw said:

How is that HIS poor decision? Devs are at fault here, as they are asking $60 for a sloppy port on the PS3, they should at least release a version that's on par with 360 version. That's not the buyer's fault for "sticking with a sloppy port".

They are both at fault. It's his fault for supporting a shitty port by making the purchase and not looking into the launch reviews/reports to see how that particular version of the game was performing. It's obviously also their fault for not putting out the same quality of product on all available platforms. Hopefully all this negative buzz will entice Bethesda to put a solid team behind their next PS3 release.

Oh for the love of all that is good in the world...

I can't believe I'm going to bother wasting my time explaining this to you: I did not have a very capable PC at the time. Bethesda games I spend a long time playing, preferable during long sessions of play. Therefore I enjoy playing them from my couch. The PS3 is the only console I own, so that's what I purchased my Bethesda games for. Since then I've actually gotten a job, a decent PC, connected that PC to my TV, and I've acquired both a bluetooth keyboard and the means to eventually connect my Dualshock 3 to my PC wirelessly as well. My future Bethesda purchases are going to be on the PC because I am interested in the mod community.

I do not regret my decision and I do not consider it a poor decision because I got to enjoy hundreds of hours of Fallout 3 (and all the DLC), New Vegas (and all the DLC) and Skyrim. My only issue was having to wait for the DLC, which was a major bummer.

Now let me rephrase my original statement:

Timed exclusives are the issue here, my choice of platform has nothing to do with that.

It's not fair that I should have to wait for content because of my platform of choice, regardless of how you feel about that version.

Meh. The shine has worn off the DLC for me since it's been out yet I can't play. Exclusives may help developers, but they're a slap in the face to fans. I'd venture a guess that Bethesda didn't even need Microsoft's money for the exclusive since the game did so well.

@TrafalgarLaw said:

How is that HIS poor decision? Devs are at fault here, as they are asking $60 for a sloppy port on the PS3, they should at least release a version that's on par with 360 version. That's not the buyer's fault for "sticking with a sloppy port".

They are both at fault. It's his fault for supporting a shitty port by making the purchase and not looking into the launch reviews/reports to see how that particular version of the game was performing. It's obviously also their fault for not putting out the same quality of product on all available platforms. Hopefully all this negative buzz will entice Bethesda to put a solid team behind their next PS3 release.

@project343 said:

@TrafalgarLaw said:

Owning a 360 in the first place is a poor decision, don't try to lure others into that PR crap micro$oft and we-didn't-bugthesda are trying to sucker people into.

I'm not sure if you're serious, but if you are, the IGN and Gamespot forums are likely better places for your kind of forum-goer. I own every console and a pretty solid PC--I wholeheartedly support every manufacturer (aside from maybe Nintendo's non-handheld efforts in the over the past 6 years). Bethesda games are almost always broken on PS3. With the lack of mod support coupled with how their games breed thriving mod communities, I'd even call the Xbox 360 version of their games inferior to the PC version.

Now please grow up. Thank you.

@Galiant said:

Timed exclusives are at fault here. My choice of platform does not concern you.

Zero problems with your platform of choice. Farking love my PS3. Just saying that committing to Bethesda's sloppy PS3 versions of their games is a bit of a poor decision.

How is that HIS poor decision? Devs are at fault here, as they are asking $60 for a sloppy port on the PS3, they should at least release a version that's on par with 360 version. That's not the buyer's fault for "sticking with a sloppy port".

@TrafalgarLaw said:

Owning a 360 in the first place is a poor decision, don't try to lure others into that PR crap micro$oft and we-didn't-bugthesda are trying to sucker people into.

I'm not sure if you're serious, but if you are, the IGN and Gamespot forums are likely better places for your kind of forum-goer. I own every console and a pretty solid PC--I wholeheartedly support every manufacturer (aside from maybe Nintendo's non-handheld efforts in the over the past 6 years). Bethesda games are almost always broken on PS3. With the lack of mod support coupled with how their games breed thriving mod communities, I'd even call the Xbox 360 version of their games inferior to the PC version.

Now please grow up. Thank you.

@Galiant said:

Timed exclusives are at fault here. My choice of platform does not concern you.

Zero problems with your platform of choice. Farking love my PS3. Just saying that committing to Bethesda's sloppy PS3 versions of their games is a bit of a poor decision.

@McShank said:

what i believe it is stating is that people who own on pc will not go and buy for 360 or if they own both they wouldnt buy it for 360 over pc due to lower graphics and no mods as thats a waste. Otherwise if you have a 360 and the game why wouldnt u get it if you didnt have the pc option. But besides that i will own both ps3 and pc darksouls dlc as soon as it launches as i will play both simultaneously.

I own both and play both, they have different use cases. Minecraft for 360 was the biggest hit at a LAN I went to recently, mostly because of it's easy of jumping in with the splitscreen. Have you ever played Minecraft on a 50+ inch tv? How about 3 of those tvs, with beer and about 10-11 friends all having a good time? You don't come close to that sort of experience with the game on PC, at most you get a few pals over the internet talking through vent.

I very much wish it was easy to transfer content from both versions though, for obvious reasons. I have done the most interesting things building wise on the PC because I do it solo, I like building wood houses in mountains. http://djjoejoe.tumblr.com/tagged/Minecraft

@DJJoeJoe said:

@TrafalgarLaw said:

@Sooty said:

@Cupids_Hitman said:

@Sooty: And is sold on Steam, where Microsoft gets no cut.

I know Microsoft get no cut but it's still disgusting to do, I highly doubt anyone is playing Skyrim on 360 at a lower res, with no mods and worse FPS just so they can play the DLC. It's not gonna sway people to play on 360 over PC.

You underestimate bro gamers and the compelling power of the bro gamer console.

Lots of people have been playing it already on the 360, and they aren't all 'bros'... I don't own the 360 version but if I did I'd also be playing it. Instead I've been playing the base game on my PC for a bit again.

what i believe it is stating is that people who own on pc will not go and buy for 360 or if they own both they wouldnt buy it for 360 over pc due to lower graphics and no mods as thats a waste. Otherwise if you have a 360 and the game why wouldnt u get it if you didnt have the pc option. But besides that i will own both ps3 and pc darksouls dlc as soon as it launches as i will play both simultaneously.

@Galiant said:

I'm so sick of waiting for DLC, since I play most of my Bethesda games on PS3 =/

Why would you do that? A series of poor decisions made right there.

@project343 said:

@Galiant said:

I'm so sick of waiting for DLC, since I play most of my Bethesda games on PS3 =/

Why would you do that? A series of poor decisions made right there.

Owning a 360 in the first place is a poor decision, don't try to lure others into that PR crap micro$oft and we-didn't-bugthesda are trying to sucker people into.

@Galiant said:

I'm so sick of waiting for DLC, since I play most of my Bethesda games on PS3 =/

Why would you do that? A series of poor decisions made right there.

I bet this isn't released until October. Halloween tie-in.

If Bethesda is using this time to get Dawnguard to run as smoothly as possible on PC/PS3, I'm more okay with the wait. Not totally okay, but more okay.

@TrafalgarLaw said:

Thanks xbox chumps for beta testing Dawnguard for us.

I wasn't gonna say anything, but I was thinking the same :P

@HadesTimes: Maybe the PS3 version, but for PC, probably waiting to do it at QuakeCon.

Dawnguard? More like YAWNguard! Mediocre and meh, you PS/PC guys weren't missing much.

So  the news is that there will be news.
That's great.

So much butthurt. My only beef is that Skyrim sucks so I'd rather exclusively get something good for 30 days, like that year where we had the GTA4 DLC haha

Please give us more 30-day exclusivity for DLC. It's my favorite thing in the world next to launch day DLC.

The amount of hate towards console players is astounding.

I never complain that I can't play PC exclusives on my console - thats the way it is. Microsoft paid them a bunch of money to get content first; if it wasn't Microsoft someone else would be doing it.

Really get over it. If Bethesda cared so much about their player base then both version would be done before they rolled out the 360 exclusivity so that the second that time period is up they would release the PC and PS3 versions for the fans. They had an extra month to get ready and release it for the remaining platforms. Hate on Bethesda for not delivering on time not for Microsoft for securing early content for their playerbase.

Because of the Xbox exclusivity and the wait, and the fact that it's now after the steam summer sale, I have no intention of buying Dawnguard at full price anymore. If they go 25% off during this winter sale I might get it. Might. There's just so much other stuff to play at this point. Wonder if their exclusivity deal was a mistake. Guess we'll have to wait and see.

So weird that this isn't in the pipe and ready to go day one, you would think they would be hot on getting some more sales.

microsoft and their whole exclusivity deal just suck major balls

@TrafalgarLaw said:

@Sooty said:

@Cupids_Hitman said:

@Sooty: And is sold on Steam, where Microsoft gets no cut.

I know Microsoft get no cut but it's still disgusting to do, I highly doubt anyone is playing Skyrim on 360 at a lower res, with no mods and worse FPS just so they can play the DLC. It's not gonna sway people to play on 360 over PC.

You underestimate bro gamers and the compelling power of the bro gamer console.

Lots of people have been playing it already on the 360, and they aren't all 'bros'... I don't own the 360 version but if I did I'd also be playing it. Instead I've been playing the base game on my PC for a bit again.

Any word on whether the dlc will crash all the time on ps3, like the main game? Because that is still the bigger issue for me.

Wait...it's already been a month since Dawnguard released on the 360? That...that can't be right, can it? *checks* Well, I'll be damned...

I've been busy working on my Steam backlog (in the few weeks, Psychonauts, Batman AA and now working on Warhammer 40K Space Marine) anyway, so just get it out whenever, Bethesda. I probably won't get it until the Winter sale anyway.

I'd be more annoyed if I didn't have a huge backlog of games to play zomg right now.

Thank goodness, I can't play Skyrim anymore without worrying about my Dong getting injured. It'll be nice to have the Donguard.

I'll just wait till the PC DLC is on the Steam Sale. Such bad treatment of consumers, definitely does not deserve a full price purchase.

@HadesTimes said:

So I'm guessing the PC/PS3 version of this is SO BROKEN and they are trying desperately to make it ready for primetime. But hey it could all be marketing spin, who knows... LOL

It's the other way around, it's so broken on the gimped hardware dating from 2006 that it can't be ported over directly. They need to redo a lot of stuff like it was supposed to. Hence the xbox kiddies are doing a great job at beta testing for when the actual Dawnguard releases.

@SomeJerk said:

This is one of the few game-related things that your Live subscription money goes towards.

So completely true, and one of the reasons I stopped my gold sub.

I saw a lot of conjection on RPS that the PC version is entailing additional development time because they have to redo assests higher resolution. Which seems like not the way this stuff is made, and still would not explain the PS3 delay. Bethesda surely made it for PC and down-resed it for 360? Unless part of the exclusivity deal with Microsoft was that they develop Dawnguard in an inefficient and backwards way?

So I'm guessing the PC/PS3 version of this is SO BROKEN and they are trying desperately to make it ready for primetime. But hey it could all be marketing spin, who knows... LOL

Why should anybody fear anything? Do you really think that Bethesda would just give every other player and their respective wallets on the Playstation and PC the finger for no reason?

This DLC will come, and apparently, there will be an announcement soon. Be patient.

There's plenty of awesome mod content to keep PC players busy until Dawnguard hits that platform. Lord knows I haven't exhausted the range of mods yet. Hell, a lot of things Dawnguard adds, like dragonbone weapons, are already available via mods. Speaking of: I think the mod versions of dragonbone weapons look a lot better than the Dawnguard versions.

hope they don't wait to long, the Fallout NV dlc took so long to release on pc I forgot it exsisted lol

This game came out on PC? Ah. I remember Jeff mentioning something about porn mods, how could that not be a PC thing?

@SmilingPig said:

So this is news to tell us that there is no news yet...

Welcome to Patrick newz storiez

If Bethesda is using this time to get Dawnguard to run as smoothly as possible on PC/PS3, I'm more okay with the wait. Not totally okay, but more okay.

@TrafalgarLaw said:

Thanks xbox chumps for beta testing Dawnguard for us.

I wasn't gonna say anything, but I was thinking the same :P

I've been using the sentence "Just let me buy your game." far too often lately.

@Theresonlyone said:

@Galiant You're crazy.

It's for all the usual reasons, haven't been able to afford a great PC and so on. Since then I've actually gotten a job and bought a pretty awesome PC, so in the future I'll probably play my Bethesda games on that PC rather than on my PS3 - even more so since I've hooked up my Dualshock 3 to my PC and connected my PC to my TV so I can still play from the couch.

Not to mention not having to wait so damn long because of timed exclusives.

I see the video game industry has learned from the Starcraft 2 scene with announcements of announcements.

@Sooty said:

@Cupids_Hitman said:

@Sooty: And is sold on Steam, where Microsoft gets no cut.

I know Microsoft get no cut but it's still disgusting to do, I highly doubt anyone is playing Skyrim on 360 at a lower res, with no mods and worse FPS just so they can play the DLC. It's not gonna sway people to play on 360 over PC.

Well, I have both versions and I really don't care which version I'm playing. Skyrim is awesome, either way.

@Sooty said:

@Cupids_Hitman said:

@Sooty: And is sold on Steam, where Microsoft gets no cut.

I know Microsoft get no cut but it's still disgusting to do, I highly doubt anyone is playing Skyrim on 360 at a lower res, with no mods and worse FPS just so they can play the DLC. It's not gonna sway people to play on 360 over PC.

You underestimate bro gamers and the compelling power of the bro gamer console.

@Cupids_Hitman said:

@Sooty: And is sold on Steam, where Microsoft gets no cut.

I know Microsoft get no cut but it's still disgusting to do, I highly doubt anyone is playing Skyrim on 360 at a lower res, with no mods and worse FPS just so they can play the DLC. It's not gonna sway people to play on 360 over PC.

@Sooty: And is sold on Steam, where Microsoft gets no cut.

@Sooty said:

it's pathetic that 360 exclusivity blocks PC from getting titles/DLC, Microsoft are fucking idiots, the game runs on Windows.

I agree.

I can't imagine the exclusivity making Bethesda too much more money either.

If I got the S rank in the game before it crashed on me with one achievement to go, I would be getting this, since that happened though I'll probably skip it unless it goes on sale.

@vatica40: Yeah, I was interested a month ago but now I don't feel like I care at all