Bethesda 'Working on Lots of DLC'

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Salvation is here, halleluyah, Bethesda is working on more DLC, Shacknews reports (apparently this was in an earlier conference bit, but we, like they, missed its news impact).<blockquote>"I can say we're working on lots of DLC," he said. "Lots of stuff brewing up here. God only knows where that may go. What famous landmarks can we destroy next?"

Bethesda has currently released two pieces of Fallout 3 DLC on Xbox 360 and PC. Each download is priced at $10 and each adds new quests, items and weapons. A third, "Broken Steel," arrives next month and picks up where the main game ended. </blockquote>A DLC that implements the original Liberty Prime ending sequence? A hi-res texture pack for just 2 dollars? Dogmeat armor? The possibilities are endless!
 
Hopefully they wont do any "zero effort" downloadable content like they did with oblivion (horse armor, hence the dog armor gag), or else they will simply find themselves undercut by the mod community. "For a dollar you can add a new weapon". "Ok... the mod community offers 100 weapons and armors for free in one download".

If they do new places that would be cool. I would still love to see some oblivion horse models with mangy and fleshy textures that allow you to shoot from horseback in a texas setting, no matter how against cannon that might be.
 
What continues to amaze me, lugaru, is that Bethesda put on big-boy pants and shows the flagrant disrespect of consumers that we're used to from EA and Nintendo, but the flack they get from it is relatively mild

Yeah, they got a lot of shit over horse armor, and justifiably so, but they never pulled it, to this day they're selling it and - according to Todd - it still sells on a daily basis. EA could never get away with that (well, they could, because they don't care what you think), but for Bethesda it's a forgotten issue. They fuck up a DLC launch monumentally and it apparently still crashes on the Xbox 360 now? That's inexcusable, yet the roar of fans thinking up excuses drowns any criticism.

I dunno. Bethesda seems to get the leeway of a charming, independent company, despite the fact that it doesn't act like one. I wonder how long that can hold up anyway.

The Dutch Ghost said:
Most likely they wrote it wrong and just meant The Pitt and Broken Steel and not another new DLC.
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No. His quote is clearly referring to new ideas, not the Pitt or Broken Steel which've already been announced and described.

My guess: they're aiming at smaller DLCs so it doesn't fall under the exclusivity deal with Microsoft. Small, easily-made, sold for a few bucks as pure profit-pumps.
 
If they can go non Microsoft I'll be real happy. I know they needed to for the 360 but I rather pay real money for things I choose to spend money on instead of using Microsoft points that never quite add up and you always have some left over.

About the shitty releases, well yeah. I remember being annoyed but then again it was so self explanatory that it was hard to get burned... "I bought this horse armor mod and all it included was horse armor!". Personally I avoided all the DLC that time around but the stuff they are doing now is a bit more interesting to me, you know, as the token fallout 3 fan on the forum. But like I said, if they release a 3 pack of "cool shades" or even a dozen new weapons, well, I'm just interested in more landscapes and adventures, not uber weapons and slick outfits. That is what the community is there for. Still there is a market for shitty things... you would be amazed what people pay real dollars for in MMORPG's, in asian free to download games and in stuff like The Sims. I actually respect that model in free games (knowing that the guy in a cool trench coat is paying for me to play this for free) but WOW charging for the game, then a subscription and then for any account maintenance seems absurd. Then again there are people who would say I don’t get it and that they plop the money down happily.

So as long as they do the stuff that mod makers cant (big new quests, new environments, new core changes and fixes) I’ll be happy but when they ask a buck for a new follower or something I’ll just ignore it the same way I ignore spam emails. As you guy’s might have noticed I tend to be dispassionate about game related things, if It is not for me then I just dont care.
 
Bethesda 'Working on Lots of DLC'
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:aiee:

'Now that Fallout is ours, we intend to suck the life out of it until it's but a dessicated bone'

Could there be at least one good roleplay DLC among them ? Probably not...
 
Brother None said:
No. His quote is clearly referring to new ideas, not the Pitt or Broken Steel which've already been announced and described.

My guess: they're aiming at smaller DLCs so it doesn't fall under the exclusivity deal with Microsoft. Small, easily-made, sold for a few bucks as pure profit-pumps.
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Ah yeez, do they really have to beat this cashcow dead for all the remaining squirts of milk?

Hell even the 'big' DLCs are pretty cheap.
Five or six hours? You're lucky if you manage to get two and a half out of it.

And what it is is pretty much the same what they filled the main game with; mostly running and shooting with occasionally a character you can talk to that gives you the illusion that there is actually some choice or decision making in all of this.

Skills such as science or repair or medicine are wasted, yes you can hack some computer turrets or have some science speech skill but that is pretty much the extend of it.

And so far people are gobbling it up as if it is cake.

Know what my idea for a good DLC is?
Most of you probably don't care but I will tell you anyway.

Next to full new regions that consist of more than just a couple of streets and dungeons, would have dozens of NPCs you can interact with, both in the new and in the old regions, perhaps even tying into each other.

New quests given by old and new NPCs that have multiple approaches (Charisma Boy, Action Boy, Science Boy, Stealth Boy) with more than one outcome that isn't basically the same decision but with a slight change.

And seeing how much of the actually structures boarded off, that each DLC opens more and more of these buildings in the main game and previous DLCs so that the player can discover new things in places where he/she has previously been

Heck, make those small downloads free, they are honestly not that much of an effort.
Just compile them later in some big download.
 
Brother None said:
They fuck up a DLC launch monumentally and it apparently still crashes on the Xbox 360 now?
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Actually all versions of the game still have a built-in game ending bug called the A-bomb. For some reason after a lot of hours the animations stop working and you can forget playing further. The community solved it, but no word from Beth.
 
Oh yes, forget patching or product support, lets just make more crappy, short and overpriced DLCs .
Bethesda again shows how professional they are. Any real game company would first start fixing the issues in the product, instead of ignoring the products faults and making buyable DLC for quick buck.
It simply is bad business practice, if you release low quality products with bugs, the mouth-to-mouth-word will have an effect on the future sales. Atleast patch it, otherwise you will seem like unprofessional idiots or mean bastards.
But, bethesda as always
 
Mad Mantis said:
Actually all versions of the game still have a built-in game ending bug called the A-bomb. For some reason after a lot of hours the animations stop working and you can forget playing further. The community solved it, but no word from Beth.
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... if there is a game ending bug and a fix it would be nice if you linked to it :)
 
Brother None said:
My guess: they're aiming at smaller DLCs so it doesn't fall under the exclusivity deal with Microsoft. Small, easily-made, sold for a few bucks as pure profit-pumps.
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That would fit with the earlier report from some PS3 magazine that the PS3 was going to get DLC.

lugaru said:
If they can go non Microsoft I'll be real happy. I know they needed to for the 360 but I rather pay real money for things I choose to spend money on instead of using Microsoft points that never quite add up and you always have some left over.
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They didn't sign an exclusivity deal with Microsoft because they needed to, they signed it because Microsoft offered them enough money to be worth their while to screw Sony.

Patton89 said:
It simply is bad business practice, if you release low quality products with bugs, the mouth-to-mouth-word will have an effect on the future sales. Atleast patch it, otherwise you will seem like unprofessional idiots or mean bastards.
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That was part of BN's point, there isn't the type of word-of-mouth about how poor of products Bethesda's releasing that companies like EA get, their fan base fervently defends them while "game journalists" stay silent.

oihrebwe said:
... if there is a game ending bug and a fix it would be nice if you linked to it :)
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There is a thread dedicated to it on the BGSF tech support forum but you're out of luck if you have a 360, I like to periodically check what's being said about problems and such there ;).
 
Valve- here guys, here are some new weapons, maps and other shit for TF2 and SDK for L4D. For free. Enjoy.
Bethesda- $_$ ka-ching, makin' Sims!
 
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As The Truth Spins Strange



lugaru said:
... hence the dog armor gag ...
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No 'gag', just fact!

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Samurai dog armor
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Pretty pet protection
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The leather look
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Tinned pit bull


It is only strange that B-soft hasn't spun this straw into capital and conducted the liquidity to their mighty-mighty-mighty accelerated profit dynamo!

As the truth spins strange ...

B-soft ... America, the planet, the solar system, waits bewildered in the post-over-leveraged economic wastes. :shock: :question: :confused:




4too
 
^^^^^^

Oh gods, well it was to be expected.

What next, a gun on the dog's back so that it can also shoot at people.

Forget that idea, modders, don't even try it.
 
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