Dawnguard, the first downloadable content released for Skyrim, has not been cancelled on the PS3, according to a Tweet by Bethesda’s PR and Marketing Officer Pete Hines.
Gamers who own the fantasy epic on the PlayStation console have become rather despondent in recent months after the DLC was thought to be arriving on the Sony console after a 30 day period of exclusivity on the Xbox 360 back in June, only for it to be delayed time and time again due to unstated issues. In August, Bethesda themselves warned that the content may never arrive on the PS3.
However, according to a recent Tweet by Hines, (below) Bethesda haven’t quite abandoned hopes of releasing the content onto the Sony platform.
In the Tweet, he stressed that the process involved in overcoming the issue preventing the contents launch “Isn’t a quick one” but that the content has not been cancelled on the PS3.
The news will come as a welcome relief to Sony fans after they had to first sit by and watch the content launch exclusively onto rival platform Xbox 360, only to then be left in the lurch yet again when the second downloadable content for Skyrim – Hearthfire – was again released exclusively onto the 360.
Dawnguard centres around the player choosing whether to become a vampire lord or join a faction known as “The Dawnguard” in order to stop them, whilst Hearthfire allows players to make their own homes out of raw materials and adopt a child.
PS3 owners have well and truly been left behind in terms of DLC of late, but at least there is now fresh hope of seeing both of these DLC content eventually making their way over to the PlayStation Network.
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Oh Bethesda, is there a company worse at making games than you?
really ryan? Bethesda woarse at making games than anyone else? wow Skyrim was out a total of 2 months and won 7 game of the year awards. if that is a bad game then i dont know what you are playing but it is obviously crap like halo reach which couldnt even get honmorable mention at the spike VGA’s.
Really, at least reach was playable. It may not of had the best story, but at least every time the game went to save, it didn’t crash.
I’ve never had a crashing problem with Skyrim on the PS3…. My dragons have occasionally flown backwards into mountains, but they’ve never crashed entirely.
I have skyrim on the ps3 and it has only crashed twice since I got it on the day of release.
The problem with the dlc is that when they try to run the game with the dlc the game either crashes or the content doesn’t show up in game. The actual cause is either unknown or the way to fix it is unknown.
My opinion is either:
A. They are just making us wait as long as possible so that more people buy it when it is released.
Or
B. There is an error in the coding of the game, most possibly in the code used to launch the dlc and they don’t know how to fix it yet.
Hopefully the first one because then the dlc will be released soon for ps3.
the lack of information from bathesda is a joke if the exclusion period was only 30days then bathesda are now in breach of contract and obligated to release dawnguard in my opinion theres nothing to fix there just produceing game of the yr edition to release for xmass and ps3 owners gen screw themself as always in bathesdas eyes they did exsact same thing with oblivion so those of us ps3 owners that already have skyrim will missout untill then
Yes, force them to release a DLC that is not stable and may just corrupt all your saves so you can just bitch everywhere about how Bethsoft released a broken DLC that cost your 1000000 hour save file.
I don’t mind waiting, but this just feels like I’m being punished or something for not having an X-box, I want a Skyrim DLC, GIVE MEH ONE.
After 150 hours of gameplay, I would have welcomed some DLC to keep going in Skyrim, but this has just taken too long, to the effect that I probably won’t go back to the game for a very long time, even if the DLC is released.