Bethesda Confirms that Skyrim will have a day one patch and DLC later on.

[Qitz]

Shocking I know.

Bethesda representatives confirmed to Game Informer this afternoon that a patch update will be available upon Skyrim's release this Friday, November 11. The patch will be for all platforms.

Bethesda didn't comment on just what said patch would fix. Knowing their record with bugs you can assume it's the whole game.

In a recent interview with Wired.com, Bethesda director Todd Howard says that downloadable content for Skyrim is already in the works and plans to release ?substantial? pieces sometime after the game's launch. *cough*HORSE ARMOR*cough*

?We?re not going to be doing a lot of it," Howard told Wired. "Our high-level thinking is that there?ll be not as many [pieces of DLC], but they?ll be bigger and more substantial. The goal overall is not necessarily to put out more content, but to make the game better.?

?We?ll start hitting on everything after vacation,? he said when asked about a release window. ?We?ll take a break [after the game launches], see what consumers think of the game, then see which direction we want to go.?

Bethesda announced in August that the first two pieces of download content are coming to Xbox 360 first.
via game informer [http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2011/11/07/skyrim-getting-day-one-patch.aspx]

So for those of you who wanted to wait for a bit for Bethesda to get all the bugs worked out does this help push you towards an earlier purchase?

 

[QPCloudy]

I'm picking it up Thursday night anyhow. And bigger, better, albeit few DLC is just fince. Give me more Shivering Isles and NoN vs. some silly mage tower any day. Expand my game, don't just put new buildings in it.

 

[SyphonX]

Kinda tired of the platform exclusive DLC nonsense. How many people go out and -buy- a specific console to get the week-early DLC, I mean really. Isn't that the point of the exclusives deals, to goad people into buying a specific platform? I can't imagine it's anything substantial, considering the size of the stipend on the contract....

 

[Gromril]

Day one patch isn't a problem, nice to know they have bug fixes as a priority, and dlc was already a given.

 

[Freaky Lou]

I guess I'd probably better get my PS3 hooked up to the WiFi then, 'cause I really do not want to crash on my first play session.

 

[DasDestroyer]

Well, by the looks of things I am only going to be able to play Skyrim on the 12th because Steam is showing no signs of a pre-load being available anyway, so an extra bit being downloaded on the night from friday to saturday won't change much.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Day one patches are normal now.

As soon a game goes gold, the devs don't really have anything to do but work on bugs (or DLC).

 

[Blunderboy]

No problems here. I'm sure there are bugs they've discovered since they've sent off the final code, and it's good to know they're fixing it.

 

[busterkeatonrules]

You know I read your title as Skyrim was going to have a day one dlc.

So did I. OP, you might want to remove the DLC bit from the headline. Skyrim getting DLC at all isn't really that big a surprise, but the mention of day 1 DLC got me a little worried that Bethesda might be treating Skyrim DLC as nothing more than a cheapo cash-in!

EDIT: That cleared it up. Thank you!

 

[AzrealMaximillion]

Well, by the looks of things I am only going to be able to play Skyrim on the 12th because Steam is showing no signs of a pre-load being available anyway, so an extra bit being downloaded on the night from friday to saturday won't change much.

Have no fear. Peter Hines' Twitter confirms a pre-load may be available as soon as tonight.
http://twitter.com/#!/DCDeacon/status/133732313329700865

I was worried too. I was going to console myself by playing TF2 with my dragonborn helmet shouting what I think "Dragon Shouts" would sound like into my mic.

 

[jthwilliams]

Kinda tired of the platform exclusive DLC nonsense. How many people go out and -buy- a specific console to get the week-early DLC, I mean really. Isn't that the point of the exclusives deals, to goad people into buying a specific platform? I can't imagine it's anything substantial, considering the size of the stipend on the contract....

unfortunately, it isn't about the people who buy the console for the DLC. Its about the people who are about to buy a console (and there are always thousands of consoles being sold daily) anyway and want game X so they by console Z.

Also don't be fooled people do buy consoles for a game. When GTA4 came out the sales of both the XBOX and the PS3 skyrocket for a few weeks. Companies do track how often their consoles are sold with a particular game.

So with a game as popular as Skyrim or rather a series as popular as TES, there is little doubt people will buy consoles and will buy new or upgrade computers to play it.

Heck, I shelled out $300 for a new video card when Deux Ex came and justified it because I knew I was going to buy Skyrim for the PC and would need a new card anyhow.

 

[EHKOS]

Well, I'm glad I picked up that 8 gig flash drive. Stupid arcade no hard drive BS. Won't let me hold all the horse armor DLC I want.

 

[chronicfc]

I already could have guessed that there would be day one patches, like with basically all games, and I knew that there would be DLC, both through intuition and reading some interview with Todd Howard

 

[DasDestroyer]

Well, by the looks of things I am only going to be able to play Skyrim on the 12th because Steam is showing no signs of a pre-load being available anyway, so an extra bit being downloaded on the night from friday to saturday won't change much.

Have no fear. Peter Hines' Twitter confirms a pre-load may be available as soon as tonight.
http://twitter.com/#!/DCDeacon/status/133732313329700865

I was worried too. I was going to console myself by playing TF2 with my dragonborn helmet shouting what I think "Dragon Shouts" would sound like into my mic.

Oh, thanks for pointing that out.
IN THAT CASE I AM OUTRAGED THAT I WILL HAVE TO SPEND MY PRECIOUS SKYRIMMING TIME ON DOWNLOADING SILLY PATCHES! D:<

 

[ZeroMachine]

Well, by the looks of things I am only going to be able to play Skyrim on the 12th because Steam is showing no signs of a pre-load being available anyway, so an extra bit being downloaded on the night from friday to saturday won't change much.

Have no fear. Peter Hines' Twitter confirms a pre-load may be available as soon as tonight.
http://twitter.com/#!/DCDeacon/status/133732313329700865

I was worried too. I was going to console myself by playing TF2 with my dragonborn helmet shouting what I think "Dragon Shouts" would sound like into my mic.

I'm now imagining the Heavy singing the Skyrim theme.

"I am credit to Dovahkiin!"

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

Well, by the looks of things I am only going to be able to play Skyrim on the 12th because Steam is showing no signs of a pre-load being available anyway, so an extra bit being downloaded on the night from friday to saturday won't change much.

Have no fear. Peter Hines' Twitter confirms a pre-load may be available as soon as tonight.
http://twitter.com/#!/DCDeacon/status/133732313329700865

I was worried too. I was going to console myself by playing TF2 with my dragonborn helmet shouting what I think "Dragon Shouts" would sound like into my mic.

I'm now imagining the Heavy singing the Skyrim theme.

"I am credit to Dovahkiin!"

Ok, we now need a TF2 mod for Skyrim where you can face a dragon as the Heavy. Sucks about the patch. I can't get online to download patches. Time to lug my system to a friend's house.

 

[Sonicron]

So for those of you who wanted to wait for a bit for Bethesda to get all the bugs worked out does this help push you towards an earlier purchase?

It might, actually. It's been years since I last played a good fantasy game, and I'm in the rare mood for another one; I'll still wait for in-depth user reviews and reports about the level of general buggyness, but if the game gets a pass on both counts, yeah, I think I might get it sooner than I thought.