lofgren Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 I would think that those of us who hang out in forums like this are probably more likely to have the DLCs than the general population of users. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deRusett Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Polling has concluded - as promised, here are the results gathered from all 6 sites: For the unified file: 263 (75.6%)Against the unified file: 85 (24.4%) At this time, we do not feel it would be appropriate to cut off 25% of the user base from being able to use the patches. With that said, support *IS* high enough that we will be planning to move forward on this within the next year. There's every reason to believe that with current rates of reporting that all 3 DLCs will have few if any significant bug fixes to come in between now and then and a unified version will make much more sense at that time than it apparently does now. Keep in mind, the poll numbers were slightly misleading. Posts in the thread indicate a much stronger underlying trend against unification right now. Maybe after the fall and winter Steam sales things will change. For now we'll continue as we have been. People are far more likely to be vocal in defense, vs vocal in offense. Any project manager will tell you that people will be very vocal in protecting their interests while they wont be very vocal in improving their interests. In this case those who did NOT want to be required to have all DLC's active at all times were vocal in protecting their interests. If you looked at the number of people who commented against the merge against the number of votes against it should be 25-35% of the voters against actually made a comment, but the voters for should be around 3-5% if it fits with the usual model. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DemongelRex Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Polling has concluded - as promised, here are the results gathered from all 6 sites:For the unified file: 263 (75.6%)Against the unified file: 85 (24.4%)At this time, we do not feel it would be appropriate to cut off 25% of the user base from being able to use the patches.With that said, support *IS* high enough that we will be planning to move forward on this within the next year. There's every reason to believe that with current rates of reporting that all 3 DLCs will have few if any significant bug fixes to come in between now and then and a unified version will make much more sense at that time than it apparently does now.Keep in mind, the poll numbers were slightly misleading. Posts in the thread indicate a much stronger underlying trend against unification right now. Maybe after the fall and winter Steam sales things will change. For now we'll continue as we have been. People are far more likely to be vocal in defense, vs vocal in offense. Any project manager will tell you that people will be very vocal in protecting their interests while they wont be very vocal in improving their interests. In this case those who did NOT want to be required to have all DLC's active at all times were vocal in protecting their interests. If you looked at the number of people who commented against the merge against the number of votes against it should be 25-35% of the voters against actually made a comment, but the voters for should be around 3-5% if it fits with the usual model.I would have to agree with this statement. People voting against the unification of the patched seemed to have openly defended their opinion, whereas voter for the unification of the patches seemed to just agree with the points you made in the original post. The way I see it, there is little justification in refusing to buy the DLC, considering the game has been out for almost 3 years now. Sure, many will argue that the game is still too expensive, however Skyrim is still one of the most popular games on Steam, as well as having access to a plethora of free content in the form of mods. This is the same reason why Call of Duty games and their DLC hardly go down in price; they are still popular and quite active. Quite frankly, if users have not bought the DLC yet, then they will most likely not bother to purchase it at all, considering they have gone on sale multiple times throughout the past 2 1/2 years. Some statistics show that gamers refuse to pay for a game until it drops around 60-80% in price. People say they won't buy the DLC because: "Why should I pay for content that should have been in the original game?" People will say they will not buy it because: "The developers do not even support the game anymore, so why should I?" Basically, people will say whatever saves them in the long run. It seems to me that the benefits outweigh the cons. I will not say "The majority want it so you should give it to them" because that solution makes no logical sense. Though I would give it some reconsideration. If people didn't want to buy it then why would they now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmstearn Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 My argument against the DLC wasn't based so much on price as it was on quality & disk clog. If the DLCs promised content that compared to the expansion of Shivering Isles to Oblivion,- no problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notmyhome Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 My argument against the DLC wasn't based so much on price as it was on quality & disk clog. If the DLCs promised content that compared to the expansion of Shivering Isles to Oblivion,- no problem. You would have to weight in the content in form of mods you get access to, too. Not many really good mods work without any DLCs anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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