It's been seven years since the team at Bethesda started working on The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, driven by the astounding success of Oblivion, and the team are finally hanging up their hats. We've speculated an awful lot on what they're doing next.
UPDATE: Gameinformer has had it confirmed that there will be no more Skyrim DLC.
The comments came in a post on Bethesda's blog . "Parts of our team have also been in pre-production on our next major project, and that game is at the point where it requires the studio's full attention to make it our biggest and best work yet." says the post.
It's not clear whether the last piece of DLC we saw will be the final piece but the team has certainly stopped working on the game, which makes it likely that we'll only see minor bug-fixing from now on. "Even though we're moving on, we'll still have minor updates to Skyrim as needed. We've invested so much of ourselves into Skyrim and will never truly say goodbye to it."
Skyrim was one of the highest-scoring games of all time, with an average of 95% at Gamerankings and 96% at Metacritic, and has had more people playing it at one time than any other single-player game - over 5 million playing at one point on PC alone.
33 comments so far...
Vegetunks9000 on 15 Apr '13 said:
This has actually upset me a bit. So many questions unanswered. Still no high king. But suppose they're going to work on Fallout 4 now. Just one more DLC should've came out.
Metalrodent on 15 Apr '13 said:
as someone who lost interest in Skryim a while back (failed the daedric artifacts achievement, so thought 'ah sod it') this news doesn't bother me. In fact it makes me happy for news of Fallout 4
marwood_03 on 15 Apr '13 said:
Unless they already have some DLC made and ready to release, sounds like no more DLC!
msbhvn on 15 Apr '13 said:
I've put many hours into Skyrim on both 360 and PC and I'm quite sad to hear that it's not being actively worked on anymore. But Fallout 4, if that's their next major project, is definitely something to look forward to.
Is another DLC confirmed or have they shelved it? With the amount of plot threads left hanging in Skyrim; the Thalmor, the Civil War, the future of the Empire, it just seems unfinished. If so, TES6 better start with those threads, minus Skyrim's Civil War of course, and tie them up.
PonderingWalrus on 15 Apr '13 said:
So that rumored next piece of dlc could very well be non-existent? Unless as some guy previously mentioned, it is finished and ready for release. Shame...
Still, this was going to have to happen some day.
Edit: Curse you msbhvn! Saying what I was going to say and more before me.
captainhetty on 15 Apr '13 said:
D'aww... Another DLC would have been nice. Still, if this means Fallout 4, I'll forgive them ^_^
glavias on 15 Apr '13 said:
So just to clear things up Dragonborn was the last DLC then!!!... or what was the last DLC you saw I'm confused.. plus the trademarked Redguard.. So what was Pete Hines talking about.
Grummy on 15 Apr '13 said:
I'm kinda OK with this. I love Skyrim but in the end it was more about what it could have done that what it actually did, as fun and epic as it was it was also disappointing. Skyrim was a huge world with plenty of locations and quests, but it was empty and dull to explore, there was nothing going on. You play a game like Far Cry 3 and you have people going about their lives, events unfolding, battles being fought, it feels alive and dynamic, RDR has this as well. Skyrim had all the potential, it could have done this and it just doesn't do anything at all. Take the different camps lying around, some Imperial, some Stormcloak and at some point in the story you choose one side or the other. If this was FC3 you'd have a whole sub section of the game where you attack and take over all these camps for your chosen side and this would affect the local area that camp controls, the patrols would change to your side, things like that. Skyrim does nothing like that and the world feels bland without it.
Also, incredibly, for such a large mountainous world, it feels very flat, like all you are doing is running across the surface. It's a bare bones RPG, the basis for something better, so bring on Fallout 4 and hope they have learned from this and built on what they have.
Branhelm on 15 Apr '13 said:
Does this mean we will finally get the GOTY edition (i have purposely not bought the DLC until they come out on disk because i really hate digital purchases.)
Sandbwoy on 15 Apr '13 said:
Spent a couple of hundred hours playing Skyrim, completed all the quests and got every achievement. But I never did buy any of the DLC to continue my adventure. Maybe I'll buy the game again when the GOTY edition is released. I'll look forward to that day.
Notblad on 16 Apr '13 said:
I am also waiting for a GOTY-edition, but I think we might have to be very patient. For "Oblivion" it took five years for an "all inclusive"-edition to appear...
Insaneyokel on 16 Apr '13 said:
That kind of surprised me. I think there is one more dlc to some as I recall in a previous interview they were saying that there would be 3 large chunks of dlc and we have only had 2. But am now looking forward to the new fallout game, hopefully it will build on some of the good features from skyrim, but also learn from some of the weaknesses like the sometimes tedious dialogue.
PonderingWalrus on 16 Apr '13 said:
BLASPHEMY!!!
lawsond28 on 16 Apr '13 said:
So what was it Grummy? Fun and epic or dull and disappointing? You seem a little confused about whether or not you actually enjoyed playing Skyrim. Please clarify in your own inimitable style.
Metalrodent on 16 Apr '13 said:
He means it was fun gameplay wise, and he enjoyed the experience but that there was little point in exploration, as it didn't provide interesting experiences or varied enough locations
feel free to correct me grumster, this was my interpretation
LWW5000 on 16 Apr '13 said:
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
glavias on 16 Apr '13 said:
NO MORE DLC then.. disappointed to say the least. Redguard = Red Herring
So when they said Skyrim would have less but more substantial DLC then.
Shivering Isles..................Dragonborn
Knights of Nine.................Dawnguard
Vile Lair.............................Hearthfire
Thieves Den.....................
Frostcrag Spire................
Mehrunes Razor..............
Pirates Cove.....................
Battleborn Castle.............
Spell Tomes.....................
Horse Armour...................
I think Oblivion wins!!
Metalrodent on 16 Apr '13 said:
slightly undermining your point
captainhetty on 16 Apr '13 said:
To be fair, I think the DLC for Skyrim is more substantial. Granted, there was a lot of it for Oblivion, but a lot of it was one quest type stuff. The Dragonborn and Dawnguard DLCs were pretty extensive. Hearthfire, though, was a bit uh... Meh, Didn't really see the point in it.
SidTheSloth on 16 Apr '13 said:
Wonder if this has something to do with sales etc? Surely if enough people were/are buying the DLC's they'd carry on (provided they had sufficient material), but i saw and have heard lots of people complaining about the prices of the DLC's and having avoided buying them until on sale etc. On the one hand it's somewhat petty when the original outlay for the game gave you potentially hundreds of hours, but then using the same argument, with hundreds of hours in the original is Skyrim a game that particularly needed DLC, especially when a lot of it is more of the same?
Hey-ho, doesn't matter anymore anyway, decision has been made.
glavias on 16 Apr '13 said:
Grummy on 16 Apr '13 said:
Boom, got it in one El Ratto.
I'm not sure why you're having a hard time understanding this lawson, a game can easily be fun to play and epic in size and scope but disappointing in the minutiae, the details.
Maverick_McCool on 16 Apr '13 said:
So , you are saying that Skyrim , rather than giving us a DLC that allows us to build our own houses , should have sold us 4 seperate houses individualy and not bothered with Hearthfire at all? After all it's obviously quantity over quality that counts right?
Sorry bud , but your argument dosen't hold water , hell even the only substantial DLC bar the top two (Mehrunes Razor) is a spruced up PC mod.
To be clear , I have no problem with any of the DLC for either game , I just think is completly idiotic to say "Yeah Oblivion did more DLC than Skyrim so Oblivion wins."
glavias on 17 Apr '13 said:
idiotic wow!.. I don't have a problem with either DLC..I love everthing, bought everthing twice Skyrim and for Oblivion..But I'm pretty sure Bethesda would have done more DLC for Skyrim but for the PS3 fiasco but they won't admit it.. Hey I would take a couple of spruced up PC Mods too as you say. I don't see why they cannot do that.. But I do not think Skyrim DLC was more substantial as they said...
FishyGinger on 17 Apr '13 said:
If it wasn't anything to do with the ps3 sales I'd probably eat my own face. Although they'll be wanting to start something for the new consoles fairly soon I would have thunk.
Grummy on 17 Apr '13 said:
I've found over the years that Bethesda are very image conscious, they don't like the appearance that other people know better, so whilst they willingly provide the creation tools, they never acknowledge great fan mods openly, it's like doing so would be an official statement by them that their game wasn't good enough as it was. It's ludicrous, but I can't think of any other reason. For years, other developers have allowed fans access to creation tools and then embraced the modding community, hell, Bioware even took some of the fan mods and sold them as official ones for Neverwinter Nights (I believe they also employed those fans as their talent was undeniable). Bethesda don't do this, and from what I can tell, from what I've seen and heard over the years, it's purely because they don't want to look bad. So they just look stupid and arrogant instead.
Y'know, for a developer I generally love, I really do hate a lot about them.
glavias on 17 Apr '13 said:
It's such a shame.. with Skyrim/Oblivion and other games modding community what I have seen over the years.. some of it is just simply breathtaking what these modders do, (The tropical skin for Skyrim for example).. It wouldn't kill Bethesda to acknowledge some of them..it really winds me up..
I wish someone would ask them.. The PS3 fiasco really made them look really bad and I think they decided to move on quickly... Thanks for your response.
Theron284 on 19 Apr '13 said:
Good thing I have the PC version. Skyrim isn't going to run out of additional content for me any time soon.
Metalrodent on 19 Apr '13 said:
well back to PC Gamer you can go then
Theron284 on 19 Apr '13 said:
I actually liked Hearthfire, it made a nice change to all the dungeon crawling. Although it was a bit overpriced (in my opinion) and the modding community had already released better add-ons which allowed players to build their own houses.
Theron284 on 19 Apr '13 said:
I would, but Elder Scrolls and Fallout are just about the only games I play on the PC these days. Most of the games I play are on the 360.
CunningSmile on 19 Apr '13 said:
Ok, we'll let you stay then
MasterChiefJ117 on 20 Apr '13 said:
We get it you are an Xbox fan boy !!!!!
Yet Theron284 owning a PC as well as an Xbox doesn't make his opinion any less valid? ( Wonder what company is the main producer of the operating system used by most PC gamers? MICROSOFT!
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Who wouldn't love some of the very best 'Skyrim' mods to come to the Xbox 360!!!
He owns an Xbox but also other consoles like most of us here this comment is getting a little old!
Microsoft is a company that is there to make money!
Does your sole allegiance to the Xbox platform reward you with any special privileges?