{"id":15431,"date":"2011-11-08T17:26:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T15:26:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"the-elders-scrolls-v-skyrim-to-get-launch-day-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/15431-the-elders-scrolls-v-skyrim-to-get-launch-day-patch","title":{"rendered":"The Elders Scrolls V: Skyrim to get launch day patch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In news that shouldn&rsquo;t surprise anybody, <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11877-Bethesda-Game-Studios\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Company Information\">Bethesda<\/a> has confirmed that &ndash; yes! &ndash; The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim will be getting one of those hot launch day patches everybody&rsquo;s talking about.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All platforms going to 1.1 by 11\/11\/11,&#8221; the company&rsquo;s community manager Nick Breckon wrote over on <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20481-NeoGAF\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Term Information\">NeoGAF<\/a>, in response to a query about a launch day patch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;ll be notes when the time comes,&#8221; he added later, before vanishing in a puff of magic smoke (presumably, anyway, I wasn&rsquo;t actually there at the time).<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on the downloadable front, here&rsquo;s a handy reminder that <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11861-Microsoft\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Company Information\">Microsoft<\/a> and Bethesda made some infernal pact back in August, so the <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19882-Xbox-360\" target=\"_self\" title=\"System Information\">Xbox<\/a> version gets dibs on the first two <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20301-DLC-Downloadable-Content\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Term Information\">DLC<\/a> add-ons for the game, whatever those are going to be. [James: I hope it&#8217;s two sets of horse armour].<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Right now I can say that we&#8217;d like to do less DLC but bigger ones &#8211; you know, more substantial. The Fallout 3 pace that we did was very chaotic. We did a lot of them &#8211; we had two overlapping groups. We don&#8217;t know what we&#8217;re going to make yet, but we&#8217;d like them to be closer to an expansion pack feel,&#8221; Bethesda&rsquo;s Todd Howard told AusGamers.<\/p>\n<p>The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is out on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Sources: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neogaf.com\/forum\/showthread.php?p=32455556#post32455556\" target=\"_self\" title=\"NeoGAF\">NeoGAF<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ausgamers.com\/features\/read\/3076322\" target=\"_self\" title=\"AusGamers\">, AusGamers<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20403-The-Elders-Scrolls-V-Skyrim-to-get-day-one-patch\" target=\"_self\" title=\"The Elders Scrolls V: Skyrim to get launch day patch\"><strong>The Elders Scrolls V: Skyrim to get launch day patch<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s all the rage these days<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}