Bethesda announce and price a ‘Season Pass’ for Fallout 4 but content is still a mystery

Many people complain when companies announce they are working on DLC for a game, and will go on to release it post-launch. Sometimes complaints for this sort of practice are justified – as many people want to feel like they are getting value for money when they spend money on the base game. Having an extra bit of game tacked on for a price a few weeks later simply does not feel good. On the other hand, some companies announce a Season Pass near the launch of a game, but go on to detail its content. This practice seems a nicer option, as people then know what they are getting. However, in some cases the promised content under delivers, and once again people get mad. The recent uber-short Batgirl DLC for Batman: Arkham Knight is a recent lowlight.

Companies never announce both DLC and a Season PAss for a game, along with putting a price on it, when they themselves know little of what the contents of the pack will be. However today that has happened. Bethesda wanted to be the first, and have announced a Season Pass for Fallout 4, and also stuck a price ($30), with little-to-know idea what they will put in it.

They said it themselves on their own blog – here is the announcement

We’ve always done a lot of DLC for our games. We love making them and you always ask us for more. To reward our most loyal fans, this time we’ll be offering a Season Pass that will get you all of the Fallout 4 DLC we ever do for just $30. Since we’re still hard at work on the game, we don’t know what the actual DLC will be yet, but it will start coming early next year. Based on what we did for Oblivion, Fallout 3, and Skyrim, we know that it will be worth at least $40, and if we do more, you’ll get it all with the Season Pass.

If anyone wants to buy this when it becomes available I wont stop you. Although it does seem a terrible way to spend one’s money. Bethesda’s extra content for games can be good, but I still would not blindly toss money at them without knowing fully what I was getting. It does seem better to wait to see if the content is actually good before you toss money at stuff like this, right?

There should be enough content in the base game to last a lifetime anyway, if the recent reveal of 111K recorded lines of dialogue is anything to go by.