DLC for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim will be more expansive than the five add-ons released for Bethesda's last title, Fallout 3, but you'll have to wait a little longer to get your hands on it, the developer has revealed.

Speaking in an interview with Kotaku, studio chief Todd Howard confirmed that work is underway on DLC but gamers shouldn't expect the rapid-fire add-on releases offered following Fallout 3's launch back in 2008.

"For Fallout 3 we did five DLCs. That was a very aggressive path for us," he explained.

"Our plan now is to take more time, to have more meat on them [for Skyrim]. They'll feel closer to an expansion pack.

"With Fallout 3, it was, 'Ten dollars is the sweet spot for us and we know we want to put out five of them. And we had overlapping teams. We were coming off Fallout 3 and right back in."

That turned out to be "a real hardcore loop," Howard added. "We just think we can do better content if we approach it a different way."

Though it seems you'll have to wait longer for the expansions, the studio is planning on smaller updates to keep you busy in the meantime.

"Because that gap is going to be bigger, we want to put little things out for free in between. We've already done that for PC with the high-res pack. We're trying to figure out what those things are."

Elsewhere in the interview, Howard explained that some of the additions shown off during a video montage at the DICE summit in Las Vegas last week could make it into these DLC packs.

"There are definitely things in there that we are planning on exploring," he confirmed.

"It looks like a ton of stuff that could ship right now, but it's in a sizzle video. It's, you know, it's not bug-tested, polished, balanced.

"That wasn't all of it. It's probably 60 per cent of it. The other 40 per cent doesn't show as well in a video or we didn't have good footage."

Howard didn't put a date on when we might see the first batch of new content for the game, saying only that development was in the "very early" stages.

Source: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-02-17-bethesda-skyrim-dlc-to-follow-different-model-to-fallout-3

See, this is DLC I can respect. They ship a highly complete, content-rich game, they wait awhile, and then they announce that, for a reasonable price, you get a large chunk of extra content.

By contrast, the Assassin's Creed: Battle of Forli DLC, which was quite clearly a level that was cut from the middle of the game, is exactly what pisses me off about this generation.

Bethesda, you have my respect.

Good, I would rather pay more for quantity and quality at the same time. If they can do it to the quality of rockstar's recent expansions than it is a win.

I hope it's one or two really big DLC's that have one-third to half as much content as the original game. I also hope it's new area's to explore as well (new environments and such)

Considering the had the shivering isles for oblivion I would thing the would have a way to go to a new island or something, because just adding more missions to an already heavy quantity does not seem very interesting. Hell the took fallout 3 to outer space so i THINK bETHESDA WILL DO IT RIGHT. sTUPID CAPS LOCK

You know that the AC2 devs said that they ran out of time and therefore cut this and another episode to get the game finished and ready to ship during the holiday season.
Without DLC, you'd have never the ability to play these episodes AT ALL. BONUS CONTENT are the key words.

Ahh good to hear they are doing something big like a Shriveling Isles one..now it's just the waiting game and thinking of which of my 3 guys to use for this..

Atleast this gives them more time to get patches out. My save file is at 19mb and running into problems daily regarding FPS drops, freezing, mission bugs and just other bugs related to what NPC's are doing or lack of doing. Ran into a bug last night where it was saying dungeons i had cleared were not cleared and when i enterd the dungeon the map was not explored either.

Uhm dunno about the map thing, but do you know that enemies in dungeons respawn ?
How many hours did you put into Skyrim anyway ?

if that is true , then why charge for it? , also if that is true then why release an Ass Creed game every year?