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Fallout 3 DLC is coming to retail photo

Some people just hate the internet. There's plenty not to like: viruses, trolls, immature homophobes, etc. The problem is if you hate the internet then you can't hook up your 360 to it and thus you can't get DLC... or can you? It has been revealed that come May 29 in Europe and May 26 in the US both of Fallout 3's current DLC downloads, The Pitt and Operation: Anchorage, will be released in retail form for all those internet haters to enjoy.

The disc, aptly titled Fallout 3 Downloadable Content: The Pitt and Operation Anchorage, will most likely save the content to your hard drive and then require you to have the Fallout 3 disc in to play. Not to get all Greenpeace on everyone, but can you even imagine how much garbage and waste this is going to create? Players get the disc, don't need it anymore and then toss it or sell it back for chump change to a used games retailer. Fantastic game plan there. Maybe we can also cut down a few hundred miles of rain forest while we're at it. 

In Europe picking up DLC on a disc will cost you £14.99 and in the US it will run $19.99.


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A New Challenger's Avatar
A New Challenger at 04/26/2009 17:11
Hmm, so might this be like exporting tracks from Rock Band 1 to Rock Band 2, in that only one copy is going to be purchased in every circle of friends? Or is there going to be a CD key or something?
Zombutler's Avatar
Zombutler at 04/26/2009 17:12
Not that I care, but why isn't Broken Steel included? I and many others will be buying on the 5th, and if this comes out the 26th, then....?
A New Challenger's Avatar
A New Challenger at 04/26/2009 17:13
Actually I guess the requirement that you have the original game is enough, and in a next-to-best-case scenario if one person gets the disc others may be more likely to pick up the original based on the ability to get extra content for free.

Or maybe they're counting on friends to be dicks about it and not share.
Corican's Avatar
Corican at 04/26/2009 17:14
I don't suppose this will be coming to the PS3 too?
ikiryou's Avatar
ikiryou at 04/26/2009 17:20
I would expect to see the PS3 GOTY version as soon as Microsoft's dirty money runs out.
Malkhuth's Avatar
Malkhuth at 04/26/2009 17:24
They seriously couldn't wait until after Broken Steel was finished to release this package?
Kyousuke Nanbu's Avatar
Kyousuke Nanbu at 04/26/2009 17:26
MS dirty money LOL.

And other companies are doing this, pretty cool of them.
Los255's Avatar
Los255 at 04/26/2009 17:29
What a waste. Why not wait until Broken Steel is released and then release the GOTY edition shortly after?
Magnalon's Avatar
Magnalon at 04/26/2009 17:32
Haha double-dipping with a GOTY edition like Morrowind has now been turned into triple-dipping.

Welcome to the club Bethesda!
Zenki's Avatar
Zenki at 04/26/2009 17:42
Will be waiting for GOTY edition news before I pick this up but have a collectors edition of Fallout 3, saw the DLC come out and said "these guys always release their DLC on disc so I will wait" and now it has come to be. Always try to avoid DLC when I can as I prefer to own a physical copy so that I can have some assurance that I will always have access to the content. If some choose to try and play the bleeding heart card about the environment so be it but I collect my games, not pitch them into a landfill after one use.
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twister1988 at 04/26/2009 17:51
I'm excited about this! Due to my aids infested Forrest that surrounds my house I can not get high speed internet so this is win in my book.
grasslunatic's Avatar
grasslunatic at 04/26/2009 17:59
Bring it to PS3 Bethesda.
Mr Pibb's Avatar
Mr Pibb at 04/26/2009 18:05
I'm waiting for the inevitable GOTY edition on PS3 before I get this. That and I want to play through Fallout 1 before I start Fallout 3.
LuntiX's Avatar
LuntiX at 04/26/2009 18:13
Awesome. I like that DLC is coming to disc because I don't exactly have a way to buy it online...
Genebeef's Avatar
Genebeef at 04/26/2009 18:22
need only to buy one disc among friends?
Jack Maverick's Avatar
Jack Maverick at 04/26/2009 18:24
Glad they're such a cheap price, since I remember hearing how short Operation: Anchorage was. I don't know if I remember hearing anything about The Pitt's length so maybe that will more than make up for it. I'm not too hot about this separate retail thing but I'll play along with it, I suppose.
Necros's Avatar
Necros at 04/26/2009 19:19
Works for me. Even if it's just going to take up space on my hard drive anyway, I always prefer to have a physical copy of things, just in case there's some apocalyptic thing down the road that wipes out my hard drive and I can't get on the internet to redownload things.
buzski's Avatar
buzski at 04/26/2009 20:05
This should definitely be released for the PS3 because xbox had downloadable content not neccesarily disc content. Very good picture as well.
KaliKot's Avatar
KaliKot at 04/26/2009 20:27
wut??? no borken steelz? no pickup
Naim Master's Avatar
Naim Master at 04/26/2009 21:00
I'll pick that and download BS ...
Monodi's Avatar
Monodi at 04/26/2009 21:25
Expansions that you acquire in retail? That shit is old school.
gamadaya's Avatar
gamadaya at 04/26/2009 21:30
I'll just wait for Vegas to come out.
Chronic Logic's Avatar
Chronic Logic at 04/27/2009 00:38
Why does Microsoft have to make more money? Why can't they share with Sony?!
JustLikeBuck's Avatar
JustLikeBuck at 04/27/2009 03:37
Wow, who didn't see this coming. A GOTY edition of a Bethesda product?

What do you think the odds of this making it to PS3 as well?

Going by Oblivion, pretty bloody good, I'd say.
foxhound421's Avatar
foxhound421 at 04/27/2009 10:42
@ Necros:
so you're saying that in the midst of the Apocalypse you'd prefer to have a physical copy of a video game about… the Apocalypse?
Lime's Avatar
Lime at 05/25/2009 10:50
@Justlikebuck

Yes, there will be a GOTY edition coming out for all 3 consoles in October. It'll be 50 bucks for the game and all 5 DLCs (that includes the upcoming two)
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