Bethesda: More Fallout 3 add-ons would’ve been pushing it

Although the fifth and final downloadable content pack for Fallout 3 has been out for a solid two weeks now, the game will continue to live on as a current discussion point for weeks to come. No, Bethesda isn’t secretly preparing more add-ons — the five pieces of DLC on Xbox 360 and PC still need to make it to the PlayStation 3 version.

But that raises the question, why is the studio ending the post-launch Fallout 3 support when many of us are more than ready to keep paying for new content. Speaking with Kotaku, executive producer at Bethesda Todd Howard said three was the plan from the get-go, and then they were going to “see where that goes.”

“I kind of had in my mind that the upper limit was five,” explains Howard. “Part of that was what I think people are willing to continue to pay for a game. And a lot of that is our own internal bandwidth.”

It’s hard not to be sad about Fallout 3‘s vast story coming to a close when you’ve invested upwards of sixty hours into it. How do the rest of you feel? Were you growing tired of the add-ons or did you appreciate having a reason to to jump right back in every few weeks?