Why complain about Oblivion, anyway? It's over and done with. And I believe the reason as to why Bethesda isn't releasing a date for Dawnguard is because they don't want to put themselves on a deadline. Another complaint is bugs and glitches, and when Bethesda is actually taking the time to address these issues, they get slammed for taking too long. You can't have it both ways. Either allow them the time to address bugs/glitches or demand them to release things as early as possible and then it's a mess.
I'm not complaining about Oblivion its the principle of what happened for the Oblivion DLC. PS3 got 2 out of 7 or 8. If they even gave a vague release date it would be better. And I fully understand Microsoft paid for the early release and everything. I understand business. But they need to also at least recognize that there are more player then just on XBox who they are providing their product to. If you look at the companies and games that Sony pays for similar kinds of things, all these games, as a series, often predate the XBox era completely. However my issue is that long term treatment is poor. Not the right here and now but I want thing after month to two months of the release of a new feature to be leveled out and even as much as Bethesda can make it across all three consoles. I have for other games where PS3 got a release for something early and XBox had then gotten delayed complained on the behalf of XBox users when I have no reason to.
And you can't tell me the if XBox users had to wait for a still unknown amount of time while PC and PS3 got Dawnguard they wouldn't be upset as well. Unlike you I'm not looking at this as where money is going I look at how Bethesda is operating as business and a provider of a product, on their every practice and every part of their business. That includes product, product quality, service, service quality, how successful they are at making money (and mind you I congratulate Bethesda with their deal with Microsoft that would've been a reasonable amount of money that likely was used to further advance Dawnguard, or another DLC or game beyond what it would've otherwise), and how they treat their costumers. They all score high in all but how they are treating their costumers. To me its the only flaw in the entire company that can be improved with simple low cost methods.
Those methods being things like, avoiding past upsets with issues like just never releasing a DLC on one of three platforms repeating in the future, better communicating their intent, crushing rumors about release dates if they get to widespread before they get out of hand to prevent this kind of upset with Dawnguard, and trying to aim to have most bug fixes ready when any future timed exclusives are finished
if possible to avoid further delays when they can. These are not multi-thousand dollar ideas. The are as difficult as typing a few words on their blog and being aware of what their costumers feed back is beyond just their own site. The more difficult of them is the trying to get bug fixes mostly finished in time for the end of timed exclusives and just releasing a DLC on all platforms since those require some programming.
I'm sure if XBox user where watching as PS3 got everything and you got only limited DLCs in a few games you would get pissed off. Before you yell at us PS3 user for "not understanding its just business" think about how you would feel in our shoes.
