User blog comment:AveryWood/Realistic Skyrim and My Opinions on Hearthfire and Dawnguard/@comment-4057437-20120905065931/@comment-4113369-20120907151820

@ DarthOrc

There is, it's just that your average person would rather make you pay for it. Ever seen the content updates the Witcher games got for free? Those were marvelous. And it's not like we haven't gotten a few new features through the patches (which are also, y'know, free). I sadly doubt we'll ever see hardcore mode for Skyrim, though. Not released by Bethesda, at least.