User blog comment:Saratje/PC release date explained - Skyrim: Dragonborn DLC/@comment-1992639-20121203175543/@comment-95.155.236.216-20121212115115

I won't use religious and/or ritualistic exclamations to praise your comment. But I do on the technical plane, agree completely. And I'd like to add that your explanations and reasonings were well formulated. However, the issue is not the technical points. They did not view it as a legitimate 2nd DLC. I do agree that technically, they have already released a 2nd DLC, prior to this one. And so one could argue(quite reasonably), that it is beyond discussion of perspectives.

But, then there is the problem, in which both bethesda and microsoft knows. That the ones promised 2 DLC's would not be satisfied with something so meager as "Hearthfire". And so too keep their much bigger partner, and to a great part, their customers happy. They kept to giving them the DLC's earlier. Technically, it may not be fair. But I suppose it is better to be thorough with the points that you do promise, then to be generous where you did not make such promises.