First of all, I don't know if this is the correct section or not to post something like this, but it's just a general question to anyone who might have any information on future patches.

So when I was trying to join the Dark Brotherhood long ago, I thought it was like previous TES games, so I was killing random people trying to get them to contact me. I ended up killing "Drifa" in Riften, and now a couple of days later (real days) I've completed the Dark Brotherhood quest line (amazing) and done so much more in Skyrim, I'm trying to join the thieves guild now but because I've killed Drifa, after the quest "A Chance Arrangement" has been completed, the next quest wont start. On top of that Brynjolf is stuck in the Riften market, all he says is "hmm" whenever I try to talk to him.

I'm wondering if there will be a possible patch in the near future for console players to fix this (amongst other bugs). I'm playing on Xbox 360, I realise that this can be fixed with console commands and the Unofficial Skyrim Patcher on PC.

I'm afraid there won't be any more patches.

That doesn't really solve my problem... How was I supposed to know that killing a character in the game would trigger a game breaking bug? But thanks anyway..

I know it doesn't, but its an answer. Bethesda is finished with Skyrim.

About the Dark Brotherhood, surely you asked for rumors right? One of those would have led you directly to the DB.

I've finished the DB questline already... I found out how to do it later on.

That's just one of the things about non-linear games like rpg's. If you screw something up you either have to live with it, go to an earlier save or start a new character. Killing "sprees" are a bad idea, especially when you kill named characters. And it's not really a game breaker, it's simply a quest breaker. Also. it's not a glitch or bug, it's a consequence.

If the body is still there, and if your on PC, open the console, click on the body and enter resurrect. That might work.

It is a bug, it has been brought to Bethesda's attention and they have labeled it a bug, for me it's a game breaker. At the moment the best I can do is load a previous save state before I started the quest and hope there's some sort of fix in the future... It's quite obvious that it's a bug as well, Brynjolf tells you to meet him in the Ragged Flaggon but instead he stays wandering around the market place, and the quest afterwards doesn't even initiate. Like I said, it has been patched by the Unofficial Skyrim Patcher and can even be fixed using console commands. But for us who play the game on a console, we're just out of luck I guess.