I decided to rent the Fallout New Vegas game, as I was a Beta tester for Fallout 3 "bought it day one", so I wanted to wait for the bugs to be dealt with, if there were any. I was enjoying your game, all the new areas, all the new weapons and mods, loving the story line, everything was going great. I was bragging about your game and telling friends they should look into it. Just as I get done bragging about the game, it starts to act like a Beta program.

Walking out of Primm, after completing the keeping the eye on the prize quest, I see a merchant walking down the road. I decide I need to get some ammo and look for the caravan cards that I just learned how to use properly. I start to buy items from the man load up on all I want and hit agree to purchase the items. Then, "Bang", a freeze occurs. I am patient and want to play more so I quickly reset the game. Try to make the purchases again this time one at a time, get to one of the cards I want and "Bang", another freeze. I am like OK, maybe I need to reset my Cache, that worked for me on Fallout 3 when freezes occurred. I reset the Cache, fire up the game, go and make my purchases, one by one, actually make all the purchases, decide I better save after my purchases and "Bang", another freeze. At this point I decide to ignore the vendor, I just want to play the game. I restart the game walk down the road a bit go to quick travel and "Bang", another freeze. I re-clean my Cache and try again. Load up the game go walking down the road, everything seems fine, and then I decide to try and save again, can you guess what happens? Ill tell you, "Bang", another freeze.

Your game has rendered itself unplayable to me, after 12 to 14 hours in the game, it cannot play or even operate properly. Now, I understand the highly technical process and that bugs will find their way through to a packaged game. But the level of bugs and issues plaguing this game are almost too many to name or count. Your first patch contained over 200 fixes, you stated. Why does the game come out with 200 errors in it, that you obviously had some idea about, as I think a week is a little fast for a fix to come out. What that tells me is, you knew of these 200 bugs and decided to push the game out on time and then fix it with a patch. Patches are great for games, they are awesome features. However I think you guys at Bethesda, are abusing the power of the patch ability. If you knew of those 200 bugs, you should have known there are at least double that amount, that you have not seen yet. After Fallout 3 you would think the New fallout game would not suffer from the issues that it's predecessor suffered from. However many of the same old issues persist.

I think you marketing team and your programming team need to talk a bit more, and decide that we need to finish a game before we ship it out. You are asking millions of people to fork out 60 to 80$ for one of these games and they deserve to receive a product that is playable as is. Not make them purchase a CD and wait for the next patch to come through. If you guys would have simply put the game off until next year, maybe 6 months or so. You could have tested these bugs and had them fixed in the actual box game, instead of relying on patches. But you guys decide to package a broken game, might as well be broken into two pieces, as I cannot get the game to operate properly.

As a continued Bethesda Customer I have decided to cut you guys off from as much profit as I possibly can. I will wait for the Game of the year Edition to come out and then buy it used. By that time the bugs will be solved and the game will actually be playable. I am tired of financing your companies inept programmers and marketing department, as they cannot send a game out, without thousands upon thousands of bugs and issues in it. It is unacceptable for you to ask full sticker price for a game that cannot play on its own. Yet you do it over and over again. I will let the others suffer through the bugs and testing of this game and I will play the finished product sometime next year. This is not a threat, it is just how I feel. I am not asking others to follow, they can make their own decisions. I have placed too much time on Fallout 3 looking up issues, I am not about to do it for yet another Bethesda Beta. You guys are supposed to pay people to figure this stuff out before you ship the product, not charge for a game and make the masses Beta testers. I think you owe everybody a certain amount of back pay for the testing they have completed for you say maybe the first DLC complimentary for the troubles we have to go through when playing your defective game.

In my head the Fallout New Vegas release date is some where around my birthday (06/20) 2011. I cannot wait to play this game as it is supposed to be a good one, hopefully they can fix the bugs from the last game Fallout 3.

Good luck to you Bethesda, when you can produce a game that is playable right out of the box, I will come back and support your company once again.

Frustrated customer,
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