Sometimes software bugs cost us money, At the most extreme, I have seen one Bethesda game (Battlespire) 'Brick' an HP Pavillion computer (not mine) by simply inserting the CD in the drive...very weird, and I have never seen that happen with any other product. Mostly they just make us feel like we wasted money on an unfinished product (F:NV). Sometimes it's a console bias; ie early console games could not be patched, so quality control was higher than today (remember the Nintendo Seal of Quality?). Oblivion can be forgiven to a degree as it had only a few months of exposure to the XBOX360 hardware before release.