You had it wrapped up, without a doubt, all the way up to the point of release. But now it's like "Oh, wait, it doesn't work. Will have to take this one off the list."

Where do you people come from?

Let's reserve judgement until adequate time has passed for a patch to be produced for the technical bugs, 360 textures, ps3 save lag etc

yes, theres an argument that they should have realised beforehand, but I'm going to go with benefit of the doubt for no

I think you bought the wrong game.

That didn't stop Oblivion.

Do you have any idea how long it takes to respond to software bugs? I guarantee you the entire Bethesda team is working around the clock on patches. The game has been out less than two weeks.

They have to determine which bugs to fix, which despite all the whining on the forums, they have to work through established channels of their tech support, reproduce the errors, prioritize, assign them to resources (often not knowing how long they will take), target to a release, actually make the fixes, assign test resources, test, go through a QA process, and there may be other certifications depending on platform, then hand to release engineers. Multiple layers of development and testing. Even with a large team of 20 programmers, its not realistic to have the expectation they can accomplish much in a two week period. Now consider that they released on three platforms, so their resources are divided.

They are not going to publish what fixes they are working on because A) They don't necessarily know how long they will take to fix, so they aren't targeted to a specific patch B) People will whine and complain about other fixes not on the roadmap.

I guarantee they are running around like chickens without heads right now.

WoW, Rift, Aion. Other MMO forums.

I'd hate to see obnoxious mass bannings about complaints, but I think they're justified for stupid ones like this. If you bring up bugs or issues, or discuss things you'd like to see improved in a rational way, fine. Instead, we get this crap and that's all the forum is. Griping.

If that's your reason why this game isn't getting GOTY than neither is Batman AC (delayed PC release, all for broken DX11 support) Uncharted 3 (shooting mechanics messed up, people complain and devs just brushed them off, FINALLY fixed it just recently), ACR (they didn't bring anything new to the formula, review scores lower than competition). I guess there's no GOTY this year. Oh well.

I was actually furious that this game crashed on me so much. I was cursing bethesda to burn in the fires of hell and rot till the end of time. I mean it was a new refined engine and it pissed me off that I had the same problems I had from morrowind up to new vegas. I was like wtf! Then I turned off anti aliasing, a tip i saw in a previous thread and now the crashes have stopped. You don`t know how happy that made me. So needless to say after that I thought the game was great. My only complaint was the crashing, everything else worked fine.

This by far is the most stable bethesda game to date. Runs better then any other too. But if you are having stability problems, browse the tech forum and you might find an answer. I couldn`t believe turning off anti aliasing , something so small could cause such a huge issue on my machine but it did. There was also a small quickfix for sound by changing the properties that could fix it for others.

So yeah, once you figure out the conflict that is making your machine crash with the game it is indeed stable. You can also expect good support for this game because it is their biggest title to date that reeled in so many new people to the bethesda games. That may indeed go back and buy previous titles and earn them even more revenue. They don`t wanna lose that ,they want to increase it. I know if I was in charge I would want the bugs and issues stamped out asap to make the customers happy. Word of mouth is such a great marketing tool.

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