For a game based on freedom, Skyrim's main quest seems to be rather forceful about getting me to join certain guilds as I go along. Over the course of things, I was effectively forced into joining both the Thieves Guild and the College of Winterhold in order to be able to continue the Main Quest.

Whatever happened to being given the freedom to choose which guilds you wished to support? Why is this game choosing for me? I have the right to join as many or as few guilds as I wish, and my current character is blessed that my guild choice for him was the Thieves Guild. But I only ever wish to have my characters join one guild, it is my decision, and my right. And when I was forced to join the College to progress the Main Quest, I felt that right was violated.

This is the first time in an Elder Scrolls title I was ever completely railroaded into joining a Guild. For Morrowind, joining a guild was just a suggestion. Oblivion kept the main quest dealings with the mages guild isolated so that you would not be forced into making allegiances you did not wish to make. And now Skyrim, which is forcing me to join the Thieves Guild and the College of Winterhold to obtain main quest-essential information with no alternatives?

I do not appreciate this game, which is supposed to be unparalleled for its freedom, making my choices for me, Bethesda. That isn't freedom. I have a right to choose my guilds. Don't do this again. :thumbsdown: