You do realize that is how used games work, not new games.

New games work in the same way. I've worked in a video-game store. It *might* be different where you are from. At least in Finland, shops buy the game from the importer for quite a low price and then sell it for around 70€ themselves. If they fail to sell them further, it's not the importers problem. It doesn't matter if anyone buys the game or not, bethesda has already gotten the money for it. The shop-keeper is on his own and your money does not go to bethesda directly.

Let me give you another example:

A shop has a brand new copy of Skyrim. They sell it for 1 €, if you bring three old games to the shop as well. It doesn't matter at all in which way they sell it, bethesda has already gotten their money for that copy. What you seem to think is that the shop would ship over one of the three games to bethesda, representing their share of the cake. That's not how it works.

Thank you so much, Bethesda!!! :foodndrink:

Now for your first DLC...

...an anti MMO devoted fan patch. That would be great. Maybe something that incinterates them if they start the game? :flamethrower:

Actually, if you could do the same for the forums -- Zap 'em dead right at their computer if they use the acronym DPS.

Thank you Bethesda for creating an amazing single player game in this era of gaming.
All my friends at school think it's strange when I tell them "Skyrim is single player only".

:thanks:


:bowdown: Bethesda

Thanking a company for providing a paid service is really inane.

And some children think everything should be handed them on a silver platter and all the hard work that went into it was thanked enough by their money.

For the rest of us, we're very glad you dont just pump out any old trashy game and slap a price on it - we're thrilled to play such detailed, rich and engrossing games -they are few and far between these days! Awesome job!

Played WoW on and off for 5 years, Skyrim is the only game to of taken me completely off WoW, thank you Bethesda for creating a near masterpiece, loving it.

I already thanked Bethesda with my wallet, but they still deserve praise for all the effort they put into the game. They could have churned out another Modern Warfare clone, done a lot less work, and probably made more money. It's good to see that someone still cares about creating art in this industry.

When you pay 60-150 dollars for a game, you kind of expect it to have something interesting in it. Did you get your copy for free99 or anything the equivalent of a silver platter?

Bethesda and Valve are the ONLY two developers that I even care about these days. I used to put BioWare in that list too, but EA seems to have absorbed their soul.

I'm not cutting Bioware completely loose right now. The letdown of DA2 is overshadowed by the AWESOMENESS of Mass Effect 2

You know, constructive critism is always nice, but if you have nothing to say but mindless crap like that... maybe you should just get on with your life.

I appreciate their work. That is why most people here probably gave them money for it.
If they at one point start handing them out for free, I will probably also thank them for it.

You know... I don't like Mass Effect 1 or 2, but you've reminded me that they gave me Mass Effect 2 for free out of the blue just because I registered DA2 on their website, so I guess I have to give them props.

Yeah.. but he's kinda right?
TES have with each of the latest editions moved from RPG with action elements to Action with RPG elements.

Thats not how it works where Im from.

Thanks Bethesda for illustrating how much the games industry needs a new generation of console. Skyrim while being an artistically beautiful game could have been so much better if it was developed for the platform with the power to do it justice.

Yup, Bethesda and Valve.

I had a higher opinion of BioWare until I wound up getting accepted into the SW:TOR beta (I don't know how -- I didn't apply). I'm not really an MMO player but thought I'd give it a chance.

What an embarrassment. Listing everything I hate about that game would take multiple pages. It makes some of the other MMOs I've tried look like quality games, and that's sad coming from someone who thinks all MMOs are cheesy.

My guess is you'll need to be a die-hard StarWars fan to like that game.

Anyhow, back on topic. Valve should be the standard for everyone to catch up to, IMO. :thumbsup:

Thank you, Bethesda, for yet another amazing adventure through Tamriel! To say that Skyrim has owned my life for the past few weeks would be a gross understatement!

Thanks for sticking with your well known formula of game freezes and buggy quests. It wouldn't be a Bethesda game otherwise.

Yeah, in such industry as games, which is kind of art these days, it's not all about money. They can make billions and billions of cash but it's always NICE to tell them they did a great job with their games.

I'd thank them if the game was free.
Seriously, guys? Thank them? It's THEIR JOB. And they didn't even do a very good job at it, this time.

Thank you Bethesda for MORROWIND, OBLIVION, FALLOUT 3, AND SKYRIM.


I wouldn't even be playing video games if it weren't for these epic titles. Never mind the prattling of the "WoW" cult crowd that lurks here, filtering every criticism they can of Skyrim through their "indoctrinated mindset".

Got tired of FPS and kiddy RPG's a long time ago.

No matter how bad my day goes, I always know that I can immerse myself in a Bethesda game later that night. The world goes away and there is only me and the fantasy.

You guys take your planning and programming for these games more seriously than most of the rest of the "here today, gone tomorrow" adventure games. I think sometimes some younger players get hyper about criticisms and improvements, as if the games should cater to their every fancy.

Worth every penny; we're lucky to live in such an age of this degree of interactive entertainment.

Skyrim is a great game and I'm enjoying it immensely. Having said that, there are some issues that need fixed sooner rather than later. all in all though its the best rpg I've played in a few years at least, good work Beth!

Thank you Bethesda for making my social life more interesting (yeah, apparently my friends worship Skyrim) and giving me something to do other than watch reruns of My Little Pony or start my 100,000th character in Fallout New Vegas.

Skyrim was truly something to measure the RPG games I buy afterwards to it and unless it can top Skyrim (highly doubt it), I'll always be returning to Skyrim. But you know what would be awesome? Releasing the [censored] Creation Kit.