It is a vocal minority. A vocal minority of people who have nothing better to do than spam an internet forum does not constitute a "literal majority"
Nearly all of my friends are playing Skyrim on various platforms, and only one has reported a bug of any kind. This game is not "broken", no matter how desperately you want to exaggerate the problem to make it seem as such.
You want a buggy, broken mess of a game, go play Star Wars Galaxies from it's launch. And even THAT forum wasn't as trolled as this one.
This is so true. Just because whiny [censored]es yell really loud, doesn't mean that there's more of them.
I like the magic system, the shadows look nice on my computer and clearly aren't rendered by the soundcard, and I find Steam to be an advantage. Idiot.
And, to be perfectly honest, I'd rather that Bethesda didn't reply. If they did, it means that they'd be more concerned with the whinging, [censored]ing, entitled morons on this forum than actually fixing the problems that certain people have encountered. I'm quite thankful that they've neglected to say anything at this point
Get off your high horse.
Respect goes both ways. They released this patch to the remaining platforms, even knowing that it had issues. They have been mostly silent about what is being done about it, allowing others to vent their frustrations wherever they like, lashing out at each other.
People are left to guess at when the problems introduced may be fixed, a guess being between 1 to 3 weeks later if the current patch timeline were any indication. Respect will tend to get better results, but in this case have they done anything to deserve our respect? Certainly not by knowingly pushing forth a patch that breaks things unrelated to what it was supposed to fix, or remaining silent and ignoring your customers.
Who says that they knew it had issues? If you say that we don't know any positive information because Bethesda haven't said anything, then you can't come out and say that you
know that they were aware of the issues. And I don't understand how releasing a broken patch means that they don't deserve respect. It could've been a horrible mistake; there was likely something in there that they didn't want to be in there; there are plenty of things that could have gone wrong. Additionally, I don't understand why people feel entitled to be spoken to personally by the developers. If something goes wrong with your TV, do you expect the CEO of Samsung, or employees from that company to ring you or email you, apologising and explaining the problem? No. Sure, the gaming community is accessible, and really blurs the line between community and developer, but that doesn't mean that players have the right to be responded to. Immature, tantrum-like behaviour is exactly what will have this blurred line erased in the future, as developers realise that no matter what they attempt to do with their game, people will attack it mercilessly, despite the fact that the developers were simply trying to do their jobs in the first place. If you want developers to become disillusioned and disconnected from their fanbase and community, continue like this, because I can guarantee you, the pig-headedness, arrogance, immaturity, and sense of entitlement held by many members of this community and others (Battlefield 3 leaps to mind) are going to achieve just that. Developers aren't going to want to talk to us anymore, and it's going to be the fault of adolescent [censored] who insist on having everything that they want whenever they want it.