Bethesda made a patch that [censored] up the game and it now crashes to desktop, has even more problems than before, and there are people here who are defending them?
This is ridiculous.
If people payed 50-60 $ for a game, they expect to play it. They have full right to complain.
Bethesda DOES own it's customers support, or the customers WILL stop buying these games. They exist because of customers, not the other way around.
I love how all the 'defenders' here would behave totally different if it was their game that crashes to desktop all the time.
exactly. games are apparently the only products that people expect to break down and be unusable. in fact, they are products like any other, and bethesda is a company profiting heavily off its customers like any other. the onus is on them to ensure their games work. yes, skyrim is a large game and bethesda are only human like everyone else, but this is something they should have taken into account when designing the game. if the scope was too large, the should have scaled back. if there wasnt enough time to fix the game before release, they should have delayed it. instead, they advertised it to all hell to capitalize on a unique calender date (11.11.11) and released a buggy product. their second failure was in not testing the patch. defending them is giving them license for lowering the standard for ALL game companies. as customers we should expect more and better games as the technology improves, not settle for less and worse.
Oh. My. God. LOL at this stuff.
You paid $60 dollars for this game.
Sixty. That's it. That means that Bethesda owes you exactly sixty dollars worth of effort. Think about that:
If I paid
you sixty dollars right now, what would I get?
Maybe I could get you to mow my lawn. You know what else costs sixty dollars? One tank of gas. I use that up in about a week. Likewise, sixty dollars might get me
lunch... for about a week.
So some people need to stop acting like they paid thousands of dollars for a lifetime subscription to some gold club. You didn't. If you add up Bethesda's operating budget and the number of dollars paid to their programmers, they probably only owed you about 10 minutes worth of effort. With Skyrim, you've got way more than that.
So not only do you have way more from them than they ever owed you in the first place, but you've got way more than $60 will buy you just about anywhere else. You've got the best deal for sixty dollars that you will ever get in your life. Stop acting like you are entitled to more. Compare it to music? You'll be playing Skyrim for years, probably 5 or 6 years. Itunes charges $1 for a song, maybe a little more for the good ones. That's the cheapest that music has ever been in its
history. Could you live for the next six years on sixty songs? Fifty, if you only bought good ones? I didn't think so.
Is the game perfect? Of course not. Nothing is. No single thing ever built by man is perfect. Considering that video games are some of the most complex systems ever conceived by the human mind, I think they've done pretty damned well to get the game operating in millions of different homes in dozens of languages all over the planet. For sixty lousy dollars, that's just damn impressive. That's all I've got to say about that one.
If you disagree, well, whatever.