I'm talking about the ones you can avoid and help to prevent.

Talos Amulet, Bard Items, taking things before you have the quest, and a bunch of others things.

Within the past month, I have only had 1 freeze. And I play on PS3.

I'm not sure if my game is buggy because I mod so much, or because the game is naturally buggy...

Skyrim is a massive game, by all rights it should have more bugs. Bethesda did a good job.

It's a Bethesda game. So the answer is rather obvious. I myself, experience very few bugs in their games though.

Fair point but i still think that just because the previous ones were buggy and this one is as well (and i have played the previous ones) is less the cause for celebration that they are continuing a trend, rather than a cause for regret as in why are they still continuing this trend. Admittedly i may have taken my frustrations with life in general out on the one poster and for that i apologise but not for my more general point. Bugs are there to be fixed not ignored or even worse added to. Just because they always have done does not justify continuing to do so, yes its a big game i know all of that, so in some ways i think it even more important to get it right-wider audience yes.

Considering that Beth cram vastly more content into their games, more bugs might be expected, but thankfully they are not. Microsoft, bless them, are not entirely innocent in game mishaps either. With such variations in computer setups and how they are used and become corrupted, it is an achievement of the game Skyrim that it runs so well.

(It's not only me then that is having trouble sometimes working with the forum. )

Same here. Except for an occasional crash two or three times a month SKYRIM is virtually flawless

Very true.

Aside from the reality that a game of Skyrim's size may well have bugs, etc etc (insert your favourite apologist reason), the fact is that video games make a sh*tload of money, and it is now an industry standard to 'release - then patch later'. The reality of this is that for the first twelve months or so there is some level of support to the game, essentially till the next best biggest game hits the media and the marketting pressure is off and the Steam sales start, and then the support is dropped.

Until we gamers actually stand up and say "[censored] this...produce a decent workable product", nothing will change. In Australia, there is currently a review of digital download pricing being conducted by our federal government, part of that includes the issue of buggy released games, and indications are that there may be laws introduced requiring game developers/distributors to lower prices based on the region inflated ones they have now (aussies get charged a lot more because our standard of living is higher), poor stability release history of certain companies, and lack of consumer protection for video game players.

In many ways, the video games industry are the robber barons of the 21st century, basically being a law unto themselves simply because there are ineffective consumer laws in place to deal with programme content.

My personal opinion is that it would be more accurate to say that we have probably not noticed when we have encountered many of the bugs in these games. I know from experience that a number of glitches are likely to escape my attention unless I already know ahead of time what is supposed to happen. Just reading the long list of things fixed by the unofficial patches for these games is an eye-opener for me. Even after playing a game for hundreds of hours I find myself saying, "Wow. I didn't know that was supposed to happen."