Fessels wrote:What Bethesda also needs to get rid of is their track record of releasing buggy games.
Agreed ++. This is part of the monopoly on open world games that I mentioned. They have never really had competition in the area so if people want to play these type of games the only choice really is Bethesda games, bugs included.
A lot of people keep saying that problems only occur when one uses mods and may be true of players who don't know what they are doing, but for the rest of us, it's quite untrue. The vanilla game is still buggy and I would have been even more angry if I had a console and has to use one of those versions since there's no USKP to the rescue. Heck, the USKP team are still working on bugs as evidenced by the latest release and long changelog.
After my Skyrim experiences I'm pretty sure I won't be rushing to buy the next game as I have the others on release day. By the time TES6 is released there may very well be other open world games to rival them.
Some of the blame has to go to the lawyers and "money" men, but in my opinion when a company signs a contract
to do certain things, like the DLC releases for consoles first deal with MS and set date releases, they only have themselves to blame. The competition to be top dog AAA developers and to make as much cash as possible despite knowing the product is, in some cases very faulty, is inexcusable. Not to mention patches that make things even worse...AKA backward flying dragons etc.
Another thing that gets me is the apologists who say "it's a huge game" there are bound to be issues which is true, but that's also on the developers. They chose to create it, so they are responsible for making sure it works out of the box or with as few "working" patches as necessary. And not abandon the support when there are still problems, ie the 1.9 patch, which as far as I'm concerned is bad business practice.
Games being what they are and having to support many different PC configs has always been imperfect, but most, not all, but most companies at least patch their games properly or they used to before money became the biggest concern before customers. I have no time for their excuses when I'm paying for a product I don't really own and have to play through a 3rd party platform. I don't really have anything against STEAM, but it shouldn't be necessary.
Trouble is people have short memories and you can bet many of the complainers about the previous games, especially Skyrim in my case, will be lining up for the next. Not me though. My memory is fine.