I am unable to trigger any of the quests that are needed so that I can buy property in Windhelm. I have read and heard that because I have completed the war, that I will be unable to buy the property. I have the option available from the jarls servant or whoever, but he always replys that the house had an accident and is not cleaned up yet. (something similar to that). I will not be able to get the achievement for buying all of the properties. And another glitch I have ran into is that I can not finish/ start quest with the bards college. I have become a member when they lit the dummy on fire, but have not been able to "investigate the bards college" mission.

I just really hope that you can fix the Windhelm glitch because I'm a lvl 45 and really do not want to put another 89 hours into the game to get back to the same position I am in now.

yep once you complete the war on either side the house is unattainable because key players in the 'blood on the ice' quest have died, even a nonessential one is dead 1/2 way through that will kill the quest. though that one isn't needed for the quest he's still part of it, and if he dies... thats the end ( the guy standing next to the one insulting the dark elf when you first come to windhelm ). once the key players are dead, you can't talk to them to do the blood on the ice quest.

I'm not really sure its a bug though... It seems to be quest collision, certain quests being completed before blood on the ice can kill the quest, I've found 4 that interfere with it, I'm pretty sure its the order that quests are being done, as they were most likely tested to follow a pattern through the main plot line. I do blood on the ice before anything else once i escape to prevent any quest collision, it doesn't seem to cancel out any other quest that i've found so far doing it at the very beginning.

Can you elaborate on the 4 quests that kill it?

is there anyway that they can fix this for us? because like I said, Im a level 45 for 89hours into the game... I would hate to have to restart because of this. What happened to their statement saying "even if one of the characters dies that has a certain quest, their sister or brother will take over the quest for them"? That's not the exact statement, but it was something along those lines.

so basically I should have waited to play the game until all of the bugs were fixed so that I could do everything in the game.... I'm pretty sure bug fixing is part of the finalizing process before you ship a game out, I wish they would have done a little better of a job on that. I know you can't fix every bug, but something that effects big quests in the game is inexcusable... I hype this game up so much to all of my friends and I hate it when they come back to me and say, "hey I can't finish these quests, whats going on?" And I all I can tell them now is they need to restart the game and be sure to do certain quests in a certain order...

PC users can resurrect the dead players from the quest line and then reset the quest via the console but far as us xbox users, were pretty well screwed.

far as the quests, 2 dark brotherhood quest cause it to die one main one side quest, joining the storm cloaks and going beyond capturing whiterun cause it to die, same with joining the imperials.

[edit in] on a rare occation doing the viola ring quest before blood on the ice can cause viola to stop coming outside and wandering the streets, though if you go back into her house she's never there.

ya, Ive done about everything to kill the quest without knowing it. I joined the imperial army, finished the war, joined and finished the thieves guild, joined and finished the dark brotherhood, Dont know if ive done the viola ring quest..... its a sad day in Skyrim for my character