the way this game functions and the quality of the product this company produces is classical in western countries. Corporations are putting out crappy products not to please the customer but to please their pocket books. If you do not like it well thats too bad. Try suing us or stop buying our product, we don't care. They sure spent a bundle on advertising to get all of us to buy this joke of a game but when it comes to testing the game "we need to release this quickly for faster revenues"! Then with our customers as game testers we will fix it so it is playable......save a bundle in the meantime.

Now with that said where the heck is this fix?????!!!!!! Oh we have to have Microsoft test the patch and verify it....... well then why in the hell didn't Microsoft test the game and verify it works before they allowed Bethesda to release it? They got to verify a patch but not the game? Every game I have from Bethesda like Oblivion, Fallout 3 , Fallout 4 all have major glitch problems where a person with weeks of playing cannot finish them. I think it is time this company gets their products together and caters to us as consumers. We deserve an apology and a discount! Otherwise I will go back to Best Buy and [censored] so loud they will give me my wasted money back. I have waited patiently now for weeks after this game froze to get this partial fix and still only a vague timeline on the release and no apology for this company wasting millions of hours of ITS CUSTOMERS TIME!

So.

Once upon a time, I pre-ordered the game. I think it was January. Anyways, it was a long time before it was 100% official. Boy was I ever excited.

On launch day, I showed up right when the store opened, picked up my copy of the collector's edition, and went home and played. First session was thirteen hours with a couple stops for food. Save my game, hit they hay, wake up the next morning...boom. Save file won't load. Something about the DLC. Spent TWO FULL DAYS trying to figure it out, checked if it was the Xbox...you know, the whole nine yards.

Boy was I pissed. Pissed enough, even, to sign up on these forums to complain!

However, I then discovered that there were about eight million people on here, and every single one of them was whinier than I was. God, reading all of their posts about how they were "going to return the game" and "never buy a Bethesda game again" got annoying really, really quickly. By the end of a few of them, I just wanted to track these people down and hit them until they realized that their concerns were not unique and stopped posting this useless crap on the internet. In the end, no: I did not post my experience on the forum.

You know what I did instead? I reloaded my last save, skipped the quest that caused the problem, and kept playing. And you know, I haven't run into another of the 'common' game-breaking bugs. I'm now 50 hours in, utterly and completely entertained, and haven't even really seen that much frustration since then.

You can definitely sit and be super-upset about how they're "wasting your time" because you "can't even play the game," but the 360 version really isn't that bad right now. I don't know if it's the patch or what, but a lot of the stuff people were complaining about doesn't seem to have struck me. Even the Vaults and quests around the Vaults haven't managed to break my game. So, I think that instead of wasting your time, which you seem to value so highly from the tone of your post, writing a message expressing your frustration on the internet, you should probably just be working around the issues that are there until they're patched. The devs have been nice enough to give you a heads up that a patch IS on the way, which is more than you'd get from any other company in my experience, despite the general tone that you're all super-pissed at the "lack of communication."

Life is not that bad, and I guarantee you that if you had $60 to spend on New Vegas in the first place, it's not the difference between life and death if it takes a little while for them to iron out all the kinks.

I'm going to guess that you can [censored] all you want, instead of getting your money back you'll be dragged out of the store by security/the police. Also, you wasted your own time. They didn't waste anything. You're the one who plays hours upon hours of video games instead of helping out at soup kitchens or giving that $60 to charity or saving it to invest later, and spending your time on something that's actually productive to society.

Also, this isn't a bug or a glitch, why are you posting this here? Go play a different game, wait another week or two, this patch will be out by the time you're done a different game, and it will still be an amazing game. I'm not defending Bethesda or Obsidian nor do I work for them, you're right that the product should have worked perfectly out of the box. But it doesn't, they're making it as right as possible, just be patient.

Think of it this way... it would have taken them a couple more months to catch all these bugs anyway, so if you have to wait a couple more months to play the game this SHOULD have been, nothing is lost or gained. The only thing Bethesda/Obsidian are guilty of is releasing this too early and not managing expectations properly. Think of it this way:
- If a Mechanic tells you your car will be fixed in a day, and it takes a week, you'd be angry.
- If a Mechanic tells you your car will be fixed in a week, and it takes two days, you'd be really happy.

This is a similar situation. They released the game too early. If they had said "the game will be out Q1 2011", then it came out in mid December with far less of these glitches (at least the major game breakers gone, a game this size they'll never catch or fix every single one, plus they won't anyway), you'd be thrilled.

Also, there are far bigger QA issues in the world to worry about than a $60 video game. Did you know there's an acceptable amount of feces allowed in the process of beef packaging and distribution? It's not 0%. If you eat beef, you eat **** every day. Don't cry about a video game.