http://ps3.ign.com/articles/121/1213194p1.html

There is NO WAY Beth didn't know the PS3 version wasn't gimped. That's a big pool of people to have over 75% reporting problems.

Looking at the numbers, it's easy to see that that 25% that didn't fits nicely into the less than 20 hours and under 5mb save group....this game is [censored] for anyone who actually wants to play the thing as it's intended...

I can assure you all game testing was on the Xbawx.

Wow this is huge, that poll was open for what, like one day? And it had 26000 people vote, 75% of which are experiencing the performance issues (Pete Hines you [censored] liar).

Bethesda should be ashamed to call themselves a video game company, this kind of thing is really going to hurt them. I'm glad the big gaming media is starting to take notice of bethesdas problem filled games

Either that or they knew and just didn't care. Unforgivable laziness that's made Skyrim the magic bean of the gaming world - something potentially wonderful, but ultimately rips you off and leaves you with nothing.

dam right they made too big a deal of their fancy 11 11 11 date rather than produce and release a finished product

and i also hope the world actually understands, the lies they pushed to sell this game then didnt deliver!

maybe they should try to eat their own cake instead of feeding it to every1 else!

Are the community managers going to respond now? Or are they still in hiding?

Wow this is not surprising...
Dammit Bathesda why must you make so many PS3 users sufer this lag D:

They always put in those "rare instances", "few players", "the minority" to save face. There 1.1 patch was a complete flop. Also, why would they bother with those "rare instances" for a day one patch. When we now see what a pile of garbage this game turned out to be performance and stability wise. These games Bethesda releases, are not tested thoroughly or if at all. Every game I have had that has that name Bethesda is a bug infested nightmare. Regardless of the complexity of the game, they have been doing this now for sometime. Yet, it is a new day in the office for them with the same similarity of bug related issues. (Don't worry Beth, the community will fix it for you. The unofficial QA team) since the one you don't have or have is either paid in oreos or volunteers or just non existent. The game should be 40.00US or cheaper then 60.00 since you can pretty much count on the community to finish the other half of the game.

Here Todd Howard quote about him stating they "rigorously" tested Skryim. Which we now know is a load of BS. Also, there isn't anything "on the fly" about the time or length of time these patches or bugs are getting resolved. This entire article was a load of BS and too good to be true.


Before launch, Howard said, Bethesda is testing Skyrim rigorously and more heavily using a system that runs automated versions of the game overnight, searching for bugs and helping the team squash them. "We're getting better at it," Howard said.

Thing is, this isn't only PS3 related. This is affecting the PC as well. Not only is it performance and stability that is the major problems. After that is fixed, the game is plagued with quest bugs, and items floating upwards towards the sky, NPC vanishing right before you, Mammoths dropping out of the Sky and dying. Dragons "STILL" fly through terrain and mountains. Dragon Skeletons re spawn out of nowhere and sometimes right on top of you. The game is a mess. Not to mention that the graphical glitches are a distraction.

/rant over.

Or the people who aren't lagging are too busy playing the game to vote. It's not at all uncommon to see that the people who are upset are FAR more likely to voice their opinion than those who are happy. That's the case in every poll in every industry - you'll always get more feedback from folks who feel like they need to say something.

Though I do wish the patch could hit PSN sooner - it probably would if not for the holiday, but hopefully next week we'll start to see some of these lag problems resolved.

somebody, make sure and link that article through twitter to pete hinds.

Don't kid yourself. People aren't too busy playing to pull away from the game for a minute and cast a quick vote. This isn't brain surgery.

Why do you think the PR would give a crap?

I was thinking that same thing! I don't have a twitter, I would love to see what BS he has to say to that poll.

No kidding, no brain surgery, just a plain and simple fact of existence - people who are happy with the status quo don't go out of their way to vote on anything. That's just the way it is with any type of voting or polling whether in the gaming industry or voting for the president of the country. People who are complacent are statistically far less likely to make the effort, regardless of how easy it is.

I don't get it though. I played New Vegas for around 80 hours and didn't suffer LAG like this at all? Can't comment on Fallout 3 because I played that on the 360.

Chris Avellone is a bro game designer, brah.

Of course they knew. That is why they sent only PC and 360 versions of the game for review.

I think at this point we can all just face facts (This is addressed to the apologists out there as well as the staff at Bethesda) that there is most definitely a major problem with the Playstation 3 version of the game. This goes beyond a small user base experiencing a handful of rare glitches to a game which is fundamentally broken at a coding level. There is really no other way to put this but: Bethesda knowingly released a version of their game Skyrim which was broken and intentionally mislead consumers into buying it with false promises of equal performance on the Playstation 3 that was comparable to the PC and Xbox360.

I am highly doubtful a patch will fix this.

I would also like to take a moment to offer a warning to others here on the forum and ask they spread it to friends who purchased this game on the PS3. By purchasing this game you are entitled to 90 days of protection under warranty however Bethesda put a caveat in the back of the game manual which states the following:

"To be eligible for warranty protection hereunder, you must register at www.gamesas.com within thirty (30) days of purchase. Failure to register within thirty (30) days of purchase shall result in the loss of your warranty protection. Warranty protection is available only to you, the original purchaser. In the event of any questions in this regard, Bethesda Softworks reserves the exclusive right to determine warranty eligibility and appropriate redress, if any."

What this means is if you fail to register the game you give up your rights to make a claim under warranty. It may also impact your ability to take part in a class action lawsuit if one gets filed. Here is the link to their site and the registration section (which is hidden within a subsection of the contact tab. Intentionally if you ask me) http://www.gamesas.com/eng/register.php

It is already the 22nd, that means that there are only 19 days left to register from launch.

REGISTER YOUR GAME, GET YOUR WARRANTY ON RECORD. THEY ARE DELAYING AND DRAWING OUT PATCHES TO LULL US INTO WAITING AND HAVING OUR WARRANTIES LAPSE. DO NOT LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT.

Thank you LizTaylor.

It's not every day you get to thank Liz Taylor. Cherish this moment

What burns my ass is that nobody in charge is communicating with us.

What would you like them to say? "We're still waiting for the patch to be released next week" is about all they could say right now. Really what you mean is, "Nothing anybody says would make me happy because I'm determined to be pissy no matter what."

Also thanks LizTaylor, registered and ready to take action on the inevitable outcome of a permanently broken game...

The sub forums for the Xbox and PC version have DIRECT and official responses stickied at the top regarding specific issues.

The PS3 subforum is barren.

What he and many others would like is a guarantee that this problem will get fixed in the very next patch.