With the release of 1.2 gamesas is still celebrating in a Hooters near Maryland. In about 4.5 hours one of the team will ask "have you guys seen those forums".

Its more complicated. Saves made with the 1.2 update wont work on 1.1. If they can't get arrount the normal MS/Sony approval process and get a fix out as 1.4 asap - their best move might be to hatch the bets and don't say anything that could effect sales in this critical period. Pulling the patch and leaving players who already updated in the rain as "second class citizens" would be fatal too... (as it could be interprerted as a acknowledgement of fault)

Even a sincere "Sorry, we effed up" might resonate as a "Skyrim broken - says developer" in the publics mind. Wrong timing. Dead wrong timing.

Plenty of folks have complained of the texture issue while playing off the disc, and plenty are still complaining about it after the 1.2 patch, among other small issues...

Please pick up the ball Bethesda, you dropped it.

I don't think they know it is broken just look at the link in my last post. Gstaff just posted that 11 minutes ago.

LMAO.....i dont doubt it mate.....

Actually that's what everyone (including Bethesda) was saying but if you read some forum topics about the issue you would find that playing from the disk didn't solve the texture problem at all. I thought that topic had been beaten to death. There wasn't a work around for the texture problem as many of has stated countless times. The only thing that saved Bethesda last time is almost every major gaming website just took Bethesda on their word, like many others, and believed the game was fine when played from the disk. It was not. Some people had no problems, while others had problems despite what they tried in an effort to fix

I encourage you to read some of the texture problem threads on the forum and you will quickly see it had nothing to do with playing from the disk or not. It astounds me people still claim that playing from the disk solved all problems.

how could a hundred thousand people know this, and not the developers themselves?
theyre just saying "we fixed the texture problem"- they know about the other stuff

like if your car had a flat tire and you left it for repair
and when you got back the body was smashed to ____, but the mechanic said "your tire's been fixed"

Lets hope someone high up at Bethesda has a freak bout of integrity. Hey, it could happen...

I don't know but the fact that Gstaff was promoting 1.2 by making that post today would indicate that at the very least he doesn't know about all the problems.

I am unable to download patch 1.2. I am logged in to my xboxlive account on the dashboard but when I start the game I am disconnected as usual when downloading an Xbox update but the update download does not start and the game continues to the start screen without downloading the patch and I am unable to connect to xboxlive until I go back to my dashboard. So what's up with this? I know the patch is broken but, is my copy of skyrim broken even more because I can't download the update.

Other explanation would be, that they were able to pull the update (sorry early folks ) to prevent further mitigation but I m NOT willing to check.

And yeah, in the age of twitter it seems unlikely for any PR guy of being unaware of such a big scale problem for more than five minutes - regardless of hooters or not. There are alerts for keyword spikes..

The worst part is that the texture issue is not even solved 100%.