I'am such a big fan and i think after 40 hours pure pleasureness i can say this IS the best game of this year (for me all time) but i would lying if im saying that this is worth a goty. I think its really out of the competition now. This freaking bug/lag/failure of this game makes it unbelieveble for beeing the "best" game of the year. Im really hoping that bethesda can proof me wrong with an early patch but anyhow i think its unfair, no matter if the patch works, to celebrate this game because there are millions of peoples which have no psn-account or internet on their ps3
It's actually not as common as you might think for someone to not have an internet connection on their PS3. Definitely not in the millions. Probably not even in the hundreds of thousands or the tens of thousands. From what I've seen, it's actually pretty rare in this day and age for any PS3 owner to not have internet access on their console. Only thing I can see is if the person is poor and can't afford broadband or they are in an area where broadband does not exist, i.e. Iraq or something (perhaps stationed in Iraq or Afganistan, that I can see).
So, moral of this story, don't blow things out of proportion.
Anyway. Yeah, if you don't have internet access for whatever reason, your best bet is to wait for the GOTY edition, which will come whether anyone here thinks it's worthy or not.