Hundreds of hours with Skyrim, my 1st character was a fail, my 2nd character used glitches and made the game too easy and now my 3rd character who is leveling up with no exploits, a level 40 illusionist, completed the CoW and Companions guilds, and has yet to finish the MQ.

I never met up with Dalphine in Riverwood, no dragons have attacked me. I intend on finishing the MQ eventually but am having more fun with no annoying dragons swarming at the worst possible time. And honestly, the guilds and side quests seem more interesting then the MQ.

In all my time in skyrim, with all my different characters, I've finished the companions once and mages college quests once....that's it

Yes, me. Frankly I'm bored with this questline. I find the thieves and dark broz more interesting. I'll finish it some day though just out of curiosity, but I expected more from the writers @ Bethesda.

Yep not playing skyrim atm got quite far but have never finshed the MQ as i have restated a few times

I got about 250 hours on my main character and still have yet to complete the main quest. Only through untagged spoilers do I know what happens.

Kudos to you guys, I envy you for not feeling the urge to complete the MQ, you are certainly enjoying the game more than I did so far.

I prefer doing the MQ as soon as possible because people have a general habit of not heeding our rules regarding spoilers, especially in thread titles. Plus internet/idiot friends. I'd rather beat it before someone inevitably spoils it for me.

Yes, me. I've only played a good 450 hours and found the main quest underwhelming.