this is what scares me the most this is bethesda's previous work (fallout 3 goty was the same) now if they are not satisfied with the game now it must be worse than this which is really scary
yeah, basically they sold us a broken product.
Then promised fixes were coming and then delayed until (suspiciously) just over 90 days from release to give us their 'Magnum Opus' patch. (So after 90 days how easy is it to return items?)
Then we got one more, that BROKE the game (water freezing) and they never addressed it. Think about that for a minute, there were probably thousands of customers with a product utterly broken and perhaps no idea about how to fix it (it was a ps3 user who posted the fix in the forums) and Bethesda did absolutely NOTHING to help its customers. No hotfix, no subsequent patch to ensure playability - just stone silence.
So then they announced patch 1.6 for all platforms. But then it only came to two of the platforms. And the PS3 got dead silence for over two months. We watched DG come and go with basically nothing more than a few thinly veiled insults or patronizing remarks from GStaff.
To me, it seems clear. The product on PS3 is broken and they have just been monkey patching it enough to keep the media at bay. Now DG adds too many new animations so their 'all new engine' simply can not handle it anymore.
If you remember OB was ported by 4j studios, and Beth couldn't apply all the DLCs to the PS3 version. This problem is probably similar in scope - it would have required some engine level changes that should have been considered two or three years ago and simply can't be merged into the mainline engine code now.