Please don’t mistake my post as disrespect for anyone having troubles. I don't believe anyone is making up their hardships and emphasize with them on their difficulties. However, post after post after post here is slamming Bethesda for negligence. I just wanted to add my voice to the discussion saying not everyone is having issues, and to Bethesda's credit, they have created one of the best games I have ever played. Well, still playing actually.
I've been slamming Bethesda fairly consistent, but I've also stated that I still play the game and more importantly that I
want to play the game. I believe that is truly another artistic masterpiece they've created, but it's hard to appreciate that art in it's entirety when you can't play it fully. I rarely make more than 1 character and max them out or take them all the way through. I did that for FO3, but only to get the Good/Neutral/Evil achievements.
So don't get some of us that slam Bethesda wrong either, Skyrim is still a great game I'm sure. Why? Because we know what it can be when optimized correctly (see the Xbox version, and more so the PC version even before modders get their hands on it). It's just statements that made me want to get this game, like others, about the equal support and how it was optimized to be on par with it's counterparts on another platform were all put out there as hype but what most people experienced makes those statements false and it angers people because they fell they have been lied to. Could it be an honest mistake? Sure it could. However, whether it was hype or an honest mistake, it's intolerable either way because this company has had years now to work with the platform to get things right and when they claim that they have, they still show the same growing ineptitude.
Again, they made a terrific game and they won some awards for it (though if it was solely PS3 awards, they wouldn't have received jack-[censored]). As a consumer, you can only take so much before you say "no more". It starts to cross that line between ignorance which can be forgivable to a point, and arrogance which is never forgivable unless it is deserved arrogance.
I once had a "No Fear" t-shirt that said "Not Arrogant, Just Good" on it. If you really are "just good", you're not really arrogant, but Bethesda seems to maintain that status that they are that good, but on the PS3 they're not and it turns itself into arrogance.