Games like Oblivion, fallout 3 and even morrowind had their major bugs addressed...well maybe not morrowind, but im still able to play through the entire game. Some minor annoyances exist in these games, but all in all i got more than my money's worth when i think of all the hours i put into these titles. I'd estimate about 1,500 hours. I

This has been going on with Bethesda forever. They need to learn that it's costing them money. I've told all my friends who like the Fallout series to hold off because it isn't worth full price. Luckily for me I got plenty of preorder deals and had plenty of credit so the game didn't cost me much. Dealing with bugs should be common sense. If you're going to release a buggy game, at the very least you should be prepared to deal with those bugs. I mean Bethesda itself was bad enough in the bug department. But farming out to a B team like Obsidian they should know they're going to be buggy with the track record they've had. Bethesda really needs to work on a system of taking in bugs, making lists of known bugs, prioritizing and patching them. If they were better at catching the bugs and correcting them, it'd help them in pre and post-release development. You don't just release a game or any kind of software and never touch it again. That's just a basic rule of software engineering.

you know the [censored] has hit the fan, when they release a patch days after the release and it makes the game worse or no better then before. :facepalm: