Hello, I recently purchased Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim for the PS3, and after I got about 40 hours into the game, it began to suffer from severe drops in framerate to the point where it is unplayable. I researched this online, and found that it is a widespread problem that occurs after you've gotten so far into the game.

This problem was evidently also in Bethesda's Fallout games, specifically in the DLC, so it is nothing new. I was wondering if Sony was aware that games were being sold for the console that were not able to be played to completion. This is a blatant rip-off of Sony's consumer base.

I own an Xbox 360, and a PS3. From now on I will probably be more likely to purchase multi-console games on the Xbox 360. The Elder Scrolls game does not have this issue on the 360.

Also, Bethesda has come out and said they are working on a patch to fix a texturing issue on the Xbox 360, and some performance issues on PC's, with no mention of the problems the PS3 version is suffering from.

I was just wondering if Sony was aware of this issue affecting your consumer base, and if there was anything you planned on doing about it. I wasted 60 dollars on a game which I cannot play through to completion. I cannot get a full refund on the game from Gamestop because I have opened it and played the game. The best I could do is trade it in for a partial refund. This is a blatant rip-off. There is no way Bethesda could have missed such a widespread game-ending glitch in their testing process.

They replied with they are aware of the issue and a patch is on the way, they went on to say that it is a problem with how the game is caching and retriveing game save data and the patch should fix it.

They also said they are awaiting SCEE to approve the hotfix.. so it looks like it's already on the way.
They advised me to re-install the game aswell, but of course i tried this and it doesn't help.

Beth are aware of the Lag/Stuttering issues on the PS3 version, they have stated that the issue lies with the memory cache as save file become larger and they have also stated that a fix has been produced and that it is with Sonys QA department.

This is from an email to Beth Customer Support:



FWIW, Sony have never cared about the state of games on their platform and they have consistently displayed no interest in pleasing their customer base by taking their side and ensuring that developers/publishers bring usable titles to the PS3. It's harsh but don't waste your time chasing Sony about it, their usual line will be "It's not our problem, contact the game maker for support", thus burying their heads up their own arses. FYI, I've been down this road with Sony before.

^ It's from a member on the PS3 EU Official Forums. I trust this member.

Interesting. I learned from the PSN outage, that the EU branch of Sony/Playstation does communicate a lot better to customers questions than the US branch. It just makes me wonder why Bethesda hasn't said anything officially. If they're aware of the issue and a patch has been sent to Sony QA, they should be shouting it from the rooftop to comfort the publics fears.