Now this is still based on here-say and rumours, so I post it here to be on the safe side. But from what I understand, they don't pause the game when you talk to people (as seen in the videos) or when you craft (either blacksmithing or alchemy) which is great and a lot more immersive.

Yet apparently the game still pauses when reading or lock picking like in Oblivion. I find this a bit immersion breaking, maybe nit picking as usual, but I have always wished to be able to sit down in a tavern, bring forth a book and read it with the tavern sound and music in the background, and not just a paused menu.

Same with lock picking, it would be so much more exiting if we where trying to open a door before the guard approaches during his regular patrol. Kind of like the thief series.

Still maybe I got it wrong, but I really hope for something like that for this game now that they have understood the concept of an actively moving world around you.

Same here .... if they have let such crap in its trully lame.

A lot of people say this.

Personally it doesn't really bother me, but I can understand why people don't like it

It's not immersion breaking for me. When you go to the menu the game pauses as well. I would find it hard to see everything around you when in the Skyrim lockpicking mode so why would it be in real time? When reading a book the book is right in front of you so why would the devs make that real time.

I know lockpicking you can't change your immersion but when reading a book you can only read it in your home or your room in an inn so distractions will not come into play.