A little bit of clarity, in an easily digestible format: http://trenchescomic.com/tales/10249


or if you don't like to link....


"The Reality of the Situation.
11/08/2011 - Anonymous
I work for one of the largest publishers in world, and they treat the development of games as a machine (which I believe is representative of many testing environments). The issue with these policies is that it systematically breeds a disdain for actually assuring (or ensuring) quality.

In the last few months of testing, 95% of bugs will be marked WNF (“Will Not Fix”). The idea is that fixing a bug could cause a new bug, and if the bug is not high severity, it’s not worth the risk. So if the project is running longer than planned, most low-severity bugs (and some mid-severity bugs) get ignored. Of course, the project always runs longer than planned, because the producer’s goal is to cram every game into a one year development cycle, even if it really should have been a two or three year game.

What makes matters worse is that many of the producers running things used to be QA Testers. These are the ones who stuck with it for years. Usually they have an easy-to-get-along with personality, a good record of being on time, a decent record with bugs and a tendency to not complain. These are the guys who took the eventual QA mantra, “Ship it!” to heart.

“Ship it!,” by the way, means “[censored] it.” It’s the realization that after enough trials and tribulations, you just don’t care about the quality of the game anymore because the game NEEDS to get out the door (or so says the folks upstairs).

Testers are still judged by their bug counts (though some leads will try to say otherwise to their testers), even when the bugs won’t be fixed. So the grunts are still expected to cover QA’s collective ass by entering everything they find, presumably to convince the higher-ups that we’re actually working. The result is a sense that your job… your high-overtime job, and therefore your life… has no purpose. It’s just you and the guy next to you, yelling at screens, finding and entering bugs that won’t be fixed, in a soul-crushing room the color of bile and [censored], trying to earn $9.50/hr. In Los Angeles, where $9.50 might buy you lunch, and a month’s worth of pay might cover your rent, if your parents are very generous in what they charge you."

Sound a little sour there... u mad?

Figured I would ask this (I don't have my game yet), but to the people having this issue have you by chance installed the game on the 4GB slim models?

A lot of ppl that reported this problem have 250GB slim ones.
I dont think it matters what console model is in question, they are all designed to work same with same components (with small tweaks to newer versions for less overheat risk and so on).

We're looking into it. Something to clear up is this has nothing to do with whether you install to the hard drive or not.

so just to clear this up, its NOTHING to do with if you install to HDD or not? sorry for sounding stupid but i am hearing 101 different theories on this!

OK, I wasn't going to believe it until I saw the gametrailers review, they had it bad, they even gave the game a low score because of it

I hope they gonna fix it VERY SOON.......

This is a real problem. I see it first hand since yesterday. And u can′t find any Videos because the release is on 11.11.11.
No one likes to get banned from Youtube.

It′s a shame to Walk around this Beautiful World and see alot of things blurry and bad. (If u Install to HDD, but not everybody wan′t to have the game
running from CD for Hours and Days!!!! Especially You Guys with the Older XBOX 360)

And the Snow on Stairs and Walls looks HORRIBLE. It looks like if its White painted. That can′t be final.

Another Good example is, when you open the Inventory and look at Weapons or Armour,
then one time the Item looks blurry and bad and like 30 minutes later the same item looks great with all textures loaded.

When the Majority of u guys get the hands on the game today, u will be shocked!!!
Install it and see for yourself. This Disaster is a Must See.
This needs to be fixed ASAP.

Alright guys, took the time to do some testing and take some pics. This is NOT to diss Bethesda, I'm just trying to help getting this issue fixed. I have no blurry textures when playing from the disc, on a Xbox360 slim. Here's what I got:

Right after installing the game to the HDD. Very blurry textures, very clear to me that this is just an issue where a certain layer of texture detail isn't loaded

[img]http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6054/6333487069_6df06d8b72_o.jpg[/img]

[img]http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6047/6333487083_119684f9ac_o.jpg[/img]

[img]http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6057/6333487099_3601b98770_o.jpg[/img]

After clearing the cache, problem persists

[img]http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6044/6333487129_86a0727622_o.jpg[/img]

[img]http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6055/6334241006_bc483c52d3_o.jpg[/img]

Then removed the installed game data and playef off the disc. At first startup, the textures remained the same, but after playing for about 10mins and visiting some other areas, and then returning to the same place, I got this:

[img]http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6055/6333487195_570ff74329_o.jpg[/img]

[img]http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6239/6333487219_1cfcd485f0_o.jpg[/img]

[img]http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6094/6334241116_5093631829_o.jpg[/img]



Come on Bethesda, just acknowledge this is an issue you guys are aware of and looking into. This is SO obvious that I didn't even have to LOOK for certain textures to be off, it's right there in my face. If you need any more extra info or testing to be done, let me know.

Don`t want to doubt anyone but if this real and as wide spread a problem as it sounds, Why can I only find two pictures of it on the internet.

1) a chair
2) sword and the hand

I just saying with problems like this there are normally 100 youtube videos up in a couple of hours.

Maybe I just can`t find them.

What do you guys think?