Skyrim is my most anticipated game of all time, but i have lost ALL the buzz and excitement due to extremely annoying bugs that should have been easily fixed. Before the Bethesda defence force flame me let me say I am not one to complain about things, design choices do not bother me as they have a right to do what they want with their own game,but releasing an extremely buggy game just to hit a release date with a lot of elevens does irk me and totally destroy my enthusiasm for this game. I hate having the game but being unwilling to play it due to bugs and broken quests. Two bugs on the 360 that annoy me the most are the texture bug and the arrow stuck in the head bug. The reason they annoy me so much is if any of the developers or QA testers (which it is their JOBS) actually just played the game, they must have found these bugs pretty easily and fixed them for release. I am a paying customer who expects a quality product, and the game looks amazing but having bugs and glitches everywhere is not a quality product. We are not your QA testers Bethesda, we want the finished article that we have paid for. Let me just say i love your games Bethesda, i think you are the best developer out there as you make games you enjoy, but please for the love of god invest more money and manhours into bug testing. I hate having the game and not wanting to play it and having the hype and excitement ripped out of me. For future titles Bethesda, please do not release a game until most bugs are fixed, it really damages your reputation.

They will promptly release patches.

It's just the way Bethesda work, their games have so much content it's quicker for their user base to find bugs than their testers.

I still can't accept that though as we have paid for the game, we are not getting paid to play a faulty product to find fixes for them. Dragon Age 2 was another game like this that i couldn't play for about a month due to horrible bugs and broken quests.

The reason you are so disappointed is that you were so hyped

Why don't people understand that relationship? They build up a thing in their own heads, they anticipate it for a while, they imagine all sorts of things about what they will do when they get it, how it will be, they see little sneak peeks that they use to build up their preconceived notions and then the thing is in their hands! O, Happy Day!!!

And then reality kicks your shins- nothing could ever live up to the way you cranked it up in your head. You don't have what you imagined it to be. You have what they really made.

Bugs? You don't deserve them.

The Open Letter to Bethesda? The one you typed up, above? It's a tool that many people use to vent their frustrations. Chiding them on putting more man-hours into the game. OK fine, you know the level of effort better than I do. Or they do, probably.

What many (understandably) fail to grasp us Skyrim is a game that will not last forever, eventually we will get bored of Slyrim, when we accept that, more than likely we will probably enjoy greater than we did even with the hype.

Don't get me wrong, I'm excited, but I realize it's not going to last.

And besides, if there are no bugs in a game as HUGE as Skyrim, something is wrong, Becuase it's either not the full game or it's too good to be true.

No it isn't that I am sure Skyrim is amazing and my hype was justified. Bugs and glitches were not in my hype train. They currently ruin the game in my opinion. Buggy releases seem to be getting more and more common and i think it is the worst way to screw over your most loyal fans, the ones who buy your game day one or have it pre-ordered months in advance are stuck with the chore of finding bugs for them and trying to find your own workarounds to things that shouldn't even be there in the first place.

I believe the arrow will dissapear given time.

Another bug I have noticed is that stores will not unlock if you are looking at them.
If I wait in front of a store until opening time, and watch the door, it will remain locked.

If I turn my back for a second, it is mysteriously open suddenly.

Slightly takes me out of my immersion, pretending the shop owner sneakily dashed into the shop when I had my back turned for the time it takes to take a 360 degree turn.

But, as other posters have said, I am sure that these kind of minor things can and will be patched shortly.

Excuse me i never said this game will last forever, I am very aware it will end and i am sure the game is amazing. My point is about the huge amount of bugs that are present upon release, it just isn't acceptable really.

That sounds strange, but the arrow bug someone was playing for 10hours with the arrow stil in their head from 10 hours ago. These sort of bugs would have easily been found just due to a normal playthrough, and the texture bug which makes things look DISGUSTING. Did bethesda QA test this game at all? These are not complex issues and hard to come across. They come across in a general playthrough.

svcks to be you, i'm having a blast at the moment.

Personally I have absolutely no regrets purchasing this game and would heartilly recomend it to anyone thinking about getting it. I went throgh the barrow dungeon and man what an awesome experience that was, and I relaize OMG! that's only the first dungeon. Not to mention catching salmon in the waterfall and the water looks AMAZING! I can't wait to see what else the game has in store as what I've seen would be like an asteroid compared to the solar system. No kidding. Get IT!

I guess my point is I bought this game and was really excited for it, I just want things to run correctly how they are supposed to, is that really too much to ask of a product i have bought?

elderscroll games have always released with a long list of bugs, they are far more expansive and have more details to be covered that there is alot of room for bugs to fall through the cracks. with steam atleast the updates will be swift, i believe there was one already although idk what it was for, unlikely they would have fixed bugs so soon.

The typical young boy Bethesda Defense Force comment. So you are happy for games to get increasingly buggy upon release and not to be able to finish quests in the game due to broken quest lines and bugs? I suppose you do because ''BethEsDa iz da bezteST EvaaarrRRr!111!1''

But when every single PC player seems to have the same bug, for example the one where your favorites stop working if you change the key bindings, then that's not a case of a bug that was hard to find but a case of Bethesda employees being to lazy to attempt changing the keys a single time on the current version of the game.

They need to test the game on PC too, not only on the xbox 360.

I am aware of this my friend, it is just the arrow bug and the texture bugs are some pretty general easy bugs to find. It is not a complex turn of events that was overlooked by the QA department. My question is with bugs so simple to find did they QA test this game at all? Or are they leaving it to their loyal paying fanbase to QA test the game for them?

Trust me, the Xbox360 version does not seem thoroughly tested either.

Bethesda actually has a tendency to release some seriously broken games. Skyrim, by comparison, is actually very well worked out. I havnt ran into anything that's stopped me, or even bothered me. The worst i've seen in my 7 hours thus far, was some guy i was fighting with got hung up on a rock and a single CTD. Oh well. Oblivion crashed every 30 minutes, fallout 3 was just as bad, and each had more problems then a math book. If your surprised, i'm sorry. Any one could have honestly told you there would be release bugs.

I dont agree with bethesda's methods of using their user base as a mass bug tester, but everything said and done, they make some of the best western RPG's out there.

Yes they do, they are my favourite developers, but this having to pay to bug test their games thing is getting rather old and extremely disappointing.

I've played about 3.5 hours now and I haven't found many bugs yet.

You bought a Bethesda game and didn't expect bugs? BWHAHAHAHAHA, BWHAHAHAHAHA....

You will, I would bet my mortgage on it.

Only bug i've found was a flickering shadow close to a book. And a npc who was stucked in a wall for a short time. Nothing really important.

Propably you should put your magnifying glass away and play the game?

Have you never played another Elder Scrolls game or Fallout 3? Pretty common knowledge that their giant worlds are buggy. They are usually decent at realeasing patches that fix at least the major bugs.

Trust me mate, you don't need magnifying glass to see the arrow stuck in your head for 10 hours or the DISGUSTING textures on the 360.