Like I said, bethesda has the mindset now " Its ok to make the game have less features, the modders will put them in for us" THe next ES game will be 1.5 gigs, and people will still think that is acceptable.
Yes its a shame too. I remember Oblivion completely unpatched, I played the game like that for a while to because I did not have access to the internet, the game had some slow downs, and that was that games biggest issue.
Then I put in Skyrim thinking the bugs would not be that bad, they die not seem bad at first, then the patches start making things worded it seems they only really fix the quest bugs, ash piles still remain. Patch 1.2 broke resistances and patch 1.3 fixed everything 1.3 broke, but one of those two patches made enemies in front of dungeons stopped respawning. Also one of them patches made my alchemy ingredients stop respawning in places there are random plants that never grow back, there are clusters that never grow back, the plants in towns all of them never grow back. The exploding item bug makes it impossible to decorate your house.
I am ranting not hut I play on 360 without the means to buy a gaming PC right now so I can't fix the bugs myself, I don't know I think Bethesda thinks its ok to slack on their titles now because nobody makes games like them I am hoping that tide shifts soon so Bethesda makes their content great again and properly fixes Skyrim now that Kingdoms of Amalar is out. Then there is Dragons Dogma and Dragon Age 3 in the works. Then they will have open world RPGs to compete with and they can make TES great again. They can fix Skyrim and blow us away with TES VI.