I don't appreciate that I had to pay 60 bucks to practically beta test Fallout New Vegas. Don't get me wrong, it will be a great game when most of the bugs are worked out, but it's wrong that you decided to lower you beta testing budget so you could release an unfinished game. Just because you have the ability to patch your games doesn't mean it shouldn't be reasonably playable at launch. I mean, I can understand a game having a few glitches here and there... but when there are this many game ruining/breaking glitches it is simply unacceptable.

I understand you are all working hard on fixing the bugs as I type this, but that isn't going to make it ok in for everyone who got the game at launch. The game shouldn't have been in this state in the first place. I'm sure most people would agree that it would have been better to push back the release date a few months instead of being tricked into buying an unfinished game.

My question to Bethesda/Obsidian is, how do you plan on reimbursing us?
Personally, I'd settle for the first DLC being free to everyone, as long as it isn't as buggy as the game is right now. That's sounds reasonable to me.
Just don't think you can get away with not doing anything for reimbursemant, that is unless you want your reputation as a game developer becoming permanently tarnished in the eyes of the entire video game community.

Well I doubt that'll happen, it didn't after the loads of instability Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion, and Fallout 3 had on Bethesda's side, and I don't think Obsidian is well-known for stable releases, either.

i know that this is an open letter to gamesas and obsidian and all, but...it's an open letter so it's open to reply i guess.

you did post this on the ps3 section of the forums. it'd be great if they gave everyone the first DLC for free (which they won't) but if you're more than happy waiting then get used to it. even if they did give it to us, ps3 users wouldn't see that free content for at least 6 months after everyone else does. i'm actually more pissed off about that than i have been about the bugs and glitches, since i don't see most of them.

You're right they they probably won't, but they still should. Yeah, they would lose money... but they need to be held financially accountable for releasing an unfinished game to the market one way or another; be it giving everyone free DLC or something else as payment for us testing (not truely playing) their game.

As for DLC they haven't announced anything yet, so you can't be certain that PC and 360 will get it first like fallout 3 or oblivion.

Well, this is what happens when you put a game like this on an Engine that's Out-Dated and seems more like GameCube or PS2 Tech. The Havoc Engine is an outdated fossil of an engine, and Bethesda should quit using it. Every game that uses Havoc has an insane amount of glitches and bugs.

Yeah, Havoc is pretty lame. IMO it would be cool if they used the Euphoria engine, the engine that runs GTA4, Red Dead Redemption, Star Wars: TFU 1 & 2.