It's just two bugs dude, you can find other things to do and just make a new character for those 2 quests. Doesn't really warrant a refund.

So you've played for 88+ hours, and you're still going to request a refund?

Good lord, 51 people replied to my fruitless rant? I envisioned my OP being like a man screaming into the wilderness, unheard and futile. But lo and behold you all cared!

So, to be fair, I love this game and love Bethesda: in Oblivion my main has completed all the quest lines, the Knights and Sheogorath content, too. But I think that this would not have happened without Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul and the repairs it made to the base game. I ran about 20 mods on Oblivion and don't recall any major bugs despite the fact that Bethesda was uninterested in repairing problems (past a certain point.)

I even waited 4 months to buy Skyrim EXPRESSLY to allow them to put in a few patches. And I stand in complete awe of their achievement in these games, the greatest computer games made so far.

Thus my rage when big quest lines like the Mages College and the Companions are broken. And believe me, I spent hours poring over the internet looking for solutions to either problem, and I did reload and try over - many times. The closest thing to actual advice was to advance the main quest and it might unlock the Mages questline. So I did the main up to Anduin's Wall and returned and DAGNABBIT now there is an iron gate across the walkway when I fast travel to the College. Yadda yadda yadda, whine whine whine. Why should you care?

Anyway, I never had the slightest expectation of Steam refunding my money, but I can't think of another way to register my dismay.

The reality is that I am hooked on Skyrim and will log back in and play, and use the console to skip hunks of content.

Now if anyone actually has any advice on why these damn quests bugged -- please tell me. That would be more useful than telling me to svck it up.

Thanks, everyone.

I'm blessed to have not experiencing any game altering bugs.

A "rant" is never "fruitless".Is the way it is expressed that sometimes is wrong.


even Oblivion -like all Bethesda products so far -had its bugs; perhaps you were "lucky"" then and "unlucky" now...it's a game,it can happens, to everyone.


Only Bethesda can tell you eventually "why" these quests are bugged

however all of us have already tell you the things to do to "avoid" this bugs:

- do extensive research on this forum and the net to find possible solutions

- start a new game/character to do the "broken quests"

- use the console commands if you are impelled to proceed with this character

But no,you prefer instead asking others to do eventually the "job" for you.


Strange,because you've said exactly this on your first post:


You "love the game", played it for 88 hours (and still playing i suppose) "never had the slightest expectation of Steam refunding your money" BUT still you've started a topic here asking for a spurious "refund".

All that i can say is that I'm contrite to have replied to you,even if i was only "ironically" at first glance.

OMG! That Skyrim intervention video was funny. I kinda waiting for that at my house. I hope my wife doesn't see it.

I'm on Xbox at the mo. So far I've come across two bugs, the Bard's College, where it wont allow me to totally finish the quest and has forced me to keep hold of all the instruments, and The Companions, where after finishing a side quest it's stopping me from leaving Jorrvaskr. No big deal. I know both main quests are complete so I simply move on to something else. And if I can do that and get enjoyment out of the Xbox with no fixes, then the PC version must be amazing, especially with the fixes, the mountains of mods available and the possibility to make your own mods and quests! Look at it this way, I got enough enjoyment out of the basic Xbox version that I'm intending to upgrade to the PC version!

Nah, it's not an atrocity.

I've got more than 300+ hours in (probably closer to 500+) and haven't come across a single game-breaking bug.

What you are saying is like a person wanting a refund for a car after he drove it for 5,000 miles because he just realized that the horn and the cigarette lighter don't work.

Wow. Thanks for telling us. We would have thought you were kidnapped!