I have been playing, and enjoying Skyrim since launch with little to no issues. The Xbox 360 texture thing was a little irritating but it was patched out. This bug was game breaking for me and I am DEMANDING a refund. I stumbled upon the quest "House of Horrors" and the apparently "known" bug happened to me where after the dialog, you are stuck in the house permanently and there is an odd color smearing affect and the world is shaking. After reloading another save, the problem kept up even though the quest had not been completed AKA not activating the bug. This happened to ALL of my save files causing me to be unable to progress any further. I have already sent in a ticket to CS and will be following up via telephone to DEMAND a refund as it says on the back page of the manual I am entitled to as a consumer. This is crazy. It's one thing to have a game with a few hicls here and there but when you release a game for people to spend their heart earned money on for it to bug out to the point where you can not progress any further thats when I draw the line. It is so heartbreaking that such a brilliantly put together game was ruined by techincal issues such as this. I will NEVER buy ANYTHING Bethesda puts out ever again. So spend the money and time on a game only to have it come to a complete stone cold stop half way through is crazy!

It's a real shame this game makes so many people angry... but, thanks for the tip anyway. I will make frequent saves on a USB key, and for fun do that quest (on a HDD savegame) and see if the same thing happens.
Worst case, delete Skyrim, clear the HDD cache, re-install and reload the save before "House of Horrors" from the USB key.

Great job, where are your saves outside the house?

If you had read the post, you would have known they are affected as well.

All of my save files were affected.

First: You're "demand" for a refund will go unheard unless you take your copy back to the retailer where you bought it. Even then you'd be better off just going for store credit.

Second: svcks to be you, but this is not happening to everyone. It's not even happening to a majority of people. I'm on my third or fourth character now, and I've completed this quest in every game, and with every character (the Mace just looks boss! ). Never once has this quest glitched/bugged on me, its never even farted while loading up.

I understand that you may be a little upset that you can't finish the quest, but your reaction/"demand" merely comes across as an immature temper-tantrum. Frankly, if it did "corrupt" all of your saved games, then don't load all of them up and take each successive save into the House... this isn't that difficult of a concept, and probably is what you did but aren't telling us just to save face.

"I'll never buy anything Bethesda makes again!!!"

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Ok. Have fun missing out on the epicness that will be their future games. as well as Skyrim once they get the bugs lined out. You're only depriving yourself, and your actions/12-year-old rant/temper-tantrum are only affecting you. You haven't/won't affect Bethesda Softworks (or ZeniMax Media for that matter) even in the slightest little bit.

Futility svcks doesn't it?

Just please, grow up. Your ranting does nothing but make you look immature, and ensures that you are proving the popular stereotype that most people have towards CoD fans (creative name BTW... think that up yourself? ). Being upset is one thing, but your rant goes into a whole new realm of mediocrity.

i got to ask but how are all your saves effected, i have auto saves and proper saves on mine so just how could you have ever save messed up on one quest.
or are you one of the people who saved there game while falling though the ground on fable3, they always made me laugh.


youll be missed and good luck.

lol Pew, pew, pew. pew pew. Loving the shoot out guys. Everyone is entitled to their opinion (however they voice them).

Try and play nice or don't play at all.

I am sorry if you can't fix the problem though, then you money was wasted. As for character time, I would hate to have to re create my guy but lets be fair, we all make plenty of characters anyway. MY advice. If you fix it make a new game and play something you never would have before, like and Orc mage called Dandy. That wears only a loin cloth. It can be really refreshing. Ow, and avoid the aptly named house of horrors. Good Luck

Man, its like we're banging our heads against brick walls with people who don't want to listen to reason and just assume that no game ever made should ever have bugs like those other games that don't exist!

When you have a massive sandbox RPG like the masterpiece that Bethesda have created it is IMPOSSIBLE to test every single part of the game, every single weapon, every single route to an objective, every single action and reaction to performing a quest, every single enemy encounter. Given that neither myself nor anyone else I know as well as many other players around the world who have played this same quest have had any issues with it at all its safe to assume that neither did Bethesda during testing, therefore they had no reason to suspect such an issue existed which is why it wasn't discovered and you have experienced it.

Also I would like to question whether or not you turned off your console during the game autosaving as this can cause save file corruptions in any game, not just Skyrim.

You want a refund because that specific quest is broken? Forsworn conspiracy is broken on 3 of my characters, and I cant become thane of the Rift because its broken.

Never buy another Bethesda game? dude, I've played Oblivion, Brink, Fallout 3 and RAGE - have not had a single bug in any of those games. I experience very little bugs in Skyrim, but surely doesn't make me weep in any way.

Also as you seem to be the sort of person who believes that demanding something means you will definitely get it then maybe you should demand a tissue for your issue

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im thane of rift didnt have any problems, just thought i would chuck that in.

As compensation for these issues I demand Bethesda immediately provides a baseball cap with their logo on it as an ingame item through DLC at no cost to the customer.

Oh look yet another drama queen whiny nerd that spent the last of the money his mom gave him on skyrim. You sound like an idiot. Demanding a refund, hah, Bethesda could care less if you buy there games. Actually do us all a favor and never buy a Bethesda game again,like you threatened to.

same here. as well as the Thieves' Guild armor which I was allowed to sell and didn't know I needed it. No longer can finish the Thieves' Guild.

Hi,

You say you tried your other saves?
Did you try exiting Skyrim, closing down and re starting XBox, clearing cache then try an older save?
I've already seen issues with reloading older saves during the same session doesn't always completly re set back to that save.
Typical examples are shop keepers not re setting etc. Maybe the color smearing is another thing that doesnt re set on loading an older save?

I suggested closing down and re starting along with cache clearing in case Skyrim is still 'remembering' the smearing from the cache etc.
Its anoying when a quest screws up in the middle and stops you going forward or back but, hopefully, an older save will work after resetting etc?

People like this guy ^ make TES community the WORST gaming community I've ever seen. Instead of joining your fellow gamer and sympathizing with them for getting screwed by a company for selling a broken unfinished game you side with Bethesda and encourage their bad behavior.

I think the guy who posted this has ever right to be mad and demand a refund, maybe if you fan boys had any balls we could get Bethesda to admit they screwed up and try to make it right.

"just another fan boy here to lick Bethesda's boot, good job."

Haha...yeah, people like that guy make it a terrible community. Nevermind the chest pumping "blah blah blah I demand refund blah blah blah" people. I guess it's the cool thing to do these days. Impress fellow posters with your power by demanding things. Tell me how anything in the business world gets accomplished by simply rude demands? Those making posts like that have a lot to learn about how the world works. Public school fail in action.

That can't be right...

You say fellow Gamer like we're in a Union or something. I've got no problems with Unionized Labor or Workforces, but explain to me where the idea of International Gamer Patriotism comes from.

If Skyrim is as "broken and unfinished" as you claim, then apparently you haven't played Dark Souls. That game's atrocious! It badly needs patches/Title Update to fix the glitching (like through the floor so you fall to your death, etc.). But their Devs have said repeatedly that there won't be any updates or DLC. As in, at all.

Now I'm not slobbing on the Bethesda knob, but at least they are trying to fix their mistakes. And the OP's posts are actually full of whiney, chest-thumping, elitist demands. Just because I call him out on it and let him know that he is a part of the vast minority of gamers having problems with said quest, how is that gamesas love?


And I'm pretty sure that the time I've spent on the CoD/Treyarch/Infinity Ward Forums easily lets me know that this Forum is nowhere near the worst Forum Board in the world. The CoD Forums are just ignorant in their hatred...

When Bethesda gets around to doing a press release on the current issues I DEMAND everything be read by Arnold Schwarzenegger or, should The Govenator be unavailable, someone who can do a decent impression. Your move, Bethesda.

I have read through the thread and I just want to voice my growing displeasure with these people who are only in this forum to tell those of us who are dealing with gamebreaking bugs to stop complaining. What motivates people like this? This forum exists for people to report and discuss hardware and software issues that they are having with the game. The OP in this thread basically does that. He pointed out a major bug that not only broke a quest but corrupted an entire character throughout multiple save files. That, to me, is information that belongs here in this forum.

Why are people coming in here to tell him that it's somehow his fault or that it's not a big deal? It seems like these people lack any sense of empathy. They don't even attempt to put themselves in the plaintiff's shoes. They're too busy waving their pom poms for Bethesda. It's really weird actually because these are people who don't have any issues with their game. They could be playing their game and having fun and yet they choose to be in the technical issues subforum defending a billion dollar corporation. That's just sad.

I don't actually want to be in this position at all. I wish I had no reason to be in this forum. I wish my game was working without any major glitches and I could just live my life and play the game without dealing with any hassle or frustration. You guys come in here just to add to the frustration and anger that some of us are dealing with. It's really annoying. If you don't have a problem or advice as to how to solve a someone else's problem, do us all a favor and leave.

Can the OP please explain what is bugged about his save files that are outside of the House? Because I've (tried to) read these posts and I understand getting locked inside the house bug, i do not understand how this bug can affect any save files outside of the house.

Im calling shennanigans on the whole 'it corrupted' all my characters saves unless we are referring to *1* save file and 3 autos. Unless their XBox is being wonky action in the current game file should have no bearing on another unless its being written over.

What purpose does a post like this serve? Think about what you're saying. You think he just made the whole thing up? Is that it? Why make a post like this? Who does it help?