Dear Bethesda,

I've had so much fun with all of your Elder Scrolls games. Skyrim is really amazing, but could be even better.
There have been quite alot of patches but there are still some things that I really wonder about. Why didn't you fix this yet?
I'm not trying to nag for an update or something. I'm just really wondering what's going on in your heads. Could you please answer the following few questions?

- Is there a way, for you, to fix the current shadow system of Skyrim? Why haven't you done anything about this yet? I wonder if you considered fixing it.

- There were quite alot of interesting improvements in the Game Reel like a flow based water system, footprints in the snow, seasonal foliage etc. Some of the features like mounted combat already made it into the game via DLC and some of them are in Dawnguard if I'm not mistaking. Are these features going to be released as DLC as well?

- There are some things in the game that really make me think: "Why didn't Bethesda do this, did they have reasons for this?" My biggest examples would be the the lack of rain and snow collision and the weird water reflections, which reflects just LOD and nothing else. Again, what are the reasons for not including/updating this? Are you planning to fix these things?

- The Creation Kit has Navmesh bugs from the start, when opening just the .esm. Are you going to fix this?

I REALLY hope you'll read this and you'll take the time to answer my questions. I would just like to know what your thoughts on this matter are. I understand making games is alot of hard work, and it's never perfect. But I'm sure you've got reasons for the points mentioned above. I would really like to know them so I can understand.

Thanks for all your great games and the great patch support.

Yours sincerely,

Bob Smolders

I've been on these forums for a while (been lurking for years before I made an account), and I'm afraid it's extremely rare for developers to answer this type of threads...

However, many of your questions can be answered with "the consoles wouldn't be able to run this game if they did that." As I understand the consoles (PS3 especially) are struggling to run this game as it is. Developers could have made the PC version have better graphics, but I guess they figured it isn't worth the investment.

You should check out some mods that do fix some of the things you complained about. Try http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/

Bethesda is not going to answer. This is a forum, not Bethesda's Customer Support Centre. If you want to ask them a question, you should send them an email here:
http://www.gamesas.com/eng/contact_email.php

They've probably heard all of this before, I'm willing to bet that someone's sent an email to them about this.

Besides if any more is added the consoles would probably break or cause more bugs/problems just from trying to handle it.