I'm not surprised by this one bit, but as long as Todd is in charge, then the pc users will continue to be left out in the cold. I don't like it, but that's just the way it is.

$650 million. Now they can fix the game!

They have come along way over the years as a company (floating on bankruptcy and everything), but am glad they are getting the recognition they deserve now especially as they seem one of the few companies left to care about its fanbase.

Lets just hope they don't go mad with power now like some others I could mention..

Very well deserved in my opinion!

If people were to stop buying the PC version, Bethesda would stop porting the game to PC, end of story. One problem less for Beth.

Its an awesome game. Hope they polish this gem with some great patches

Yeah, you have a point. Still, until Bethesda does something to make the PC version actually worth playing than what is the incentive to get it for the PC? The modding community just isn't enough any more to make me WANT to buy the PC version.... especially now that STEAM is involved.

Honestly, I'm not surprised, not with the amount of attention the game has been getting - good or bad

Well deserved!

Good job, that should warrant plenty of good DLC now that they got a good customer base setup.

Huh, what do they need to do to make it worth playing on the PC in your opinion?

I've been playing it on PC and its been great. Certainly better the the potential experience you might have if you got the Ps3 version.

So a version that works well, will get all the official content the other two will get (after the 30 day Xbox period) plus the mods/patches the PC TES community can and will come up with isn't really a selling point for the PC version at all? And of course the display etc options if you happen to have a high spec rig?

I guess they could include a gold ingot or something with the PC version.

What I want is a PC version that allows you play it with a keyboard and mouse and feel like you can instead of making it so an XBox controller is easier to use. I want a PC version that has a unique GUI that isn't cluncky to use. I want a PC version that lets me remap the keys to what I want. I want a PC version that doesn't force me to install 3rd party software that isn't used for anything but validity checks.

It's called mods. One of the huge reasons why TES series is better on PC. Don't like something? Mods fix it.

Come on... they are sitting back at laughing at all the PC owners who bought a game that needs 12 fingers to play and PS3 owners who bought a doorstop that will eventually kill their hard drive if they keep having to pull the power cord to reset their console.

A success well earned !
Congratulations to Bethesda, and especially to all the hard working developers !

The only thing I feel bad about is that all that money goes to the investors, not the developers
I hope they'll consider giving raises and hugue bonus to everyone who worked on Skyrim, they desserve it
Especially with xmas arround the corner

The next step is how far they lll go to say thank the fan for the support
8 provincial expansions at a reasonable price would go a long way toward that
perhaps along with soundtrack expansion and voice expansion to give an extended local feel to each area
After all, those things would sell faster that sugar pies !!!


The world award for ignorance goes to Delicieuxz

It is standard for game developers not to release all the real numbers
We ALREADY KNOW it sold 3 million copies on day 2
If it kept its speed it sold way more than 10 millions copies

So the number Bethesda gave are obviously both incomplete and inacurate, but most likely because they are lower than the real thing

Any steam copy sold probably earn a 70% cut, that s typical for downloads as opposed to hard copy (which earn 30%)
I dont know how it works for game catridges for ps3 and xbox360 as I dont use thoses

Seriously, Diablo II also sold 10 million copies in a week, so what s hard to believe there
And Skyrim is way more of a blast than Diablo II was

In any case Delicieuxz, why are you posting here if you hate Bethesda and Skyrim

And maybe take some marketing classes next time, or at least basic finance anolysis or something, like learn to add and substract

(If every copy of those 10 million shipped was already sold, and sold for an average of $60)

the 10 millions are those that are accounted for as shipped and received most likely
its normal that those numbers are way bellow the real sales numbers
thats why the 650 million is higher than the computation you do

anyway, you are not verry bright, diablo II was 10 years ago and did nearly as good
games sell a lot more today than 10 years ago, its mainstream now

Mods, mods, mods they best thing about any TES game....oh and http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=3863 is a new mod for the UI.

Ok, so the things Bethesda needs to do to "make the PC version actually worth playing" consist of the controls and no Steam?

They seem like pretty minor complaints to consider the PC version not worth playing over - to the point where even the mod potential that exists exclusively on the PC apparently isn't a selling point.

But as I haven't found myself particularly bothered by those things (as in they haven't really interred with my enjoyment of the game so far that I can remember), I'm probably always going to think that sounds like a bit of an overreaction. If the game was unplayable due to the controls maybe, but this....

Your sad face suggests traces of sarcasm in your post.

That, or its the anguish resulting from posters quoting and using your post excessively

Now they can see the huge market for PC gaming is still there (and growing thanks to cheaper than ever high performance gaming rigs). Maybe that means they will develop for the most current platform next time, rather than decade old technology. Imagine a skyrim which had been designed for current generation PC hardware. It would have been amazing even without modding.

It is encouraging to see that people have votedf with their wallets and are showing a strong turnout for PC gaming.

The problem is that the Modding shouldn't have to be relied on to fix the game so that it's playable. It should come out of the box with a working GUI and working controls. It DOES NOT. It didn't with Oblivion either. It took the modding community to make the GUI even usable for the PC version.

Those problems do bother me and as a former PC gamer it gives me no incentive to buy the game knowing I have to wait for the modding community to fix it, since I'm not very good a modding.

However, none of that really matters because not while I'm alive will STEAM even come close to my PC and it seems that Bethesda has moved the PC to Steam and most likely will for the forseeable future.

If anything this tells me they won't ever dare stop making TES titles

I wasn't actually talking about modding changing controls - I was talking about modders doing what they always have and creating content. If access to large amounts of exclusive community created content (of varying quality it must be admitted, from the poor to professional quality) isn't a selling point vs controls and steam...

And I didn't refer to modders changing controls, GUI (though I understand that is available now) because I didn't find the controls so bad the game was unplayable. They aren't the best, but "fix the game so that it's playable" bad? No, I'm afraid that isn't my experience.


Any particular reason, or is it just the principle of the thing?

Your right the modding community shouldn't be relied on for fixing things, but that's how we roll Bethesda gives us a CK/CS/GECK because there is a demand for it, and the devs use ideas from the more popular mods for game development, look at FONV hardcoe mode, weapon mods.....so all in all the modding community has great impact on Beth games.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but sometime in the future all games will be DL only on things like Steam, Stardock, GFWL, ect.....Gamestop has one in the works to. From my standpoint Steam is way better than the others out there....I'm looking at you GFWL the most


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Indeed, and perhaps next game will use an engine like Frostbite 2 or equivalent. Oooh, makes me drool.

I will not install 3rd party software on my computer just so ignorant idiots can tell me I have a legit copy of the game, not even realizing that the game has been cracked and is all over the internet for people to steal.

Steam does NOTHING to prevent piracy, it only makes everyone out to be a thief and forces them use it to prove they aren't.