You could give someone $10 and there would always be someone to complain you didn't give them $20.

Can't see how they are fail, still downloading mine but my texture file currently sits at under 3GB and I have some massive amounts of textures in there from mods allready. So if their files are over 3gb they should at least be on par.
I will be more happy if the normal maps are higher res than the textures anyway, those are the babys that count. Anyone done proper character model comparisons yet?

I bet if that happend soem one would kidnapp todd

Yeah! Like releasing a fully functional modding engine for the communit - oh wait.


Yeah, and I use that mod personally. I recommend it. It does increase my loading times a bit, though.

Except we were not.

More like "we fired our QA department and want you to be it" and people are somehow happy about this.

Yeah I know what you mean. Today I turned on my PC and found that there was a free HD upgrade pack for me and I immediately thought "this is such a slap in the face."

This cannot be quoted enough! So who's gonna support the modding community as vigorously as Bethesda, were they not here? EA, Bioware, Blizzard?? Hell, even CDPR has yet to release modder tools for TW2!

With the sort of reaction the "fanbase" on the forums give, you wonder what incentive game companies really have to do right by their community. Mostly what I see is the more you give people, the more entitled, not appreciative, they become. Seeing people calling a free, unannounced bonus to an another free product "a slap in the face" is pretty indicative of this.

Yeah, note that people's screenshots are compressed so in game when you see them, they will look better.

Screenshots in Windhelm, only slight increase in quality unfortunately.

http://imgur.com/a/ZnXVW

Uh, what? Bug fixing mods are the minority. Most people use it for new quests, items, lands, homes, NPCs, etc. People have plenty of reason to be happy. It's the same reason Morrowind is still being actively played by some people.

Skyrim 2k doesn't cover every texture in the game. I think it would go over well 3GB if he decided to retexture everything.

Seeing that they do, and so much more than any existing Video game company out there, your point has been rendered a complete failure...

But guess what, the normal maps are improved. WIN.
A lot of the texture mods dump high res textures but the normal maps are pretty dissapointing that go with them.

Now get some proper third person character shots please, bet there is some nice detail upgrade on those too.

I think they catered for this. Notice how they put up a 33% off sale right when this popped up?

I dunno. Maybe for the same reason people insist on endlessly posting pretentious tirades on a forum for a game that they hate.

If the OP didn't sound so serious, I'd suspect them of trolling. I thought the whole "This is a slap in the face!" accusation for every ounce of content a game company offered had become so cliché by that no one used it anymore.


There are far more positive ways to get the attention of developers.

Can't see skyrim screen just naughty pictures and gifs

If you'll notice the OP hasn't argued or defended his opinions at all. All he has done is post random one sentence complaints every few mins.

Teenager + Redbull = Fail

OP has managed to download the texture pack in a pretty short time, but then fails at showing any kind of gratitude.

Nice opinion! It's like 70 % love the game, are serious and criticize bad things, but there are those 30 % who just bash on everything Beth does. First impressions in early 2011 were bashed, then the final game, the patches that followed the release, then the CK release date, the Steam integration and now the high res texture pack. That's definitely not the right way to honor game developers and it's actually destructive criticism. Something that nobody ever needed and never will need.

Ahhhh, crap...We all just bought this troll breakfast, lunch, and dinner! Bah, my points still stand though..

The difference between texture mods and bethesda's high-res pack is that bethesda have to stick with the same textures, in the same colors etc. Modders doesn't have that limitation..... Releasing it for free is also a nice "thank you for waiting". Mods are out already on the workshop. I wonder how many there will be there tomorrow. I'm guessing about 100.

I think his frustration might be that....

"BACK IN MAI DAY..."
Games were released with the high texture packs from the get-go. Now, what SHOULD'VE been in there from the beginning is released under the guise of a "free gift!" It's as if they were to say "hey we have a free gift for you, we're gonna finally fix the PC UI so that the game will actually click where you want it to click and the mouse sensitivity doesn't feel awkward!" Gee thanks, but shouldn't this've been in the release from the get-go?

I personally don't care enough to hold it against them, but it does speak for their management when stuff like this happens. I mean, they must've been behind schedule big-time if this didn't make it into the initial release. Or their priorities are horrible.