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Bethesda Criticized Over Buggy Releases

Posted by Soulskill on from the and-don't-kill-off-patrick-stewart-at-the-beginning dept.

SSDNINJA writes "This editorial discusses the habit of Bethesda Softworks to release broken and buggy games with plans to just fix the problems later. Following a trend of similar issues coming up in their games, the author begs gamers to stop supporting buggy games and to spread the idea that games should be finished and quality controlled before release – not weeks after."

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  1. Oh, so Bethesda is improving? by MSojka · · Score: 5, Informative

    So, they are improving from their old practice of releasing broken and buggy games with no plans at all to fix any but the most glaring problems later?

    See the glitches list for Oblivion on the UESP wiki for a start; continue to the Unofficial Oblivion Patch where the modding community fixed over a thousand bugs left by Bethesda to rot; and that's not even including still unpatched bugs in the engine, for which you need some additional software made by modders ...