User blog comment:Blood Reaper/Skyrim Update 1.3/@comment-4645980-20111210201957/@comment-70.171.172.161-20111214080501

Bethesda has used the excuse that their games are just so huge to great effect. The simple fact is, no games are as buggy as theirs, or at least as forgiven for those bugs. I certainly wouldn't expect a completely bug free from a game this size, no, but I do expect it to not have quest ending bugs or to have such random things happen. Yeah, their games are a lot bigger than most, but that means that they should spend more time and money testing. Think about how much smoother the game could have been if instead of always shooting for 11-11-11 they decided to delay and work out some more kinks. Now the attitude is, "Just hit the release date and we'll fix it later." The fact that they had a patch available on day 1 is not as great as some believe because it says that they knew that the game needed immediate fixing, but decided that they would release it anyway in order to hit that special release date set by the marketing department.