Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-84.107.48.78-20130329151107/@comment-7153552-20130905211847

This is old news, unfortunately. And yes, the PC players do have a large amount of freedom to muss with the game however they please. However, using the console in the PC version is primarily supposed to be used for modders to test things with. It isn't intended to be used a cheat method or exploit. It isn't a glitch, however, and it is required to test mods, therefore they keep it in. Things they have control over to change would include things like the OI Glitch. A lot of people were upset by the change, but this is the nature of gaming in today's market. If the company doesn't like the way something went, it's still their Intellectual Property to chage. All you did with your $60.00 was purchase a license to play their IP, not to control it's overall outcome.

As a cross-platfrom gamer, myself, I can say this was a good move and needed to be done. None of the mods I play with are exploits or cheats, in fact a good portion of my mods make the game harder to play by removing fast travel or adding requirements to eat. The rest all add realism through small things like roosters crowing at dawn and the common-folk running inside when dragons attack.

As for the crafting and things, you get plenty of XP and it may seem tedius, but you aren't meant to sit there and grind it out. This is a Rold Playing Game, you're supposed to take the time to live in the world and do things so that it flows as naturally as possible. If what you would normally do in your daily life is craft something one hundred times in order to ensure you got it right and perfect that method, then play that way. However, if you're more like me and you'd actually do a few and then come back to it later, then play that way instead.

Or you could buy it for PC and just console command the numbers in.