Bethesda Gives Official Update on PS3 Skyrim Problems, Upcoming Patches
Bethesda’s biggest game yet, The Elder Scroll V: Skyrim, continues a long tradition of buggy games from the publisher, something that is generally forgiven considering the incredible breadth and size of their RPGs. But gamers who are suffering from the long-term play issue on the PS3 might not have such kind words for the publisher, especially with the next patch not set to fix the problem.
Over on the Bethblog, Bethesda said:
While the 1.2 update fixed the long-term play issues for most PS3 users, we are aware that is not the case for some. We’ve been reaching out to a number of those users to collect save games, so we can take a look at their specific issues. Right now we know it’s not one thing, but a combination of smaller ones that some folks are seeing, but others are not. Some seem to be the PS3 autosaving in the background (you can turn that off), some may be SPU AI updates, and some may relate to dynamic system memory allocation. These fixes are not in the current 1.3 update that is in final testing, but will be in future ones. We understand how frustrating it can be when your game is having issues, and we thank all of you for your continued feedback and patience. Rest assured we take your gameplay experience seriously and will continue working on this until it’s resolved.
Are you having problems with you copy of Skyrim? Let us know in the comments below.
30 Responses to “Bethesda Gives Official Update on PS3 Skyrim Problems, Upcoming Patches”
No issues here! Mainly because I’m not into the whole “paying-$60-to-be-a-beta-tester” thing.
I would, however, like to take this moment to thank everyone that did pay to become a beta tester. Thanks to your sacrifice, when I buy the GOTY edition, not only will I have all the DLC (that you’ll also beta test for me), but I will have a game with far less bugs and glitches than it does now.
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Then everyone else is pretty observant; I AM an asshole. That doesn’t, however, make me wrong.
Bethesda puts out broken games. It’s been the case for this entire gaming generation. They put the game out, the complaints come in, and then come the patches. Don’t have your console hooked up to the internet? Sucks for you; enjoy your $60 broken game.
That is NOT acceptable, but as long as people still buy the games, they’ll keep doing it.
“I would, however, like to take this moment to thank everyone that did pay to become a beta tester. Thanks to your sacrifice, when I buy the GOTY edition, not only will I have all the DLC (that you’ll also beta test for me), but I will have a game with far less bugs and glitches than it does now.”
My comment has nothing in it about you being right or wrong. It is about you being an arrogant prick.
“When I worked here at PSLS, fans had more respect than that. I guess things changed.”
Don’t be an asshole, and you will get more respect, even if you don’t deserve it.
Like i told you, man; I AM an asshole. That’s sort of a ‘deal with it or don’t’ kind of thing. When I come across as abrasive, it’s on purpose, and there’s always a point to it.
The people that are buying games like this that are completely broken are encouraging the industry to keep doing it. It’s not pretty, but those are the facts. If it works, and saves money, why not do it? If it takes getting feathers ruffled like posts like mine in order to get that to change, so be it. I don’t care about respect I get. i DO, however, care about this industry.
Whether you’re an asshole or not, you need new material. The whole “paying $60 to be a beta tester” line has been used to death in regards to Skyrim. Maybe it was you who used it. Or maybe you lifted it from someone else. If you used it, get a new writer. If you lifted it, learn to steal better stuff.
Sorry if this comes off as arrogant. I’m kind of an asshole *wink wink nudge nudge*
While I do agree that there is no excuse for companies releasing broken games, you can hardly blame the people who bought this game for companies continuing to release broken games. Do you blame Toyota owners for the brakes on their cars not working? That’s a ridiculous argument. Consumers have no way of knowing a product is broken without buying it. If no one bought it, the bugs would never be revealed and the company would have no reason to fix it. What we should be looking at is what I’ve been saying all along. Sites like PSLS over-hyping games and talking about how great they are, despite the bugs and glitches. This encourages some people to buy broken games. Of course, after this Skyrim debacle, I know now to take any review PSLS gives with a grain of salt, because they obviously don’t tell the whole story in their reviews. But I digress.
Bottom line, you can’t blame consumers for buying games that are broken when no one knows they’re broken until after they are bought. Put it on the companies for releasing un-playable games in the first place, and for websites hyping the games and ignoring that they are broken.
Sorry dude, GOTY edition doesn’t necessarily stands as a Bethesda bug free game so you may wait for absolutely nothing.
Fallout GOTY edition was one, if not THE worst, piece of bugged software that ran on my old died fat PS3.
True; waiting for the GOTY edition doesn’t guarantee less bugs. However, buying it now PROMISES bugs. I’ll take my chances. Besides, you missed out on the other part of my reason for waiting; all the DLC right there on the disk. Also has the added benefit of not rewarding Bethesda to releasing a broken game.
Hum… I agree.
the general idea has always been that eventually Bethesda will realise we hate it when they realise buggy pieces of shit and will actually test the games they make properly. Also I don’t think anyone is worrying about DLC considering the game has almost infinite amounts of gameplay. (I still haven’t needed to buy a single piece of DLC for Fallout 3)
As long as people keep buying the games, they won’t realize shit, except for the fact that they don’t need to pay beta testers when there are millions of people willing to pay THEM to become beta testers.
And if you haven’t played the F3 DLC, then you’re missing out on a lot.
Fuck off Jackson. I agree with you on the whole “$60 beta test” thing, but you don’t have to be a smart-ass and “thank” them for being inconvenienced by these issues. Crawl back into the troll-hole you came from.
lol!
Sorry if my sarcasm disagreed with you, but addressing me like that? Not cool. I’m not at all making light of the issues people are having with the game; if you saw me on Google+, you’d know that I’m actually mad as hell about it. Don’t talk about what you don’t know.
And even if I was truly disregarding the issues people were having and flat-out making fun of them, it’s still no excuse for coming at me like that. When I worked here at PSLS, fans had more respect than that. I guess things changed.
Oooh, sorry I don’t have a Google+ account. I’ll own up and apologize about the troll comment, but the fact that you used to work at PSLS doesn’t change how I feel about what you said. And I have respect, but I don’t give it to insulting people.
Okay, I can recognize that.
I tend to use sarcasm to point out problems; that’s just the way I roll. The simple fact of the matter is that bringing a game to market in this condition and expecting people to pay for it should be absurd. The problem is, it isn’t, because people are totally willing to pay for it anyway. This game is flat-out broken. If the game were optimized for the PS3, then it would have leaned more on the Cell processor’s SPEs than the RAM the system has (which was what it was designed to do). They didn’t do that, because they didn’t care to, and they didn’t test it enough to know that the way they were using RAM was a problem. What they did was basically make their paying customer beta testers.
I know what I wrote was a bit insulting, and in truth, it was meant to be, at least a little. Because until US GAMERS speak with our wallets (the only way they’ll understand) and show them that we don’t accept this, it’ll just keep happening.
Oblivion was the first PS3 game I ever bought, Hell, I bought it 9 days before I even bought my PS3. The glitches there were bad. Fallout 3 was worse. Skyrim is…well, damn; look at it. The more gamers as a whole show with their wallets that they don’t care, companies like Bethesda will continue to show us that they don’t either.
At the beginning of the game, when you are presented the very first opportunity to lockpick, the game’s framerate chugs and also at the end of the cave when you lower a wooden bridge. After every single patch, I will try those sections, if it is still like that, I will continue playing the 360 version. Come on Bethesda!
I’ve shut my mouth thus far because I’m so afraid of jinxing myself. But I’ve been knocking on wood for like 10 minutes now just so I could post here.
I’m level 53, about 120 hours in, tons of items, quests, etc. and all I get is a little choppiness here and there (barely noticeable) and I’ve had the game crash my PS3 about five times. That’s not bad considering how much strain I and the game are putting on my PS3.
My save file is over 8MB.
Knocks on wood again just to be safe. Watch, my PS3 will catch on fire tonight.
I’m having issues with my copy. I CAN’T PLAY IT YET! DAMN YOU CHRISTMAS!
Enjoy your time before Skyrim takes over your existence. I figured I’d start it and make my character, just to play for a few minutes. A few minutes has literally turned into over 100 hours.
So I guess I have to wish your PS3 will flame and redeem your life.
Sounds good. Although for the start of this I imagine I’ll be worrying like hell like I was when I got L.A Noire and I spent the whole time worrying my copy would break and screw up my PS3 or something similar.
and I’m sure everyone will just go as happy puppies and buy the next Bethesda game, or worse, their “5th anniversary editions” and “random ripoff expansion No. 3″
I have to agree with Jackson. Bethesda releases games with a ton of bugs, yet all their releases are praised by the reviewers and dismiss the fact that the game is very much broken.
The last Bethesda game I bought was Oblivion back in 2007. Aside from the occasional framerate dropping, I never really had any issues. Then again, I only put about 70 hours into the game so its possible I didn’t get far enough for problems to arise. I wanted to get into the Fallout series but the horrendous things I read (bug wise) completely turned me off from them. And now the same is happening with Skyrim.
I refuse to support a company that puts out buggy software. I know its not I intentional, and their games are very ambitious, but there’s really no excuse or justification, because maybe they should have left it cooking in the oven a little longer before it’s release.
That’s where I’m coming from. I get that these games are huge, but exactly how much are we as gamers willing to let go? I can’t let a game that flat-out doesn’t work slide. At $60 a pop, the games I buy DAMN WELL BETTER be functional.
ill have to remember to turn autosave off. not like its any good anyway, when i die, it takes me back 20 minutes. but when im just trying to move around towns and stuff like that (non-dangerous stuff) it saves (automatically) about every 5 seconds and causes the game to crash. and i wouldn’t be so mad about all the glitches, but Bethesda was adamant about knowing how to work on ps3 now, that they had experience with it, and it wouldn’t be as buggy, but its the worst version by far. so, im just going to wait on a new patch, and in the mean time im going to be playing terraria 1.1
I just want a goddamn game like Skyrim to be bug free or at least less bugs and playable for long periods of time without worrying any damn issues. Is that so hard to ask, Bethesda?
how could a game like skyrim not have glitches it has so much in it it would take decades to make all of it perfect
That autosave thing never works and it always leads to loosing a few hours of game time when a bethesda game freezes. The game freeezes for a sec when autosaving but its no where as bad as the lag that makes this game unplayable.
Bugthesda was thinking about addressing the lag issue in 1.3………but then they took an arrow to the knee.