oh yes, tell me more... I remember that before the first week bethesda had released one or 2 skyrim patches, the same as the people of clandlan.
How many patches do you think elite would need currently and how many patches are there now, a thousand?
in the first week of skyrim's release it was completely finishable, you can't say the same about oddyssey even in your dreams...
those of you who criticize betrhesda and its immense and good games are one of the most absurd in this community, when after 11 years, skyrim still has millions of players...how many does it currently Elite have? 500? Don't waste time writing for me, in a few months you can see for yourself.
Dude, Frontier and any company must have wet dreams thinking of ever reaching the successes of Bethesda, even with bugs in a very huge game... notice that elite is just a screen game and even so they do it wrong ,that is the level
Seriously? You think the Skyrim experience was fixed just after their first-week patches? Do you have any idea how many times you would crash or lose a corrupt save file or encounter a game-breaking progress bug, back then? Fallout 3 only this year finally got basic functionality mods to put it on par with Fallout New Vegas, which still has issues of its own also requiring mod fixes.
You don't know what you're talking about. The scope of the collaborative community effort is THE reason Skyrim, Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas, and Fallout 4 were all as popular as they were, because that's where the fixes came from for innumerable issues regarding performance, stability, and game-breaking bugs. Nexusmods' download figures are in the multiples of millions for those games for a reason.
And Bethesda tried to undermine it all by forcing all mods to become paid "Community Content", at one stage, until they finally listened to the wave of negative community feedback and stopped forcing that idea on everyone.
Their games have enduring popularity thanks to the community pillar supporting it, not through any sincere effort on their part.
I enjoy Bethesda games as much as any other person, but you have to be wearing blinders if you really think Bethesda is responsible for their own lasting popularity, especially with their continued mismanagement and bad decision-making that resulted in the likes of Fallout 76.