Bethesda games are buggy because they contain so many many many items, objects and features that are all expected to work in perfect unison across vast maps and even more computers, operating systems, graphic card brands and platforms.manythings said:My point still stands. Extract the guaranteed money from the Blizzard equation and you'll find more buggy games with the Blizzard stamp. Bethesda doesn't have the luxury of the WoW component.Sapient Pearwood said:Still puts them ahead of the games companies who can afford to scoff at deadlines but still release unpolished buggy games. Bethesda is the main one, their games are good but god they could use more development time to iron out bugs.manythings said:Correction, they can afford to scoff at deadlines. If WoW died tomorrow they'd suddenly care a lot less about perfection.
It has nothing to do with poor development.
Blizzard developed both Lord of the Clans and Starcraft ghost before WoW. Had they released those games at the time they would have sold well but been subpar games. But blizzard plans in the long term so they axed the games and threw all the development money in the trash but they keept their flawless record of producing hit games.manythings said:My point still stands. Extract the guaranteed money from the Blizzard equation and you'll find more buggy games with the Blizzard stamp. Bethesda doesn't have the luxury of the WoW component.Sapient Pearwood said:Still puts them ahead of the games companies who can afford to scoff at deadlines but still release unpolished buggy games. Bethesda is the main one, their games are good but god they could use more development time to iron out bugs.manythings said:Correction, they can afford to scoff at deadlines. If WoW died tomorrow they'd suddenly care a lot less about perfection.