Skyrim Issues? Duh, of course, but has the smoking gun finally been found?

[Mummelmann]

forest-spirit said:

Mummelmann said:
Wow, this game is just packed with massive bugs and faults isn't it? I lost my 60 hour savegame and level 46 character and I just can't build up the enthusiasm to play the game again, there are simply too many annoyances and weaknesses (PC version).

Ugh, I hope that doesn't happen to me. The game scared me to death earlier when I discovered that all three auto-save files had been corrupted and crashed the game when loaded. -_- I have like 30 or so save files but just losing a few hours worth of gameplay would probably make me rage. The amount of crashes and texture failures has increased a lot lately, and I hope that isn't a sign of what's to come...

I had around 300 Skyrim saves that disappeared when my hard-drive was wiped by a virus... Lost all pictures, savegames and documents of all kind. Luckily, all my writings were on a drive I had not yet installed into the new rig, that would have cost me over a decade of work! From now on, I'm taking copies left and right just to be sure (I used to have my documents on four different hard-drives but the virus attacked both installed drives so this would not have helped).

In total, I counted through my Steam catalogue and found that I lost 310 hours worth of playtime in savegames and probably another 200 from games outside of Steam.

Anyways, I just cannot bring myself to start Skyrim all over again, I shudder at the tedium of having to do all those quests all over again, watching scripted sequences I can't skip and, of course, leveling my character back up to 46 is going to take long, long time.