If gamers would stop bending over every time a publisher wants to fuck them over we wouldn't be in this situation.
Your Bethesda bit shows this perfectly. Release a buggy broken boring game that runs like absolute shit on one platform and still get perfect scores, win dozens of game of the year awards and sell millions copies.
Atto Suggests...:
Book - Malazan Book of the Fallen series
Game - Metro Last Light
TV - Deadwood
Music - Forest Swords







