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GR Mailbag: Union of Soviet Socialist Tamriels

Posted on Wednesday, January 11 @ 16:01:39 Eastern by Daniel Bischoff

Union of Soviet Socialist Tamriels

From: "bill stellin" <*************@yahoo.com>
Subject: Skyrim review

As you probably know by the now, the PS3 version of Skyrim is under severe scrutiny by the public. Thousands of reports of frame rate issues, freezing, crashes, game breaking bugs, etc have begun to be reported by the PS3 consumer base. As an avid supporter of Play Station, I am question why you have posted positive reviews for the PS3 version of this game, when the company has shipped a severly unfinished product? Please take the time to either remove your review, or actually play the game for 75+ hours so that you may experience these issues first hand. Your review as it stands now, is inaccurate, and misleading.
Thank you for your support in this matter.

Mr. Stellin,

I am an American. I will not let you push me around. The USSR is dead and shall remain so as long as my country stands. You'd better not be Putin me on.

-GR

Bona Patrol

From: "Mike Bona" <*************@gmail.com>
Subject: PS3 Skyrim Review - Metacritic

Dear Daniel,

I'm writing you to request that your review of the PS3 version of Skyrim be removed or ammended to reflect the game-crippling lag that most gamers are experiencing. The Playstation Lifestyle Metacritic Score is currently 100 which can be perceived as deceitful at its current state.

As a side note, Skyrim fans that play on a PS3 (such as myself) are hoping that things like this bring more and more attention to the issue and motivate Bethesda to correct it.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Mike

Hi Mike Bona,

I can't believe I wasted the whole making-fun-of-the-sender's-name gag on the previous e-mail. Your last name lends itself far too easily to comedy.

To answer your request: No, I will not. You and everyone else on Metacritic are stupid and you should stop reading that site and start reading other better sites like this one because it's got reviews and most of the readers aren't stupid like you and your friend Joseph Stalin who will not get what he wants because 'merica.

-GR

Related Games: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

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Comments

sliverstorm
Joined: Jun 2007

Posted: Jan 11th, 2012 at 4:23 pm
FUCK YEAH.

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Josh_Laddin
Joined: Nov 2009

Posted: Jan 11th, 2012 at 4:52 pm
MCDONALD'S! WALMART! BED BATH AND BEYOND! BOOKS!

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LawnGnome
Joined: Apr 2007

Posted: Jan 11th, 2012 at 5:36 pm
It's Amuricuh not 'merica, and I think it's more Sony's fault than Bethesda's for making a console so hard to port to.

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De-Ting
Joined: Nov 2006

Posted: Jan 11th, 2012 at 6:27 pm
Step 1: Develop games on PS3
Step 2: Port to other platforms
Step 3: Profit

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Bras
Joined: Jul 2008

Posted: Jan 11th, 2012 at 7:50 pm
If only you were CEO of Everything, De-Ting...

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warmaster670
Joined: Jun 2007

Posted: Jan 12th, 2012 at 2:19 am
Ya, its surely not the devs fault for poorly coding there game, i mean, look at all these other multiplat games that are suffering the same issue......oh wait.....

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dirty_f
Joined: Nov 2010

Posted: Jan 11th, 2012 at 5:59 pm
i'm australian but... "... not get what he wants because 'merica." made me laugh.
just sayin.

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LawnGnome
Joined: Apr 2007

Posted: Jan 11th, 2012 at 6:55 pm
Step 4: Realize this costs much more money/time.
Step 5: Develop for PC/Xbox.
Step 6: Sell 2-3 times as many units on those platforms.
Step 7: Release crappy PS3 version.

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Squiggy
Joined: Nov 2005

Posted: Jan 11th, 2012 at 7:27 pm
Step 8: Watch Xbox/PS3 users try to make up reasons why mods on PC aren't a selling point.

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Longo_2_guns
Joined: Jun 2003

Posted: Jan 11th, 2012 at 8:44 pm
Their words, as whiny and soviet as they may be, hold some merit.
Oh God, I'm going to get blacklisted! And I don't think it helps that I am and always will be a cardholding member of the Communist party.

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Chunibrow
Joined: Mar 2010

Posted: Jan 11th, 2012 at 9:00 pm
Daniel are these real emails to you and real responses you sent back?

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friggest
Joined: Mar 2008

Posted: Jan 11th, 2012 at 9:34 pm
Is this a post on Daniel trying to plug himself and show him as clever? If this is so, then it fails quite fantastically. First the email-ers raise quite valid points. As a PS3 owner that bought and plays Skyrim, I can attest that the game has serious freezing issues. At one point after a freeze and reset, my PS3 informed me that a backup was required because the data was corrupted. That scared/scarred me. Secondly, Daniel's attempt at plugging himself, and his ability to sit at a computer for an uncertain amount of time to think of a reply, should also be questioned just like the Skyrim review.
Lastly, signing "GR" as the sender of the reply email brings everyone and thing down at GR. If you are willing to insult your fan base, then sign your own name.

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danielrbischoff
Joined: Nov 2009

Posted: Jan 11th, 2012 at 9:43 pm
I'm not sure what you're implying... I'm not Chunibrow. And for your information, my name and detailed contact info were signed to each of these responses.

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Chunibrow
Joined: Mar 2010

Posted: Jan 12th, 2012 at 2:21 am
It's ok Dan we can't all be Chunibrow

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danielrbischoff
Joined: Nov 2009

Posted: Jan 11th, 2012 at 9:46 pm
And, in regards to the PS3 Skyrim issues. They do raise valid points but as a reviewer I didn't experience them to such a severity that it impeded or even affected my gameplay experience.

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cyberjim2000
Joined: Feb 2010

Posted: Jan 12th, 2012 at 12:37 am
So which one are you? Mike Bona or Bill?

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danielrbischoff
Joined: Nov 2009

Posted: Jan 11th, 2012 at 9:41 pm
Yes, those were real e-mails and I really sent those replies. They both got very upset with me, but I talked them down and learned that both of these individuals have spent more than 100 hours each on the supposedly "so broken your review can't possibly count" PS3 version of Skyrim.

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Chunibrow
Joined: Mar 2010

Posted: Jan 12th, 2012 at 2:34 am
I must say although your replies were funny I actually found them to be pretty mean. I mean they were friendly emails about legitimate problems with the game and you actually called the one guy stupid and made fun of their last names. But i understand I really have no right to critique how others do their jobs so I'll just leave it at that, just thought I would give my 2 cents for what it's worth

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danielrbischoff
Joined: Nov 2009

Posted: Jan 12th, 2012 at 8:46 am
We appended a warning to the review in question long before these two issued their e-mails. That's why I move forward with calling them out. Neither of them actually read the review. Neither of them bothered to look farther than the byline. There, sitting atop the review is a detailed explanation of the severity of some reported bugs, but they immediately click on my name and send me these e-mails.

Either way, I followed up with much friendlier responses, if it helps.

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danielrbischoff
Joined: Nov 2009

Posted: Jan 12th, 2012 at 8:50 am
Basically they're both Metacritic users who managed to forego even the smallest modicum of reading required by the International Board of Internet Licensing. Oh wait, there's no such board and that's why we're even reading these e-mails in the first place.

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MarkyBee
Joined: Mar 2007

Posted: Jan 12th, 2012 at 3:44 am
I think you should have taken those guys points onboard and maybe bolted on a warning to PS3 users.

I was at my friends house yesterday, we played a little MW3 splitscreen together on his PS3, i've got a 360 and a PC and i found this version of the game to be almost identical, and the pad took no getting used to. They he asked me for help with a quest in skyrim...

OH... MY... GOD...

I have a Â£1000 rig at home with an i7 quad-core processor, 16gb of DDR3ram, an ASUS Oc'd GTX570 13xxmb PCix16 card and i've also played the xbox version and trying to play the PS3 version was just plain upsetting... it was running around around 10-20fps in a dungeon, and this was only 8hrs into his game. My PC obviously runs the game in max everything at 60fps minimum, and the xbox plays at atleast television standard 29fps in crowded environments... the PS3 version has got serious problems.

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mrallamericanboy
Joined: Jun 2006

Posted: Jan 12th, 2012 at 8:27 am
but can it play Crysis??

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danielrbischoff
Joined: Nov 2009

Posted: Jan 12th, 2012 at 8:48 am
Mean sure, but I've followed up with both of these individuals.

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usaglory
Joined: Mar 2009

Posted: Jan 12th, 2012 at 6:43 am
Geez, what's the problem people? This is what the mailbag has historically been about, making fun of those who pose a question, regardless of how valid it might be. This is GR, this is not the UN or WHO, lighten up.

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mrallamericanboy
Joined: Jun 2006

Posted: Jan 12th, 2012 at 8:28 am
Ditto

Not Spam, per se

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thewhiteark
Joined: Oct 2011

Posted: Jan 12th, 2012 at 11:04 am
Ditto that ditto.
Made me laugh, that's the only thing that counts. That and 'merica.

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