Yet another day in Skyrim....

It's weird. I'm sitting here at the keyboard. My 360 is silent. I just  muted the radio. The bird is shooting food at me (he thinks it's fun when it hits me or goes across the room and I say something). He's planning his next shot. Peeking up to see if I care.

SW:tor went on retail sale about 15 minutes ago. I have a pre-ordered copy I could go get. But it's 25 degrees and it's midnight and I don't feel like it. But I'm sick of all the bugs in Skryim and thinking I should do something else. So I sit on the fence in silence with a bird shooting food at me. I suppose Gamestop will probably be open for another hour if I felt like going, but then I'd be too tired to play it.

I'm having this debate with myself and keyboarding it for you at the same time. How lucky for you. Is SW:tor really going to be good? Or is it going to be a disaster like Bioware's last shovel-full (riding on their fame after Dragon Age...) or bug ridden but beautiful (if it works) like Skrym?

Release day jitters. I don't trust the big game companies to deliver a working product anymore. Not on day 1. It's like going to a movie on release day, only to have the movie break, the projector get turned off, and the announcer come on and say, well, we can watch 15 more minutes of it in a half hour, but reel 2 won't be here for 3 months.

It's like buying a car and they have the engine and all the stuff to make it go, but the mirrors are on backorder and the brakes work intermittently. And if you try to tell the developer that their game has a problem, a bunch of people slam you with "it's a privilege" to get a patch, not a right. Wait, what? It's a privilege to get what I paid for?

I hate wrapping presents, and since most of my family is gone, dead or divorced, I don't much like holidays. I certainly don't like the sun going down at 4 something. OR not seeing it at all for 2 dreary weeks.

It will by sunny and 30 tomorrow. Maybe waiting till morning, and going out and getting just one more new game..maybe, just maybe this time it will work? After this, I wait for the goty versions, including patches, dlc etc for $20. I'm getting sick of these arrogant companies who think they can rah! rah! cheer us into believing it is acceptable to fork out $60 for stuff that doesn't work.

Maybe I'll roll a new Skryim character. I have read that the bug fixes from patch 1.3.5 (as opposed to 1.001, 1.1 and 1.2) only really apply to new games, and don't fix the others.

I'm all for getting excited about new stuff, but now I dread both bethesda and bioware on day 1. I want to see the WHOLE movie the day it comes out. I want what I buy to work as expected, most of the time. Life is frustrating enough without paying to get more frustrated! Hence, my ambivalence about what to do now. Tick. Tock.