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> publishers couldn't assume users had the bandwidth to patch everything after release, so there's a playable game right there on the CD

A reminder that Daggerfall (aka Buggerfall, aka the game that had a game-breaking bug in the very first dungeon at the beginning of the map) shipped in 1996.

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Ah Bethesda, great games but holy shit, if it weren't for the mod community fixing them every time I swear I'd hate them.

Their most recent game is an example of what happens when they remove the mod community. A lot of people were very upset with FO76, but it being MMO disallowed mods, so game breaking bugs existed weeks into the game's release.

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