Pete Hines, who is the vice president in charge of marketing at Bethesda, talked to Joystiq and said, “From a technical standpoint, yes, the PC is a headache. It just is. A million different possibilities of hardware, drivers, etc. As you saw with Rage, all it takes is some bad video card drivers and years of hard work comes off as ‘buggy’ when in fact it’s a really solid, stable game.”
He says that piracy is also a problem which comes joined at the hip with PC gaming but that
Bethesda has been keen to keep a balance between protecting their games and being too harsh and affecting legitimate users.
Hines added, “So we do the best we can to protect it without resorting to Draconian measures, and we continue to enthusiastically support our PC fans with things like the Creation Kit and the ability to create and add unlimited amounts of mods and content to your existing PC game.”
The developer also says that PC gamers will always get special attention from Bethesda, mostly linked to the user interface and the extra control possibilities that come from using a mouse and keyboard setup rather than just the controller for a home console.
The team working on Elder Scrolls at Bethesda is also trying to make sure that the experience of Skyrim is the same on all the platforms it launches.
This is good news for current fans but also means that there's little chance that in the near future any of the games in the series will be made available on the iOS powered devices or will make the jump to the popular social networks.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim will be available tomorrow on the PlayStation 3, the PC and the Xbox 360.
Apparently some can even
get it today in Australia.
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