I da know man...there were a lot of reports from people who played the game from reviewers and not reviewers that remarked how buggy and horrible the performance was. It was pretty clear that Ubisoft overshot their budget for having NPC's on the screen at one time for a launch title game on the then new machines on top of the other problems the game had. You might have had a near bug free experience but its pretty clear that a good few didnt. Is it Bethesda level? No...nowhere near. But I can't say the issues people had when the game first came out were overblown.