It is good for Bethesda reputation that they finally released Daggerfall so people could discover one of the best Elder Scroll games without going through abandonware.
I have the game nearly since its release, i remember it was such a pain to run it at a decent framerate on the PC i had in those old time, the game was so demanding (without even mentionning the numerous bugs that fortunately most were fixed in patches, even if some remained).
I can't count how many years i spent playing it with different kind of characters, one of the greatest games i played.
I just hope Bethesda had released a pre-patched version.
I always remember when i read about Daggerfall all those articles, that made me buy the game without even playing the old demo, and never regretted to have been so few cautious (as i always play a demo before buying, i never buy /bought anything without testing first usually).
Too bad Bethesda couldn't go to the very end of their ideas for Daggerfall, there was
lots of very good features planned originally that didn't made it into the released version.