Luckily TATW is not "young" anymore. But I don't get it, if they want more money out of their games, then make a good game. Maybe they can't make as good game as TATW, but at least they can make their games less suck. But I believe that their games do sell well. Do you know why the games based on movies and books suck? That's because their name is enough to get it sold! There are many good examples: Star Wars The Force Unleashed 2, Eragon and almost all the LotR-games. They all Suck!
PS: The game "Eragon" is made based on a book series called "Inheritor" or something like that. They are good books, can't best LotR, but would be worthy of TW-mod.
Edit: I actually started playing Skyrim yesterday. Such a great game! I can't believe how much BS did creating the game. I've read somewhere that the map is 14 kilometers long! I don't know how many missions there is, but believe, you won't get bored too soon. And the skills! There's many skills to try and get to level 100. Oh my! And the best part: The map. Of the very firdt Elder Scrolls. Is like 10 times bigger than Skyrim's!