Bethesda dealing with Fallout
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So it started when they promised that the "limited" collector's edition would come with a special canvas bag in military olive green, this collector's edition only setting you back $200 or so. Full kit pictured below:
What people received is a flimsy nylon bag which happens to only superficially resemble the one in the picture above:
But lo! They set out to make things right:
Just open a ticket with your name, email address, a copy of your receipt and your shipping address and they'll ship the "bag Mk II" to your door.
Well, they fucked that up as well:
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What really blows my mind about this game is how there are no human NPCs anywhere. Who thought that would be a good idea? It sounds like an early technology demonstrator and they're charging 200 dollars for collector editions.
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@blek yeah, the one saving grace of the Bethesda games have always been the massive amount of content, in everything else they've always been a bit shitty.
Fallout 76 keeps all the worst parts of your typical Bethesda game, and throws away all the good stuff.
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Didn't Tesla just do the same belgium-up? Do they use the same customer-relations software package? If so, then ..uhh... enterprisey?
Also, doesn't look like a proper canvas bag would fit into that cardboard box. Maybe if they shipped the box IN the bag. But then you couldn't print the choking-hazard markings anywhere (and/or other legally required boilerplate).
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@acrow said in Bethesda dealing with Fallout:
Didn't Tesla just do the same belgium-up? Do they use the same customer-relations software package? If so, then ..uhh... enterprisey?
Also, doesn't look like a proper canvas bag would fit into that cardboard box. Maybe if they shipped the box IN the bag. But then you couldn't print the choking-hazard markings anywhere (and/or other legally required boilerplate).
It might fit if its vacuum packaged, like large towels who easily fit in a pocket while in the plastic wrapping.
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I don't understand why they'd try to cut costs on their most willing to pay users. That's the one demographic you don't want to neglect.
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Shouldn't the title be "Bethesda dealing with Fallout fallout" ?
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@anonymous234 said in Bethesda dealing with Fallout:
I don't understand why they'd try to cut costs on their most willing to pay users. That's the one demographic you don't want to neglect.
I think it's right in line with how they bumfucked the fallout franchise fans by completely killing of any semblance of fallout in the latest installment, only keeping the crappy controls and graphics of the previous installment. And the neverending stream of re-releases of the same skyrim. Or the attempt to monetise the modding of the game by breaking the APIs continuously.
Bethesda have become much like EA, and I'm mostly surprised they haven't gotten in on the pay to win loot boxes.
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@Luhmann said in Bethesda dealing with Fallout:
Shouldn't the title be "Bethesda dealing with Fallout fallout" ?
Fallout from Bethesda Fallout fallout
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@Luhmann said in Bethesda dealing with Fallout:
Shouldn't the title be "Bethesda dealing with Fallout fallout" ?
The pun was intended, and I wanted to keep it short.
If you really want to act like an inspector from the Redundant Department of Redundancy then I will duly note your comment and move on.
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This sort of stuff makes me real worried for Doom Eternal. Doom 2016 was brilliant and I think I played the campaign about nine times. However the gameplay they released so far looks like everything I hoped for.
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@sweaty_gammon I don't think Bethesda (the publisher) has many fingers in id, at least not as much as it has in Bethesda Game Studios (the devs).
That said, I'm starting to consider just pirating the game because Bethesda is now undeniably on my shit list. If anyone knows of a good way to deliver a crate of beer and a stack of pizzas to id's offices though, I'm all ears.
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@Carnage said in Bethesda dealing with Fallout:
I'm mostly surprised they haven't gotten in on the pay to win loot boxes.
The one Fallout 76 review that I watched mentioned the perk system, which they speculated was originally designed to support loot boxes / pay-to-win. They went on speculating that the feature was pulled after all the recent controversy.
I wasn't going to buy it either way, since "online survival game" sounds about as exciting as watching my washing machine's default programme. That review didn't exactly convince me otherwise.
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@Onyx said in Bethesda dealing with Fallout:
That said, I'm starting to consider just pirating the game because Bethesda is now undeniably on my shit list. If anyone knows of a good way to deliver a crate of beer and a stack of pizzas to id's offices though, I'm all ears.
UPS should be able to deliver some crates of beer for you.
The pizzas, dunno.. Some online pizza ordering service?Yeah, Bethesda is teetering on the edge, if not already on their way down to a hard landing after FO76.
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@Carnage I mean, the publishing side was starting to piss me off with "no preview copies for anyone".
Then, it was the Creation Club, which is not a bad idea in itself but executed catastrophically badly.
Now this.
The game studio? I started grumbling with Oblivion, I yelled "that's not Fallout!" as soon as 3 came out, and I tried playing Skyrim the other day for a few hours again, this time heavily modded, and even with all the mods I put in to try and "fix" it, I still decided it's shit and gave up.
This was just the straw that broke the camel's back. And then clipped it into the ground so I had to
tcl
it out of there.
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@JBert said in Bethesda dealing with Fallout:
Just open a ticket with your name, email address, a copy of your receipt and your shipping address and they'll ship the "bag Mk II" to your door.
They couldn't ship the proper bags. They sent all of those to video game "journalists" as part of their review perks. The people who actually paid for the collector's edition got the shitty bag and were given $5.00 in virtual in game currency that cost Bethesda $0.00 to produce.
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@Luhmann said in Bethesda dealing with Fallout:
Shouldn't the title be "Bethesda dealing with Fallout fallout" ?
Bethesda bethesdas with Fallout fallout.
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@anonymous234 They cut costs on EVERYTHING. It's an equal opportunity assfucking.
Also I just found out that apparently the final boss is a reskinned Skyrim dragon. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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People thinking that Fallout from Bethesda is worth anything deserve what they get.
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@blek said in Bethesda dealing with Fallout:
Also I just found out that apparently the final boss is a reskinned Skyrim dragon. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I'm a rabid Fallout fan and I was debating taking a bite of Bethesda's shit-sandwich just because it was Fallout...until I saw that Scorched Beast battle on YouTube.
I just don't know how they thought they'd get away with that.
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@Cursorkeys said in Bethesda dealing with Fallout:
I just don't know how they thought they'd get away with that.
Because they got away with recycled unfinished shit for years?
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@Cursorkeys I'm just waiting for Atom to come out of early access, Todd can go fuck himself.
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@MrL said in Bethesda dealing with Fallout:
@Cursorkeys said in Bethesda dealing with Fallout:
I just don't know how they thought they'd get away with that.
Because they got away with recycled unfinished shit for years?
At least they were't so blatantly IDGAF about it before. It's a little amusing that the best Bethesda Fallout was actually made by Obsidian. I have liked all of them though (with copious mods) until now.
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@Cursorkeys said in Bethesda dealing with Fallout:
@blek said in Bethesda dealing with Fallout:
Also I just found out that apparently the final boss is a reskinned Skyrim dragon. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I'm a rabid Fallout fan and I was debating taking a bite of Bethesda's shit-sandwich just because it was Fallout...until I saw that Scorched Beast battle on YouTube.
I just don't know how they thought they'd get away with that.
When I heard it'd be online, and that the community would be the content providers I bowed out. I've seen enough of companies trying to cheapskate out of creating an actual game with content by just throwing up what amounts to being an engine demo with multiplayer to know it doesn't work.
But how the hell did bethesda ever think that grabbing the artwork from FO4 and FO3, shoving into a vast, empty sandbox (even keeping some old bugs) would ever fly? It's so bad that it looks like it was done in a month of work for one or two people. The only thing they seem to have worked on is the usual Bethesda bugcount, which is even worse than their usual. Which is a feat.No, I am never going near the burning turd of FO76.
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@blek said in Bethesda dealing with Fallout:
@Cursorkeys I'm just waiting for Atom to come out of early access, Todd can go fuck himself.
I hadn't heard of that before so I went Googling, it looks awesome:
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@Cursorkeys said in Bethesda dealing with Fallout:
At least they were't so blatantly IDGAF about it before.
They weren't? "Modding community will finish the game for us" was pretty much official policy as far as I can remember.
It's a little amusing that the best Bethesda Fallout was actually made by Obsidian.
Yeah, New Vegas is really good.
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@Cursorkeys Yeah, I can't wait to play as an actual postapo gopnik.
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@Atazhaia said in Re: Fallout from Bethesda Fallout fallout:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XPzICHxXoQ
That entire album is amazing btw, and worthy of a listen!
Curiously, this sort of music is almost universally considered the best part of the modern Fallout franchise regardless of one's opinion on gameplay (if any) and other stuff, even among pimple-faced youths.
I also quite enjoy the work of Inon Zur. I haven't yet listened to the full score of FO76 (guess I'll go on Youtube), but the main theme gives me good vibes.
@MrL said in Bethesda dealing with Fallout:
They weren't? "Modding community will finish the game for us" was pretty much official policy as far as I can remember.
At least there was a passable amount of content to finish.
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@Polygeekery said in Bethesda dealing with Fallout:
@JBert said in Bethesda dealing with Fallout:
Just open a ticket with your name, email address, a copy of your receipt and your shipping address and they'll ship the "bag Mk II" to your door.
They couldn't ship the proper bags. They sent all of those to video game "journalists" as part of their review perks. The people who actually paid for the collector's edition got the shitty bag and were given $5.00 in virtual in game currency that cost Bethesda $0.00 to produce.
The meager "store credit" offer was initially the case, but if you follow the link embedded in the Tweet I posted you can now read this:
Due to unavailability of materials, we had to switch to a nylon carrying case in the Fallout 76: Power Armor Edition. We are finalizing manufacturing plans for replacement canvas bags for the Fallout 76: Power Armor Edition. If you purchased the CE, please submit a ticket following the process below by Jan. 31, 2019. We’ll arrange to send you a replacement as soon as the bags are ready.
Maybe they should just have added "includes a free doxing".
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@JBert nifty.
TheQuartering talked about the whole "material shortage" excuse in one of his videos. I had not heard of this worldwide canvas shortage.
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@Polygeekery said in Bethesda dealing with Fallout:
@JBert nifty.
TheQuartering talked about the whole "material shortage" excuse in one of his videos. I had not heard of this worldwide canvas shortage.
When I google canvas shortage, I get a lot of snarky comments on Bethesda and the canvas bag excuse, and a lot of hits on amazon for canvas bags with the text "Have you noticed the shortage of dog toys in this room"
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@Polygeekery
All the canvas got diverted to tents for the abolish ICE crowds and the French rioters.
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@Polygeekery said in Bethesda dealing with Fallout:
@JBert nifty.
TheQuartering talked about the whole "material shortage" excuse in one of his videos. I had not heard of this worldwide canvas shortage.
When butter prices jumped 300% last year in Poland, people also tried to excuse it with worldwide shortage. Butter has allegedly become extremely popular in China overnight, and that caused the price hike. It absolutely didn't have anything to do with the government meddling with production limits, no siree, not at all!
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@Gąska said in Bethesda dealing with Fallout:
government meddling ... production limits
<there_s_your_problem.meme>
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@Benjamin-Hall didn't you read his post? He said, "no siree, not at all!"
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@Luhmann said in Bethesda dealing with Fallout:
Shouldn't the title be "Bethesda dealing with Fallout fallout" ?
ObYoDawgRef
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@Gąska said in Bethesda dealing with Fallout:
@Polygeekery said in Bethesda dealing with Fallout:
@JBert nifty.
TheQuartering talked about the whole "material shortage" excuse in one of his videos. I had not heard of this worldwide canvas shortage.
When butter prices jumped 300% last year in Poland, people also tried to excuse it with worldwide shortage. Butter has allegedly become extremely popular in China overnight, and that caused the price hike. It absolutely didn't have anything to do with the government meddling with production limits, no siree, not at all!
We had a small bump in the availability of butter a couple of years ago in Sweden, but at that time, it was partly due to a sudden increase in demand because of LCHF. And of course, the last half a century of politicians working to kill strangle the farming industry in the country to death. :D
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@JBert said in Bethesda dealing with Fallout:
@Luhmann said in Bethesda dealing with Fallout:
Shouldn't the title be "Bethesda dealing with Fallout fallout" ?
The pun was intended, and I wanted to keep it short.
If you really want to act like an inspector from the Redundant Department of Redundancy then I will duly note your comment and move on.
Shouldn't the title be Bethesda Bethesda dealing with Fallout fallout fallout fallout fallout fallout?
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Holy mother of God this game is such a trainwreck
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As someone who doesn't even know what the Fallout games are...I saw a few references to "Fallout 76" and figured people were making fun of the franchise for having too many entries. But that's actually the name? There are really 76 of them? Or is this more nonsense version numbers like Xbox One being the third, and Battlefield One being the twelfth or whatever
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@mott555 The name references the Vault number you wander out of at the start. Which is a departure from form, as most previous entries followed a numerical system (except for Fallout: Tactics and Fallout: New Vegas), but I guess they wanted it to be separate from the standard number convention to indicate it isn't just a normal single-player Fallout game.
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@Polygeekery said in Bethesda dealing with Fallout:
@JBert said in Bethesda dealing with Fallout:
Just open a ticket with your name, email address, a copy of your receipt and your shipping address and they'll ship the "bag Mk II" to your door.
They couldn't ship the proper bags. They sent all of those to video game "journalists" as part of their review perks. The people who actually paid for the collector's edition got the shitty bag and were given $5.00 in virtual in game currency that cost Bethesda $0.00 to produce.
I guess we have a Bethesda employee on here, since your post got downvoted.
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@Polygeekery said in Bethesda dealing with Fallout:
The people who actually paid for the collector's edition got the shitty bag and were given $5.00 in virtual in game currency that cost Bethesda $0.00 to produce.
And even better... that $5 of in-game currency isn't even enough to buy the costume that has the canvas bag that the real-life one was supposed to be modeled after!
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@Lorne-Kates Weird complaint but okay.
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@pie_flavor said in Bethesda dealing with Fallout:
@Lorne-Kates Weird complaint but okay.
Not a complaint, more of silly/ironic. They promised something, didn't deliver, and then gave in-game currency, but not enough to get that virtual item.
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@Lorne-Kates Better yet, it wasn't even enough to buy you the twelve amazing holiday
emotesPNGs that was on "special" just before Christmas:
https://www.reddit.com/r/fo76/comments/a6w2m7/the_atom_shops_prices_are_slowly_going_up_and/But I guess at $1 per a Vault Boy drawing it's still better value than the $1 for a literal red dot Activision are asking for...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Blackops4/comments/9t3e2z/this_takes_it_to_the_next_level_are_we_really/
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Anyone with a normal social life is not going to
reach the insanely ridiculous requirement you have set towards unlocking the tiersplay these games in the first placeGamers? Social life? Ha, ha!
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@Deadfast If that red dot is how I get a laser designator, I would grudgingly pay one dollar for that.