If you don't know what I'm talking about, A YouTuber made a great compilation of some Todd's little sweet lies, But this whole mess with Fallout 76 is a lot different, And I would say it's a lot different because the product release was just abysmal, It was bad, Which is really strange because Bethesda in the past as a publisher really empathized pushing out quality games, Last year they bragged about being the savior of single-player games, It even got rewarded by the Metacritic top publisher in 2017 based on the fact that they had the highest review scores for all the games combined they were released last year by them.
Even in the past, they canceled games that supposedly were not up to their quality standards, Pete Hines said in 2014 about their decision to cancel prey 2 which at the time was being developed by the human head studio where a game we believed in we never felt like it got where it needed to be, We never saw a path to success if we finished it, It wasn't up to our quality standards and we decided to cancel it, It's no longer under development, It's a franchise that we still believe we can do something with, We just need what something is, And eventually we will see that franchise rebooted with our canes underrated take on it last year.
But this is what confuses me, In the past, Bethesda cared about quality, But what the hell happened here in 2018 with Fallout 76?
We all know that they are rushing to release but was it that they needed to get Fallout 76 out this year because they had no other big releases in 2018? Or do they just think they can release a half-assed game and fix it later like so many other developers have done?
They are so many questions on how this game was allowed to release in its current state, but just outside of the game it seems like the Bethesda has done a lot of rushing, The big controversy that is raging on right now is that the power armor edition of Fallout 76 which is also the collector's edition that did not come out with everything that was promised, Specifically Bethesda chose to change the west tech duffel bag from canvas to nylon without notifying anyone, then tried to make excuses that it was too expensive and they soon said that the original reason that an employee who was necessarily connected to the company was inaccurate, and the real reason that there was a shortage in material although that doesn't make too much sense being that this isn't some extremely rare material and if you think that 200$ special edition would be planned way ahead of time but like everything with Fallout 76 it was probably rushed and it was for money which point being Bethesda chose to make a larger profit over satisfying their most loyal customers, I mean if you think that this was not for money then they would have upgraded the bag not downgraded it, But even now Bthesda has declared the Special Edition one of their best which is a strange way to respond to anger over not giving player what they promised.
Now the issue with Bethesda not delivering what they promised is that they never told about the change in material to cheap nylon, They also never made an effort to change the Power Armour advertisement which is misleading, Something that many are asking and wanting the government agencies like the US Federal Trade Commission to investigate as this is blatant false advertising something that legally Bethesda can get in trouble for.
Besides just a potential FTC investigation law firms are already reaching out and trying to put a class-action lawsuit which I have to believe it's a case and based on Bethesda's refund policy on their store, Nobody can get a refund on Fallout 76 Power Armour Edition because it is a limited edition, and right now it a problem as Bethesda misled a bunch of customers, Although Bethesda is offering a crappy 500 atoms which are their make-believe currency for Fallout 76 to those affected.
The interesting thing about this is that this may be a legal trickery, So if you accept this offer under the law then you have been compensated and can't do legal action or fight for a refund later, Just be very careful because if you are not satisfied with this Nylon Power Armour Edition I believe Bethesda is obligated to give on what they originally promised unless you take 5 dollars in-game currency which in my opinion is quite pathetic.
But today there has been a very interesting update which continues to show Bethesda in a negative light, It's been outdated by a YouTuber HeelvsBabyFace that many influencers received free canvas bags of the green brayer event that happened back in September, If you recall this is where a bunch of YouTuber and gaming websites got to go and play Fallout 76 for the first time, And part of the trip of being flown to West-Virginia Bethesda Gave these content creators some free merchandise.
Now obviously none of these creators deserve any hate at all, They were just invited to an event and they had no way of knowing how badly Bethesda Would Bomb with Fallout 76, But the most telling part of these canvas bags is that Bethesda But and effort to get these influencers a high-quality bag when they could not do for their most loyal fans who coughed up to 200$ and that is extremely concerning and if I spent 200$ on The Power Armor Edition then all of this news would feel like a spit to my face from Bethesda, Still up to this point there has been no real apology from Bethesda, And what bothers me is that this canvas bag debacle is that I think there wasn't a shortage in materials but just mismanagement, and that's the best way to describe the whole Fallout 76 mess.
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