Bethesda knowingly falsely advertised item in the Fallout 76 Power Armor Edition - Sensationalist Headlines

https://www.spieltimes.com/news/fallout-76-power-armor-edition-canvas-bag-baited-and-switched-false-advertisement/ Bethesda has become a heated topic for discussion, encircling itself in a number of controversies, user backlashes and deceptive trade practices. While Bethesda did break the silence by announcing two big Fallout 76 updates, things haven’t just settled yet. Reddit user AlexanderDLarge drew attention to the whole situation. The $200 Fallout 76 Power Armor Edition was advertised to include an exclusive Steelcase, 24 collectable Fallout figurines, Tricentennial Edition Bonus digital items, a glowing map, a wearable T-51B Power Armor Helmet and most importantly, a Canvas West Tek Duffel Bag. However, people who did order the special edition received a cheap nylon bag that substituted the “Canvas West Tek Duffel Bag”. The product listing for the Power Armor edition still advertises a canvas bag across all major retailers – Best Buy, Amazon, Walmart, Target. When conscious consumers contacted Bethesda regarding the matter, Bethesda replied – Greetings! Thank you for contacting Bethesda Customer Support. My name is Nicholas and I’d be happy to help you today! Due to unavailability of materials, we had to switch to a nylon case in the Fallout 76: Power Armor Edition. We hope this doesn’t prevent anyone from enjoying what we feel is one of our best collector’s editions. Another user posted the issue on Bethesda Helpdesk, to which, Bethesda replied – Hello, We are sorry that you aren’t happy with the bag. The bag shown in the media was a prototype and was too expensive to make. We aren’t planning on doing anything about it. Considering the “unavailability of materials”, it’s Bethesda’s prime responsibility to inform its customers and people who’re planning on purchasing it in future. However, no retailer has corrected it at the time of publishing. Bethesda Gear Store, however, has sneakily updated the product description on their website – Full-Scale Wearable T-51 Power Armor Helmet with a Nylon Carrying Bag

I mildly suspect that Todd Howard intentionally made this game as much of a disaster as possible because he got tired of being involved with Bethesda or as a rebellious statement against modern gaming world and decided to create a trainwreck of epic proportions.

I don't see Bethesda will legally get out of this one untarnished, given the fact they're being looked at for the game's unfulfilled promises themselves, let alone this.

They'll pull some bullshit technicality about how the people who bought it should have regularly checked the description daily to see if it had changed or not just watch.

Fuck Bethesda

Or he knows everyone will buy in whatever he makes/involves in making so why bother putting effort just make the game look fancy before anyone plays it to get all the preorder money and forget about it asap Considering the “unavailability of materials”, it’s Bethesda’s prime responsibility to inform its customers and people who’re planning on purchasing it in future. However, no retailer has corrected it at the time of publishing. Bethesda Gear Store, however, has sneakily updated the product description on their website – Full-Scale Wearable T-51 Power Armor Helmet with a Nylon Carrying Bag Something makes me feel like they werent going to change or address the issues as long as no one called them out on it like ActiBlizz and EA

It's like all of bethesda's worst flaws were doubled in proportion. They didn't show shit for Fallout 4 when they announced it, just "let's blow shit up" which wasn't a good sign to me. They didn't even show anything when they announced 76, let alone did we know what the game was even trying to do.

Yeah obviously, I am just attempting to come up with an unlikely overly optimistic reason that is NOT money just for the sake of a scenario.

I stopped playing skyrim lately when it finally reminded me of those least-common-denominator kind of games you see boxed at Walmart, it sort of saddens me that this is the studio that made Morrowind.

Considering the “unavailability of materials”, it’s Bethesda’s prime responsibility to inform its customers and people who’re planning on purchasing it in future. However, no retailer has corrected it at the time of publishing. Bethesda Gear Store, however, has sneakily updated the product description on their website – Full-Scale Wearable T-51 Power Armor Helmet with a Nylon Carrying Bag This is wrong. A lot of retailers still have it listed as the "Canvas" bag, but the GAME site has the correct picture showing it as the "Duffel" bag instead...even though their description still mentions the "canvas" bag. https://img.game.co.uk/images/content/SpecialEditions/F76_PowerArmour.jpg That GAME has that picture shows that retailers must have been told about the change to some extent, so this doesn't seem to be a case of "Bethesda changed it and didn't tell anyone!" but rather retailers didn't correctly update their listings for some reason. The earliest archived page for the GAME listing is from 22nd october and it says "Duffel bag", so that was changed at least a month ago. https://web.archive.org/web/20181022114951/https://www.game.co.uk/en/fallout-76-power-armour-edition-uk-retail-exclusive-2395004

there's probably some sneaky clause like "we reserve the right to substitution of like items" or something like that.

Reminds me of the broken Geralt bust someone got from the Witcher 2 collectors edition, except iirc that one was faked and this one is real. It's suprising seeing all of the bad habits Bethesda swept under the rug blow up all at once

How does one company go so wrong in not even a week. That requires some sort of skill

How did they think they would... not get checked up on for this?

Is FO76 where Bethesda jumps the shark? This seems to be an unending series of bad decisions with highly-predictable outcomes.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EQnQGoXaqq0/maxresdefault.jpg

Nope, it's where people wake up to the reality of the shark being already jumped years ago.

They actually pulled the same shit with Skyrim as well when they switched the promised canvas map with a cheap relief map.

You double down, and everyone gets to watch that sweet hammer fall as a result.

Prepare for class action lawsuit from all 5 people who ordered it

https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/1067845677256867840

"We acknowledge and confess to falsely advertising our products. But we already got your money so screw you."

Fallout 4 wasn't a 10/10 game, or anything, but it was still a really good game that entertained me for many hours more than most games do. I think atmosphere is what BGS do best, and it really nailed it. There were lots of problems, sure, but I still think it was worthwhile.

What a fucking choice of words. What the hell, Bethesda.

The copy of Skyrim I bought even had a sticker on it advertising that it came with a canvas map. Though I wasn't too annoyed since I just picked the game up without pre-ordering. Still a shitty thing to do.

Pete Hines has never particularly been good at PR.

Pete Hines has always been a dickhead honestly. There are countless shitty responses by him over the years

It wasn't Pete Hines, it was someone at Bethesda's online customer service who wrote it in an email. It was a shitty thing to say (and something I could see Pete saying) but let's not blame the guy for something he didn't say.

It seems weird that the customer service rep knows about the canvas bag being too expensive to make and was just a prototype. Unless they were told that's how they're supposed to respond to these.

As senior VP of global marketing and communications at bethesda, I would assume he had some input into the response to this.