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

I hope it impacts them positively. As in, Bethesda decides to pull it's finger out of it's arse and produces something quality again instead of coasting along on the success of Skyrim.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=912td0sEGTg

Louis CK joke comes to mind Of course it's bad that they knew an item they were selling wasn't as advertised but sold it anyway. Of course. But Maybeeeeee if you spent $200 on Fallout 76..... you kind of deserve it

"Sorry you didn't get your physical merchandise as promised, here, have some of our fake in-game currency which we've stated in our EULA has zero real world value!" People who trust bethesda seem like the same types of people who are constantly being cheated on by their significant other, but is willing to "forgive and forget" based on hollow promises.

http://www.google.com/ Hmmm

And who announced that they're continuing to use Creation Engine (aka Gamebryo aka NetImmerse aka OVER 20 YEARS OLD) for the next two flagship Bethesda titles, Starfield and TES6, because Bethesda's devs are comfortable and familiar with it and have development processes that allow them to push out tons of content in it. And, sure, there'll be some incremental enhancements and improvements, I'm sure, but in the end it's going to be the same old shit and the same old bugs are going to come back and need to be patched by the community again. And meanwhile games like Cyberpunk 2077 and Star Citizen's single-player and who knows what other unannounced-as-of-yet first-person RPGs will probably be out before/around the same time on much newer engines without the wart-covered legacy of Bethesda's in-house crutch. Bethesda's mantra of "we stay on this engine because it allows us to rapidly produce lots of content" isn't going to hold up when that content is garbage compared to what they'd be able to do if they actually bit the bullet and did something like throw out Creation and modify UE4 into recreating Skyrim.

I would honestly love a study on buyer's remorse with video game releases, and how it applies to other decisions (political, social, etc).

Ah yes, the clever tactic to give pile the free stuff out to people who are more or less paid shills but kicking everyone else where it hurts the most then aplogizing by offering your $5. Thanks once again, game industry.

Every time I think the Fallout 76 debacle couldn't possibly get worse, somehow it does.

And yet the fetchquests only got worse in Oblivion, Fallout 3, Skyrim, Fallout 4 and now Fallout 76.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox-lfowevqA

Hahaha oh wow that's not a good look at all. How can Bethesda even keep fucking up this bad, it's incredible.

did todd start doing crack from all that skyrim money or what

Todd's always been not a very good game designer tbh. While I don't really like "The Rageaholic" he had a video last year about an interview someone did with Julian LeFay, who was a critical component in the development of Arena and Daggerfall. From the excerpts he showed from this interview, LeFay essentially described Howard as a bad D&D DM, and that's where a lot of his game design and story issues stem from, and that some of it could be seen even as early as Morrowind. Here's the full interview, I've never watched it so I can't tell you what timestamps those are at. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGLGi5RK8V8

https://twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1069000983299141637 It continues to get worse.

Todd Howard and Emil Pagliarulo are a true dream team aren't they? One can't write a story for shit, the other won't let you break from it.

Well, what a turn of events. https://twitter.com/BethesdaSupport/status/1069713890806849536

Back peddling after committing PR Suicide multiple times in a week. Who would have guessed! Same sleezy shit other companies like EA do.

Fallout 76's first content patch better include this song on a radio somewhere. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubU-dB8B-94

inb4 it's not a physical bag but a special in-game items instead

Can't say I was expecting this tbh, now if only the game itself wasn't buggy as hell.

I saw someone post this with a comment saying "now you nylongate people can shut up" and honestly I'm more irritated with the comment than I'd like to admit