It's not even a plastic bottle though, as it doesn't contain the drink - it containers the bottle that contains the drink. It's absurd to say that because of a vague presumably CGI (or at least edited) image that customers shouldn't have expected to get a proper bottle. It's a drink that obviously comes in a bottle that had a description that talks about that bottle being like a typical Nuka-Cola bottle alongside showing customers said bottle-shaped thing, but it then turned out it's just a plastic container for the actual bottle and therefore isn't the bottle at all.
For all the people saying 'it doesn't matter it's plastic', at that price point this is an example of the competition:
https://www.caskers.com/el-dorado-21-year-old-rum/?gclid=Cj0KCQiApILhBRD1ARIsAOXWTztHkknzcEJkf1pyKfWiYImqvgcUNRXslNMVeJUbXoOrzvRqZwGyiKsaAuOXEALw_wcB
If that bottle didn't have the Fallout name on it no-one with their right mind would buy it.
This seems like a silly thing to make a complaint of. It's actual rum, it's in a Nuka Cola bottle. Did people just ASSUME that it was going to be a glass Nuka Cola bottle? Because that would be outrageously expensive to form glass into, and the fins would likely be solid and that would just be the "scandal" instead.
Hey you know what you can buy for half the price of one of those plastic bottles of nuka cola
A bottle of vodka shaped like a goddamn skull
For one 9th the price, you can buy a bottle of vodka shaped like an AK-47
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/kalashnikov+vodka+russian
Congratulations on proving yourself wrong that a bottle with four little fins at the bottom is too expensive to make out of glass.
You can get SEVERAL bottles of Crystal Head vodka in bottles that have been flash electroplated with a highly iridescent wide-spectrum metal for that fucking price.
You'd think it'd be a better idea making little mini bottles of nuka cola or have them be mini glass sculptures of the bottles- but they decided to try and go full out and completely half ass and gut the whole thing.
You are to Fallout 76 what Boilrig is to Brexit.
Well this seems like something stupid to complain about! Sometimes I think people are complaining for the sake of complaining -
It's 100 dollars
Nevermind
Bethesda fucked up. If you are going to charge 100 bucks for rum or any type of drink it better be premium quality.
Game of thrones just released their own batch scotches, they're all from Scottish distilleries and based on that they're priced accordingly. Some of the bottles are 250 all the way to 30-40ish dollars. When you look up the distillery the bottle you get is pretty much spot on in price based on the scotch you got.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/230446/29542ec8-7e2c-43c0-b402-bd06c3768881/image.png
They also come in a nice box/sleeve that most Scotches come in.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/230446/f2c780a9-7914-47c5-8b9a-1e73ca10c20b/image.png
I paid between 30-40 USD for each bottle before they got super popular from a local store. I think it is pretty nice product and presentation for the price.
I can't believe Bethesda is charging 100 dollars for a fucking plastic bottle. To me the bottle looked like frosted glass, which have really nice presentation. They had the chance to release a good product with a nice bottle, it isn't like they manufacture bottles like that anymore. It would be kinda a throw back to an era where they hand blew bottles and made glass bottles in unique shapes.
Haven't Bethesda previously commissioned some really damn good themed drinks and cocktails before for events and stuff? Obviously slightly different, but it's so frustrating to see effort applied so inconsistently.
And its apparently good aswell
I have a bottle, it's strong as fuck.
It's 40% alcohol and smells like isopropyl. It was worth every dollar.
They also have the badass Johnnie Walker, that changes color and has text appear when it's below a certain temperature:
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/218831/b78b8243-28f0-4cb4-9184-8dc2ff39074f/Johnnie-Walker-WW-pic-3.jpg
Ontop of that, whats even worse is that if you're world is going to focus on using those things there should be sound prioritization to the audio tapes and the ability to pause and play on the fly so you can actually listen to them.
They can't even get basic functionality of a tape recorded which is something that every Pipboy, in world, has had.
At this point I feel like the only way to make amends is to publicly come forward and express that the game was not ready, and their products were a disaster at launch. They should offer a full refund of all purchases.
https://youtu.be/wGDPYlxiQ_o?t=39
you cant even pour it properly when its in the bottle lmao
I would disagree and use Mass Effect 1 as a counterpoint. ME's codex (basically a huge collection of notes) is the vast majority of the universe's world building and it is a gargantuan effort and brilliant.
As supplement, yes; as prime, no.
Even for walking simulators, stories that can be witnessed are always better than listening to some wank musing the entire game. Literally the point of show, don't tell.
Sounds like it's pretty bog-standard middle shelf rum too, which would be fine if it didn't cost $100 bucks. I wonder where they sourced it from? Between the plastic shell and cheap rum they must have a really nice profit margin.
But this isn't about stories or storytelling, this is about worldbuilding. To use Mass Effect 1 as an example again, you get shown that the humans and the Turian don't get on all that well by the way characters act, and that's part of the story, then you go into the codex and read about the history that shaped that conflict, which is part of the worldbuilding.
Yeah exactly, it's shown in game and the codex is just an extra supplement.
Lmao I want to see someone try defending the plastic shit now
Imagine how much of that over-priced rum gets stuck inside the shell, too.
Alot of the Codex fills in the details but they're not necessary because the races, universe and conversations are on point to give you those details without the codex.
I'm not sure what would be worse - either they're just incompetent and didn't know that the 'bottle' has been so poorly designed that it can't properly function as the thing it's meant to be (Liquid seeping inside it and being terrible for pouring) and must have done pretty much no testing, or they knew it doesn't work properly but just went with it anyway.
" or they knew it doesn't work properly but just went with it anyway"
I mean that's kinda their MO by this point
There is no way that the company that made these didn't know. If they make liquor and bottle it as a business they know about it, it is a matter if their client cares or not.
Glass blowing was invented in the first century B.C. I think we've fucked with glass for long enough for it to be cheap lol.
"Great lengths to ensure that no corners were cut"
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(not me)
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