So. I guess no one actually watched the video? The bottle used in the screenshots is a cover, and is clearly shown as a cover in the advertisement video where they show the bottling process with the actual bottle being placed inside the cosmetic cover. Also the fact that this product was not made by Bethesda but was made by a company called Silver Screen Bottling Company, who were the ones in charge of the production and supply of the drink and were the ones who delayed it for "Not being up to Fallout standards."
Nah though. Let's keep the anti-Fallout 76 circle jerk going. The ride never ends. And no I'm not a Fallout 76 fanboy, I haven't played the game in weeks. I just think it's fucking ridiculous that you all get so incensed at the mention of 76 that you can't be bothered to look at the facts and would rather talk shit for 4 pages.
I'm doubtful you even watched the video when it is pointed out by sidalpha that the video was the first time people ever knew about the plastic cover.
And it's a video that was released as part of a batch of PR emails made in order to appease customers who preordered an increasingly late product.
What i gathered is that the "advertisement video" you're talking about was a "thank you for ordering" video released when they shipped the bottles, not before purchasing.
When you outsource something to a specialized company as merchandise, you have to make sure that the product they produce has to meet standards. It's your responsibility to make sure it meets standards before you put it up for sale. Otherwise you get a PR disaster. Something Bethesda has been generating for the past 2 months.
lmao
Then Bethesda sourced it out to a shitty company, or Bethesda gave them the go-ahead to go the cheap/shitty route. Pick one, either-or looks bad on them given the price and the hype.
But the codex isn't the sole means of building out their world. There are hundreds of NPCs that you can observe and listen to and radio communication that also sets the stage and creates a narrative.
"We are so proud of this product."
Holy fucking hell, that is a lie.
That email just seems so strange that i'd assume it's fake, It's just utterly absurd to claim a plastic shell (that doesn't even function properly) for a generic bottle cost "Over 2x" what it would to have a custom glass bottle made and that it's better than the glass bottle would have been because it's bigger. If it isn't fake, then that's just pathetic.
So are you determined to take Ganerumo's position of Bethesda defender like they did when FO4 released?
Whether Fallout 4 actually is a good game or not is ultimately a completely different beast from Bethesda simply failing to keep up certain standards in merchandising.
I still think FO4 got way too much flak at release and that a lot of the vitriol that hit the game was disproportionate and undeserved, and until FO76 came out and turned out to be a mess (haven't bought it and don't intend to, for the record) I was mostly on the side of giving them the benefit of the doubt until the game was actually available. However since that game was released Bethesda has taken a slew of bad decisions regarding Fallout specifically and this shit is getting wilder and wilder.
It's kinda fucked too because I'm willing to believe a lot of this is more on the side of Zenimax and the developer side of BGS probably had very little, if anything, to do with those repeated fuckups. The way FO76 was talked about as an experiment that gathered internal traction until it became a full project, it sounds a lot like one of those projects that was spotted by some clueless exec who proceeded to overload it with marketing and merchandising until it was just completely blown out of proportion. Kind of like how THQ in its later years would bank massively on particularly mediocre or bland projects and would end up spending more money on marketing than on development (see: homefront).
Except that Todd confirmed they were originally looking to ship it with Fallout 4?
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