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Re: Fallout 76 is the score it wishes it had on metacritic
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2018 3:10 am
by Rightey
Things with this game just keep getting worse and worse. I'm not sure if it was posted in this thread as I havn't been following it too closely, but I just read somewhere else that the $200 special edition came with a piece of cardboard in the disk case instead of an actual strawberry floating disk! WTF?! How much would it have cost to get an actual disk printed?! Something like $0.50 per disk?!
Re: Fallout 76 is the score it wishes it had on metacritic
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2018 8:08 am
by Victor Mildew
strawberry floating hell
Re: Fallout 76 is the score it wishes it had on metacritic
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2018 10:19 am
by <]:^D
this whole release is going to be a media studies/business failure case study in a few years
Re: Fallout 76 is the score it wishes it had on metacritic
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2018 11:18 am
by Lagamorph
Rightey wrote:Things with this game just keep getting worse and worse. I'm not sure if it was posted in this thread as I havn't been following it too closely, but I just read somewhere else that the $200 special edition came with a piece of cardboard in the disk case instead of an actual strawberry floating disk! WTF?! How much would it have cost to get an actual disk printed?! Something like $0.50 per disk?!
Code in box is pretty much the norm for 'physical' PC releases these days.
Re: Fallout 76 is the score it wishes it had on metacritic
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2018 11:23 am
by Errkal
Lagamorph wrote:Rightey wrote:Things with this game just keep getting worse and worse. I'm not sure if it was posted in this thread as I havn't been following it too closely, but I just read somewhere else that the $200 special edition came with a piece of cardboard in the disk case instead of an actual strawberry floating disk! WTF?! How much would it have cost to get an actual disk printed?! Something like $0.50 per disk?!
Code in box is pretty much the norm for 'physical' PC releases these days.
In a normal release that's fine, but in a $200 special edition they could put a disk in, even if the disk just had the code printed on it or something.
gooseberry fool they could just put some wallpaper files on it or something.
Re: Fallout 76 is the score it wishes it had on metacritic
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2018 11:33 am
by Lagamorph
Errkal wrote:Lagamorph wrote:Rightey wrote:Things with this game just keep getting worse and worse. I'm not sure if it was posted in this thread as I havn't been following it too closely, but I just read somewhere else that the $200 special edition came with a piece of cardboard in the disk case instead of an actual strawberry floating disk! WTF?! How much would it have cost to get an actual disk printed?! Something like $0.50 per disk?!
Code in box is pretty much the norm for 'physical' PC releases these days.
In a normal release that's fine, but in a $200 special edition they could put a disk in, even if the disk just had the code printed on it or something.
gooseberry fool they could just put some wallpaper files on it or something.
Bethesda are hardly the first to do this though.
Hell, there's been expensive collection editions lately that don't come with the game at all, let alone just a code in box (Red Dead Redemption 2, Sonic Mania, Battlefield 1) and those were console versions.
Re: Fallout 76 is the score it wishes it had on metacritic
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2018 12:01 pm
by Winckle
Yeah this is just fake controversy now. Most PCs don't have Blu-Ray readers, so they'd need to either put in a bunch of DVDs or do what they did.
Frankly my internet connection is faster than my optical drive, and I doubt i'm in the minority amongst PC gamers there.
Re: Fallout 76 is the score it wishes it had on metacritic
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2018 12:05 pm
by Cuttooth
Errkal wrote:In a normal release that's fine, but in a $200 special edition they could put a disk in, even if the disk just had the code printed on it or something.
gooseberry fool they could just put some wallpaper files on it or something.
What? What on earth does it matter to get a pointless physical disc because you paid a premium for other tat?
Re: Fallout 76 is the score it wishes it had on metacritic
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2018 12:33 pm
by Meep
The stupid thing is putting codes inside a dvd cases. It is dumb to waste a bunch of plastic and transportation on a box containing nothing but a code, because the case becomes completely useless the moment the code is used. If you want something someone can buy as a gift just print it on a card or something.
Re: Fallout 76 is the score it wishes it had on metacritic
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2018 12:57 pm
by Knoyleo
Given the size of the patches for this already, any disc in the box is basically redundant as it is, as you'd just be launching an obsolete version of the game anyway.
Re: Fallout 76 is the score it wishes it had on metacritic
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2018 1:31 pm
by Rightey
If it's so normal to not get disks then why did they bother to have a steel disk case? That was one of the things they promised with the special edition. Why not just add something else nice instead?
Re: Fallout 76 is the score it wishes it had on metacritic
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2018 2:56 pm
by Lagamorph
Rightey wrote:If it's so normal to not get disks then why did they bother to have a steel disk case? That was one of the things they promised with the special edition. Why not just add something else nice instead?
Because the console version does come with a disc.
If console owners got a steelbook and PC owners didn't then the controversy would just be about that instead.
Meep wrote:The stupid thing is putting codes inside a dvd cases. It is dumb to waste a bunch of plastic and transportation on a box containing nothing but a code, because the case becomes completely useless the moment the code is used. If you want something someone can buy as a gift just print it on a card or something.
If it was nothing but a game case then yeah, but this part of the collectors edition rather than a standalone game case that just comes with a code in the box.
And as I said, a game case with a printed code in the box is pretty standard for Physical PC releases this time. It's more for the sake of retailers than anything else.
Nintendo did the exact same thing with the Pokemon Gold/Silver re-release for 3DS. It was just a cardboard box with nothing but a code inside.
There are plenty of things to criticise Bethesda for over Fallout 76. This isn't one of them.
Re: Fallout 76 is the score it wishes it had on metacritic
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2018 7:56 pm
by Trelliz
Re: Fallout 76 is the score it wishes it had on metacritic
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 12:07 am
by OrangeRKN
I played 8 hours of this today
Finished exploring Morgantown, headed up to Grafton and met the mayor. I also found a revolutionary sword and a musket, so I'm all ready for any war of independence re-enactments. Better yet I found some ritual bindings under a creepy altar in a basement and then later found a cultist's bone knife, so I can go full murder crazy too.
Oh yeah and I also made a church. Obviously I had to put on pastor vestments for the photos.
twitter.com/orangerakoonps4/status/1069309762658099201
https://twitter.com/orangerakoonps4/sta ... 2658099201The options for stairs are really limited and bad in this game, much worse that Fallout 4's offerings. That church tower was such a pain and it's far from perfect. Still pleased with how it came out in the end!
Re: Fallout 76 is the score it wishes it had on metacritic
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 11:25 am
by Preezy
Very impressive construction, ORKN!
Re: Fallout 76 is the score it wishes it had on metacritic
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 11:38 am
by OrangeRKN
Thank you, PRZY!
Re: Fallout 76 is the score it wishes it had on metacritic
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 11:10 pm
by Lagamorph
twitter.com/BethesdaSupport/status/1069713890806849536
It's good that they're doing this, but that absolutely shouldn't make people forget, nor forgive, this situation arising in the first place.
On the other hand,