Oof we got a big yikes from me because if you haven't been following Bethesda's so-called Triple-A game Fallout 76.
Buckle up because it's a real sh*t show and it's just been getting worse and worse every time you think it can't get worse
To the point of just being hilarious, which is what we're gonna talk about today. You see back in E3 earlier this year
Bethesda one of the most beloved game studios creator of Fallout 3, Fallout 4,
Skyrim, Oblivion they released a new Fallout. Well, they announced a new Fallout game,
Fallout 76 that would be a little bit different. They said it'll be multiplayer
a lot of people were a little bit skeptical but
excited. I was excited and then they released a little bit more details that kind of made people think like hmmm
Alright, what do they think it here?
For example one thing is that it would not have NPCs and a lot of people were wondering
Well, how is it going to have a really good story if there's no NPCs? The idea behind it
was that all the people you see would be other real people interesting concept and
Myself I was like alright
Well, we'll wait and see well give them the benefit of the doubt and see what happens. And upon release,
which I did not pre-order, thank God. Things were not looking good. There were server disconnects all the time
People were losing some progress. It was messing things up. You had to play online because it was an all online game
It was buggy as hell which you normally get with a Bethesda game
But for some reason it seemed like it was even worse possibly because of the fact that well, it's all online
You can't pause the game. You can't really save so any bugs that cause a problem for you are
permanent. The game also had a very
overpriced microtransaction
store with stupid stuff like hats
and emotes, costing several dollars which
just didn't really make sense to most people and was seen as just like a cash grab. And to top it all off, the game
didn't even perform well.
People even with really high-end graphics cards were saying that the game was just laggy in most parts their framerate
drops and they're using the same ancient
engine which
You can use an engine over the years as long as you like overhaul it we have things
like the Unreal Engine which they overhaul and make completely different but Bethesda really hasn't been apparently doing that and
it's got some of the same old bugs that hadn't been patched and
Existed in previous games and it even been patched by player mods
But Bethesda themselves didn't pact which was just seen as lazy
and of course one of the biggest complaints that people had is that the fact that there are no
NPCs made the game feel very pointless. It's like why are you doing these quests if the quest givers are all dead
There was really no story. It's like a nihilistic game almost it felt very empty
A lot of people said at least so we have this game that's been super hyped up
Everyone's excited about it and it turns out it objectively pretty much sucks and the reviews started coming in
They started getting terrible reviews
I think it got like a 49 on Metacritic even IGN
Which is notable for having inflated reviews gave them a 5 out of 10
Mediocre which in the world of IGN is basically the equivalent of calling it a complete
Dumpster fire. I mean they gave call duty like a 10 out of 10
So you gotta wonder what a 5 out of 10 takes it's this and yes, believe it or not. It does get even worse
multiple ways but before we get into that
I think at this point is pretty easy to summarize
why you should never pre-order a game and
This is the reason even games that are so hyped up and you expect how can it be a bad game?
well
it's like this they simply didn't spend enough time on it and a lot of people are saying and I think
Included based on what I'm seeing. It just looks like they needed another year to put into it
So if the bad reviews a bad publicity wasn't bad enough
Well, it turns out there is one another way
They really screwed up and that was with the $200 so-called power armor limited edition
Now this thing was supposed to come with a bunch of different extra real life goodies
Like a power armor helmet it was supposed to come with a canvas bag also in addition to the game itself
But here's the problem
people bought it expecting this nice canvas bag and they're like well
At least I get this stuff that I can use even the game sucks
But instead of shipping the canvas bag like they said they would they ship this crappy
cheapo
Wrinkled nylon bag that is definitely not canvas at all and it gets even worse
Because when people started complaining about this, they realize all right. This is obviously false advertising
What's the story here is Bethesda gonna fix this while people emailed in to Bethesda?
They say yeah, you did not give us a canvas bag
Like you said turns out Bethesda responded to support enquiries about it by saying yeah
Basically, the canvas bags were too expensive. So we made it out of nylon instead
They literally said we don't plan on doing anything about this oof
That is just a big middle finger to your customers. What on earth are they thinking now?
Because there was such huge backlash they did decide to do
something which is offer five hundred atoms of in-game currency for the
microtransaction store, which turns out to be about five dollars worth which in my opinion is
Basically worse than doing nothing because it's such a small amount. I mean these people pay
$200 and you're gonna give them five dollars of in-game currency. They can only use on the transaction store
Meanwhile, this micro transaction store has such inflated prices
You can basically with that $5 buy like two emotes
You can't even buy like a pair of stupid fallout 76 virtual glasses
It's such a joke, but here is the real kicker because it does not stop there
Yes, it gets even worse in terms of PR for Bethesda
You see they didn't give the paying customers their canvas bag
They literally falsely advertised a canvas bag did not ship a canvas bag
It was a nylon crappy cheapo one and it turns out people found out that
Bethesda when they hosted a event for like influencers to come and try out the game
They did hand out for free to these influencers a very high quality
Canvas back pack to these people and meanwhile
the people who paid $200 the real superfans just got
Screwed. I mean really talk about a perfect storm of just bad decision after bad decision actually quickly
This is an update. I'm recording after the fact it turns out that Bethesda is
Actually caving and is going to send out a proper canvas bag to power armor editions
so I'm gonna give credit where credit is due and throw this into the video that they are actually going to
Give people the canvas bag that they did advertise in the first place
so I guess good for them and I should point out that there is a difference between
Bethesda Game Studios and
Bethesda Softworks
Who and like Bethesda who is like the publisher the corporate side and then there was the game studio who?
Didn't really have anything thing to do with these marketing decisions
but still yeah kinda have to look at them the same so obviously the developers probably did put their hard work and
Life into this thing and tried to make the best game possible. But the corporate side of it said you know what?
No, we don't want to give you more time to make it the best
we're gonna release it on time screw the customers screw the people who one of the stuff they were actually advertised for getting and
It's just bad and this really just reaffirms my belief that in this day and age
You simply cannot preorder a game
You don't know what you're gonna get gone are the days where a game is guaranteed to be good. Just based on the history
I mean, I remember when the last game I pre-ordered was
Destiny the original one and I thought you know what Bungie how can Bungie make a bad game?
It's Bungie, you know, they made the whole Halo franchise. I loved Halo. They cannot possibly make a bad game
So I was super excited about destiny pre-ordered it even pre-ordered the season pass with it
So I would get all the DLC when I finally went and played it
Oh my god, what a horrible experience
The game was clearly unfinished the store like you literally couldn't even finish the story
It just ended ruptal e and you're like that's it. Where's the rest of the game?
It was not very exciting and turn they're like, yeah
well
you have to wait for the DLC to get the rest of the story which is gonna be like another year out and I'm like
That's not what DLC is DLC is supposed to be like on top and in addition to the main story
It's not like DLC is supposed to be part of the game. What a joke
I didn't even play the DLC even though I paid for the season pass. I had such a bad taste in my mouth
I put down destiny didn't even play it after the DLC came out
It was such crap and that game is personally what kind of woke me up to the idea that no
Pre-orders are not a good idea anymore
And I think a lot of people who pre-ordered fallout
76 are gonna get the same idea and game studios are not gonna be able to get away with this
much longer if at all ever again in my personal opinion a lot of game publishers like EA
Activision really are kind of
Ruining game studios that have been beloved and they're just shoving this marketing crap into it and forcing studios to do things
They don't want to do release games
They don't want to do just for that investors, even though they don't realize if they just made great games
They'd make more in the long run and it manifests itself in several different ways. It's like
microtransactions every game has
microtransactions these days
Mobile games pointless mobile games now I can see if you want to make a mobile game
Like because I know in China and Asian markets mobile games are huge and that's fine
But don't make a huge hyped up thing like blizzard did where you announce this?
Shoot super hyped up thing like yeah new Diablo and then it ends up being a mobile game
It's like no, that's not what you do
You may be released on the side say hey if you want it
There's a mobile game available kind of like how Bethesda did with fallout. They're a mobile game. I forget what it's called fallout shelters
That's it. Yeah, that was actually a good move by them
they kind of
Released it quietly and ended up being super popular because they didn't hype it up and overhype it what it really is
So that's all I have to say you guys definitely let me know if you played fallout 76 if you did enjoy it
Maybe you bought it you're like I'm never gonna prove it our game ever again
Or maybe if you stop read or pre-order in games, what was the game that got you to stop?
I would love to hear that if you guys want you can check out some of my other videos that I have on here and
Until next time be seeing you