Fallout 76 General Thread - Bethesda does it again!

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

All of Bethesda's games are full of glitches and bugs.
(This will be just like the red bull lawsuit, people will sue just to get a piece of soon to be large settlement. )

I got a choice between a $10 check, or a coupon for like $20 worth of Redbull.

I picked the check.

 

[Richardo Retardo]

Didn't Bethesda originally promise physical copies when 76 was first announced? The retail game is a paper disk with a download code so that might be all they need to prove false advertising right there.

I have zero knowledge of advertising law nor any knowledge of what constitutes false advertising but that sounds shady as fuck. I haven't bought a physical copy of a video game in several years so I wouldn't know but is that a common thing for games to do nowadays?

 

[Orkeosaurus]

lol they actually admitted that Bethesda is working on patching the game. this lolsuit is gonna be slapped down p quick.

if anything false advertising would be a better angle because they took advantage of the fallout brand to release a non-game.

 

[Rand /pol/]

Faaaaaaake

 

[BoingBoingBoi]

i'm pretty suspicious. if the lawsuit were real then fallout 76 would probably have to be the most egregious case of pushing out a game that wasn't ready in history. is it? if so, then color me that companies will have their feet held to the fire to not pump out unfinished garbage.

the whole thing reminds me of this

 

[HarvurdChikee]

it wasn't rekt law filing the suit? eh.

 

[johnny5150]

I want Skyrim on Alexa like in the

I got a choice between a $10 check, or like $20 worth of Redbull.

I picked the check.

i did the lawsuit against redbull and then spent the money on red bull. llal

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
You think some law firm is going to come out of nowhere with a class action lawsuit to represent "your" best interests for a dumb glitchy video game.

The only people that profit from class action lawsuits are the attorneys. Sure, a firm might sue for millions, but by the time fees and expenses get deducted, the people that make up the class are lucky to get $10 or less as was the case with @Sword Fighter Super -- usually far less than what was originally promised as the per capita settlement amount.

In this particular case, the ad comes across as online ambulance chasing. Also, most software EULAs - the disclaimers most people click through without reading fully - have boilerplate text disclaiming responsibility from ill side effects on the machine on which the software is installed. Barring gross negligence or something equally egregious, I'm not sure how this law firm could convince a court to set aside that part of the EULA.

 

[Pseudo anon]

Big yikes. This game has been a train wreck since the first announcement. The game comes out of nowhere with little time between first reveal and release, they put the game on their own retailer and not on steam or GOG so that they could do anything they wanted to the game (Like refuse refunds after stating they will be giving out refunds to customers), and then of course actually watching gameplay and how shit the game is. Glad I havent bought a Bethesda game since New Vegas.

 

[Pansexual doorknob]

A lawfirm soliciting in a subreddit? They must really be thirsty for some blood.

 

[Pseudo anon]

So, with all the FO4 mods being ported. When are we getting the first tiddy mod?

 

[Medicated]

Big yikes. This game has been a train wreck since the first announcement. The game comes out of nowhere with little time between first reveal and release, they put the game on their own retailer and not on steam or GOG so that they could do anything they wanted to the game (Like refuse refunds after stating they will be giving out refunds to customers), and then of course actually watching gameplay and how shit the game is. Glad I havent bought a Bethesda game since New Vegas.

Since the gaming industry is as big as it is now. I think it would be a nice time to actually protect consumers somewhat and implement some industry standards. These games with endless buy in beta periods that end up being shut down a year later, and games being released that need day 1, day 10, day 20 patches to even work.

Any other industry in the world would've had lawsuits out the ass for this amount of shoddy work.

It's like if you bought the Avengers movie, but the entire movie was pre-effects and partly unedited, so you could see the stunt wires and greenscreens and people talking to nobody, and the studio promised you a real copy of the movie in 6 months. Would everyone be just like "*shrug* thats how movies are"

 

[Meaty Spaghetti]

I was thinking of renting this shit, outta of the redbox just see how bad it really is, should I?

 

[Ilackcreativity]

 

[Uterus Burns]

Lolsuit or not, I have heard that the laws regarding video games in the US are dumb anyways.

 

[shartshooter]

I was thinking of renting this shit, outta of the redbox just see how bad it really is, should I?

Why rent a disc when you can print one out at home?

 

[Splendid]

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
You think some law firm is going to come out of nowhere with a class action lawsuit to represent "your" best interests for a dumb glitchy video game.

This is just a publicity stunt. Advertising class action lawsuits like this are only useful when you are cocksure of winning.

Gamers, sit your ass back down.

It's not about you winning, it's about Bethesda losing.

 

[Creep3r]

Updated version of Todd's classic theme.

New shit starts at 3:21.

 

[Takayuki Yagami]

Not sure if this belongs here, but didn’t John fucking Carmack more or less call Bethesda’s proprietary engine an abomination back when he still worked for them)

 

[vertexwindi]

So now even the Ultimate Edition for 76 is getting talks about lawsuits going because the advertised canvas bag that comes with it isn't actually canvas, it's nylon. According to a Bethesda employee it was "too expensive". No refunds.

This game's gonna be the death of them if they keep it up like this.