It's hard to shake the feeling that Bethesda is competing for some kind of "Most Complete Fiasco" award that I didn't know existed.Meiam said:
Because people will buy it because Fallout. People will Pre-order $200 collector editions because Shiney! Why does it matter when people will literally just fork over their money on a promise? And then keep on doing it over and over again because it's the new hot thing.sgy0003 said:
Honestly, this is the truest statement there is.Dalisclock said:
This isn't Bethesda's first fully fledged online game though. They've already published Elder Scrolls Online and have kept it running for 4,5 years. You can sort of forgive Bethesda Games Studios for not learning a lot from ESO, but Bethesda Softworks as the publisher of both should definitely know better. Yet they are making all the same mistakes they did with ESO and then some for good measure, as if they haven't been running a successful MMO for over four years.sgy0003 said:
It's pretty much the dilemmia right now. If they made a game that doesn't make enough money(at least for them), they can kill the frachise stone dead because "it's not profitable enough". If it's bad and people buy it to support the frachise, they can go "Hey, people want more games like this" and feel like they can keep making more crappy games because it's profitable.ObsidianJones said:
This isn't even their first online game. They also did TES online which was a huge letdown to me that I thought would never be surpassed but Fallout was all like "hold my Nukacola".sgy0003 said:
To be fair to ESO it improved a lot over the first three years of its life and is a pretty fun MMO today. What I find really weird is that Bethesda Softworks, the publisher, would make pretty much the same mistakes again with Fo76. It all lends credence to Shamus Young's theory that Bethesda suffers from terrible management, in that they can't even retain institutional knowledge for 5 years.Dreiko said:
If the casing Actually functioned, it may have not been as bad since you can put any other glass bottle in there and call it Nuka Dark Rum.Dreiko said:
Yeah I thought this was going to be at least a 6-pack of them but no it was just the one bottle. It better be the top aged rum of the century or it's a huge fraud.sgy0003 said:
Yeah the bag thing was absolutely no-bueno on their part. But yeah, you can't magically pull replacements out of the nether realm to fix your error.sgy0003 said:
I haven't actually and I follow the subreddits with the people actually playing the game. I mean, the one yesterday was bit questionable because it changed the supply drops (which tend to be useless for anyone over level 20) into PvP triggers. hich nullifies the general use people were putting them to help out new players or as a sort of LFG meetup. Besides going rather forcibly agaisnt the grain of how a playerbase used them, this obviously works well for a griefing mindset, where a high level player who has dozens of supply requisitions can set out what is now effectively bait (since it still broadcasts as a side quest in the area) for people, and snipe them as they open the lock and suddenly become wanted.
Whoever fills in for the live team on holiday screwed something up. It happens. I don't know why some of these things aren't automated (other then I guess allowing for adjustments without dragging out the engineering team), but every so often someone forgets (or typos a 0 on in this case) to do one of these sort of weekly chores.
It has to be ingame for their engine to work. Now, that is certainly 100% on them. The engine probably should've been retired before Fallout 4, nevermind 76, or even before Skyrim. Why it isn't surrounded by some instant kill box (which exists in the Fissures) to ward out clever folks using their power armour to clip through the mesh is also on them.
More vague unsubstantiated stories (and yes I read your eurogamer link). 100% I'd believe that is probably happening. But anywhere so prominent as Ebay is not where folks deal in that sort of thing. Hell, there's literally another thread above this one talking about those transactions, and its not something you last long doing out on open monitored services.
Well, you can't really nail someone for having an item that exists in the game on them. The unreleased stuff might be something of a tip off of course. I've had to deal with this headache myself, and tracking an item through multiple players is an extensive pain in the ass involving combing logs and comparing IPs and a general pile of mess just to snag one guy. And that's if they aren't professional smurfers who know well enough to use varying IPs/proxies/etc. There have been some accounts banned for the prior duping already that got all their accounts banned, so they will catch out your other ones. But not at NSA esque levels of investigation.
"Filled" is probably an exaggeration. While I did play on PS4, which offers a certain level of insulation to such things (making mule accounts gets kind of expensive when you have to rebuy PSplus, or an actual console if you get completely hard banned). I'd mostly agree with that. They definitely didn't have a clue as to how to structure the multiplayer anything beyond the basic co-op team structure (even that has a few hiccups). And in their seeming hubris apparently never bothered to either run a proper beta/early access or do any fragment of market study into the field(s) they were stepping into.