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Fallout "influencers" given actual canvas 76 Bags.
- Thread starter Bandage
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Yet Bethesda marketing should have used common sense since the comparison would have happened inevitably and would definitely caused alarm because if you are the one that pays $ 200 for canvas and get a nylon noone could blame you for been outraged.
Noone of them and the people that feel unappreciated by Bethesda would stop and think "This was a marketing effort, no relation to people that bought the collectors edition" and stare happily at their nylon. And i can guess neither would you.
Oh, and the bag was specially made for the "influencers" since it was part of Bethesda's promotion even if the 76 logo was just a sticker.
Edit: Also, I can argue that any collector's edition is a light form of marketing: "Look at the nice things the collectors get, i wish i had the money to buy one."
Thats not the point. Bethesda said that the canvas bags were expensive to make. People paid 200 dollars for the collectors edition and they still got an inferior product, but apparently an influencer who paid nothing can get it for free. Doesnt matter if its not the same desing.
Sure. But I haven't seen a single person here say, "this makes me feel bad because I bought the $200 edition." The people who did do that should keep asking for more back from Bethesda -- although they should probably just focus on the misleading advertising and not "someone else got a better bag."
But if we didn't buy the collector's edition, we don't need to hypothesize what those who did are feeling. We can recognize objective reality.
This is the motivation behind this entire thread.
Hey, go easy on them, they used up the world's canvas supply on that limited run. There literally was no canvas left in the world anymore.
IT GETS WORSE
I haven't played a Bethesda game in 5+ years and I don't intend to any time soon...man alive.
I haven't played a Bethesda game in 5+ years and I don't intend to any time soon...man alive.
I mean in fairness it's technically a canvas bag, but it's not at all the same one that was shown in the special edition.
Then that begs the question why didn't they just do that for collector editions?
No, you become an influencer first, once you got that title then the oportunities to become a shill open up.
So all those influencers cunts said nothing about this until now. This in itself the biggest problem with video games this days. Influencers fully of shit.
No one is hypothesizing, they are empathizing. If I had bought this collection and saw that influencers not only got a nicer bag but were treated far better than me, I would be pissed.
Okay, it is not the same bag, not the same content. But the fact that Bethesda used canvas for the 'influencers', and were so shady to their customers is not a good look.
Because people who are spending $200 on a collector's edition aren't the ones selling the game by playing it on their live stream.
OK. I can't help it. To me, it seems like people are just mad at Bethesda and working backward from that and looking for any new reason to keep being mad at them. That's probably not you, but the people who are saying stuff like, "ha this just keep getting better." Yeah, they don't care.
Your posts are falling on deaf ears. Bethesda did screw up with FO76 but this thread is seriously grasping for straws. Era making a mountain out of a mole hill as usual
And before anyone brings up my avatar—yes, I'm well aware of my avatar being Pip Boy. No, I didn't buy 76, I played the beta and determined it's not for me (right now)
I wouldn't put it past people to want Bethesda to fail. There is a lot of wrong in this industry and anytime it looks like people can hammer the nails in a developers coffin they want to, and it's simply because they have been in a position where they have felt they were wronged.
People do not feel intense disdain for a company just because they are sick demented fucks, they feel it because it happens to them.
And I don't blame them. Bethesda doesn't care about their consumers, so why care about the corporation?
That would make sense if they weren't losing money from this PR clusterfuck.
They are saving the canvas, because their next game is not using the same engine again, but is created from a blank canvas.
Right?
Right?
It still says something when they put more effort into a free giveaway bag than into their $200 special edition
Actually, our avatar is Vault Boy, not Pip Boy. The Pip Boy is the computer-thing you wear on your wrist. People keep making this mistake. Just saying.
The desing doesnt matter.
What matters is the action.
Consumer pays 200 dollars, and gets and inferior product. Bethesda says that the product advertised is scarce, and is expensive to make.
Influencer pays nothing, gets better product made with the materials advertised in the collectors edition, that are supposed to be scarce and expensive to make.
This is not hard to understand people.
What matters is the action.
Consumer pays 200 dollars, and gets and inferior product. Bethesda says that the product advertised is scarce, and is expensive to make.
Influencer pays nothing, gets better product made with the materials advertised in the collectors edition, that are supposed to be scarce and expensive to make.
This is not hard to understand people.
Even if is not the same bag as the collectors edition, this is still scummy with how they have overall handled the marketing.
I've been sick of this kind of thing for a long time: reviewers/influencers getting cool, often bespoke, items, while the expensive collector's editions usually consist of cheap shit. All that surprises me is how blind Bethesda must be to not spot how doing this, while simultaneously short changing paying customers out of something that was advertised, makes them look pretty awful.
You know every day I think the shit storm around Fallout 76 can't get worse and yet every day it does and I'm amazed at the new wrinkle. Like hoooooly shit. You shat on your paying customers but tried to buddy up to your influencers. Just fucking ghoulish. I think I'm okay on buying any Bethesda products for awhile.
