Bethesda Accepts Gamer's Bottle Cap Fallout 4 Pre-Order Payment
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I really hope Bethesda do something fun with their new bottle cap riches. After all they need plenty of caps to finance the guards that protect them from the Super Mutants.
You need to attach them to a corpse or put them in a chest first. Nobody likes loose things. Just don't put them in a mimic chest no matter how tempting it is to give Miyazaki a taste of his own medicine.Xsjadoblayde said:
Kinda reminds me of that 'Operation Crowbar' thing a few years ago... must have been end of 2011/start of 2012, where people were going to send loads of crowbars to Valve in order to try and influence them to make Halflife 3... What happened with that?
Now that is a very tempting idea. I was going to use a biscuit tin. A good biscuit tin, mind you. But maybe not the best vessel for eternally suffering souls.vallorn said:
Pretty much any publisher would do exactly that, though.Proverbial Jon said:
At worst the free copy would come out of the PR manager's pocket, which he'd immediately write off as a work expense.
It's good PR, it rewards consumer brand engagement, and it costs them nothing in the grand scheme of things.
tzimize said:
Hmmm well my thought was that there's plenty of developers out there that would do something like this. Publishers on the other hand... Would someone like EA or Ubisoft do something like this?Naqel said:
Perhaps I'm wrong, jaded and soured to huge mega-corporations and no longer have faith in the production of art over money-making products. Either way, this story cheers me up
"Can you imagine how many bottle caps the company would be swimming in if other gamers thought they could get away with a similar scheme? "
Stupid of them; now they WON'T be in a huge building in 2277 literally swimming in money like a post apocalyptic bunch of Scrooge McDucks!!!
Stupid of them; now they WON'T be in a huge building in 2277 literally swimming in money like a post apocalyptic bunch of Scrooge McDucks!!!
You can actually buy bottle caps online for $2 a pound.....which would have cost him $22 or so to purchase all the caps he had. If you use that as a rate of exchange (although obviously if the caps are sold at that rate, they have a lower base value), He would have needed about 3x as many caps to actually purchase the game.
I actually collected bottle caps for awhile after playing New Vegas the first time. Probably only had about 200 of them or so (in a large tin can), but eventually got rid of them.
It's impressive that he saved up that many.
I actually collected bottle caps for awhile after playing New Vegas the first time. Probably only had about 200 of them or so (in a large tin can), but eventually got rid of them.
It's impressive that he saved up that many.
Definitely a situation where you want to have a laugh with the guy who was the first one to do this, because it actually is pretty funny, but man... you do NOT want your office swimming in millions of bottle caps.
I'm sure it won't dissuade some idiots however. I almost feel bad for Bethesda... almost, but then I realized they have enough money to make up for the inconvenience of having cheeky fans.
I'm sure it won't dissuade some idiots however. I almost feel bad for Bethesda... almost, but then I realized they have enough money to make up for the inconvenience of having cheeky fans.
translation: some guy scams bethesda out of a game by seeming cute with the temptation of free press
bethesda didn't need the press, judging by how pre orders are sold out all the time, and Im skeptical of his 7 years of collecting claim. Probably just walked around to a bunch of different bars and asked for their garbage.
if anything bethesda could have just taken pity for shipping 11 pounds of stuff through the mail. thats basically a pre order anyway.
bethesda didn't need the press, judging by how pre orders are sold out all the time, and Im skeptical of his 7 years of collecting claim. Probably just walked around to a bunch of different bars and asked for their garbage.
if anything bethesda could have just taken pity for shipping 11 pounds of stuff through the mail. thats basically a pre order anyway.
It's hardly a "scam". More like a golden opportunity for a soulless corporate entity to appear like they are good natured and have a sense of humor. You can't buy PR like that, so the cost of the game (which btw, is "free" for Bethesda - it costs them nothing to give the guy a steam code) is laughably small for the opportunity to get this story in all of the tech and gaming websites.health-bar said:
