Well, you could say that about nearly anything. I'm sure you've spent more than $900 on gaming in your life. Why didn't you donate that money to charity, rather than spending it on your personal enjoyment?Wraithsight said:
Fake Fallout 4 Teaser Site Was Created to Make You Freak Out
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A fair point and one I didn't consider.Aardvaarkman said:
I guess my counterpoint would be that all of the money I have spent on my hobbies (and I used to play Warhammer, so I have spent a lot of money on very personal wasteful stuff) has been for my amusement alone, never have I spent a dollar to make someone else angry. That time I spent $349 on a sex swing for a mates GF might count, but that was at the end of a long, long chain of pranks so I don't really count it.
I guess I really didn't explain. Its the fact that he spent money to make other peoples lives in some small way worse, instead of spending it on himself as is his right with his own money, or giving it to a needy cause to make the world in some small way better that annoys me.
He calls himself "selfish"? Hardly. He just spent 900 dollars to do customer research for Bethesda. He did this for free, on his own dime and time. I'm guessing people at Bethesda took a good look at the buzz his site was generating, coming to their own conclusions. Maybe his hard work will be the last push Bethesda needs to grace us with Fallout 4. These are the heartwarming stories that put me into a good, christmassy spirit, but I find it sad that he gets death threats for being so public-minded.
Meh, I think people take death threats too seriously nowadays. It should take a very special one before anyone gets worried about it. But then again I used to do a job (Casino Security) where I got threatened constantly for stupid reasons, so I guess I tend to be surprised at how thin skinned some people can be. That said you should kind of expect and consider them "victory points" of a sort if you set up an elaborate hoax like this. Not to mention writing someone a death threat in the right context can actually be a form of flattery.... it depends on how it's done.The Gentleman said:
That said, I personally blame Bethesda for this for not taking more immediate action in saying this was all a hoax, and it makes me wonder if Bethesda was behind it to begin with, a sort of elaborate publicity stunt, a hoaxster they are actually behind drumming up attention for a franchise in a dry spell, knowing it could still be months before they release anything even as far as a teaser goes yet not wanting a big cash cow franchise to be forgotten. Either Bethesda was literally asleep at the wheel, or was approving of this because there is no real way they can convince me something this long term was under their radar while somehow managing to pretty much get attention from the entire gaming internet. Their action at this point in the game was probably an elaborate bit of theater.
I have no way of proving Bethesda involvement (or approval) of course, it's just my suspicions.
That said, I had little investment in it to begin with, the way I saw things even if it was real, there was no point to getting excited for an advertisement counting down to another advertisement.