Sounds like Bethesda did them a favor. 

Is banning them from playing the game really a punishment?

banning 4 people? there goes half the playerbase.

Condoms are always the best option, there is no “Trust me” aspect, and you have the disease prevention.

I generally just top off to the nearest multiple of 5 cents. Makes it easier to spot gas station fraud or in the old days “mistakes.”  I suppose with the way things work, it’s not as necessary, but it’s a hard habit to break after so long...

Harsh, but true...  At some point the customer has to speak with their wallet and walk away from a company.  It’s the exception rather than the rule that expressing concerns verbally will result in compensation.  The only real way for a company to change is to take away their profits and walk away.

True. They should just give the franchise to Obsidian. New Vegas had bugs, but it had such depth and fun to it.  The DLCs added SO MUCH content!

Some people can have reasons to pre-order, tho. In my case I sometimes pre-order so I can do preloads, since my internet is very slow (6Mb, fastest for my area, and during the day it’s closer to 2Mb) so the only way I can play most games on release date is by preloading - and for some titles, playing them on release…

Except as you admit in another comment you’re an artist, not a programmer. As someone who did programming this game is clearly a fucked mess. If you use the same engine as a previous entry, somehow create something more broken out the door, and then act like you’re surprised by the outrage you have no one to blame but…

Man, I wasn’t even that much angry about 76 because, since it was a new multiplayer endeavour anyways, I didn’t even bother with it... not my gig, perhaps someone will like it after all the bugs gets straightened out, or some changes are done a la No Man’s Sky or something.

I would like to take a moment to point out that Bethesda has not made one good Fallout. All previous works, and the fantastic New Vegas, were done by someone else. In my eyes, this is par for the course for them regarding this franchise. 

They’ve gotten away with it because in the past their buggy games have still been a lot of fun to play for a lot of people. But I think some of the goodwill has been eroding as they continued to re-release Skyrim over and over on every possible platform. Now they’ve finally released a game that is buggy, but also not…

Game’s issues aside the fact that they swapped out merchandise like that without notifying anybody until after release is outright false advertising. Bethesda’s gonna get hit hard with lawsuits on this one, jeez

I gotta say November has been a rough month for gamers...FFXV second season has been dragged out back and put down to end it’s misery, Battlefield is a mess, Smash is leaked, Blizzard shits the entire bed and the room, Fallout76 is well....someone okayed this game. Someone said, release this shit to the world.

I’d just like to point out that whenever I’m about to post I check for the Arnheim comment because it usually says something similar to what I was about to post, except more eloquently and with less swear words.  It’s way easier to just give it a star.  

I don’t really care how critical received the game is. If something is bad, so be it. There were plenty of gameplay videos out there showing exactly what the game was, and anyone familiar with Bethesda knows that bugs would be a part of the game.

Every single recommended story is “Stop preordering video games.” Every. Single. One.
That’s hilarious.

I...wow.

I’m glad some folks are enjoying this game; everyone has their somewhere they want to be, and that somewhere doesn’t work for other folks—and that’s fine. I enjoy a great many things others think are a waste of time.

This whole kerfuffle, though, comes off as one giant kettle of “we coasted way too hard on a…

Man. Onrush deserved more love than it ultimately received.

The camp was what made the game fun, in my personal estimation.

As for the new VO being “better.”

I’m going to have to stridently disagree on that point. There is nothing about Alucard’s PS4 voice that is “better” than its initial incarnation. The new guy sounds like some breathy Cullen-wannabe hanging around at a Twilig…