we all knew about the lack of human NPCs going in, but the bugs and glitches i've seen in gifs and videos are pretty egregious and game-breaking. it's at best an early access title right now and to push it out as a completed AAA game and charge full price for it is insane and gives me flashbacks to the launch of no man's sky. there's no way in hell this game should have been released before summer 2019.
and bethesda isn't helping themselves in the PR department either. currently they're getting dragged on the fallout subreddit over their $200 "special" version being advertised specifically as coming with a canvas duffle bag and then being delivered with a cheap nylon bag, and when people contacted them to complain they were told "it was too expensive to make the canvas bag. and no, we don't plan on doing anything about it" (that's a verbatim quote from a bethesda customer rep).
that's like me going into a jewelry store and putting down $1000 for a diamond ring, only to discover it's a CZ when it gets delivered to me, then me calling the store and being told "it was too expensive to get a real diamond and no, we don't plan on doing anything about it" and the store simply keeping all my money.
so now in response to the anger, apparently as a "compensation" for the bag issue bethesda has offered 500 in-game atoms to use in the content store. only problem with that is that 500 atoms isn't anywhere near enough to actually get anything in the store, so in order to use the "compensation" you need to spend extra real currency (after you've already spent 200 real dollars on this game, mind you) or grind for hours in the game to get enough to actually use. oh, and if you accept the 500 atoms, buried in the fine print is a clause that forfeits your right to legal recourse against bethesda and absolves them of any liability to you in perpetuity.
EA: "wow the gaming community really hates us. we really botched battlefront, that's gonna be the worst game launch of 2018 for sure"
bethesda: "hold my beer"
rockstar:
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