The $200 Fallout 76 Power Armor Edition included a bunch of post-apocalyptic trinkets (including an LED headlamp and a Power Armor helmet), but the promised West Tek canvas bag never showed up at players’ doors - it was replaced with a cheaper nylon version.
“My first reaction was, ‘When the f**k did we add a canvas bag to this Collector’s Edition?’ Because the version I approved did not have one,” Hines told DBLTAP, explaining that he only found out about the swap when he opened his own Power Armor Edition parcel.
A bit late on this. I guess it’s one way to apologize to the fans.
Wait, I’m sorry (if I’m reading this wrong), but I just read the article and is he saying that the DUMBEST thing he ever did at Bethesda PERIOD was just not double checking the quality of the bag included in the super expensive limited collector’s edition for only a small subset of Fallout super fans? Nothing else?
Yes, but they got a lot fo backlash for that at launch. The guys responsible for the collector’s edition lied to add value to the package. In the end, it wasn’t what was advertised and it’s kind of bad how Pete Hines found out after they had shipped everything.
Oh okay. I wasn’t following Fallout 76’s way back then (aside from a friend who was into fallout being disappointed), so I guess that is some good closure and a nice apology for fans. It just caught me off guard because it sounds rather small in the grand scheme of the industry. I’d have expected the “dumbest thing” someone in the game industry has done to be related to the game itself, not collector’s edition packaging (like monteziation within F76).