[Blind Reaction] The Fall of 76

hey everyone rarity dash here time for another patreon sponsored blind reaction and this one comes to you courtesy of storm shadow who has requested that i react to the fall of 76 by internet historian so yeah more internet historian which is uh usually a good thing i mean i do enjoy his content and um yeah the fall of 76 i don't really know what to expect from that title uh i don't know what event we're talking about there are we talking about the year 1976 because that would be kind of weird considering this is the internet historian and i'm pretty sure there wasn't really a lot of internet anywhere at that time uh so uh would kind of be a bit of a departure i mean we did have a video about y2k from the internet historian but i mean in 1999 there was internet it was just a lot slower and a lot different um and i mean y2k was very computer related so it did make sense to an extent uh but 76 not really sure where this might be going but i'm interested to find out so let's go ahead and get it started here we go all right okay and very very fast disclaimer there oh um this fallout i think that bethesda is i don't know yeah that's the fallout thing a little guy if you found this tape it means that everyone is dead okay or working at a different office yes how did this happen well only two options buckle up buckaroos today's lesson is the misfired launch of fallout 76 okay well that explains it june 2018. just a little hyped up have we waited long enough guys oh god yes we have todd i think we have fallout 76 bethesda's biggest game yet my god it was exciting and they promised we'd know more at e3 e3 hype time the press conference 16 times the details 16 times the detail all new rendering lighting and landscape technology all right four times the map size it's four times the size of fallout 4. and it's our biggest one yet my god it was exciting november 14th 2018. the game goes live with a day one patch of 50 gigabytes oh god for sake i'll see you tomorrow but once that's downloaded people start logging into the hellscape that is fallout 76 looks a bit oh dear lord they never fix the bugs yeah there are so many of them goodbye next oh goodbye body goodbye heads bugs bugs bugs everywhere server crashes game crashes wonderful from fallout 4. use more than one nuke at a time server's dead text is far too texturous an all-consuming void parallel consumer pick up stuff can't stop asserting dominance with the t-pose frame rate problems screen tear problems getting too swoll getting underneath the map getting attacked by invisible enemies spawning too many enemies it kind of speaks for itself spawning too many god rays also your camp resets after every session and sometimes it goes underwater wonderful play static but too many holotapes mean none of them will play enemy ai is far more a than i animations are broken surprise floating objects and a traveling merchant just to name a few mm-hmm joseph anderson has a great video that documents just the ones that he 1001 glitches three hours long that's wonderful era ce34878 can corrupt your data and force you to reinstall the game and console operating system if you okay has had their computers brick entirely also when the date rolled over to the first of january 2019 the nukes in the game stopped working all together no one thought it prudent to program in other years in an always online game wow other people's accounts straight up situation character that was randomly replaced with a level eight parent bethesda said they couldn't do anything about it yeah many players are not thrilled with this game yeah that's uh not a good not good numbers and they want everyone else not a good ratio but bethesda owns the platform is fallout 76 fun yes it is banned for racism the only solution was to put a torch to everything else reddit twitter bethesda's other games on steam the backlash was immense but surely levelheads would i don't know about any of those reviewers would come out and say that the game isn't so bad well of course because they're all buying paid for oh dear lord they hate it this is so sad despacito oh actually the reviews were honest huh okay well look at that i mean i guess i guess they can be honest sometimes and the youtube community had this to say it's really [ __ ] boring could barely bring myself to play it in order to finish this review no one on staff wants to play any more of this video game i'm not going to subject myself to another 20 30 hours of this [ __ ] mess in short fallout 76 is morally technically and creatively bankrupt the moles on bethesda films were working overtime the mods on reddit almost gave up look i'm not saying that some people didn't i'm genuinely enjoying fallout 76 but what i am saying is that the metacritic was really funny to read so well it came out that development was hugely rushed they did like that sounds about right plus this wasn't a nice visual metaphor it's actually a relatively inexperienced division based in austin and the scope of the game kept getting bigger we're gonna need distant weather systems hey todd i stayed up all night and i just finished 16 times the detail please no more we're gonna need four times the size of fallout 4. that and they were trying to patchwork the old bethesda creation engine into a multiplayer framework what else could you expect that's why i give my kids fallout 76 um now the sister could tolerate the bugs and the bad reviews in the ira players but what they couldn't tolerate were the exploits infinite inventory infinite invisibility the frame rate was tied to the game speed so people were going a lot faster than they should server hopping for more items infinite cash and infinite duplication unlimited xp unlimited nuking the nuclear clothes were unencrypted and you could wall clip into the quest room and someone was given the curse of infinite invincibility naturally this can really mess with other players online experience yeah so bethesda was ready with the ban hammer and a blindfold to wildly flail around and take down anyone who happened literally 12 year old but bethesda wasn't satisfied with just banning people no they're a progressive company with big ideas they wanted to give a road to redemption so support send out this email to players caught cheating we would be willing to accept an essay on why the use of third-party cheat software is ditching wow an online game community that's right 500 words on why you're a very naughty boy and they may just give you your account back but a couple of days later the mocking from news outlets caused them to reconsider this approach one more exploit in all the bethesda games there's a div ring every item in the game is kept here security has to be top notch because otherwise someone could just waltz in and take all of the best items of the game and it would be an absolute disaster well [ __ ] of course bethesda wasn't equipped to deal with the issue people started flooding in taking the best items in the game then selling those items on a black market of sorts at first they tried the usual approach banning people who had some of the best items in the game you spent 700 hours just to get the best gun die next they put in a system where players would get tagged if they ever entered the room and they banned those players that wasn't much better because people would just start using smurf accounts get in quick with a level one account get all that good [ __ ] then get the [ __ ] out then use a duplication glitch to get a ton more of those items then transfer that stuff to your main account and you're good to go bethesda then takes out this level one and appreciate the so the problem continued bethesda is running out of ideas to solve it there's a lot of speculation in the media and among players about how exactly people are getting in but no one except for the exploiters knows for sure that said bethesda needs to act fast before it ruins the economy of the game so they wrote another email and sent it out to the smurfs hello cheetah do you want to tell us how you did it and we might unban you please should we not hear back from you the account will simply remain suspended it's not known whether this approach worked but from what i've seen it's still possible to get into the dev room wow november 22nd 2018 just a week after the release the game goes on discount from 60 to 40. never a good sign to 35 to 30. you can find it for 15 on ebay and in germany they're straight up giving it for free when you buy a playstation controller also some stores are just zip tying it to other products but to bethesda it's worth selling the thing at a price close to zero because it brings people into the atomic shop which is where the real margins are and it inflates the poor sales figures let's have a look at those the latest figures show 76 or less than a sixth of what foreign not good there's also been a massive oversupply of hard copies although what's the point of a hard copy when the thing is just a cardboard disk telling you to redeem an online code um and while sales are low returns are high immediately upon release people began asking bethesda for a refund 76 is not on steam it's on bethesda's own platform so they have all the control if players only played the game for a few hours then generally they'd get their money back however it came out that people were sometimes getting refunds after a full 24 hours of playing quite generous but then word about this spread to forums then to reddit and a post got a 12.5 thousand upvotes informing people that this made pretty much everyone eligible for a refund and the comments told them exactly how to do it bethesda was flooded with requests for refunds and their response shut it down lads no no no one gets a refund now everyone go home show's over robot customer service man engage customers who have downloaded the game are not eligible for a refund we apologize for the inconvenience one hardcore gamer even trashed a gamestop for refusing his refund okay that seems a bit bit destructive okay stop this brian how can i help you a bit of an overreaction yeah but probably also fake second yeah that's kind of stuff usually is to be fair and third a class action lawsuit their inconsistent refund policy and terms of service may not be strictly legal november 26th 18 miglacio and rathod llp filed a class action suit on behalf of customers media quickly picked up on that their main argument is that it's a sometimes unplayable game owing to its technical problems then they're refusing refunds and that bethesda is engaged in a strategy to release anyway and then slowly patch their way into a more playable state updates on this lawsuit is slow so i'll keep you informed on the second channel add time look there's okay you're headed straight to earth oh my god we must do something was anyone curious enough to read about it online not me not me either nope oh no now people think i'm dumb and i have died a virgin um don't let this happen to you get curiosity street it's a streaming platform with some of the best documentaries and non-fiction from around the world maybe if you look hard enough but more importantly the most arousing thing of all knowledge works for your roku android etcetera it works on everything okay science nature history tech society curiositystream.com internet historian for unlimited access to the world's free top documentaries and non-fiction series use the promo code internet storing during the sign up process to get the first 30 days free then cancelled anytime wink please look i need i need sponsors toilet paper thinking i was saving money but then i left it out in the rain and the crows got it and now i'm back to square one um please curiositystream.com adds over seems like a pretty fitting uh sponsor for fans made their pre-orders and the most dedicated pre-ordered the power armor edition wow it came with a helmet army toys and a genuine west tech this is probably more value than most people got out of the game so fast forward to the release oh and customers notice that they're precious bags which are supposed to be made of the finest canvas and land look a bit different in fact it looks like a carry bag the real bag should come in did they really just advertise one thing yeah that doesn't quite look the same nice surge of backlash and people began emailing bethesda advertising for refunds asking for answers by this point customer service is absolutely over it they are done with the facade and they send this email in response hello we are sorry that you aren't happy with the bag the bag shown in the media was a prototype and was too expensive to make we aren't planning on doing anything about it wow that's the whole email staff at bethesda aren't even hiding their contempt anymore naturally the internet goes wild are you [ __ ] kidding me wow wow well i got so mad i shaved everything off my face oh well okay guys this is a bit of an idea we have to quell the outrage what do we do well we've got this in-game currency let's just give them the minimum amount of that fantastic idea hear you hear you anyone who paid two to three hundred dollars for the power hour edition is hereby entitled to five dollars worth of in-game currency that you'll be able to spend with us 500 atoms [ __ ] yeah what are you going to do with your atoms i'm going to buy 5 18 of the white paint version of the power what about you light wood now in it light wood laminate light wood laminate [ __ ] the bag he's right [ __ ] the bag this was bethesda's fantasy of what would happen what really happened is further outrage and even the media started piling on it even became customer service and gave a different excuse for why they didn't make the bags a shortage of material apparently that was quickly debunked because it turns out they did make the canvas back except they gave them all out two influences oh dear i see the same one of course but it's sourced from that ever scarce material canvas but what's more amusing is that it turns out there is a canvas bag in the game if you don the postman's outfit which of course can be found at the atom shop for 700 atoms oh just short well the bleating from the online community continued and bethesda's lawyers realized there would be trouble so they decided to capitulate all right fine we'll make your precious [ __ ] bag if you want to claim it you'll have to fill out this form with your name personal details address etc etc and we'll ship out the bag to you in four to six months okay but it doesn't quite end there because bethesda is known for bugs and of course their website is a buggy mess too turns out all of the customer support inquiries are unsecured and open to the public in fact people can open and close and change them at will listed the details of full legal names phone numbers home addresses and more oh canvas bag you've just been doxed not knowing how to immediately fix the problem bethesda panics and temporarily shuts down the whole width and that's probably for the best this is a disaster they made one for new vegas one last piece of merch a rum drink nuka-cola dark pre-orders are available in super confident people just leave the company number 14 80 plus postage and handling not cheap but in return you got a very cool bootle yeah it looks good on the shelf it does conversation piece with the family of a thanksgiving or does it or at least it wouldn't there we go number 14 i know how it works now and there was no oh okay a week later on november 21st an email comes through there's a delay things aren't up to the usual fallout standard they say um yeah not sure that means anything anymore all of this just works things aren't up to the usual fallout stand so we'll have it for you soon no specific date given sounding pretty standard everything else for this game then on december 5th another email good news we start shipping on december 12th it's been nearly three months since you pre-ordered but as a show of good faith we made this promotional video for you and this is where things went from tardy to tardy did you cash that that's just a regular industry bottle and a plastic shell we paid 80 and waited a quarter of a year for a plastic shell people were not happy look at that ratio nothing in the marketing said that it was a plastic shell super premium we were promised and the media agreed interesting representation of the media there i'm pretty sure he didn't cover it people began cancelling their orders silver screen tries to convince people that it's not cheap and shitty it actually cost us twice as much to make the plastic one than the glass one then what the [ __ ] we spent 100 hours coding the design convincing stuff so it arrives just a few days before christmas the rum is about the quality you'd can expect swear on this it's my own show where's the design the oversized lip means oh you can pour inside the shell from before because how they made this damn thing spilled like half the shot very dribbly so you're best off overlapping up to prevent spilling if you do that there's a good chance that you'll snap the flimsy plastic any liquid will immediately ruin this cheap paper sticker some made their own at home and the quality was about on par but look if you do want a decent version of this product there are reputable sellers of them they're on etsy they're far cheaper and they actually give a [ __ ] not gonna lie though some of the memes that came out of this were pretty good now many claim that this was an honest mistake sorry or that customers were at fault for misinterpreting ambiguous marketing i disagree all of the marketing shows other glass items all of the mock-ups show something more akin to frosted glass than plastic they give plenty of descriptions of the product too and not once do they mention plastic and they were engaged in a bunch of other tom [ __ ] as well before the product was even available they flooded their own product reviews with all five stars this raised some eyebrows and people on reddit even called them out for it so they deleted them you can see all this activity on the way back machine now if they're happy to deceive people in this way it seems silly to give them the benefit of the doubt about the glass it's also worth quickly talking about the bethesda merch store some of these items are pretty neat that's cool good idea i'd have that fallout 76 pant singular but why is he so mad the photography is all just off this gordy jacket was mocked relentlessly on social media but does the 76 in 276 dollars really make it more immersive and why did they just toss it on the ground and it comes in this crumpled up toddler body bag you're talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars in merch and you don't have an iron why is she wearing the size xxl she's clearly not happy about it but who looked at this and said good job print now that's surprising and what the [ __ ] they made the bottle properly yeah oh one of those please but bigger and brown is that so hard let's get back to the game that's kind of inexcusable there are two new patches released that caused quite a stir first the good for pc they included a number of quality of life improvements including push to talk but also brought in field of view sliders hooray increased stash capacity from 400 pounds to 600 pounds and a small buff to automatic weapons hooray they decreased the carry weight of bobby pins so it no longer took up ten to twenty percent of people's inventory i got a box of bobby pins the other week that said that said wavies there were also upgrades to the camp that allowed for easier construction and a bunch of bug fixes hooray the bad a whole bunch of unannounced stealth nerfs they generally made the game grindier emo production was decreased fusion cores burnt out faster legendary enemies spawned less frequently on guard i'll [ __ ] you up and the backlash was significant because everybody knew why bethesda was doing it to encourage people to use the atomic of course and let's talk briefly about that store some of the prices are outrageous a christmas tree for twelve dollars a santa outfit for twenty blue and yellow paint for eighteen dollars oh look three dollars for the same sweater best and slacks item imported from fallout 4 but the biggest defense of all was the holiday emote bundle 24 for some christmas themed emotes twice the price of these games the media agreed that these were just prices but worse they're engaged in some deceiving marketing practices too oh look it's marked down half price but it's not it was released half price before officially jacking up the price only to then give it a fake limited time discount in order to create a sense of urgency that's illegal here in australia at least in canada and in the eu reddit quickly picked up on this and pointed it out bethesda reacted by scrapping the discount and just setting it as the always intended price okay it's been about 25 minutes of whining now so i'm just gonna leave it here i didn't even get a chance to touch on the new pay to win fiasco the new camera item that lets you teleport dwindling player numbers but on the flip side they're also adding new consoles even more in the game over time heck no man's sky was a surprising comeback so maybe bethesda can do it too but for now todd returns to cryostasis hiding in his bunker until the bombs of outrage stop falling and returning only when it's time to get our hopes up once again curiositystream.com all right not many people know this but i'm actually quite a good rap artist rapist i see so i'm going to say all these names for you from the credits as fast as i possibly can in time with the scrolling here we go one take just deal miles millican justin rollins steve rizzo drudders indigo zero luke hackel astatine 210 that really went well public spicy peter tef edgy kid x bryce toilet ham no nate odenkirk but it's on your waffles crabby if you want to get read by the rapist then why don't you head over to wonderful well that was fun i i mean i had no idea what that was gonna be uh and it was about fallout and apparently there was uh yeah some uh some problems with uh fallout 76 which i had no idea about never heard about any of this stuff um but uh yeah fallout fans not happy um and it seems it sounds like they had very good reason not to because that that yeah that just looked or sounded like a complete disaster and uh wow wow everything everything that could go wrong did and it's all because you gotta over promise and then rush to at least try and try and uh be good to some of it and uh that's just uh yeah just not a not a good look not good just promise less and deliver all of it and people will be happy i mean i don't know not a good look and all the other stuff just making it worse and um i mean even if they do fix the problems at this point are people really going to be there for it i i don't think so i mean maybe but uh this is how you lose people uh lose them for good but i guess we'll see i mean maybe i mean this is like i don't know when this video came out out but uh it's been a while now i i think uh like a year or two at least so maybe it is better now but uh you guys let me know let me know the rest of the story here did uh did it come back or do people just not care at all anymore um yeah anyway hope you like the reaction let me know if you did and see you in the next one you

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Published: Fri Oct 23 2020