So much for playing FO4

[frozenkex]

Well, Mr. Hines was clearly referring to the foiling of pirates with boats and guns out on the Pacific Ocean who intended to make off with PC versions of the 12 million units shipped out.This plan was largely successful.

 

He was clearly not referring to the certain other group who have unfettered access to the internet in their own homes and who, from what I gather, had illegal versions of the game uploaded to certain sites on the same day as the official release oh no definitely not this group how could you think such a thing. :ohmy:

that point isn't to prevent game from being pirated. The point was to prevent game from being pirated/leaked before the release (maybe a week earlier), because a lot of stores receive game way way before the actual release date.

[DoctorKaizeld]

 

that point isn't to prevent game from being pirated. The point was to prevent game from being pirated/leaked before the release (maybe a week earlier), because a lot of stores receive game way way before the actual release date.

yeah i know a guy who works at game stop who is allowed to take his pre-orders home pretty much the day they come in. though he doesnt leak or share it because he's a saint like that but he is definitely not the only one who is allowed to do that nor do they always follow the rules.

[nonoodles]

Okay, so we whittle it down to 'prevention of pre-release piracy'. Making the game Steam download-only (which, to all intents and purposes, it does turn out to be) would have achieved this without the charade of getting people to buy a disc containing far less than half the full content. As for the question of how much net gain is had from preventing pre-release piracy - well, unless Bethesda is willing to release hard figures, it comes across as vacant optimism on their part. And it still doesn't justify selling their customers a product with about as much value as a plastic tea coaster.

The only response from them that would make sense to me is 'We had a target to meet regarding sales of physical units on all platforms' and that still wouldn't amount to anything but a pretext. None of this matters now anyway. I suppose I'm just taken aback at the complacency of their tactic.