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Bethesda Forced to Refund Fallout 76 in Australia, Halloween Event Caused Crashes
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Bethesda Forced to Refund Fallout 76 in Australia, Halloween Event Caused Crashes
Bethesda will have to issue refunds to select customers, according to the Australian government. Meanwhile, early impressions of the Fallout 76 Halloween event appears to cause crashes.
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Serves you right Bethesda. This shitshow needs to stop.
Then again, it's the 500k players who are still playing and paying fault.
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Ah ! I almost forgot about that one !! How this game got a 7/10 on release still amaze me how great the reviews are , here.
The worst part of it...poor people laughing because some low income kid just gamed a company for what...$30? Lol. But damn if those kiddos didn't "score" amiright?!
Those kids will now use this utility in their low income toolbelt in order to try to do the same in the future since they were allowed to do it once now. Better hope it's not your business or studio that's targeted by the low income gamers next.
Mine would have been around 5 or 6 out of 10.
You did play, yes?
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They probably didn't play that many hours given how broken the game was. And how is it "nasty" to expect a refund when a business lied to them? And how do you know all the people who want refunds after being cheated are part of a specific generation or income bracket?
Wish I could run the numbers to prove. Do you really think someone not living paycheck to paycheck would do this much effort to game a company?
I don't know about Australia specifically, but usually consumer protection officials have some net form that you can fill and make a complaint like:
"I bought game Fallout 76 from Bethesda and it keeps crashing every 5 minutes so that it's completely unplayable. I contacted Bethesda to complain about this and asked for refund. They did not deny my complaint that the game is unplayable, but answered that they do not give refunds for any reason. I believe that their behavior is against of Australian law xxxxx, which says that I have the right for refund if the product has a major flaw. Could you please look at whether Bethesda's behavior is in conformance to this law? E-mails between me and Bethesda attached"
That is just an imaginary message about how one might complain. Then if the consumer protection officials either get enough complaints about a single company, or some complain that looks serious enough, they decide to act and investigate. The people filling the complaint doesn't need to do more than that.
There is no site that could confirm the exact playerbase, but few already mentioned that game has around 500k players accorind to F76 Reddit activity. I find that hard to believe, but anything is possible these days. Many "gamers"/sheeps are brainded sadly. Just look at the mobile gaming. The most popular games are the ones with Auto play and highly pay2win "games".
Like a lot of people, yeah. Mine would have been a low 4.
A typical Australian will expect to be able to refund a product that doesn’t do what it’s supposed to, whether it’s a table, a game, or a car. This is not unique to poor or young Australians.
It is illegal for Bethesda to offer their product for sale in Australia if they are unwilling to provide refunds. Trying to demonise the consumers who expect big corporations to operate within the law, instead of the corporations explicitly attempting to scam consumers is simply ridiculous.