• EldritchFeminity
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      I have one of those 76 “canvas” (vinyl) bags sitting around somewhere. Anytime somebody I know gets excited about a new Bethesda game, I just send them a picture of it and tell them that I’ve got a great bag to sell them.

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          Literally. It’s like owning a piece of video game history like one of the cartridges of ET for the Atari - a shitty piece of video game history about the greed of companies.

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          It feels a lot like one of those bags you get at a con for free, or a jacket that you’d get off of a cheap Chinese website like Alibaba or Temu. That cheap woven plastic type of material.

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              I wasn’t surprised that they cheaped out on the bag, most collector’s edition stuff isn’t what I’d call “high quality” and a canvas bag on its own would be pretty pricey for collector’s edition stuff (and that game came with like a full-size helmet and stuff too), but I was really surprised at just how cheap they went. There’s replacing the item with a cheaper alternative, and then there’s lowest bidder from the sweatshops cheap.

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              That does sound familiar, but I don’t remember enough to say for sure one way or the other. Mine was fine, just cheap junk and not canvas.

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            Ah. I use reader mode and it didn’t load the comments. Thanks

            Honestly, I didn’t see that whole controversy when it happened and I just looked it up. The final, actually canvas, bag they ended up sending…still seems like a huge ripoff. But that’s just me and I’ve never really seen anything but the monster factory episodes of fallout.

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              I think the worst part is they gave streamers and influencers the actual promised canvas bag. That shows someone made this shitty decision and knew it was shitty.

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                Same. I gotta update my console though. I bought an Xbox X or S, whichever is the cheaper of the two. And I don’t play many games. Literally like two. RDR2 and fifa. Used to play GTA V but I’m over it. Getting there with rdr2. But I wanted to play the new resident evil 4 remake but it’s “not optimized for this console.”

                But now all this talk about PlayStation 5 “reaching the sunset of its career” or whatever Sony said recently and then the whole Microsoft maybe bailing on the Xbox thing, I feel like if I sink the money into a new console soon, I’ll just be getting into another situation where all the things I might want to try are for the NEWER console. I dunno, I’m not a huge gamer, but I still enjoy playing.

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                  I never liked consoles. Even less when they started charging for online play. Like vitch I already bought the fucking game. Let me play it.

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      I had the exact same thought, and was about to make the same post

      “Oh god, its the Fallout preorder bags 2: electric car boogaloo”