RedEye9 wrote on Jul 28, 2015, 13:40:

Creston wrote on Jul 28, 2015, 12:58:

RedEye9 wrote on Jul 28, 2015, 12:14:
They claim the factory maxed out production and can't make anymore. Sounds like a load of BS to me.

Why? Factories actually are limited in how much stuff they can make in any given timeframe. Since I doubt Bethesda built or hired an entire factory to make pipboys, they likely just rented a production run in an existing factory chain, and said production run was probably for something like 10K units. And if said factory doesn't have availability to extend the production run, then you literally cannot have any more plastic stuff made. (Unless you decide to hire another factory to make more, but that'd be pretty damn expensive.)

It's plastic, If it was an iphone I could see an issue. But plastic, no way. If there is a demand, it can be fulfilled, this ain't the 1800's. It was "pretty damn expensive" hiring the first factory, it's normally cheaper or the same amount the second time around. I worked for a company that never had an issue receiving special order, one of a kind, injection molded plastic parts by the thousands, in a timely manner.
Now if they would have said it's a "limited edition" and we are sold out, or "we can't justify another production run" then meh.
But to blame it on manufacturing capacity is a lame excuse.

I've worked with overseas factories and what Bethesda said is how it works.

Those places get jobs in months and months ahead of time and if you need additional capacity the only way to get it is if the factory can move other jobs around yours. Sometimes they can and sometimes they can't.

You can't just get more factories when one is at capacity. They already have jobs to fill too, not to mention creating new dies, etc.

Maybe if you are Samsung you can output on a dime, but not if you are a small fry like Bethesda with a tiny order of 30,000 or whatever.

If you want to blame Bethesda then you can fault them for underestimating demand.

They aren't lying though.

I can guarantee you someone at Bethesda is working on getting a BOS helmet made now. Fallout merch. is here to stay.

I got bored and never finished the campaign.

The few online games I tried just ended in a race to rush the fastest.

Pretty boring IMO.

Diablo 3 wasn't any better. I'm done with Blizzard now.

Soo..

I don't get it. If the rap artist is wanted in Illinois, why is he sitting in Beverly Hills not under arrest?

Something is fishy.

I've been cable free for 3 years now and I feel like I have not missed a thing.

Too bad. Coop campaign was a lot of fun back in the day.

Now I'm not as interested.

I tried to go back to the Bethesda Fallout 4 forum but it's just filled to the brim with uber-nerds making speculation and then arguing about it like they're some kind of authority.

Somehow we don't get that here really. Everyone here is sorta grumpy but also mostly not a tool about it.

Anyway, that was just an aside. I had a need to rant.

I did finally check out the text list of what was released at Quake Con. It looks good and that'll probably the last thing I really check out before release. If I follow the game's development all the way up to Nov. I'll just have a lot of stuff spoiled.

Konami made such a stupid move..

Good.

LoL..

What I read looked fine. I've started skimming the articles though. I don't really want to know much more. I want to go into the game pretty fresh.

HorrorScope wrote on Jul 24, 2015, 11:08:

Silicon Avatar wrote on Jul 24, 2015, 09:45:
I can barely remember the last time I went into a Wal*Mart. It just kind of sucks for so many reasons. I'd rather go to a Dollar Store.

I go routinely, small town, and I guess I don't have the horror stories people talk about in larger cities, like how people look, the horror. I do watch TV and I eat at Mc Donald's to now and again and get a coffee regularly. Somebody like me has to exists since millions use these services, right?

Their electronics are name brand, movies, candy, deodorant, light bulbs, fertilizer seems as good as anyone else.

The only real issue I have is active checkout lanes, it is their #1 complaint, they go on TV we are fixing it and it remains the same year after year. If it has improved it is like they added a half a person a day into the mix.

I also live in a small town. It doesn't even have a Wal*Mart.

I just order online. The only thing I buy in person now is clothes and groceries.

That's a pretty impressive spyware suite.

I'm seriously considering going iPhone next time. I don't know that they're really any more secure though. I'm just sort of bored with the Android OS.

I can barely remember the last time I went into a Wal*Mart. It just kind of sucks for so many reasons. I'd rather go to a Dollar Store.

I didn't play any of these games but I watched some Let's Plays on Youtube. The "lore" is more involved than you'd think for what is basically a jump-scare game. I think that helped drive sales a lot.

I want that box.

I have all those games though. I just want the box.

I mean, I'm not buying it just for the box - but I still think its cool.

Yeah, probably. It's too bad because the premise is decent and it could be turned into something that's really good.

Darks wrote on Jul 23, 2015, 10:02:
Verno? what happened to your Avatar?

Also, how good is uBlock compared to how good APB is? I like APB and know it works very well. Just want to be sure uBlock is as good before I jump over.

Try it for a week and see. It's just an add-on so it's not hard to install / uninstall.

I've been using Ublock Origin for about a week now and it seems pretty good. I'm not seeing any ads and the pages I go to are not broken. It works on mobile Firefox too.

Ads are a vector for malware and they degrade privacy. Advertisement networks let things escalate to that point and now they are forever blocked on every PC I touch.

I have no idea what games journalism sites can do for revenue. The thing is that I don't care. They were complicit in allowing ad networks to turn into privacy eroding malware distribution nodes. As journalism sites they had every power available to them to call out ad networks for their crappy practices and clean that entire industry up, but they were too busy sucking the teat to care.

User privacy eroded. Tracking cookies nobody asked for popped up everywhere. Malware sprang up everywhere. Now users are sick of it.

Too bad, so sad!

This is not a game I *ever* thought I would see an update for.

I did not know that about the ignore button. That's actually pretty cool.