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DeltaBladeX
08/11/18 4:49:24 PM
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likehelly
08/11/18 4:51:22 PM
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well that's just ridiculous
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Foppe
08/11/18 5:07:43 PM
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jramirez23
08/11/18 5:08:55 PM
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Theyre mad because hes selling a new sealed copy.
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Mead
08/11/18 5:16:06 PM
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Always smart to sue your customers
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likehelly
08/11/18 5:26:20 PM
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jramirez23 posted...
Theyre mad because hes selling a new sealed copy.

Yeah, and this is the reason why even gamestop won't take trade ins that are sealed, but telling someone you're going to file a lawsuit against them for trying to sell a single game is ridiculous
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Zareth
08/11/18 5:27:33 PM
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Just hold onto it for 20 years and sell it to a collector.
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wwinterj25
08/11/18 6:07:07 PM
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This was because the person advertised their game as new when it wasn't by my understanding. Although I still don't understand the difference between unwrapped and factory sealed.
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Cruddy_horse
08/11/18 6:10:43 PM
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Bethesda has become such a shitty company in the past few years.
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Mead
08/11/18 6:14:21 PM
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Cruddy_horse posted...
Bethesda has become such a shitty company in the past few years.


That still makes great games
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wwinterj25
08/11/18 6:17:21 PM
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Mead posted...
That still makes great games


Hmmm. Fallout 4 and Skyrim for me wasn't as good as the other games in the series. Although I'm aware they still sell shit loads so eh. Fallout 76 also looks bad but it'll sell just as Elder Scrolls Online has/does.
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RoboXgp89
08/11/18 6:43:34 PM
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if someone bought it and re-sold it does it really matter?
they just dont want these listings on the store front me thinks
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Nade Duck
08/11/18 6:46:22 PM
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Mead posted...
Cruddy_horse posted...
Bethesda has become such a shitty company in the past few years.


That still makes great games

does remaking skyrim like 20 different times and getting lucky with fallout 4 really count there?
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Mead
08/11/18 6:49:00 PM
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Nade Duck posted...
Mead posted...
Cruddy_horse posted...
Bethesda has become such a shitty company in the past few years.


That still makes great games

does remaking skyrim like 20 different times and getting lucky with fallout 4 really count there?


Yep!
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RoboXgp89
08/11/18 6:54:10 PM
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If Bethesda wasn't here all we'd get is exclusives and japanese titles
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Nade Duck
08/11/18 6:55:16 PM
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Mead posted...
Nade Duck posted...
Mead posted...
Cruddy_horse posted...
Bethesda has become such a shitty company in the past few years.


That still makes great games

does remaking skyrim like 20 different times and getting lucky with fallout 4 really count there?


Yep!

well alright, i suppose.
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Zareth
08/11/18 7:08:14 PM
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Mead posted...
Cruddy_horse posted...
Bethesda has become such a shitty company in the past few years.


That still makes great games

Unfortunately. It's so much easier when the shitty companies make shitty games I don't care about, like EA and Activision.
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Mead
08/11/18 7:13:33 PM
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Nade Duck posted...
Mead posted...
Nade Duck posted...
Mead posted...
Cruddy_horse posted...
Bethesda has become such a shitty company in the past few years.


That still makes great games

does remaking skyrim like 20 different times and getting lucky with fallout 4 really count there?


Yep!

well alright, i suppose.


In all seriousness theyve made a bunch of great games the last few years. Even discounting their sandbox games Doom and Prey were both amazing
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Revelation34
08/11/18 10:28:01 PM
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wwinterj25 posted...
This was because the person advertised their game as new when it wasn't by my understanding. Although I still don't understand the difference between unwrapped and factory sealed.


He was selling it factory sealed. That is still new. If he unwrapped it and then he resealed it himself and tried to claim it was factory sealed then yes they would have a case. It will either get thrown out or Bethesda will be pissed once they have to pay his legal fees.
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Mario_VS_DK
08/11/18 10:34:54 PM
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When contacted by Polygon, Bethesda offered the following statement:
Bethesda does not and will not block the sale of pre-owned games. The issue in this case is that the seller offered a pre-owned game as new on the Amazon Marketplace.

We do not allow non-authorized resellers to represent what they sell as new because we cant verify that the game hasnt been opened and repackaged. This is how we help protect buyers from fraud and ensure our customers always receive authentic new product, with all enclosed materials and warranty intact.

In this case, if the game had been listed as Pre-Owned, this would not have been an issue.


Little bit more understandable with that, but still...
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likehelly
08/11/18 10:37:11 PM
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Mead posted...
Nade Duck posted...
Mead posted...
Nade Duck posted...
Mead posted...
Cruddy_horse posted...
Bethesda has become such a shitty company in the past few years.


That still makes great games

does remaking skyrim like 20 different times and getting lucky with fallout 4 really count there?


Yep!

well alright, i suppose.


In all seriousness theyve made a bunch of great games the last few years. Even discounting their sandbox games Doom and Prey were both amazing

they didn't make those

doom is made by id, prey was made by arkane

Bethesda is a publisher, yknow
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Mead
08/11/18 10:43:38 PM
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likehelly posted...
Mead posted...
Nade Duck posted...
Mead posted...
Nade Duck posted...
Mead posted...
Cruddy_horse posted...
Bethesda has become such a shitty company in the past few years.


That still makes great games

does remaking skyrim like 20 different times and getting lucky with fallout 4 really count there?


Yep!

well alright, i suppose.


In all seriousness theyve made a bunch of great games the last few years. Even discounting their sandbox games Doom and Prey were both amazing

they didn't make those

doom is made by id, prey was made by arkane

Bethesda is a publisher, yknow


Well they helped
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Zeus
08/11/18 10:44:26 PM
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Revelation34 posted...
wwinterj25 posted...
This was because the person advertised their game as new when it wasn't by my understanding. Although I still don't understand the difference between unwrapped and factory sealed.


He was selling it factory sealed. That is still new. If he unwrapped it and then he resealed it himself and tried to claim it was factory sealed then yes they would have a case. It will either get thrown out or Bethesda will be pissed once they have to pay his legal fees.


Now I'm no big city lawyer, but it seems to me that if the man owned an unopened copy of a game and then tried to sell it then he'd be selling a pre-owned game. =p
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LinkPizza
08/11/18 10:49:38 PM
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Zeus posted...
Revelation34 posted...
wwinterj25 posted...
This was because the person advertised their game as new when it wasn't by my understanding. Although I still don't understand the difference between unwrapped and factory sealed.


He was selling it factory sealed. That is still new. If he unwrapped it and then he resealed it himself and tried to claim it was factory sealed then yes they would have a case. It will either get thrown out or Bethesda will be pissed once they have to pay his legal fees.


Now I'm no big city lawyer, but it seems to me that if the man owned an unopened copy of a game and then tried to sell it then he'd be selling a pre-owned game. =p

While I understand that, some people would rather buy a "new" version of a game. So, he wanted to get buyers to buy that. But while it was pre-owned, it was still basically new. Maybe amazon should make a "new pre-owned" section for sell pre-owned items still factory wrapped...
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Xfma100
08/11/18 10:54:05 PM
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Cruddy_horse posted...
Bethesda has become such a shitty company in the past few years.


Speaking of which, this is right after they said that Fallout 76 won't be coming to Steam...

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Revelation34
08/11/18 11:26:56 PM
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Zeus posted...
Now I'm no big city lawyer, but it seems to me that if the man owned an unopened copy of a game and then tried to sell it then he'd be selling a pre-owned game. =p


New in this case is just factory sealed. A game can still be new and pre-owned for cases like that. They should have gone after Ebay years ago since many sellers on there sold factory sealed games as new.
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wwinterj25
08/12/18 12:42:59 AM
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Revelation34 posted...
He was selling it factory sealed. That is still new.


Oh...
" Bethesda also took issue with Hupps use of the word new in selling the unwrapped game, claiming that this constituted false advertising.

I mean if it was factory sealed then yes this is a new copy. Technically though being as the guy bought it and wants to resell it it's been through another pair of hands thus second hand despite being factory sealed. Although as far as I'm concerned if it's factory sealed it's new and games get passed through many hands before they get to you anyway. I've bought many games on ebay or the like that have "factory sealed" in the advertisement.
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Foppe
08/12/18 1:33:43 AM
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likehelly posted...
Mead posted...
Nade Duck posted...
Mead posted...
Nade Duck posted...
Mead posted...
Cruddy_horse posted...
Bethesda has become such a shitty company in the past few years.


That still makes great games

does remaking skyrim like 20 different times and getting lucky with fallout 4 really count there?


Yep!

well alright, i suppose.


In all seriousness theyve made a bunch of great games the last few years. Even discounting their sandbox games Doom and Prey were both amazing

they didn't make those

doom is made by id, prey was made by arkane

Bethesda is a publisher, yknow

Bethesda Softworks is a publisher.
Bethesda Game Studios makes games.
Bethesda Game Studios Austin makes games, and helped with Doom.
Bethesda Game Studios Dallas makes games, and helped with Doom.
These groups, ID Software and Arkane are all owned by Zenimax Studios, which makes them sister developing team that help each others.
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Bugmeat
08/12/18 2:06:38 AM
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Mario_VS_DK posted...
When contacted by Polygon, Bethesda offered the following statement:
Bethesda does not and will not block the sale of pre-owned games. The issue in this case is that the seller offered a pre-owned game as new on the Amazon Marketplace.

We do not allow non-authorized resellers to represent what they sell as new because we cant verify that the game hasnt been opened and repackaged. This is how we help protect buyers from fraud and ensure our customers always receive authentic new product, with all enclosed materials and warranty intact.

In this case, if the game had been listed as Pre-Owned, this would not have been an issue.


Little bit more understandable with that, but still...

That's all well and good and if that really was all Bethesda wanted they need to make sure their legal team understands that. Because that's not what the letter the lawyers sent said. The letter told him to stop selling any all Bethesda products as well as identify all if his sources for those products he would be sued.
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likehelly
08/12/18 2:10:52 AM
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Foppe posted...
Bethesda Game Studios Austin makes games, and helped with Doom.
Bethesda Game Studios Dallas makes games, and helped with Doom.

uh

no, they didn't.

and Bethesda Austin hasn't made any games, and aren't making any games currently. the one they were making was announced, then cancelled, all in a span of several months after they laid a bunch of employees off.

then in September of last year, the head producer left that studio.

they aren't doing anything with Fallout 76, either. they worked on Bethesdas creation engine and, along with id, helped create the net code to allow multiplayer in that engine to exist.

as for Bethesda Dallas, they really haven't done anything either. more than Austin, yes, but that's before they were bought by zenimax. they were all mobile games, with the rest being stuff they just helped work on.
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Foppe
08/12/18 3:36:59 AM
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likehelly posted...
Foppe posted...
Bethesda Game Studios Austin makes games, and helped with Doom.
Bethesda Game Studios Dallas makes games, and helped with Doom.

uh

no, they didn't.

and Bethesda Austin hasn't made any games, and aren't making any games currently. the one they were making was announced, then cancelled, all in a span of several months after they laid a bunch of employees off.

then in September of last year, the head producer left that studio.

they aren't doing anything with Fallout 76, either. they worked on Bethesdas creation engine and, along with id, helped create the net code to allow multiplayer in that engine to exist.

as for Bethesda Dallas, they really haven't done anything either. more than Austin, yes, but that's before they were bought by zenimax. they were all mobile games, with the rest being stuff they just helped work on.

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TheCyborgNinja
08/12/18 5:12:29 AM
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Mead posted...
Always smart to sue your customers

This. No way it'll ever backfire.
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Zeus
08/12/18 5:25:15 AM
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Revelation34 posted...
Zeus posted...
Now I'm no big city lawyer, but it seems to me that if the man owned an unopened copy of a game and then tried to sell it then he'd be selling a pre-owned game. =p


New in this case is just factory sealed. A game can still be new and pre-owned for cases like that. They should have gone after Ebay years ago since many sellers on there sold factory sealed games as new.


Amazon has authorized resellers, ebay largely doesn't, though. Plus it's easier to go after individuals on Amazon I think.
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ParanoidObsessive
08/12/18 6:47:06 AM
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Mead posted...
Cruddy_horse posted...
Bethesda has become such a shitty company in the past few years.

That still makes great games

More like mildly above average games that are riddled with a metric shit-ton of bugs, that most people only really have very fond memories of because the community mods the holy hell out of them.

There really isn't anything exceptional or great about most Bethesda games, and almost everything they do someone else has done better at some point.


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Lokarin
08/12/18 6:50:53 AM
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Mead posted...
Cruddy_horse posted...
Bethesda has become such a shitty company in the past few years.


That still makes great games


You can be shitty and still do good stuff.... like, Hitler built the Autobahn
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Mead
08/12/18 7:46:11 AM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
Mead posted...
Cruddy_horse posted...
Bethesda has become such a shitty company in the past few years.

That still makes great games

More like mildly above average games that are riddled with a metric shit-ton of bugs, that most people only really have very fond memories of because the community mods the holy hell out of them.

There really isn't anything exceptional or great about most Bethesda games, and almost everything they do someone else has done better at some point.



Golly mister
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Sonicplys
08/12/18 7:59:57 AM
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Mead posted...
Cruddy_horse posted...
Bethesda has become such a shitty company in the past few years.


That still makes great games


Wow some people like unfinished garbage. Good to know.
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Nade Duck
08/12/18 8:03:59 AM
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Sonicplys posted...
Mead posted...
Cruddy_horse posted...
Bethesda has become such a shitty company in the past few years.


That still makes great games


Wow some people like unfinished garbage. Good to know.

i mean it's been that way since morrowind so it's not that surprising.
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Revelation34
08/12/18 2:44:24 PM
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wwinterj25 posted...
Oh...
" Bethesda also took issue with Hupps use of the word new in selling the unwrapped game, claiming that this constituted false advertising.

I mean if it was factory sealed then yes this is a new copy. Technically though being as the guy bought it and wants to resell it it's been through another pair of hands thus second hand despite being factory sealed. Although as far as I'm concerned if it's factory sealed it's new and games get passed through many hands before they get to you anyway. I've bought many games on ebay or the like that have "factory sealed" in the advertisement.


Yes I use to buy them like that too. The only issue is sometimes scammers can make something look factory sealed but that's incredibly rare to do and hard to do also.

ParanoidObsessive posted...
More like mildly above average games that are riddled with a metric shit-ton of bugs, that most people only really have very fond memories of because the community mods the holy hell out of them.

There really isn't anything exceptional or great about most Bethesda games, and almost everything they do someone else has done better at some point.


Modders made the lore?
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wwinterj25
08/12/18 5:21:29 PM
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Revelation34 posted...
Yes I use to buy them like that too. The only issue is sometimes scammers can make something look factory sealed but that's incredibly rare to do and hard to do also.


Yeah I've never seen that thankfully.
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sull56ivan2010
08/14/18 12:50:51 AM
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@Sonicplys posted...
Mead posted...
Cruddy_horse posted...
Bethesda has become such a shitty company in the past few years.


That still makes great games


Wow some people like unfinished garbage. Good to know.

Butthurt much?
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