Just curious if the continued poorly tested and mass distribution of software that is not nearly ready for public consumption could be litigated in a class action? I mean, panasonic has a biggie for poor picuture problems filed in Feb of this year. I'm pretty sure anyone who would want to get on board with something like this could make a great deal of board room noise. The fallout franchise has been well documented by many different entities for having very flawed software, which takes months, if not years to correct (if ever). As I said in a previous post, the only way to get any attention of large corporate entities is to cause a PR problem, or an issue where stockholders (larger ones) find the value of owning part of a company less than expected. I for one am tired of having to restart from the beginning (again), having crashes, freezes, bug after bug....post consumer release. I am going to keep looking to see if there is precedent for something bigger than stomping my feet and holding my breath. It will not garner so much as an apology, as I am simply one of the masses who put up with this nonsense. No more. I would feel differently if I felt that this was an exception, not the rule.

god, the fix is are ready in progress, butthurt

I'm sorry, I don't normally post these things, but it seems appropriate.

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I'm about as mad as you can get, so yeah, I'd probably put my name on that list.

You can -try- to get a class action lawsuit possible, but unless everyone's saved their receipts and all that noise, you're pretty much going to get laughed out of a court room.

All we can do now is check Bethesda's and Obsidion's game website forums after they release a new game and look for 'software issues.' If such a topic exists with more than 2 posts, might as well buy the other game from a developer who can release a product and have it all in working order in less than 6 months of it being live.

So long Fallout universe, guess it's back to Zombies in black ops (note that it doesn't crash, ever, or in my vast experience it hasn't)

Erm, Ya. Then we could sue Microsoft because of Vista or China because of everything.

well atleast they could give us a few bucks off the next DLC?

No, you have to prove financial loss.

I feel you man, I think it's pretty ridiculous to have to wait for a product to be fixed for months to years when it should have been fully functional out of the box. I don't think it would be worth it though, nor would it go anywhere. We just need to svck it up. Hopefully the next patch takes care of everything, with all the fuss and how gamebreaking the last one was I'm sure they'll get to it very soon.

I would think that you answer your own question in here. You say that the Fallout franchise has been well documented for having flawed software. That means that you should know going into the game that it would have problems. This society is already litigous enough, please don't add to it with this.

I waited to purchase new vegas because of all the talk I heard about how buggy it was. I bought it bout two weeks ago, and there are still serious bugs and glitches in the game, not to mention the recent xbox update that broke all of my save games. I would not have bought new vegas if I had known it was still this bad. I dont think I can recommend that people buy Bethesda products on launch day (or ever) now.

Not in the united states. Class action lawsuits were effectively ended this week thanks to recent precedent.

Possible legal action discussions are not permitted on the forum.