Gaming

One day my mother called me out of the blue. She told me, that Amazon had sent her an email, because they had a very special deal on a video game, which was going down from 60€, to just 10€. And she was like, "It's dirt cheap, if you want, I can deliver it to your address!".

And I was like that's very touching! Thank you, I really do appreciate it. What's the game by the way?

So she looked it up in her emails... Oh, it's a game called...

FALLOUT 76.

I bursted out laughing. I told her that this was like, the worst fucking game she could have told me and that it was no wonder she got such a special discount. Because this was just at release, when the game was such a train wreck, that retail stores and like, were slashing the prices just to get rid of the damn thing.

(I hear it's good now? I played it for literally 10 minutes, and the game was so horrendously bad looking and so buggy, I never touched it again.)

We laughed about it, and I said, send it anyway, just for fun, might as well.

Two days passes, and there it is. Fallout 76, in my own hands. How jolly. So I open my package, get the game out and... you know what? It felt good! It was exciting, you don't get that many physical releases on PC nowadays. They exist, but there is almost never a reason to buy them, because usually, you can get the game much cheaper on a digital platform. So having a physical game in your hands, for your PC, it's a very rare thing and kind of nostalgic too. Even if it was that game out of all of them, I was still happy to get that physical thing in my hand.

So anyway, I get my PC already, open the box, and to my utter dismay...

...it was a fucking cardboard disc! With a product key on it!

To this day, I don't know how to feel about it. Because on one hand it sucks and is wasteful but on the other hand... nah it just sucks, but I don't know, there is something that I find really funny about having a whole plastic box, just to hold a disc shaped piece of cardboard in it. It's not just a sheet of paper, no, there was some effort put in.

But hey! At least it was not a total waste from stop because this wasn't just fallout 76 come on this was the S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Amazon Edition of the game. So I got some cool official Vault Boy pins!

Thanks mom! :D

...makes me wonder if Starfield will come with a cardboard disc too. It would be a shame, because I really love the steelbook for this game. It's so clean and beautiful. But to house a cardboard disc? One which you can basically throw away as soon as you use the key? :/