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June 26, 2015

Bethesda Accepts 2,000 Bottle Caps as Payment for Fallout 4

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Last week, we brought you the news that a user of Imgur had sent his lifetime savings of bottle caps to developer Bethesda in an attempt to pre-order the upcoming Fallout 4. Altogether the user sent a letter explaining his request and a collection of 2,240 caps that he had accumulated from several years of drinking while at university. Well it looks like the rather optimistic stunt actually worked. The user, known as GatorMacheteJr, revealed in a new post of the website that he had received an email from the company that had some rather good news for him. Matt Grandstaff had responded to say that because he was the first person to send in his caps in exchange for the game, Bethesda would accept this one-time payment and send him a copy of Fallout 4 when it releases this November. Matt went on to explain that he would be depositing the caps into the People’s Bank of Point Lookout, an in-game location that can be seen below. The developer

June 18, 2015

Fan Tries to Pre-Order Fallout 4 With Bottle Caps

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One user of Imgur has taken a rather unique way of trying to pre-order Fallout 4. Rather than use standard real-life currency that most retailers accept, he has decided to send his life savings of bottle caps to developer Bethesda. The seemingly crazy idea does have some merits. As the Fallout series is set in a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by nuclear explosions, normal money like US dollars no longer have any value. This has led to bottle caps becoming the de facto currency in the games and they can be used to buy everything from food, to weapons and equipment. “Fallout 3 was my favorite game for several years, so I made the rational choice to start saving up bottle caps,” said GatorMach on the Imgur post. “Turns out 4.5 years of undergrad and 3 years in a Master’s program leads to a lot of drinking. It ended up being 11.2 pounds of bottle caps. You don’t want to know how much it cost to ship it to Maryland.” He