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Zkuq said:
KManX89 said:

"A Bethesda.net account is required to play this game", yeah, sounds quite deliberate, stuff like that doesn't get coded in "by accident", LOL. Emphasis added on the "required to play this game" part, not "required to access rewards". If you actually think it was an "accident", I have a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell to you.

Them "fixing it" was just damage control after all the backlash.

TBH, this is Bethesda we're talking about, so could be poor QA, project management, or something similar. It sounds like an external company did the ports (at least for the third game, so I assume that to be the case for the first two as well), so it's possible Bethesda signalled the intent poorly, which resulted into this mess. My money is on Bethesda on trying their luck instead, but since it's Bethesda we're talking about, incompetence too seems like a plausible explanation.

I don't know, I'd have an easier time believing they "accidentally" leaked people's credit card/personal info with the duffel bags debacle than I would believing they "accidentally" typed "A Bethesda.net account is required to play this game" into the game's coding, especially since it appears on the game's store pages. They actually hid it at the bottom of the PSN page thinking nobody would see it, sounds pretty deliberate and underhanded to me. Again, shit like that doesn't get coded in "by accident", all signs point to it being intentional.