In the world of Fallout, bottle caps are the currency, but one player used them in the real world to get the game.
Which role-playing game is it about? It is about Fallout 4, a very popular role-playing game from Bethesda, which was released almost 10 years ago.
- In Fallout 4, you take on the role of the sole survivor of the underground bunker 111 (Vault 111), located in the vicinity of the U.S. metropolis of Boston.
- Outside the bunker, a post-apocalyptic world awaits you, filled with dangers you must face.
- The story of the role-playing game revolves around the search for the protagonist’s kidnapped son.
- During your journey, you will encounter various factions, each with different ideas about the future of humanity.
- Throughout the game, you will have to make decisions that influence the course of the story and the fate of the region.
Even before Fallout 4 was set to be released on November 10, 2015, a fan sent over 2,000 bottle caps to Bethesda in order to pre-order the role-playing game.
“I only saw prices in pre-war dollars”
This is behind the bottle cap story: In 2015, a Fallout fan named “Seth” sent several packages of bottle caps to Bethesda. He hoped to use these as payment for a pre-order of Fallout 4.
Bottle caps are the currency in the post-apocalyptic world of Fallout, with which the inhabitants of the wasteland trade after the war. In a letter to Bethesda that accompanied the packages, the fan wrote:
“If it isn’t already obvious, I am quite a big fan of the series. Of course, I was pretty excited when I started learning more and more about Fallout 4. I also heard that you are currently accepting pre-orders. I only saw prices in pre-war dollars, and I wasn’t sure what the exchange rate is these days, so I sent you everything I saved since I first played Fallout 3” – (via Eurogamer).
In total, it is said that there were about 2,240 bottle caps that the fan sent to Bethesda.
Bethesda agrees to trade, accepts bottle caps for Fallout 4
This is how Bethesda responded: Bethesda’s former deputy director of public relations, Matt Grandstaff, responded to the unusual submission. He posted a picture of the bottle cap boxes on X and stated that the fan would receive recognition for being the first to come up with this idea.
The fan himself later spoke out again and reported that Matt Grandstaff actually contacted him and assured him that he would receive a copy of the game or a Steam key for Fallout 4 (via Moviepilot).
Other community members also offered to buy the game for him if Bethesda would not gift it to him. He was grateful for that.
Bethesda’s post-apocalyptic world of Fallout has since been adapted into a series on Amazon Prime, with the first season airing in 2024. All currently known information about the yet-to-be-released second season of the series can be read on MeinMMO: Fallout Season 2: Release, Trailer, Stream, Cast – Everything about the continuation of the hit series on Amazon Prime
