Bottle caps are the currency used in the post-apocalyptic world of Fallout 4. One creative fan managed to snag his very own copy of the game by sending developer Bethesda 2,200 pieces of real-life bottle caps as payment for the game.
Wouldn't you know it, GatorMacheteJr (real same: Seth) took a gamble by mailing his bottle caps to Bethesda and it paid off! Bethesda has verified that it will indeed accept his payment of bottle caps and will ship him a copy of Fallout 4.
Fans who may want to follow in Seth's ingenious payment scheme will be out of luck. He will only be getting the game in exchange for his bottle caps because he was the first to dare to do so.
Besides, it took Seth seven and a half years of drinking beer through college and a Master's program to collect the 11.2 pounds of bottle caps he sent in exchange for the game. Figuring in the cost of shipping the bottle caps to Maryland, it's not so easy a feat for someone else to suddenly pull it off too.
Matt Grandstaff, global community lead for Bethesda, delivered the good news to Seth via a Twitter post of a photo showing the opened box of bottle caps (and a complaint that the office smelled of beer) and a promise that "for being the first one," Seth's preorder of Fallout 4, paid for with bottle caps, will be accepted and the game will be shipped to him in November.
Yes, my office smells like beer #Fallout4 pic.twitter.com/0VSGMV7NNF
— Matt Grandstaff (@gstaffinfection) June 24, 2015
Seth is thankful to Bethesda for accepting his preorder payment and to everyone he says supported him.
"People were simultaneously worried about my rate of drinking (I'm fine, thanks), and were also disappointed in my lack of drinking (I'm fine, thanks). Someone on Imgur even offered to gift me a copy of the game if I didn't get one," he said.
In addition to accepting the bottle caps currency, Grandstaff also mentioned that the currency would be deposited in the People's Bank of Point Lookout, an in-game bank that appears in the Fallout 3 add-on Point Lookout.
Photo: Daniel Spless | Flickr
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