I played all the Elder Scrolls games and started Fallout with the third release. I love all of these games. I just got my phsyical copy legally aquired like many others for PC. Hyped as hell, I insert the disk and try to install it. Then after activating the code it says that this game cannot be installed because it is not released yet.

I cannot even install the local files; instead I have to preload it for a day with my super bad internet connection. I literally cannot make use of the physical CD. He downloads ALL the files of the game instead it seems cause it is "not released".

I don't understand...All the consoles players are allowed to play it before release. I am like them and many others, a simple guy that just wants to play the game without leaking any content or streaming or whatever you ban people for.

I don't get it D': Have mercy Bethesda. This is suffering. I look at my copy and can't do anything with it I mean I can't even "pre-install" it from the CD

Nooooooooooooooooooooo. Not another 3 days. What did the PC consumers do different than the console ones?

Release us from our suffering

Quit whining.

Good. Learn to wait like the rest of us.

Just don't reply guys, mods will deal with this.

This. I don't feel bad for you OP.

Don't forget you are using a PC. So you are a second class citizen. PC evil,evil, ... constantly leaks, constant piracy, ...

So it's better that the consoles get the full playable version 10 days earlier. When consoles leak... then it isn't evil, because they are consoles.

Wow...what's with all the hatred? Holy moly

Exuse me ? Where did I violate the forum rules?

How does that even make sense? Aren't you the second class citizen because you pay way less and get a worse looking edition of the game? "PC evil evil?" Um...you do realize that all the leaks come from the consoles currently? How is leaking on the console any different and not "evil". There are so many console streamers getting banned and that is exactly the reason why I created this thread: I wanna know why PC users are not allowed to play game and consoles can play even though they can leak same as PC.

I don't get it...I did not came here to fight. Yet all I get is butthurt answers from potential console users ...now that's just sad

I was only extremly cynical about Bethesdas release policy. PC really got the bad treatment this time.

A ton to download and console gameplay leaking 10 days earlier before release.

Only because the assumption that consoles are save and PC is piracy heaven. Which is nonsense. Regardless which plattform it's always the same.

If Bethesda btw. wondering why PC sales aren't so well compared to consoles, think about release policy. USB sticks are a wonderfull thing and come on 4 DVDs isn't that much.

There is no discussion to be had here, you are simply whining. This game is set to come out on the tenth, people who do have it And can play are reviewers. Anyone else who has it and wasn't authorised shouldn't even have the game at the moment.
So to answer why you can't play, it's because it comes out on the tenth of November, get over it. Be glad you even have it this early

Well quite a few of us have poor internet, and will be waiting another few days before we get the disk.

Dreaading the download.

How much data is on the disk?

Use the time to shore up some vitamin D since you probably won't be seeing the sun much once it drops.

Maximum technical possible 9,1GB. But I don't know because I bought a downlaod only version, expecting this already.

This is like asking to be alowed to steal from a shop because heck, others are doing it. Just because others get things earlier while they shouldn't, doesnt mean you are intitled too the same. Have fun waiting like the rest of us.

As for your quistion, PC evil evil, isnt directed at you, but the global atitude of developers treating anny PC user asif they only pirate games. Wether it is 30% vs 70% (pirates vs paying PC customers) or the otherway around, it is not right to treat us who actualy buy games the same as those who only pirate games.

That, along with the whole treating consoles as some godlike pladform that can do no wrong despite evidence to the contrary, realy just pisses people off. 9/10 times it is infact the console version that gets uploaded to pirate sites first, due to a total lack of proper DRM on consoles.

As for your clarification why, wel i think my above pretty much sums that up. So as for us attacking you, your post has a rather whining tone to it, like asking bethesda for some candy cause the other kids (consoles) stole some from them, thus you feeling like you have earned the right to some too. That how it comes over on us all i guess. Might want to refraise you current post to better reprisent your actual point and quistion.

I'll answer this because it was directed at me. You can't play the game because IT HASN'T BEEN RELEASED YET. I'm assuming that the only way the console players get to play is because there is no real way for the game to be locked out. If you want to play so bad then you should've preordered for a console. But since you didn't then you need to stop whining and wait the 3 days for the game to drop like the rest of us.

This thread is not going the way the OP planned.

You're complaining that you don't get to play the game because some retailer broke street date. What.

This. The game is supposed to be released on the 10th. If you have it early, it's because someone didn't follow The Rules for releasing it.

You should consider yourself lucky. I won't be getting my copy until the 17th, at the very least, as Bethesda won't ship their Collector's Edition until release day. Most others won't get their copy until release day.

It's perfectly normal that this happens with big game releases (even the big ones Mediamarkt in Europe i.e.). Normally not such a big deal. But because of the extreme secrecy of Bethesda it hurts a lot more when leaks happen 10 days earlier and it will only getting worse the next few days.

Retailers are breaking a contract, You SHOULDN'T HAVE the copy to begin with. Meanwhile I even can't start download it in Ps4 and stupid rats are sending screenshots and when I want to check the status BAM SCREENSHOTS and trying to spoilers. If I could report all of that shops lol. You have to respect timeline.

Dude, stop whining and wait for the 10th like everyone else. It's only three days from now. Are you really so impatient that you can't wait a mere 72 hours until you get to play Fallout 4? The Japanese market doesn't even get the copies until the middle of frickin' DECEMBER!

Here are a list of things you can do:
#1- Go outside and play/exercise.
#2- Write a novel.
#3- Read a book.
#4- Do household chores.
#5- Play some other videogame.

It's just a frackin' game, not the frackin' cure for cancer. By Sithis...

I am really trying to hold back with this kid, (has to be a kid as no advlt would be whining over a damn GAME like this)
Some people won't be able to play the game at release, and yet this kid is complaining, whining, whatever you want to call it, because he can't play it early with his street date broken game.
Hell I will only get to play for two days before working for three days, going bush walking for five days after that, than my dinner and parade over the two days after I get back, than I have one day free before having other things to do.

Technically, no one but reviewers should be playing the game before the 10th, when the game is released. It's only a couple days away now, it'll be fine. (I may not even get a chance to really play my copy until next weekend what that pesky "life" thing always getting in the way. Stupid wife and kids... )

Not exactly stellar behavior by other members on this thread, by the way. Don't call people whiners, don't insult other members - that's like the golden rule around here and the forum rules are pinned right there at the top.