Electroraptor, are you playing under the same profile that the save was originally created?

Well I'm happy to say the EB games was aware that people were having this issue. After quickly explaining that I wanted to return it as defective, and explaining that my Canadian Collectors Edition of Fallout 3 came with the US version of the disc causing the game saves to not be compatible, they took it back as defective without argument. I've been playing Demons Souls for the last 15 minutes and I'm digging it so far.

Edit: I figured I should add... my EB didn't have any copies of Demons Souls left, but allowed me to prepay for it with the money spent on Fallout 3 GOTY. They said they should get more copies in on Monday. A buddy of mine had bought it and lent it to me till Monday as he's working all weekend.

This is bullcrap, none of this checking [censored] of region codes and stuff. people should just be able to buy the game and it should WORK! hassle free and no complications, I hope they fix this asap or i'm putting my goty copy up on ebay and i'll use my original fallout and just DL the content from the ps store. there is no way in hell after spending a good 200 hrs will i ever start a new game!!!!

Just return your game as defective. It is. The key is to be calm and composed when explaining your issue to the store clerk.


It's funny... I'm sure if this happened in the states there'd be talks of class action lawsuits by now. I'm not condoning that course of action... Although I am happy that I've got my money back in the form of another game. Pissing off the most loyal of your customers during a recession is never a wise business move.

There's always talk about that. There was quite a bunch when the game first came out and it was freezing and glitching and people being unable to finish the main quest. It's still like that, but I think most people have pretty much come to accept it from gamesas. Now if any actual legal action was taken, that's a different story.

At any rate, I'm sure gamesas lost some customers because of this game and other random things.

I may return my copy. Gstaff please tell us something, Like that you "working on fixing our saves"? Or i'll return my copy. And who in the world is your Publisher?

gamesas publishes their own games through their own company, ZeniMax.

Probably I am going to do the same tomorrow. Just waste of time I suppose waiting for the patch to come.

Can they actually fix this with a patch? Or are they going to have to recall and re-release? Has there been an official statement released yet anywhere as well?

It might be possible, but I don't really trust gamesas with patches.

The solution to the problem is already out there. The end result, as stated by the pinned topic, is that those with the 30185 original Fallout 3 game need the US GOTY. The issue is how will gamesas get those versions to people that live in Canada? Are they going to have people mail it to them for a replacement? Or will they just send out a new batch to retailers?

I don't get why they didn't just send out the US GOTY to the same places in Canada that got the 30185 a year ago. Maybe there's a shortage or something.

No surprise... :facepalm:

Lets just hope Gstaff would tell us something, so later he wont be like sorry we cant fix it, and you have 1month to return a game for refund at EBgames.

Although i have a month, but I hae already opened it so I prefer to return it asap maybe today or definitely tomorrow afternoon. I think maybe there will be something by afternoon tomorrow that they may let us know

I lost that account info lol but io mean to do it all over again :brokencomputer:

Good idea here - I'm going to return it as defective, but I'm afraid the store (Futureshop) won't take it back considering it's opened...and the customer service reps are usually totally clueless and just won't understand this issue we have here...

Isn't that kinda like hacking but it is a single player game.

Agree I got it at Future Shop as well and I tried. No way I could do it and I tried 2 stores, I was pretty much laughed at. I talked to the guys on the floor, customer service and the store manager.

All I can hope is Bethesda comes in and does something THIS WEEK about this. At least confirms something is in progress and we have nothing to worry about.

I would like to hope that Bethesda is going to have some sort of solution in the next few days (although it is just MY hope). I'm going to try to be patient before rushing it back to EB. They usually don't have issue as long as your good with store credit. I just plain avoid any game purchases at FutureShop... real bad customer service. The sad part for me in this whole mess is the disappointment. I traded my original after I heard about GOTY AND after I read Bethesda's confirmation that game saves were going to work. I suppose it's trade/ return, forget the 100's of hours cultivating a damn good character or paper weight until or if they ever fix the issue... oh boy! What the heck... Borderlands comes out on Tuesday... who knows. :banghead:

Every canadian that bought the collector's edition got the US version while the others got the CA version.
As far as I know, since all the GOTY versions sold in canada are CA version and that the US and CA versions are not compatible, collector's edition buyers are screwed.
Especially frustrating since collector's edition buyers are usually fans of the franchise ... like me

I am waiting for a reply from the support team to see if a replacement for the US version is possible.

The saves do work. It's just that gamesas or whoever shipped out the games made a huge blunder in supplying the game to Canada.

Ya they did! Any notice from Bethesda yet?

As long as the game is not opened, Futureshop will take it for a refund. Before your receipt expires be sure to buy elsewhere. I will be buying another GOTY from Futureshop in 3 weeks....get my drift? The reason for this is I paid full retail price for this game...$69.99 + tax = $80 (for me atleast). Full retail price for a year old game and it doesn't deliver what Bethesda promised what it's supposed to do.

Until we hear from Bethesda regarding a fix or whatever, this is what I'll be doing.

Sorry none. Gstaff has indicated that they are working on something but otherwise, no official news from Bethesda PR.

Prob is I opened it BEFORE knowing about all of this. So I'm SOL.

A big [censored] to us Canadians, eh?.

I spent the extra cash for the original collector's edition, that contained a US version??? BLUS 30185. Now I have to import a game from the US for my old saves to work. Bite me & [CENSOR THIS] Bethesda. No more money.

Gstaff post Oct 16 2009, 01:29 PM Post #1

For your game saves from Fallout 3 to work with Fallout 3 GOTY, make sure your versions match up. If they don't match up (US disc to US disc, UK disc to UK disc, etc) you're going to run into compatibility issues.

English US
Fallout 3: BLUS-30185
Fallout 3 GOTY: BLUS-30451

This info is ironically helpful and totally useless at the same time. Hey Gstaff, so where can we buy a US version in Canada? Oh yeah, it's the weekend, so everyone's off and NOT WORKING ON THIS. It would have been solved by now if it was an issue with the US customers. You can bet your 'almost at par' dollar on that.

As much as I wanted to run out and drop the cash the first day of release, I'm glad I waited.... for just this reason. Huge disappointment Bethesda, HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT! I just won't be buying it because Bethesda just doesn't care after they get your money. The proper thing to do BETHESDA is inform ALL your Canadian retailers there is a problem (eg Futureshop) and tell them to accept ALL RETURNS of this product OPENED or NOT. It's not the customers fault it doesn't work, and the blame the victim defense is inexcusable.

Loved the game, hate the way Bethesda treats their customers/fans.
To everyone who posted here about the problem, thank you for sharing your painful disappointment. I hope it gets resolved quickly so you can continue on past Level 20.