Turns out the story about perk leveling that appeared here (amongst many, many other places) does not appear in the article.

http://www.gamespresso.com/2015/08/30/fallout-4-has-275-separate-xp-levels-one-for-each-individual-perk-pg-35/

Now that the official OXM magazine is out, there is no reference to the leaked information anywhere in the article.

Possibilities:

• A misunderstanding by OXM now corrected by omission.
• Correct information not included for reasons of space.
• Correct information not included at request of Bethesda.

Lies to wind up gamers? Seems unlikely.

I'd be wary of taking annything for fact before the game releases. With the ammount (or lack there off) of information going around, several online magazines and gamesites (yes Gamespot/IGN, i'm looking at you ) have been rehashing old news as new, like the before mentioned websites posting video's about the number of lines spoken while that has already been covered at E3. Also, since this does not come from the mouth of either "Pete" or "God Todd" you need to take it with a grain of salt and wait for actual release of game or info (from them) to confirm this.

However, in the case of this being true, it actualy sounds like a nice thing to me. We will wait and see.

No, the quote attributed to OXM is true.

Your possibilities leave out the truth -- what OXM reportedly said is correct. You misread it (and so did I at first, and apparently so did quite a few others).

According to the reports, OXM says, "You'll still level up via XP, and each level increase will still give you point to spend on a perk, but now those perks have varying XP levels of their own. It’s perk-ception, essentially, and means that, should you theoretically play long enough to max out every tier of every single one – gaining untold buffs and no doubt all kinds of horrendous real-world illnesses in the process – you’ll top off with a total of 275."

In other words, You still level up by accumulating experience points. Each level increase will still give you a point to spend on a perk, but now those perks have varying levels of their own (i.e., they have ranks).

When OXM says, "You'll still level up via XP," "XP" means (or probably means) "experience points." That statement is true.

When OXM says, "Perks have varying XP levels of their own," "XP means "experience," not "experience points." "XP levels" means only "ranks", and we know that perks have ranks. A rank-1 Gun Nut is a less-experienced Gun Nut than is a rank-2 Gun Nut.

Source? Because this quote is not in the OXM article... at all. Do you have an OXM source that can verify this statement to be true?

Before game's release I always take articles online with a grain of salt. Sure, print magazines are the way of the dinosaur, but online mags are too susceptible to just being outright yellow journalism to get clicks and views.

They must have omitted it from the American version. The "perk-ception" quote is in the UK version. It doesn't matter though. It's a strangely worded way of saying what we already knew about the leveling system. That most perks have levels.

For me personally I'm not the type of player that's going yo obsess over this stuff pre-release so I just avoid articles etc.

It doesn't matter what OXM says or what OXM might have said, because the alleged quote, whatever its source, speaks the truth. If you think otherwise, then you are probably misreading it. You wouldn't be alone. I misread it myself and was confused by it at first. Now that I have caught my mistake, the quote makes sense.

It was merely written poorly.

They still meant you need to put skill points into perks to level them up, (This isn't new, Perks had ranks in the old games, the writer probably didn't know that.)

But the way it was worded definitely seems like the individual perks level up from use, A La Skyrim, At first glance.

re-reading it closely, You can see it doesn't actually mean that, Youtubers, etc just took it and Ran with it as they always do.

It sure would be nice if beth throws us a bone soon, I understand the secrecy and everything but we(well, some of us, myself included) have been reduced to picking through dodgy scraps of info and crappy articles.