Fallout Fan Tries to Buy Fallout 4 with 11 Pounds of Bottlecaps

Unless you’ve decided to go on a pilgrimage to the most secluded wildernesses remaining on earth to meditate on the nature of the soul and your place in the universe, you’ve probably heard about the new Fallout 4 that Bethesda announced last week. While E3 has told us a lot more about the game and everyone is rightfully excited, there’s still quite a bit of time on our hands until we can actually play it. Of course, we could do the sensible thing and just do other things while we pass the time, OR, if you’re like Imgurer GatorMacheteJr, you can use that time for--what else--shenanigans.

His shenanigan of choice, however, was to try to pre-order Fallout 4 with Bottlecaps.

Fallout 4 fans will know that in the post-nuclear wasteland, there’s very little use or value in paper money—thus, the currency of choice for the various survivors, mutants and militants are bottlecaps. The reasoning is pretty unclear, but, to GatorMacheteJr, it seems like he had the idea to get ahead of the curve regardless. In a letter attached:

"I only saw prices listed in pre-war dollars. I wasn't exactly sure what the exchange-rate is these days, so I went ahead sent everything I've been able to save since I played Fallout 3 for the first time."

Everything, according to this user, rounds out to about 2,250 bottlecaps, or 11.2 pounds worth of metal, collected over 7 years. Why anyone would decide to keep a bottlecap collection that long is beyond me, but if it pays off…

Which, for what it’s worth, it may not. Funny stunt, Mr. Gator readily admits his intent is to actually get that copy of Fallout 4, which turns it into something of a ploy rather than a fun gift for the developers. That said, since he is the first and, let’s face it, this is a LOT of bottlecaps—I think the developers could break the rules this once without setting some kind of weird precedent.

Still, it’s up to Bethesda.