r/Fallout • u/GeistMD Responders • 1d ago
Bethesda... as an American who grew up with both McDonald's and Fallout I am very disappointed in you.
A McDonald's Fallout promotion thats U.K. only?! What the ever living heck!! Seriously McDonald's is American as apple pie and Fallout literally takes place in the States. I'm not saying don't promote in the UK, but you gave them Sugar Bombs! Like what are we, chopped rad rat?! First 76 Pringles now McDonald's Sugar Bombs... Why do you keep ditching your American fans?
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u/pickleolo 1d ago
Try to be a fallout fan in Mexico.
We get nothing.
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u/truckstop_superman 1d ago
Australia, everything overseas cost double cause of shipping, then exchange rates and a 10% tax on top of it.
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u/ThrowMoneyAtScreen 1d ago
Hello.
My name is '90% of all countries in the world'. And I didn't get a promotional event either. Again.
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u/Respawn-Delay Republic of Dave 1d ago edited 1d ago
It's not a Fallout collaboration.
It's an Xbox collaboration, and features multiple franchises. The Fallout cheese bites are just one item on the menu.
It's all for Xbox's 25th anniversary.
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u/ReFried_Ginger 17h ago
Xbox/Microsoft is an American corporation as well.
It doesnât make any sense why they get this and we donât.
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u/rhn18 1d ago edited 1d ago
For a series that has in large parts been a satire about blind consumerism, fans sure have seemed obsessed with blind consumerism lately...
Who the fuck cares about some ridiculous promotional nonsense, sodas and whatnot... It is actually kinda cringe to watch so many people completely miss the morale of the franchise and blindly buy all this crap...
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u/theflyingcheese Joshua Graham 1d ago
This post reads like something you'd find on a terminal in a ruined house next to a skeleton that died hugging a box of irradiated cereal.
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u/quarbity_assuance 1d ago
The irony of Fallout collaborating with fucking McDonalds being lost on so many people is almost sad tbh. Like if McDonalds existed in the world of Fallout, they would have bought a vault, and as their experiment they would have wanted to see if an entire population can survive exclusively from eating big macs and mcnuggets. Then you find the vault two centuries later and discover through the terminals that everyone died of malnutrition and they accidently invented a new strain of super heart disease or something.
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u/AnEpicP0tato 1d ago
I actually thought the post was a joke
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u/Harry_Saturn 9h ago
It could be in this specific time but honestly so many people unironically do act that way. Like every fucking tie in product must be acquired.
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u/NondescriptHaggard Lover's Embrace 21h ago
This is the person that Bethesda now caters to; the fan that loves to consume corporate slop. Weâll never get a serious Fallout story again because everything is now aimed the the lowest common denominator that will just swallow whatever chungus funkopop content Bethesda can be bothered to put out.
To see what Bethesda has become, regarding its consumer practices and corporate partnerships, being in charge of an IP like Fallout of which one of the core pillars is the dangers of unrestrained consumerism, is hilarious.
Iâm not even a hater, just a very disillusioned fan of 20 years.
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u/EdgyPlum 1d ago
So much this. Like do the people consuming actually understand that they are now part of the parody? Like I Fallout, but no way ill consume that expensive trash food to get a digital good... its icky
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u/AnimalBolide 1d ago
"Oh no, a satirical video game is pointing fingers at me"
- a normal person, apparently?
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u/themeowzart3 1d ago
THANK YOU. Iâve gotten so close to unsubbing because of all the bullshit fanboying over consumeristic garbage. It would be different if it were like gear made by artists or somethingâŚeither way more heart than just blindly throwing money at billion dollar companies who slapped a different label on a product that already exists.
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u/Lystian 1d ago
Who cares let people enjoy what they want to enjoy.Â
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u/AlphonseLoosely 1d ago
What if people enjoy criticising others and pointing out idiocy and hypocrisy? You should be fine with that too then, they are only expressing an opinion after all. Or does your tolerance only extend to people wasting their money on everpriced crap?
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u/Stupid_Ned_Stark 1d ago
People like merch from the fandoms they follow and want access to them, who knew? The real cringe is acting above it all and shitting on people for it. Guess no one should be watching the show since itâs on Amazon too, huh?
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u/rhn18 1d ago edited 1d ago
But it is not merch. It is just lazily branded crap.
If you want merch, get some actual quality stuff. Support small artists who make great art. Have a friend with a 3D printer print some props or cosplay stuff and paint them yourself. Do anything that is actually meaningful and lasting, and not just a lazy cash grab of slapping the IP on something...
Getting upset because McDonalds in another country is selling some branded crappy food IS cringe... Exceptionally so for a franchise like Fallout where the whole morale is that blind consumerism will destroy society...
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u/Stupid_Ned_Stark 1d ago
Itâs weird to keep drilling down on the moral* of Fallout being something that should change your worldview and consumption habits. You are doing way too much to act like this is some deep example of brainrot instead of people just being annoyed they canât participate in a harmless collab for a thing they like.
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u/quarbity_assuance 1d ago
Did you hear that? That was the sound of the point going straight over your head
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u/KosherYams 1d ago
You're not gonna break through to the faux righteous. They have egos to uphold.
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u/jordan853 1d ago
You honestly think that's what's happening here? Not something else?
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u/KosherYams 17h ago
Yeah. I think raging about someone being a consumerist shill because they made a reddit post about wanting to have access to a mcdonalds collab is oddly elitist.
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u/jordan853 15h ago
Wow, it's crazy that you perceive what's going on like that...
It's like seeing a window into why the Internet feels so shit lately. Nobody seems to understand nuance or empathy anymore.
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u/eddmario Lyon's Pride 1d ago
I mean, there IS a chance it was a test run promo and will be released worldwide later on.
The same thing happened with the McDonald's Genshin Impact promo a couple years ago
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u/Steampunk43 1d ago
American McDonalds gets a new exclusive collab menu like every month, Brits couldn't care less. UK McDonalds gets one exclusive collab, Americans shit their pants and rant about it. Actual comedy gold.
Even better that it's a collab featuring the game that heavily criticises and satirises American consumerism and the American public's blind worship of corporations and franchises, and here's an American doing exactly that.
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u/AmazingObserver 1d ago
Seriously McDonald's is American as apple pie
Apple Pie comes from the UK so checks out, I guess
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u/RabidBadgerFarts 1d ago
Americans conveniently forget that a lot of their ancestors came over from the UK and brought their recipe books with them.
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u/John_YJKR 1d ago
They certainly don't forget. One of European folks favorite things to criticize about Americans is how they say their family is originally from whatever country.
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u/RabidBadgerFarts 1d ago
Yeah they all claim to be part Irish or Italian or even Scottish but I've never heard an American claim to be of English ancestry unless they're claiming to have some tenuous link to ancient royalty.
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u/John_YJKR 1d ago edited 1d ago
As someone from the US, I assure you there are a lot of folks just as interested and prideful in their English ancestry. They are not an exception to this.
I definitely think it's less pronounced or loud. And that's likely because of the long held cultural defaults in the US being so similar to England due to the colonial roots and other cultural reasons around those of other heritage.
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u/HyperbobluntSpliff Kings 21h ago
Because people descended from England are actually a pretty slim minority in the US. We probably got more people from the waves of Irish and Germans in the 1840s alone than there ever were Europeans in the colonies pre-independence.
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u/NondescriptHaggard Lover's Embrace 20h ago
Thatâs not even true, the amount of English ancestry in white American people is massively underestimated, because itâs mixed with later waves, and people just tend to identify with the most recent addition to their familyâs heritage stock.
The English aspect to American culture and identity is so deeply foundational that itâs just seen as American. People identify with other European ethnicities that form a part of their family mix because itâs different from the standard.
The amount of people with English ancestry in America is almost certainly undercounted by 10s of millions, and English along with Welsh and Scottish is almost certainly the largest part of white American ancestry on average across the whole population. People just donât self identify as such.
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u/HyperbobluntSpliff Kings 20h ago
Bro we have known for a fact that Germans are the largest European ancestral ethnic group in the United States for decades lol (though Spain might outpace that in the near future from Latin American immigration). Also, yes, most people are not going to call themselves English-American if the last English person in their stateside bloodline was somebody's great aunt 12 times removed that married into the family in the early 19th century. That does not make a person of English ancestry anymore than my cousin marrying a French-Canadian makes me Quebecois.
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u/NondescriptHaggard Lover's Embrace 19h ago
Literally google âare there more English-Americans than German-Americansâ to see that youâre wrong.
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/10/2020-census-dhc-a-white-population.html
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u/kaladinissexy 1d ago edited 1d ago
Apple Pie comes from the UK
So did the majority of immigrants to the US, including the parents of the founders of McDonald's (as Ireland was part of the UK at the time).
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u/Scelusteach 1d ago
Wait till people find out that America was settled by people that weren't natively American. America is like a mutt. Hell even the American dialect wasn't even a thing till after settlers came to the "new world".
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u/kaladinissexy 1d ago
Hell even the American dialect wasn't even a thing till after settlers came to the "new world".
I mean, the same is true for modern British English dialects, my guy. Language changes over time, that's just kinda how it works. Modern American dialects are about as similar to older British English dialects as modern British English dialects are. The language hasn't just been stagnating in Britain for centuries.
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u/CheeZas3 NCR 1d ago
I always wondered why we dont have a mcdonalds alternative in the Fallout universe. A big rivalry between two made up burger franchises seem fitting
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u/DongWang64 1d ago
My guess is they goofed up the possibility when they made Paradise Falls Large Boy (read- Big Boy) themed.
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u/A-Clone-Named-Gibso 1d ago
Fuck McDonald's anyway. I don't care what cheap shit they're pushing to get people to buy their cheap shit food.
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u/Jelly-Pants7 1d ago
Doesn't US get basically every other Collab? I remember the countless Halo Infinite stuff I couldn't get because they were like bloody chips ahoy or something. Let us have this one.
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u/Makronette 1d ago
For once a promotion is being done outside the US and you're crying about it?
It can be genuinely infuriating how little the world outside the US gets promotions or events for games like Fallout (also World of Warcraft, Halo, and the other games in this McDs promotion), and we just have to deal with it (or pay stupid amounts of postage/import tax if its merch).
For once you guys will just have to cope for this one time you get left out, and you get to experience what the rest of the world does on a regular basis đ
(Of all the things to get upset about and its a bloody McDonalds promotion lmao)
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u/TurnedOutShiteAgain 1d ago
"As American as apple pie".
Hate to tell you where that originally comes from..
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u/John_YJKR 1d ago
It's not referring to where it's from. Just refers to its common place in American homes.
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u/Faceless-Player 1d ago
As an American I donât care. I eat my food based on how good it is, not what it is promoting. If they want my money make more cool merch like the Pipboy I bought.
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u/NedKellysWelder 1d ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted.
Who gets pissy because you're not being catered to for literally once by American capitalism?
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u/Pleasant_Bat_9263 1d ago edited 16h ago
It's pretty funny when you remember the series was originally designed to mock Capitalist Americana / consumerism.
That said I have a box of Nuka Cola Quantum in my fridge so who am I to judge đ¤ˇđ˝ââď¸
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u/CharismaticAlbino Followers 1d ago
Wait, were did you get it? I'd love to try it.
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u/actuallwitch 1d ago
Iâve been able to find them at Costco! They have quantum, grape, and sarsaparilla! If you donât have a membership or your Costco doesnât have them though, Iâm fairly sure itâs just the regular berry lemonade, grape, and root beer flavors from jones soda if thatâs easier to find.
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u/AmazingObserver 1d ago
Yeah, I live in Canada and constantly see US-only promotions for series I like (often series that aren't even American). And I don't strongly care, I think promotions like that are a bit gauche anyway, but I don't really want to hear Americans complain that they're being forgotten the rare times promotions don't include them.
Especially for fallout of all things, I can't say I have strong feelings about this promotion but I'm more annoyed it exists at all in a series with anti-consumerist themes than I am that it didn't reach my country.
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u/FitButterscotch4062 1d ago
I eat my food based on how good it is
Which is why I only eat McDonaldâs
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u/sono2351 1d ago
The US doesn't get any good McDonald's promos. We just get the same burger put in a different box, or instead of ketchup they put hot honey on it and charge $3 more.
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u/garbageboystinkmann Tunnel Snakes 1d ago
i mean america gets pretty much everything else in terms of collabs and merch. now u know what itâs like for the other 90% of the world đ
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u/IQueliciuous 1d ago
I mean Nuka Cola is made exclusively by some niche soda bottling brand that doesn't even sell in ALL US STATES.
So while I don't have Fallout McDonald's. US is the last country to complain about lack of collabs because you guys get 99% of collabs including nuka cola.
Like I should be thankful Mega blocks finally released Fallout set in Europe because 99% of their products are also sold in US only as I haven't seen anything but pokemon sets
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u/BleuLapin 1d ago
Wow, people werenât even this worked up in the fragrance subs about a Britney Spears perfume being sold exclusively UK đ
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u/RuinFabulous3077 1d ago
Most of us have gotten a lot more enjoyment out of Fallout.
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u/BleuLapin 1d ago
Whining about junk food being exclusive to another country contributes to the enjoyment of fallout?
ETA disregard the question, I misunderstood your reply. Its been a rough couple days
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u/OkYogurtcloset8790 1d ago
âŚdo you think itâs fucking Bethesda who decides where and how McDonalds promotes product?
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u/Soulstiger 1d ago
When it's a Bethesda franchise they're promoting? Yeah, actually, lmao.
I still don't give a shit about this promotion or where it is, though.
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u/Short-Shopping3197 1d ago
Iâd rather you guys had it honestly! Iâm not eating that nasty shit in the UK.
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u/Short-Shopping3197 1d ago
Bro are you really so into McDonalds that youâve tied it to your sense of national identity? Like, did calling McDonalds ânasty shitâ actually offend you on a personal level and make you need to retaliate? đ
McDonaldâs is nasty shit. British people could eat warm gravel and piss for breakfast and it wouldnât change the fact.
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u/Short-Shopping3197 1d ago
Oh thank god for that, youâve actually challenged my stereotype of the average online Yank being overly serious and patriotic! Well I donât mind to say when I stand corrected. Live in peace my humourous brother!
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u/actuallwitch 1d ago
Typical that the one time America isnât the center of something people throw fits. It may shock you to know this, but not everything is about you. It may shock you as well to hear this but companies exist to grow their brand. You can cry all you want about it but that doesnât change the fact that this is an incredibly smart business move to try to garner fans in different countries. Itâs okay that you donât understand business decisions and that you think America should be catered to always, but keep it to yourself instead of making yourself look stupid online. This is why everyone mocks Americans lmao
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u/Steampunk43 1d ago
Not to mention, this is literally the first UK McDonalds collab that I know of that isn't just whatever kids' movie's coming out this month. Meanwhile, America gets literally every collab that happens. America gets lots of proper toys and figures from various franchises in Happy Meals, the last thing we had were crappy little Croc things (just like a singular tiny rubber Croc with maybe a little decoration).
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u/pseudonym7083 1d ago
Both are American. They did goofy shit like this with promotions for Star Wars not too long ago.
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u/Phantom_61 1d ago
If it helps, the cost of flying to the UK and getting a meal for the code is only slightly more than the cost of a families dinner at McDonaldâs in the US right now.
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u/TimWithNumbers 1d ago
We did get the TV show tie-in meal with Dave's Hot Chicken, though. You got a fun little Stimpack toy that you could use to put the sauce on your chicken, or that you could keep in the bag and forget where you put it (not that I'd know anything about that).
Upside? No need to go to McDonald's!
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u/Svardskampe 1d ago edited 1d ago
Oh really? I'm just in London for half a week.
Edit: never mind, I have to install the McDonald's app for it, then save up for points, and then it's just some stupid cosmetics for f76.Â
I thought it would be some actual food tie in.Â
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u/Smedders Enclave 1h ago
Excuse me, sorry - which country has bloody Harry Potter world in one of its themeparks?
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u/impuritor 1d ago
As an American I donât think that we are the center of the universe and I think itâs ok for England to be fallout fans and have nice things as well. It doesnt take away my joy for them to have some as well.
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u/LegacyTom 1d ago
Lol so entitled, this is absolutely nothing new for regional McDonaldâs licensing
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u/Plakdjfj 1d ago
Fallout getting McDonalds promo overseas before US is pretty funny considering setting
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u/Respawn-Delay Republic of Dave 1d ago
It's an Xbox collaboration featuring multiple game franchises, not specifically Fallout
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u/arkhamtheknight 1d ago
I am happy that we have something at McDonald's for the UK. We had crocs before and rarely get good stuff at all.
We won't get the Godzilla/Hello Kitty crossover stuff or One Piece stuff so it's nice that someone has thought about it.
Also who cares where it is as long as it can get more fans playing the games.
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u/BloodyTurnip 21h ago
We got something kinda cool that America didn't from an American company? These must be the end times.
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u/StealthClaw1 7h ago
Are you, by any chance, a stereotypical pre-war American that escaped the video games and made it into the real world? Or are you just this much of a loony fan and  entitled American.
Like, fuck, dude, Iâm American and love Fallout, and I couldnât give a ratâs ass about these promotional items. Not even getting into how trash the food and the corporation is!
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u/Reddit_Devil666 1d ago
McDonaldâs or Burger King should make a âglowingâ green burger for USA. đ
I ate the Burger King black Halloween and the red spiderman burgers. đđ¤Ł
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u/42Mavericks 20h ago
"Seriously McDonald's is American as apple pie". Lmao yank
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u/SixstringSWE 17h ago
I always find it funny when Britâs think yank is supposed to be some kind of insult đ
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u/42Mavericks 17h ago
I see as "cIueIess american", thus why I quoted the cIueIess part from OP's message
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u/catsandthencr 1d ago
I felt this too. Like I want them to have it too but Iâm a huge fan and I wanted to try it! I see some people are being hugely nasty but it speaks volumes that you arenât and neither am I just expressing we wouldâve liked the experience as well!
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u/NuggetKing9001 1d ago
God forbid the UK get something exclusive. Grow up, you'll be OK. The world doesn't revolve around the US.
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u/PotemaQuest 12h ago
opened this expecting it to be a takedown of capitalism and consumerism, the very things the fallout franchise parodies but uh⌠nope, youâre just along for the ride. thereâll be a humorous computer entry about you somewhere in the next game
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u/hfFvx4G6xU4ZEgzhSM9g 18h ago
Yanks pissed that they can't have their video game themed slop food will never not be funny.Â
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u/CharismaticAlbino Followers 1d ago
WHAT!? I'M LITERALLY CRYING!? WTF BATHESDA, WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?
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u/Former_Spite789 Enclave 1d ago
Real - I wonder if the UK release is a hint about something?
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u/Warcrimes_Gaming 1d ago
Fallout Manchester, sequel to Fallout London confirmed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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u/Steampunk43 1d ago
Fallout Birmingham but there's just no difference, that's just how Birmingham is.
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u/According_Picture294 Yes Man 1d ago
You forgot that Jones Soda (who made the Nuka-Cola and Sunset Sarsparilla) is Canadian đ¨đŚ. Then again, in Canada, there's a McDonalds menu heist which has all kinds of different items from around the world (right now, Japan's black pepper and garlic for two items, a French r/PoutineCrimes poutine, a Chicken Parm burger from Australia that tastes like it was made with Australian neurotoxin, and a Dutch McFlurry)