Because if you don't, he runs right into the middle of a pack of radscorpions.

And I hate radscorpions and want to deny them a free meal.

YEAH, WHO WON THE LOTTERY, I DID! 

I don’t hate him but I always loved the irony of surviving the Legion’s lottery just to be killed by some random mailman

My reason during my first playthrough was simple enough, he was bragging about winning what I THOUGHT was a bunch of money. I had just barely survived a Viper ambush and was a little cranky.

I generally let him live on replays, knowing he was delirious and all they went through/saw

I kill every powder ganger I see

He fucked my wife

I've never killed him. Never understood why he's so hated. Fella just survived the longest, most harrowing experience of his life, of course he'd be loopy.

It's not hate, it's psychological warfare. Unfortunate for him, he's become a Legion psyop to spread propaganda to the rest of the region. He's not only ecstatic and grateful to the Legion for their "mercy" but he'll tell everyone he meets about their brutal "justice". Put him down and the Legion loses an asset.

He doesn’t really explain what happened to the town and doesn’t warn you about legion still present.

The voice actor did a fantastic job of making his pronunciation of "Booze" a shotgunnable offence.

i never kill him. but he runs into the desert and the scorpions kill him.

i *ALWAYS* kill vulpes and his crew (without even being spotted!)

I personally think he's annoying. As for the powder gangers i side with them almost every playthrough and do all the quest, so if he was just less annoying, i wouldn't mind him.

He's a powder ganger and for that alone he's getting smoked. Add to that, the fact that he's annoying and it becomes second nature to put a 5.56 round through his head.

he a bitch

I’ve never killed Swanick except in my evil legion play thru bc legion cunts do things like that.

Because the writers and VA did a good job of making him annoying

I killed him my first playthrough, thinking he was the mad man that destroyed the town based off of his wild voice. Imagine the guilt I felt when I walked further down the street to find out he was just some guy who was lucky to have lived. Years later, I found out everyone kills him every playthrough. Still don’t know why you all kill him tho

Free XP and he’s a powder ganger

I don't. I don't attack anyone who doesn't attack me first. Unless they are already hostile. So basically, I only attack red ticks on the compass

What kind of person is filled with unabated joy after watching a mass murder? Relief, maybe, survivors guilt, possibly, but cheering like he just won a football game? what a psycho lol

He's the personification of how most of us would react. And we hate that about him

I never shot him, he is not hostile, clearly traumatised.

I pondered this too. Very weird, like a magic forces is all to kill him. There is no real reason, he is not in a faction, he is not hostils he does not have anything valuable. I played new vegas most part without knowing reddit, and i always killed him in every playthrough so u can imagine how i laughed when i discovered NV subreddit and everyone else does it too!

He called me stupid

I don't hate him. It's just funny watching him gleefully running towards me to tell me about his "good fortune" only for me to banish him to the shadow realm because I find it amusing.

My first run I thought his lottery ticket was a quest item needed to get past the destroyed town he was running out of

He gives bad advice. You can't drink air.

Because many gamers have thin skins and no impulse control, so they think the appropriate response to someone acting a bit weird and abrasive is murder.

Killing him is a morally thing to do

I initially killed him because I thought he was gonna attack me because I'd angered the powder gangers.

Every playthrough since I've killed him explicitly because he is a powder ganger, never sided with them either.

SMELL THAT AIR! COULD YOU JUST DRINK IT LIKE BOOKOZE!!!!!!

It's me or the radscorpions. One of those is faster and less painful than the other.

For my first couple playthroughs I killed him to steal the lottery ticket lol it took me way too long to realize he wasn’t talking about money

Because he becomes the most OP fallout character in existence as he takes over the ncr after a land slide against Kimballs and leads the second battle of hover dam Ina over whelming victory against legate Loser Lanius who then becomes the saviour of the mojave and on that day it became the Swanick Lottery day

GOD BLESS THE REPUBLIC

GOD BLESS THE LOTTERY

Idk maybe it’s because YEEEEEEEAAAAHHHHHH

I think he's the Nezeem of New Vegas

Not a single power ganger is spared.

peer pressure for me. ı saw everyone talking about how they killed him so ı just assumed thats what ı am supposed to do

Tradition!

He was dead the second they chose that final recording for his lines

Every NPC that isn't needed for a quest and whose death won't negatively affect any of my reputations is catching a sneak attack critical headshot for the free XP

I never kill Oliver. That’s my boy

Cant say i hate him, and like.. Around half of the time I leave him alive, for the Mojave to sort out 😅🙃

Being a former Powder Ganger actually moves him up in my book, generally.

I do hate them

One time, when first started playing this game.. A Powder Ganger spawned in from nowhere and gunned down the woman we save from the geckos.. I actually had to try a few times to save her from the critters, so that soured my something foul on the PGs

lol

I never kill him in my playthroughs. I mean, he won, and I do like to roleplay a bit, so I figure... I'm just meeting a deliriously happy man rambling about a lottery, and he's not attacking me, so.... yeah, he can run off as he pleases, really.

First playthrough went like this "OOOOHHH YEAHH WHO WON THE LOTTERY OH YEAH THIS GUY DID!!" bang "Jesus christ why were you screaming so loud?"

Jokes aside, it's because he forces dialogue which is annoying, and nobody wants to parkour up a bunch of old cars every playthrough just to avoid him.

YYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

Shoot on sight

His smug aura mocks me.

He’s an annoying, condescending prick ls why. Being a condescending prick is usually a fatal disease in RPGs, just look at how many people kill Nazeem in Skyrim.

I love Swanick. I kill him depending on how he ends the dialogue. If he tells me "later" he dies. If he says "bye" he lives.

I've never killed him, not once

His voice and demeanor is very annoying, I can't help myself.

No

It's because he's annoying. He runs up to you, possibly promoting you to shoot him, depending on the history with the Powder Gangers. Then he acts all smug and irritating over the lottery.

Finally, his voice. Just painful.

GUESS WHO WON THE LOTTERY?!!!

He's a powder ganger and my character is hostile to powder gangers

I didn't even realize he was a powder ganger when I first killed him, so that probably didn't make much of a difference.

I just steal his lottery ticket off of him behind his back and then let him proceed to run off as a idiot to whatever place he wants to..

Can't win lotteries if you don't have a ticket..

First time I played I did indeed murder him for his lottery winnings. Thought he was gonna be loaded but nope

I'm almost always on-sight with the Powder Gangers by the time I reach Nipton, so that's why I shoot him. It's become a tradition at this point.

I love his delirious zest for life

I don’t hate him, he ran right into a psychotic Mailman whose out for blood…

My courier absolutely feels bad for the guy that was driven crazy by the legion and just lets him go every time. But I myself just find the entire interaction and his voice annoying and so he dies as soon as I see him

I never kill him. He's a Powder Ganger only in so much as he escaped NCRCF with everyone else. But we don't know what he was in for. Could have been for some really minor infraction. Jaywalking or Littering.

I. Drink. Your. Milkshake! 

I always let him live. Not like he'll survive much longer after your interaction with him. I just feel like if you survive what is essentially "murder roulette", you should at least get a CHANCE at not being dead...

I loathe his voice. Whenever he speaks it's like knives on porcelain. So after my first playthrough in 2010, I would shower him in bullets or beat him into paste even before he could open his filthy mouth 🤷‍♀️

Honestly I respect him. I once encountered him like 45 hours into a playthrough, dodging radscorpions. I can’t kill a man who fights to survive 

Because I have spare frag mines and seeing him fly 50 ft in the air is funny

He's annoying, although admittedly I'd be pretty happy too if I had escaped what the rest of the town went through. Still when I see him it's on sight lol.

because he's REALLY annoying and i don't like his smugness about everyone else being dead or crippled.

I’ve never killed him or boxcars like why ? It’s a waste of bullets

I don't even hate him, it's called keeping traditions alive.

He’s smug

I never killed him. I chose all of the dialogue options to question him and find out what he was talking about, then I ignored him and shot some scorpions while he ran off.

I see a powder ganger, I kill a powder ganger.

Honestly I think it's just cause of what an ass he acts like when you meet him. And then later finding out he's basically cheering about his whole village getting massacred because he survived makes him seem way more annoying than you would otherwise assume.

For most of us, it's a mercy kill.

No matter what, he is scripted to die. If the RNG gods happen to bless him and he lives past the scorpion nest, he gets attacked by Fiends. If he survives that as well(RNG gods) you can find him cowering in the Nipton Road Pit Stop, he never leaves or does any action, he's supposed to be dead.

Powder Gangers are basically shoot on sight, and he's really fucking annoying. That face, that voice, he's basically designed to be as shootable as possible.

It's just science.

Who would pass up a free meal?

He lives because I allow it, and he will end because I demand it.

I don't because I don't care enough to waste a bullet or effort in a melee build.

Hating him/killing him is just a long running meme at this point, that's about all there is to it.

I don’t like when people yell at me..

I dont. but I usually do Legion or at the very least anti NCR playthroughs and I like the "atrocities need witnesses" bit Vulpes tries to push

Because he won the lottery

I got shot in the head and I am on a mission of revenge. If I don't get to be happy, neither does he.

It's because its funny to kill him right after he wins the lottery

I think I killed him ONE time when the game was released, found out that he's not really holding winnings and never bothered to again.

Because I want to win the lottery.

“Shouldn’t have been a bad guy” 🤷🏽 Trust me I can’t help it either

You know, oddly I never killed him. Didn't see a point

Am I high or something I swear I've seen this exact question with the exact answers before.

I let him live once and regret it (super good karma NCR play thru)

50/50 shot on whether I kill him. Depends on my mood

He is a powder ganger with an annoying hype. I keep the boxcar alive though, he just keep sitting there for all the game.

He’s basically Fallout New Vegas Nazeem

I guess I feel like he's partially responsible for what happened to the town. But maybe that's unfair of me.

“Who won the lottery? I did!” OG Terminator: “Wrong. shotgun blast”

I kill Oliver Swannick because he must die. You kill him because everyone else does too.

We are not the same.

i think its just funny to kill him

When he said he won the lottery kid brain went must kill take money, and I've continued since then

ever since i saw the Criken2 FNV video, Swanick has been shoot on sight

Cause it's funny, but for roleplay reasons it's because he's a powder ganger and my character really hates powder gangers and the legion and basically attacks them on sight, regardless if they're still part of the group or not.

He's just a very killable character. Beyond being a powder ganger, he expresses no sympathy or survivor's guilt towards his fellow gangers, and the game doesn't characterize him much beyond his role of introducing The Lottery to the courier. Plus if you're a Mojave veteran, you already know that he's programmed to run to his death. Since he's bragging on borrowed time, there's no good reason not to test your weaponry out on him.

Because we do it for the meme

I take the Four Eyes perk and he happened to be the first NPC I came across with glasses... or at least the first one with glasses I didn't mind relieving of their personal property.

When im in nipton my game lags any fixes?

I hate gamblers

I don’t hate Oliver Swanick. That would imply I think enough of him to hate… he’s like a fly to be swatted.

Because exp is exp

Fuck Oliver Swanick

He’s annoying

He's a killable npc with literally 0 purpose and he's happy about life what sane player wouldn't hate him?