Fallout: 76 - Take Me Home, Country Roads

"As we celebrate mediocrity all the boys upstairs want to see

How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free

Hey, hey, hey"

While I won't fully disagree

This kind of terminology makes me want steer clear of whatever it is you're selling.

It's generally poor form to look forward to a crisis which will leave a lot of people who don't deserve to suffer in the lurch (while the ones responsible pocket their cash and go on to another industry) just because you know people who will benefit.

The only reprive we can expect so far is that, with higher scrutinity incoming to the gaming industry, regulation will eventually be set in place to prevent the kind of practices and behaviour we have come to despise. And I don't just refer to gambling practices, but also appalling work conditions and lack of transparence in developing costs.

I'm just bemused that Bethesda actually did a campaign about how much they loved single player gaming.

I wonder if they were working on Fallout 76 when they engaged in that bit of hypocrisy.

Let's hope so, otherwise they'll just repeat it all over again.

@Charles Phipps: It's not necessarily hypocrisy. They never said they were gonna stop making single player games, after all. And the idea of a multiplayer Bethesda game is not intrinsically flawed.

ESO shows you can take a bethesda property and make a stellar multiplayer videogame.

76 show's how to ignore every lesson ESO has learned in favor of trying to replicate Rust and Ark

Believe it or not, it keeps getting better.

Boosters for XP, Rad Resistance, carrying capacity and damage buyable for Atoms are coming. It's almost as if Bethesda is trying their hardest to steal the "Most Loathed Game Company" title from EA.

Watch griefers use those damage boosters to get through the anti-griefing measures Bethesda implemented in some ridiculous way.

jesus christ, its like bethesda literally has no idea how to salvage 76's reputation so thetyre just aping every tactic they can to grab what money exists before the well implodes.

Eventually they'll just go full Fortnite. Just wait for it.

there was a point where we needed to stop, and we have CLEARLY passed it. BUT LET'S KEEP GOING AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS.

Oh wait I already said that back when the only problem was the whole nylon bag clusterfuck didn't i ?

Maybe this is just one big Vault-Tec experiment to see how much bullshit they can get away with before people are burying this game in the desert alongside those copies of ET.

I want them to TAKEN KING it.

A big free DLC that adds NP Cs, factions, a base hub, and an actual plot.

It keeps going.

False discounts - which are illegal - and Holiday-themed microtransactions. Because nothing quite says "I'm sorry" like continuing to dig yourself deeper.

These Holiday emotes aren't even unique emotes - it's "12 png's", 12 floating pictures strapped to generic emotes for 12 dollars.

What kind of freak show Hell came to us?

And how the hell does that work?

For those who don't want to give Yong Yea views, here's the reddit post he sourced for his vid.

The ATOM Shops prices are slowly going up. and they are ridiculous!

A cosmetic item — a holiday one no less — should not cost $20.00.

Edited by M84 on Dec 19th 2018 at 12:38:49 AM

Is this somekind of joke? I don't think even EA has done all this s@%t (at least not all at once)!

It's a joke, except Fallout and Bethesda fans are the punchline.

I'm reminded of that one time I watched yugioh 5d's and the second season's plot was that humanity's evolution would lead to his extinction through machine revolt -and the solution the main cast came up with was to evolve faster and further in the same direction to be stronger than the machines designed to kill them -and it worked.

I'm kinda starting to wonder if the guys at bethesda suddenly went on a binge and watched the whole thing in two weeks before releasing 76 and are now trying to apply that to market practices.

I think it's saying something that this is starting to sound less dumb than what's happening in reality.

Oh, sorry. I didn't realize that particular Youtuber is considered a sore point in the thread.

Still, while I don't mean to toot my own horn, I was apprehensive of 76 the moment it was revealed the game will be a quasi-mmo and finished so soon, since it was an obvious trapping of a cash grab. Turns out that all of my hunches were validated - and then Bethesda decided to keep digging itself and the game deeper.

More likely Bethesda has realized this game is doomed and are just desperately trying to squeeze as much money from the people who actually bought the game and still keep playing it.

The game was a bit iffy even as a concept. One of the first things we all started discussing here when the game was announced were concerns about how they were going to make the usual Fallout gameplay work while being online.

Thing is, none of us thought that most of the problem would actually come from outside the game itself. We were just worried the game would be a bit shit with some predatory microtransactions. Which it is, mind, but that's not the main issue anymore by a mile.

Yeah, and it's such an incredibly short-sighted and enormously harmful to their overall efforts decision that someone going full gurren lagann/5d's is starting to seem more reasonable.

Edited by Yumil on Dec 18th 2018 at 5:57:01 PM