Monday, December 24th 2018
Bethesda is Feeling Generous, or the Apology: 2018 Fallout 76 Players to Receive Fallout Classic Collection for PC
Fallout 76 has quickly been deemed one of the gaming failures of 2018, with the world of Fallout falling prey to a multitude of factors. You can count Bethesda's game engine and it's infinite amount of bugs, blatant misinformation in marketing campaigns, and monetization, monetization, monetization.
It would seem that in a bid to win back player's graces, Bethesda will be offering PC, PS4 and Xbox players of Fallout 76 that logged in to play the game during 2018 a copy of their Fallout Classic Collection, which includes Fallout, Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel, and Fallout 2. It's a holiday gift given in a pleading position, so to speak. An announcement that Bethesda would be developing a new game engine would likely be better received by the community as an apology, though.
Source:
Bethesda Twitter
It would seem that in a bid to win back player's graces, Bethesda will be offering PC, PS4 and Xbox players of Fallout 76 that logged in to play the game during 2018 a copy of their Fallout Classic Collection, which includes Fallout, Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel, and Fallout 2. It's a holiday gift given in a pleading position, so to speak. An announcement that Bethesda would be developing a new game engine would likely be better received by the community as an apology, though.
36 Comments on Bethesda is Feeling Generous, or the Apology: 2018 Fallout 76 Players to Receive Fallout Classic Collection for PC
gives away old games to get player logins and stop the exodus :laugh:
For example, I’ve just purchased bfv for 25$ (and that’s top price I’m paying for sjw infested fps) - and guess what - there news crawling aroung...that EA is going to include microtransactions for BF V. How do you think, should I call for refund? :D
If there is one thing I dó see its that gamers ain't stupid. Just a less experienced, more casual and gullible part of it is. If the big publishers want to cater to that, by all means. Its the playerbase I like to avoid as well, so its killing two birds with one stone :toast:
Clearly, the Bethesda fanbase, which contains many avid gamers and enthusiasts who also mod content (those ain't casual console brats) is not taking this crap for granted. You can almost go by game genre to see where the noncasuals go: strategy, (deep) ARPG, roguelikes, the old style no nonsense arcade shooter, adventure/puzzle/narrative based single player, etc.
Only thing new here is that console players will be getting it now too.
It is sadly though - that the whole thing comes up with, seemingly, even the most impeccable devs... for instance, instead of new chapter in Freeman's adventrure, valve gave us artifact. Oh, well, thats just my thoughts out loud...
Bethesda likely gained money by giving away "free" atom points cause people would have to spend money to get something cool that used to be included for free in older games.
haha good thing I didnt get suckered into buying "FU76".
and yes I got all the previous games allright.
FU76 Bethesda
So none of these little stunts surprise me. They are pissing money away, with less to show for it each time. It is flat-out wrong. So wrong. But they really do have no choice. They probably cannot afford to lose more. It's not greed. Just desperation.
I mean, shareholders are probably really gonna want to know where their money went. Now the burden is on the players who used to love and respect the dev to keep them from losing too much to recover. Sad state of affairs really.
Worse yet, this is a time when Bethesda really needs to step up and remind people of what they can really do and just stop pissing everything away. Losing GOTY to Witcher 3 back when FO4 came out was only the beginning. I can think of a couple of future ARPG's that are likely going to crush anything they've done in years. It used to be they were THE go to for the types of games they made. Not so anymore. Wonder what CD Projekt Red is up to these days...
It's a really slippery slope. Sometimes I really think we are witnessing the fall of a giant and it is too late. If they release another lazy, half-baked megatitle with the same dogshit engine... oh god help them. After this and all of their half-hearted apologies nobody is going to stand for that. If this new IP doesn't hold up, if the new Elder Scrolls isn't an absolute breath of new life, things will never ever be the same for them. This shit is serious now. They've had some flops on lesser titles in the past. But this is really egregious. People cherish this franchise as one of the best of all time. All of the laziness and money grabbing, from a fanbase that has been HUNGRY for a new full-fledged Bethesda release for years. All of this time watching the same game come out over and over again. And now, instead of the thing we've all been waiting for, we've gotten this debacle. Things are only going to get more real for them if this continues. All of the faith and goodwill they have amassed over the past decade is now on the line. And in its wake, they are floundering magnificently. It'd be funny if only I didn't actually care. It is painful to see this shit from them. Anybody but them, you know? People used to say they were one of the few good ones left.
At this point, I would be happy to never see another Fallout from them, ever again. It hasn't really been Fallout in several fundamental ways since FO3 anyway. The games themselves haven't been bad. They just aren't good as Fallout games. They completely fail when it comes to those types of choice-based storylines and gameplay mechanics. They still haven't figured out the speech system fer chrissake! Personally I kind of enjoy the dumb exploration/combat/loot cycle their "Fallout" games take you through. They just miss so many awesome opportunities as Fallout games. They don't truly want to make those games, so why butcher an IP in the name of just doing what they want with it? In what universe did they see Fallout fans wanting 76? Like, even if it was good for what it was, it's not what any of us wanted in a Fallout game...
If they can take what they've done with FO4, gut all of the crappy story stuff and focus on the action/exploration/lore based gameplay, and build their new IP around it, I think they'll do okay with the audience that liked Fallout 4. I'd give it a chance. And if it's good I'll play the fuck out of it. Give Fallout to somebody who wants to make a Fallout game. Because christ dude, this shit is going to kill them one day. People are sick of watching them manhandle their beloved franchise. With the direction they've gone, there is absolutely no reason why they *have* to be Fallout games. If anything, all of the half-assed attempts to make the games Fallout-like only hold them back and piss everyone off. I swear they keep it for the sake of the hype that just mentioning a new Fallout game brings. But all of the years of lies and broken promises have made that a lot less viable. Nobody's gonna continue buying these because "Hey, new Fallout!" now.
I'm sure the game is playable and some issues will get patched up over time to make it better, but for now it ain't worth picking up cause it's too expensive and ships pre-loaded with tons of in-game monetization garbage. I won't be surprised if they bump everything they've learned from ESO to the next level, and already have at least 3-4 DLC packs ready to be pumped at $20-30/ea whenever the player base gets too low.
Let's see how things turn, but I doubt things will stay like this.
Bethesda simply killed a die-hard fan in me over the past few years. I've played and liked pretty much every single one of their games, and even spent a ridiculous amount of money on Elder Scrolls Travels: Shadowkey for my NGage-QD back in a day (I think it was originally around $49.99 for a box set on Nokia's portal).
Bethsoft were never about the polish and quality of their product, but lately even the quality of content became so bad, that you start to think if they have any of the creative spirit left in them.